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Show In Review Kids make 4Papa Married a Mormon' maybe Hying to explain to themselves, them-selves, what a fallen women is. In their eyes she is a women who has fallen on the ground. The children are taught, through love and by example, how to show love to all and how to make mature decisions. They are left to decide which religion they will follow. Of the 29 characters in the play, all but one are double cast The night I saw the play, Terrell Blackburn, as Papa, and Lissa Woodbury Jensen, as Mama, gave excellent performances. Paula Everett, as the scandalmonger scan-dalmonger Mrs. Miller, was great, portraying someone we all have known at one time or another in our lives. Danny Inkley, as T.D. Fitzgerald, and Danny Clifford, as J.D. Fitzgerald, Fit-zgerald, must be aspiring young actors, as they charmed and humored the audience. The play was narrated by John D. Fitzgerald, played by J. Scott Henrie. He had the advantage of carrying a journal around from which he was relaying the happenings happen-ings of the play to the audience. Occasionally, it was as if he were reading his part from the journal, but still he came across as very conversational and caring. My one regret is that I did not get the chance to see both casts. It would have been fun to compare and a good excuse to see the play again. The play is more than entertaining-it leaves the play-goer with a good feeling and the desire to be a better Christian, without having been preached at. By JAMS CARTER Clipper Correspondent Edilor's Note: "Papa Married a Mormon," Mor-mon," Pages Lane Thealre. 292 E. Pages Lane, CenierviUe. A play by Charles Whitman, Whit-man, based on the book by John D. Fitzgerald. Fit-zgerald. Directed by Ra'ph Rodgers. Mondays, Mon-days, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. through April 22 with matinees at 3:30 p.m. on April 13 and 20. For more information or reservations, call 298-1302. CENTERVILLE The old adage, kids should be seen and not heard, certainly would, not hold true in "Papa Married a Mormon." With more than a third of the cast being children, the stage would seem empty without them. "Papa Married a Mormon" is a play about the family of author, John D. Fitzgerald, in the Utah territory ter-ritory around the turn of the century. cen-tury. It is a show filled with love, humor, warmth and caring. Papa is Tom Fitzgerald, a journalist jour-nalist who comes to Silverlode after buying his brother's newspaper. His brother has a bit of a shady reputation, reputa-tion, so Tom has to prove himself fair and honorable before the Mormon Mor-mon side of the tracks will subscribe to his paper, j Papa meets Tina Nielsen right off h I I and it is love at First sight for both of them, but she has been promised to Mark Aden, the bishop's son. Speaking his mind, young Tom tells everyone he is going to marry Tina. He is a Catholic and Tina a Mormon, and with Tina's parents and the bishop against the marriage, Tom has his work cut out for him. When Tina tells Mark Aden she only loves him as a sister loves a brother, he turns out to be a great friend to the couple, even helping them to elope. While papa is a Christian in every sense of the word, Mama is the real strength. She opens her home to all, including Queenie, the "fallen women" of Uncle Will, and Dirty Dawson, the son of an alcoholic. She has patience and tolerence with Old Lady Miller, who points a finger at everyone. As relatives appear out of the woodwork to try to save Tom from the non-Christian Mormons, Tina, in her gentle-by-example way, turns them into Christians. While the adult actors do a fine job, the children in the cast steal the show with their pranks and behind-the-back mimicking. They even put on a play within a play depicting, or |