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Show poor copy's' I Ik Nt v);i)cr Thursday, May 1, 1980 Page 13 KIMBALL ART CLNI! K AND PARK CITY PLAYERS FIDDLER ON THE ROO 'Fiddler' Tickets Going Fast A few tickets still are available for the opening weekend of the Kimball Art Center-Park City Players production of "Fiddler on the Roof." The first two shows will be presented May 2 and 3 in a special dinner theatre at the Holiday Inn. Tickets for the show and dinner are $14.25 for Kimball Art Center members and $15.75 for nonmembers. Dinner Din-ner will be served from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and the performance perfor-mance will begin at 8 p.m. The following week, on May 8, 9 and 10, "Fiddler" will move to the theatre at Prospector Square Hotel. Tickets are $3 for Kimball Art Center members and $4.50 for nonmembers. Performances Perf-ormances begin all three nights at 8 p.m. In addition, there will be a matinee performance May 10 at 2 p.m. at Prospector. Interested persons should call the Kimball Art Center at 649-8882 for ticket information. Me! WoDirlldl 'Simon' Simon () is directed and largely written by Marshall Mar-shall Brickman, who is better bet-ter known to movie audiences audien-ces as "And Marshall Brickman," due to the films (Sleeper, Manhattan, Annie Hall) he has co-authored with Woody Allen. Despite moments of lunatic inspiration, in-spiration, Simon looks like it was made by a co-writer. It's . a half-movie. .... , Brickroan's,. premise is j that a group of renegade, geniuses at the fictitious Institute In-stitute for Advanced Con Utah Designer Craftsmen Open at Kimball A multimedia exhibit featuring the works of active producing members of the Utah Designer Craftsmen will open Sunday, May 4 in the main gallery of the Kimball Kim-ball Art Center. A reception honoring the artists will be held opening day from 3 to 5 p.m. Twenty-six Utah craftsmen crafts-men will provide works in fiber, clay, wood, metal, glass and jewelry. The Utah Designer Craftsmen Crafts-men was founded over 20 years ago. In order to become an active producing member of the organization, persons must submit work to a jury of five current members. mem-bers. There are now over 60 producing members. The artists whose works Radio Drama on Have you ever wanted to be in a theatre production but just couldn't spare the rehearsal re-hearsal hours? Radio drama may be just what you're looking for! The Intermountain Actor's EnsemWe is asking anyone with or without acting or radio experience to meet May 7th in the Community Wireless studios (upstairs bleachers in Memorial Building) to begin rehearsals rehear-sals that evening in preparation prepara-tion for recording a special radio theatre presentation of "TELEMACHUS." The production pro-duction can utilize any number of male and female voices and will be recorded in the studios on May 8th. "TELEMACHUS" is basically ba-sically a satire on Edward Masters' "Spoon River An Seger Comes to S.L.C. Bob Seger has earned the reputation as one of the world's premier rock 'n roll figures. His relatively recent success in the United States, with three certified Platinum Plati-num albums and eight chart-busting chart-busting singles, has left his nature untainted by egomania. ego-mania. "Fire Lake," his latest single, makes nine in a row. Bob Seger and The Silver i vi &; ! If f J ftV ( , I ) by a Half -Mo vie cepts set out to create a messianic "extraterrestrial" "extrater-restrial" by brainwashing, and then publicizing, a human subject. Brickman proposes to cast this strange group with equally aberrant actors, including: in-cluding: William Finley (who played the gangling Phantom of the Paradise), Wallace Shawn (Diane Keaton's- gnomish ex-husband, ex-husband, Jeremiah, in Manhattan), Max Wright (from All That will be on display are: Dorothy Bearnson, Tom Bott-man, Bott-man, John Burt, Julie Con-nell, Con-nell, Larry Eisner, David Fernandez, Kit Flannery, Kevin R. Frazier, Ellen Gibson, Gib-son, Roberta Glidden, Jane Hartford, Lily Havey, Marie Irvine, Suzanne M. Johnson, Bruce Lindsey, Robert Lucas, Mary MacDonald, John W. Nutter, Karen Of-fringa, Of-fringa, Ann Chalmers Pen-dell, Pen-dell, David Pendell, Stan Roberts, Bonnie Sucec, Alice Taylor, Andy Watson and Max D. Weaver. The Utah Designer Craftsmen Crafts-men Exhibit will run , through May 29. The Kimball Kim-ball Art Center is open Monday Mon-day through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. KPCW thology." It takes place in Downsville Town and is more or less a soap opera that spoofs society's attitudes atti-tudes in the 1960s and '70s. Literally, nothing is spared from religion to the arts to unintended pregnancies. It's a play for voices to be directed by IAE's Anne Burnett. If you would like to participate, partici-pate, simply meet in the Community Wireless studios (upstairs in Memorial Building's Build-ing's gym) at 7 p.m. on May 7th. All rehearsals and taping will take place May 7 (7 p.m. to 10 p.m.) and May 8 (6:30 p.m. to about 11 p.m.). There will be no other rehearsals, this is it! Both young and older voices are needed for Park City's latest artistic challenge! Bullet Band will be performing perform-ing Salt Lake City May 9, at the Salt Palace Arena. The opening act will be the Rockets and show time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $9.50 and $8.50 and go on sale Saturday, May 3. They are available at the Salt Palace, Ruby Records, Toad Tape, Budget Tapes in Logan, and all Sound Track locations in Utah. r t j- f -fc O y Rick Brough Jazz remem ber the neurotic producer who thought Joe Gideon's picture was "gonna go through the RRRR OOOf ! ? ; " and Austin Pendleton ( . . . plays wimpy guys . . . Gen. Dreedle's son-in-law in Catch-22...was once described by a reviewer as looking like "a hairy pelican" . . . ). This truly classic collection collec-tion of weirdos was enough reason for me to see Simon; I should have known that half-movies are too often based on half-ideas. The ensemble en-semble never sparks; their scenes are brief, ex-positional ex-positional and Brickman's dialogue rarely gives them anything to chew on. Brickman Brick-man discards them and starts to concentrate on Simon Si-mon Mendelsohn (Alan Arkin), the restless crackpot teacher who becomes their guinea Pig- Arkin is probably best when he's surrounded by insanity in-sanity (The In-Laws). Here he's the Crazy, programmed by the think-tankers to believe his mother was a flying saucer who dumped lliepreSS by Rick Lanman Perfect Pair: Food and Chablis If you were to travel south from Paris for 100 miles or so, you would find yourself in the little French village of Chablis. While this charming town, settled among rolling hills, has grown rapidly during the past decade, that growth is a recent phenomenon. Extensively bombed by the Germans in 1940. Chablis was slow to recover and had only 2,000 citizens as late as 1970. Yet in this small hamlet, the home of a great white Burgandy, Chablis was established. Entering Chablis by auto the vineyards are conspicuously absent or so they appear at first glance. It is the same feeling one gets : upon arriving in LeMans to find not a car in sight. The vineyards however, abundant with Pinot Chardonney (Pea-No-Shar-done-Nay) grapes, actually are located northeast of the village where their favored hillside position : allows them a full ration of sunlight. As this is indeed the home of Chablis, the surprisingly small acreage under cultivation has perplexed per-plexed many. While the situation will change over the next decade, it has at present assured a premium wine with a premium price to match. Consequently most of us will find ourselves drinking an American Chablis rather than the original. Golden green in color, this full bodied and quite dry white wine seems to readily adapt to North America. Chablis compliments fish and a variety of shellfish as well. Many an oyster lover claims it as the second best only to champagne. Usually a Chablis may be drunk quite young; aging according to most sources does little to improve its flavor once in the bottle, although it may deepen its color. At least one source, however, asserts that Chablis will age while stili the cask and benefits from contact with oak in additi r. its full bodied demeanor makes it an or choice for a dinner re both meat " 1 ' .h are being served. i . the United Stales, Chablis is produced i i linly in New York, Washington State and California. In its native France, Chablis has a flavor associated with flint or stone; its closest new world counterpart would be that Chablis which is produced in Napa, Calif. An him on Earth, and he's not that funny, except for the occasional oc-casional chance he gets to draw upon his Second City background. After one experiment, ex-periment, Simon has regressed back to a protozoa, and what follows a self-contained ' revue skit is a hilarious, pantomimed mini-evolution that shows both star and director in good form, as Arkin progresses from fish to Neanderthal to chain-smoker. chain-smoker. ("Look," one of the brain yells, he's becoming civilized!") The problem is that, like Simon, Arkin the actor is forced through too many guises himself. He never builds a character, (and the picture never creates a tone,) long enough for us to hang on to it. Simon is alternately alter-nately a victim and a megalomaniac, with Madeleine Kahn, he's like a Gene Wilder Mel Brooks hero; with his mousy girlfriend (Judy Graubert) who worries about his goofy experiments, he's Disney's Merlin Jones, grown up. Brickman is an inventive writer, and you can tell how influential he is in Woody Allen's work. We recognize the tone when, for instance, Simon lays down his rules for a better world: "There shall be no Muzak in elevators ... no ketchup in little plastic packets . . . lawyers who lose must go to jail with their clients." But where Allen characteristically charac-teristically moves on to blizzard bliz-zard the picture with fresh gags, Brickman floundersevery floun-dersevery 20 minutes thereafter, he throws in another gag about Muzak until the joke begins to rot on screen. It's only natural that Marshall Mar-shall Brickman would experience ex-perience growing pains. In Simon, inventive satire falters and gifted actors are misused, but it is still a worthy wor-thy effort. Comedy of the 70s offered two paths and Brickman Brick-man may yet follow the course of sublime madness (Woody Allen) rather than descend into silliness (Mel Brooks). excellent Napa Valley Chablis available locally in Park City is the Charles Krug Chablis, non-vintage. Priced under $4 a fifth, this wine represents a good buy and is presently in stock. Note of interest: earlier this week the Utah Liquor Commission announced a two percent price increase across the board on almost all spirits. This increase, passed by the state legislature in its last session, will mean a 10 to 20 cent price increase on most wines. While the savings will not be enormous, purchases this week may save you a few inflated dollars. While undoubtedly the classic flinty tasting Chablis will continue to predominate, several produced in the Monterey region of California offer a slightly different taste. A shade sweeter, due mostly to increased moisture coming in off the Pacific Ocean, Monterey Vineyards offers a Chablis called by its varietal name of Chardonnay has attracted much attention and appears to be a favorite summertime wine. Monterey Vineyards, not actually located on the ocean, also provides an interesting opportunity for the visitor to view modern day wine making and purchase the results at a discounted price. One delightful excuse to partake of the Monterey Vineyard Chardonnay (aside from dinner) is testing its role as an accompaniment accompani-ment to artichokes. Almost all U.S. artichokes are grown near Monterey in the town of Castroville, next to the Pacific. This vegetable-like flower is in season now and beautiful specimens may be found in local supermarkets. A boiled artichoke with drawn butter and a glass of pale gold Chablis may be the perfect end to our fading season of ice and snow. i Preparation is easy! Chop the top one half inch off the artichoke and then snip the thorns off each leaf. Drop into a boiling pot of water containing a touch of vinegar for 40 minutes and it's done. The Chablis? Why simply chill and pull the cork. What could be more simple. You can dip the artichoke in melted butter or better yet in the Chablis. For next week name the wine associated with "noble rot." The answer.. .in Winepress. X FRIDAY SATURDAY HflY2-3 Dinner Theatre at the HolirLn Inn I'aik (. !. Tickets: KAC Member!, i I J J', iiri 1.11.1.1 Both shows at 8 P.M Set Design ( )H ( RAK ,1 1 llRht Dl'MK" A i BE M I M Restaurant Wil C7, Join lh. 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