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Show I tie Newspaper I hursIa , Auusl 14, l"HO Page 11 0 'KELLY-LE AVITT Insurance Tlgency Inc. Shirley 0' Kelly, Agent All types of Insurance llDDQCBilngljQtt I Company' Not Have the Park City Players bitten off more than they can chew with the brittle brit-tle musical "Company?" We would answer with a qualified "Yes." As director Jonathan Gochberg said, the play is an ensemble work. It views the plagues and pleasures of marriage through the reluctant bachelor Bobby (Mark Harrocks) and his circle of doting, married friends. But the ensemble is uneven; the acting ranges from excellent, to fair, to unfortunate. There are too many stiff moments, flat notes, and awkard funny-to-serious, transitions to say the Players have rendered ren-dered this difficult play successfully. suc-cessfully. But there is enough that works to whet our appetite for additional productions from the Players. Anne Wetzel's Wet-zel's stunning presence as Joanne cuts through the stage business like a cold knife. Pat Whitfield and Quint Bishop (as middle-aged middle-aged marrieds Sarah and Harry) offer a great audience audi-ence warm-up in an early scene when an argument over Sarah's karate skills turns into a two-out-of three falls wrestling match. Jacquelyn Craigle is funny and on-target as the square young wife trying grass for the first time (and she's aided considerably in that scene by Harrocks and Randy Ran-dy Barton as her husband). Amy Marie Rose is fine as a The New York Times Magazine (DrwiP(i IPussle Titillating Tunes ACROSS 1 Right-angle extension 4 Ready 7 as a ghost 13 Thespian 18 Architect I. 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A 4 r) f lr": r ( l'SK irx f ; ' - bubble-headed girlfriend. And finally, the entire cast hits you with a rousing version ver-sion of "Side by Side." "Side" to open ACT II as if, during the intermission, they were told to win one for the Gip-per. Gip-per. Bobby is nervous about being unmarried, but can't place much hope in weird girlfriends like Marts Thurp (played by Val Kay Thur-nell) Thur-nell) or the couples he knows: the rowdy Sarah and Harry; the trendy Susan and Peter (Joyce Plowman, Don Gomes) who get divorced but are still living together; Amy (Ruth Ann Fitzgerald) who's been living with Paul (Thomas Costello) but has cold feet about marriage to him; Jenny and TDavid (Craig and Barton) troubled by hipster-vs. -square differences; dif-ferences; and Joanne, self-contemptuously self-contemptuously chaining herself to a third husband (Gary Cole). Mark Harrocks, as Bobby, looks the part and sings it well. He's a little too mannered, man-nered, though, especially through Act I, where he too often uses gawky-eyed looks, or bewildered leers thrown to the audience as a way of reacting to his friends. He is effective on Amy's wedding day, drolly drinking the nervous ner-vous bride's "boiled orange juice;" and is broadly amusing in his story about a bungled assignation at a hotel. There's two things that 69 Gulliver, for short 70 Ezra Pound work 71 Tra followers 72 Comedian DeLuise 73 Natural resource 74 Zoo favorite 75 Berlin song: 1913 81 Pussycat's poetic partner 82 Dispossess 84 Vincent of chillers 85 Algonquian language 86 Pure 88 Trade-in candidate 89 Range between continents 90 Island feast 91 Kinoftri 92 Emulate Daedalus 93 94 95 96 97 100 102 107 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 36 Officer under Cornwallis 37 "Dig You Later" subtitle: 1945 38 Naturalness 39 Arlen.or67 Down 40 C.I.O.'s complement 42 Car attachment 43 U.S. cartoonist 44 Denouement 45 Williwaw 46 First note: Var. 48 Glistening mineral 51 "Iz so!" 52 Surround 53 volente 55 56 63 64 65 66 67 68 75 76 77 78 79 80 ' i ' ::, , - 1 , iiwiMMwmrnnrff ill I 11 " Always Life of the Party Horrocks doesn't seem to tell us. 1) As Bobby bounces from one futile relationship to another, how are his reactions developing? Is he increasingly confused, desperate, or cynical? And 2) What are the characteristics charac-teristics in Bobby that make him the "Sane" person among his crazy collection of friends? Horrocks has trouble with the character, but he should have in the role of a normal, mixed-up guy surrounded for two hours by more eccentric eccen-tric types. Indeed, when the Players fail, they fail at something that was awfully hard (or maybe defective) in the play to begin with. A good example is the recurring "Bobby Baby" scene with the hero surrounded surround-ed in song by his babbling, well-meaning friends. It is unfailingly clumsy, but what would you do if you're required to suddenly burst' on stage, clambering over the scenery, yellingsinging "Bobby Baby, Robert darling, how have you been, come on over to dinner" (in syncopation with everybody else, now! ) and all in a way that's dramatic yet natural? Some of the cast are too absorbed ab-sorbed in this task to control their facial expressions, and at least one actor has an angry look that suggests he wants to lynch Bobby Baby. Set designer John Craigle has crammed the six or seven households into a Relieves Speedometer rdg. 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However, I wish Gochberg had found another way to stage a surrealistic scene in Bobby's bedroom, where Lynne Cacciatore whirls over a darkened stage to a recorded cut from the show's original cast album. The offstage-record bit takes us back to high-school assembly assem-bly days, and its use (which seems to say, "this is from the real play") denigrates the Players' efforts. Answers to last week's puzzle n turf1s jElTloliAlDlDk 1 D 1 1 B B L e1 Jll o.l Jill A II 11 ill -Hl o ld e !l!iRA!l! CIlAlIl lilDill s it .L.L! s7 UHR S rJA D A M sJP A R D z! INN T fl S ApT D I N S HH Hi S EEH jNOE SZjORAdJnET "jD D rtjT N tH mTo R 0 NT Pj 1 1 j I TALI AJnTf 0 R TlWoj lHB Sll G A B L E ft I D trj CARL 1111 T l Trl c o l i ti p e mo le AFRO 1 A M E TOT 0 M E QIy J E J T MIME sTpTa N I S HJF 0 R S E AT" iiim Jiiie s h in R u 8 1 se n r h a i rrij !!Ar " fr y E L 1 J 11 L lELll N c mJh RFm ""HO G R HBJU I 0 IyCI W El A MlJ I I S i M I llllllCl TJT" E E MS I G N TtjT 0 E turret! 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But speaking of groaning, we must register a note of concern about the hard wooden seats of the Middle School auditorium. If we have trouble empathizing with the "Company" neurotics, it's because the cast is seated more comfortably comfor-tably than the audience. "Company" is playing as a dinner theatre Aug. 15-16 at the Holiday Inn. Tickets for Kimball Art Center members mem-bers are $14.50 and $16.00 for non-members. Dinner is at 6:30p.m. Aspen trans 105 Midterm or final 106 "- Meeny Miney Mo": 1935 107 U.K. network 108 Gerund endinr Betty Ford is gBfflptnies, in noble 421 Main Street HP- it mi Representing over 50 Companies LJ A M A MUSICAL v.--l met 649-6831 COMEDY 4 'S ! J6 m |