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Show cBiinjjui m PageBl Thursday. June 10, 1982. 1 1 But problems with lead 'Cabaret' has strong, tuneful impact by Rick Brough The Park City Performances Perform-ances version of "Cabaret" will throw you for a loop on three counts. First, the musical's decadent, bouncy music and dancing, with its pre-Nazi setting of Weimar Germany is all there, but it gradually subsides into a chilling final chord that evokes the rise of the Third Reich. Director Susan Jarman has orchestrated or-chestrated musical number, nuance, and a varied cast to make this tragic musical one of the season's better productions. Second, the Broadway play is not the chronicle of just Sally Bowles, but actually ac-tually three stories. It re fleets more the fragmented nature of its source, Christopher Isherwood's Berlin tales. Third, the production displays a large, sad fly in the ointment, due to the mishandling of the role of Sally Bowles by both actor and director. If you saw "Cabaret" the movie, then you really haven't seen "Cabaret" the play. Sally Bowles doesn't dominate the stage work. She is one of five major characters featured in three interlocking vignettes of German romance and politics. (Picture Bertolt Brecht writing a nightmarish night-marish "Love Boat".) In Story One, the flighty Sally moves in with a wearily idealistic American writer, Clifford Bradshaw (Steve Stanczyk) even though Cliff's ideas about romantic constancy are different dif-ferent from Sally's. In Story Two, their middle-aged landlady, land-lady, Fraulein Schneider (Carroll Horton) carries on a "second spring" romance with the shy grocer, Mr. Schultz (Larry Sheldon). The affair is headed for an early winter, however, because Schultz is Jewish. Finally, the doomed romances and the dark days of Germany's future are M I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I A GUTDE TQ DTNTNG TN I A R K C TTY 1 i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i ii i i ' i i i i i i i i i 1 1 1 i i 1 1 i i i 1 1 i m I i 1 i r PARK CITY YACHT CLUB RESTAURANT 649-7778. You'll find us conveniently located at the Resort Center with unlimited parking. Sail into Park City's finest restaurant and enjoy the casual and most unique atmosphere in town. You can dine under the stars in our glass enclosed dining room overlooking the waterfall or have oysters on the half shell at the oyster bar alongside the warmth of the antique fireplace. The menu includes the best seafood and beef available is well as vegetarian plates. Open every evening. ADOLPH'S AT THE GOLF COURSE On the golf course, Park City. Exceptional dining with Swiss hospitality. 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The plot doesn't have the movie's bisexual triangle with a German nobleman, nor does it feature the Minelli numbers like "Mein Herr" and "Money Makes the World Go Round." Yet Sally Bowles is supposed sup-posed to be a captivating, fiery personality, especially here because the audience is seeing less of her than they expect. Her scenes are relatively short, so she doesn't have much time to warm up the character. In short, Sally is not the best gift for an inexperienced inexperienc-ed stage performer. Scott's evil clown is a bit cold, but he can turn on the naughtiness for his audience. In case you haven't seen her, Andrea Metos, who plays Sally, is an extraordinarily extraor-dinarily striking woman. The theater program has a photo of her with the Kit Kat Girls that is wonderfully mysterioso she looks like Manolete ready to face the bulls. And she has a wide background in club singing. Metos is an intimate performer per-former who hasn't learned yet to project from the stage. (In her first number, "Don't Tell Mama", you're taken with her coy manner and singing, until the orchestra joins in and drowns out her small voice.) We salute her, certainly, for guts simply because she can drink down Sally's "Prairie Oyster" concoction without flinching. (It's supposed sup-posed to be a raw egg in Worcestershire sauce, but I understand they used some sort of tomato juice extract.) Her acting seems to be a case of trying too hard. Perhaps that's why her one "i i i '4 1 i h n i i i1 i i i ii ri i i i ountain excellent scene is at the play's end, when Sally is desperate, and trying to hang on to Cliff and the gay Berlin party life. But when she is the "charming" Sally, she is a caricature of the flapper. Metos' opal eyes and swan's neck, which could dazzle us, become part of a sad cartoon. The real darts should be saved for Susan Jarman, who should have recognized a performer who was "lost at sea" in an unfamiliar climate. It is, to a great extent, ex-tent, Jarman's fault when Metos' "Cabaret" number sputters. It should have a passionate anthem to noninvolvement and frivolity just the thing to keep Berlin partying in the face of doom. Instead it is languid and lost. By not helping Metos recover her natural performing perform-ing impulses, Jarman marred her otherwise splendid splen-did job of direction. She has triumphed in the past as a singer, actress, choreographer, chor-eographer, and now director. Jarman may be the closest thing to a Wellesian talent in this town, so dammit, dam-mit, why can't she be perfect? per-fect? With the one exception, the director has obtained consistently con-sistently good performances from her cast and working with them, has provided the detail needed to bring the characters to life in the Cabaret's bustle over here, a parody of a Valentino tango, over there an orange-juggling orange-juggling bit. The polish of her choreography and blocking almost never flags, from the floorshow opening of "Wilkommen" to the Schneider-Schultz duet PADRE'S MEXICAN PLACE Under the arched and vaulted ceilings the cellar that should have come out from a Spanish monastary. Padre's carries on the tradition of the Mexican Place in Ogden. Four times lauded in Utah Holiday Magazine "Best and Worst" issues as Ogden's favorite source south of the border. Open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. ROYCE'S Located at 1800 Park Avenue in the Yarrow (at Holiday Inn) The atmosphere is casual, but you can count on some of Park City's finest cooking with a fare ranging from American to Continental. Breakfast is served from 7 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., lunch from 11:30 a.m. -3:00 p.m. and dinner from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. There are daily lunch and dinner specials. Beer and set-ups are available. (There's a liquor store on the premises). We welcome you to join us 649-8659. 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"Marriage" to the demented "Kickline" number, with the M.C. and Kit Kat Girls starting star-ting off as Foxy showgirls, then descending into pratfalls, prat-falls, and finally ending it with a soulless goose-step off stage. Jarman's best work is the final tableau on stage, as the Nazis come to power. The entire cast is present. Characters are frightened, bruised, vaguely twisted. Her only faint problem is in the engagement party scene, where the characters seem just a bit stilted. The most popular number, though, is likely to be "Two Ladies" which emphasizes goosing instead of goose-stepping. goose-stepping. The two ladies, Frankie Polychronis and Mary Alice Cunningham, are delightful, but best of all is the man between them Richard Scott, in a tour-de-force performance as the M.C. Scott's evil clown is a bit cold, but he can turn on the naughtiness for his audience. He capers in semi-nudity, wags his tongue, trembles with horniness, goes rigid with sneering condescension, condescen-sion, and generally puts on a marvelous obscene show. Steve Stanczyk does a good job with the dull part of Clifford, the dispirited young ncelist searching through Europe for literary inspiration. in-spiration. Through his troubled eyes, we see the growing menace. The only problem is that Stanczyk gets too dispirited. You don't see how he could rouse himself him-self enough to contemplate married life with Sally. The two young leads don't attract your attention. In fact, much of the show is stolen by Carroll Horton as Fraulein Schneider. Horton has captured the landlady's friendliness, courage, and vulnerability, and she does it so well, your mind starts making weird connections. (Has anyone noticed, for instance, in-stance, that Horton looks like Patricia Neal?) Her song of toneless resignation, "What Would You Do" is one of the play's highlights. Larry Sheldon is also fine as the shy suitor, Herr Schultz, who announces his Jewishness with his first entrance, en-trance, so the tipped-off audience can murmur, "Uh, oh!" (He and Horton transcend tran-scend the dull script, but you can see why the characters were junked for the movie.) In a less flamboyant role than King Arthur, Sheldon is very likable, and he radiates warmth in his song about the two Meeskites (uglies) who bear a beautiful child. Val Thurnell plays the prostitute Fraulein Kost. One still smiles, days later, to think of her sluttily moaning for her "lonely, patriotic boys" but I have this nagging feeling that no director has pushed her to her potential as a farceur. Ralph Carlson plays his most despicable character yet as Ernst Ludwig, whose affable, bullying manner disguises something more sinister dedication to the Nazi cause. Without that friendly Captain-Kangaroo mustache of his, Carlson's face is the perfect canvas to express Ernst's polite cruelty though he tends to jut out his chin too much to show arrogance. The Kit Kat Girls express a variety of physical styles and hinted personalties. Liz Nesi-Smith is the frisky little tease, and as a sexy geisha, throws in some naughty dance moves that could ignite kerosene at 25 yards. Leslie Luyken is the coarse and lewd character, and probably avoids bright light. Madeline Smith and Robin Riley, from their expressions, ex-pressions, are two showgirls getting tired of the cheesecake game. The alluring smiles are starting to congeal on their faces. Katharine Janka puts on a busy bump-and-grind; she's not sure which of her assets to throw at the audience first. And Ruth Ann Fitzgerald, I would guess, is the girl u i m ii i ii ii ii h i h rm m Sustenance PHILIPPE'S Restaurant at the Copperbottom Inn. 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MCVPC THE CAFE MARIPOSA Experience an evening surrounded by the rustic elegance of the Cafe Mariposa. Situated in the Silver Lake Lodge at Deer Valley, the Cafe Mariposa offers a harmony of foods selected for the summer and fall seasons. Special appetizers, seasonal salads, daily seafood selections, uniquely prepared beef, veal, lamb and roast fowl, and baked daily desserts. Liquor and wine licenses, reservations suggested. Serving nightly 6-10 p.m. Phone 649-1005. AMC THE HUGGERY Open-air dining assured to excite all senses the Huggery offers a buffet-style luncheon featuring a natural salad buffet, a grill, a hot specialty station, deli-style sandwich counter, a roast carvery, and dessert selections. Sundays see the Huggery transform its food concepts into sumptuous bruncheon buffet. A state wine and spirits store on premise featuring a unique selection of California wines. Luncheon 1 1:30-2:20, Monday-Saturday. Sunday Brunch 10 a.m.-2:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. 649-1007. AMC r J 1 " I i if x . if IK t if r . , At . . i I If 1 ill l ''! U 3 V photo by Michael Spautdmg Stormtroopers are just around the corner, but Sally Bowles, the sensation sen-sation of Berlin (Andrea Metos) tells her audience to enjoy the party in the title number from "Cabaret". right off the farm. She hasn't learned the come-on routines yet, and is trying conscientiously conscien-tiously to keep up with the others, though she also struts her stuff as a female Cossack. The cast is filled out with some interesting small parts. Jim Dormer has not only done an excellent job of musical direction, he also provides the beautiful solo to the ominous hymn "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," a beautiful moment accompanied accom-panied by Bob Toy, Bill Tatomer, and Peter Holdorf . Dave Sturges is briefly threatening as Sally's boyfriend, Max. Steve Chin, always good in bit parts, has a funny walk-on as one of Fraulein Kost's cus-tomers-especially after she introduces him as her "cousin from Hamburg". In a "Woman of all Nations" music number, Janet Mann appears as Lady Liberty in a tap-dance routine worthy of Ginger Rogers. Other Kit Kat denizens are played by De Fisher, Bob Richer, Don Sturges, and Cathy Morris, and Sydney Reed. The most intriguing bit is the boozy, lice-ridden gorrilla who plays the MC's lady love in "If You Could See Her." PCP officials will not reveal the identity of "Chi-Chi G. Zebo," who portrays the simian, but you are advised to compare the nom de plume with some shop fronts along Main Street. The fluidly, masterful set by Denis Dowse blends a nightclub, apartment house and train compartment into a small area. The costumes and hairstyles like the people, are kept in character thanks to wardrobe coordinator coordin-ator Teri Gomes and hair-meister hair-meister Cathy Morris. And THE CLAIMJUMPER Set in the historic Claimjurnper Hotel, this first-rate steakhouse serves the famous Baseball Steak as a specialty, Old whiskey bottle1 serve as menus. Open 6- 10 p.m., Sunday - Thursday; 6-11 p.m., Friday & Saturday. 573 Main Street, 649-8051. EL PAPAGAYO (THE PARROT) Look for the brightly colored parrot at 430 Main St., and try our authentic Mexican Food. Lunch served from 1 1:30 - 2:30 and dinner from 5:00 - 10:00 seven days a week. Call 649-6900 for your Take-Out meal. CHINA RIDGE The only gourmet Chinese restaurant in luv. n. Serving 7 davs a week. Hours: lunch 1 1:30 to 3:00 Monday - Saturday, dinner 3:00 to 10:30 p.m. Monday - Saturday; Sunday 3:00 - 10:00 p.m. Take is available. Specializing in Cantonese and Sechewan dishes. Phone 649-5757, 649-5758. Located in Holiday Village Mall. Closed Mondays. JANEAUX'S This beautifully restored restaurant is a "must see" during your stay in Park City. The turn of the century decor of the "Parlor Room" and the collection of trophies in the "Hunt Room" are only outdone by the uniqueness of the menu. The escargot is the best in :own and crab, scampi, scallops, chicken cordon bleu, ratatouille, prime rib, roast duck and filet medallion, are just a fiw of the expertly prepared entrees. Dinner 6 to 1 1, 7 days a week, 306 Main Street, 649-6800. (!' f f- ' ' ' i' a W - ;: ill! IWifP .w ' H'U lirh. ..' i'-'i ,! k- ..i ll I' 1 H " ' , , I 3 a i i ; Kill ij ' Hit L1.fi? 1 -h V;i mm Tina Lewis, supplying the eye-popping outfits for Sally, once again showed she is Park City's answer to Edith Head. Ren Anderton's piano accompaniment ac-companiment swept from average to very moving. He led a "drag" musical ensemble en-semble composed of Sean Sullivan, Judy Vigus, Pete Arenskov, and Don Gomes. Sullivan was also notable on percussion, but someone went astray in the horn section. sec-tion. The musicians performed yeoman service when a curtain cur-tain crashed during Saturday's Satur-day's performance, and the musicians played on without flinching or without seguing into "Nearer My God to Thee". "Cabaret" is only playing one more week, from Thurs day, June 10 to Saturday June 12. For further information, infor-mation, call 649-9371. |