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Show Park City News Thursday, December 23. 1982 Page B3 f 1 -5-j .if 1 I - ...,' l ' " ' hi ' " 1 - . i v - . - ... t f m ;,r ' ... RESTAURANT at the golf course (801) 649-71 77 ... Jere Calmes as Winthrop seems immune to charms of Amaryllis (Kelly Purdom). Have no fear, folks. Love and the trombone will triumph. . . . more of the Preparation Method Music from Bl not too surprising that High-tower High-tower hasn't found a handle yet for this thin role although for one song he throws in a stomach-rolling bit that will probably draw andience requests for the rest of his career. He also takes center stage for the "Shipoopi" number, but his song there is largely drowned out. As Charlie Cowell, Hill's rival, Dick Mitchell has captured the traveling salesmen's sales-men's energy, self-assurance self-assurance and rolling lingo. Mitchell could bring out more of the character's spite and nastiness. But he's effective, especially in a scene with Marian, where Gomes has a couple of well-directed well-directed jokes about Charlie's Char-lie's traveling sales stock a suitcase full of anvils. Jere C. Calmes leads the youth cast with a high-pitched high-pitched rollicking portrayal of the lisping Winthrop. Playing his girlfriend Amaryllis, Kelly Purdom is too corny, but has the assurance of someone who knows she's a cute little kid and can steal the stage blind from the adults. Leilani Soares jumps into her role as the Mayor's daughter (a good approach for someone who says "ye god!" in practically every line). And Robbie Smith is reasonably feisty as the young inventory Tommy Djilas. (On alternate alter-nate nights, Tommy is played by Scott Williams. ) Pat Whitfield is a fun, twittery old hen as the Mayor's wife, Eulalie Mc-Kecknie Mc-Kecknie Shinn. But Whitfield can get laughs with this part in her sleep, and I would only suggest she work out some new wrinkles for it. Whitfield's scenes are often stolen by her dippy dancing disciples in the ladies' gossip circles. Two in U ( Ski In and Ski Out! Park City's newest and most exciting atmosphere for lunches, dinner and apres ski fun. Relax on our sunny deck overlooking the Park City Village ice skating rink and Park City's ski slopes. 1385 Lowel Ave. Park City Village 649-4060 Take out service available. particular we should note Jackie Craigle shows all the demented glee of one of "Fantasia's" dancing ostriches. os-triches. And Katharine Janka's magpie gossip, forever for-ever clutching her heart, is a neat comic vignette. These two are ready for a good comic supporting role in a future production. The other members of the ladies' gossip circle include Mary Ellen Wharton, Mary Austin, Connie Jean Boyle, Amy Finegan, Darla Phillips, Phil-lips, Ruth Ann Fitzgerald, Kathy Krueger, and Ann MacQuoid. They navigate their way well through the difficult "Pickalittle" number, num-ber, and though the lyrics are mangled, their energy comes through. There is only one group that gives off more feel-good vibes than the gossips, and that's the town's barbershop quartet. Together, these two musical ensembles practically practi-cally steal the show. Dick Cummings, Mike Phillips, Bob Toy, and Bill Tatomer are the four bickering members mem-bers of the school board who become inseparable after Professor Hill shows them how well they fit together harmonically. Even without matching costumes, these guys look like they belong together-one together-one creature with four heads. Their big problem is that their opening scene has to show more of their long-previous long-previous hostility. After all, these guys have been fighting fight-ing for fifteen years. Phillips, Cummings, Tatomer Tato-mer and Toy are so good they might end up as a late-night-TV record offer. They're lovely in duets with the gossips and Marian. And they also serve well in the salesmen's number, set to the rhythm of a train. (Tatomer is especially funny here, but his tenor is so high you're afraid he's going to hurt something.) m y "Happy Hour" 4-6 p.m. The song direction is generally good from Ren Anderton, Don Gomes, and Jan Mann, even with a few garbled lyrics. In the big group numbers, director Gomes gives his cast a few pantomime vignettes (the more, the better) and Steve Hunt's choreography tries to keep the crowd moving with various specialties marching, march-ing, square dancing, tumbling. tum-bling. In the "Shipoopi" number, the revelry is so infectious that some of the normally glum-looking extras ex-tras could be seen smiling in spite of themselves. However, there are moments mo-ments when one questions the wisdom of putting so many people on the stage. In the "76 Trombones" number the crowd choreography looks more like a school cafeteria at high noon. Park City Performances likes musicals, in part, for the chance to put many community people on stage (and especially at Christmastime, Christ-mastime, for the chance to put children on stage). One can understand the benevolent benevo-lent intentions, when the musicals attract such an eager response from the residents (reportedly some 80 people auditioned ) . But could it have been possible to reduce the cast by about a fourth? This might save headaches for PCP and Don Gomes. The cast could be directed and not herded. When PCP does two or three musicals a year, surely there will be other chances for those who aren't picked for the production. The orchestra, conducted by Gomes, is another area where a larger scale didn't work out. This musical ensemble goes astray as badly as the last such effort, in 1980s "Camelot." The trouble, as near as I can pin it down, appears to be some internecine conflict between the horns, the wind instru uoeo El q fad- ffityz&ua ments, and the musical score. (In fairness, I've never heard an instrumental ensemble up here that didn't have some trouble blending the horns in.) This is one area that needed more time set aside for it. The set is minimal some platforms, chairs, a footbridge, foot-bridge, and some upright frames. And on reflection, this seems contradictory. Why go for the spare set, but then immerse it in the lush treatment of a large cast and good-sized orchestra? Other notables on the crowded stage include Val Thurnell, who plays the preening piano player with a few swift, funny strokes, and Mac MacQuoid who plays the constable. Kerry Greene gives an energetic performance perfor-mance as another travelling salesman in the train number. num-ber. The other players are Doug Morgan, Erin Calmes, Zack Craigle, Hilary Felton, John Garner, Pam Finegan, Libby Lee, Jenny Poison, David Nelson, Randy Pol-son, Pol-son, Tim Harris, Chris Toy, and Kaili Vernoff . All these players are costumed, with style and decent consistency, by a yeoman crew consisting of Teri Gomes, Sandy Jackson, Maggie Reno, and Maureen Traeger. Reputedly, this was last-minute work, but it didn't show. The orchestra consisted of Ren Anderton, Linda Barnes, Fred Birch, Ann Bowman, Andrea Graf, Dorr Huffman, Dave Krueger, Jan Mann, Bill Moore, Brian Piere, Herb Ruttenberg, Judy Vigos, Jenny Yeats, and Mike Wilde. "The Music Man" continues con-tinues nightly on Dec. 22-23 and 27-28. A matinee will be held on Dec. 26. General admission is $7.50 for adults ($5 for PCP members) and $6 for children ($4 for PCP members). 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