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Show Page B8 Thursday, March 24, 19$3 Park City News reP returns in second revue Free Snowmobile Touring Visit Utah's finest mountain development for xh day of fun-filled sightseeing and snowmobiling. Shuttle service will pick up and return you to your door. Open 7 Days a Week. Limited amount of reservations available, so book yours early. Call collect 266-6663. Restaurant 2?iime Siib &L Steaks, Sllesln Seafood Slightly Oyster &ai Seivmq lunch daily fiom 1 1 :jo. Uustel operis at n:oo p.n. linnet fiom 5.00 p.m-3Hin'-bottles ana1 select wines avai Ule. HJndelgiound packing at the 9!ak City 3lesot 3?laza 6-7778 by Rick Brough Jacques Brel is alive and well 1 nd living in Paris. And resurrected in Park City, we might add. Even if you saw the first "Brel" revue last January, the Intermountain Actors Ensemble promises you'll want to see the new version, a livelier interpretation directed di-rected by Steve Hunt and opening March 24 at the Kimball Art Center. "This is much more entertaining," said a cast member. "Steve woke the show up. He brought it to life." Returning from the first "Brel" are singers Barbara Bramble and Curt Graf, with Roxanne Shapiro, supplying musical direction. The new faces are Steve Stanczyk, Debby Rapp, and Jim Don-ner. Don-ner. You can tell this will be an athletic show just by watching watch-ing the warm-ups at rehearsal. rehear-sal. The singers are stretching stretch-ing their legs, leaping around the Kimball gallery, or twirling canes. Director Hunt is sitting on the end of his cane, and the singers warn him that he'll experience exper-ience a distinctive sensation if the cane breaks. "It'll be the funnest enema you ever had," one says. Hunt uses the same Jacques Brel songs but has spiced them up with a fast pace and energetic movement. move-ment. Ron Burnett, who directed the first "Brel" said Hunt has fashioned a brand-new brand-new production. (Burnett bowed out because of his commitment to directing "Long Day's Journey into Night.") "Steve had never heard the songs before," said Roxanne Shapiro. "We played five bars of a song, and he's choreograph it. We played five more bars, and Steve would choreograph that." Hunt said he preferred to hear the music and respond to it instinctively. "I don't stop to intellectualize about The ski sale of the season starts March 31 To celebrate our best season ever, we're holding our best sale ever ... with many prices below wholesale on our remaining selection of high-quality ski equipment, apparel and accessories. Now's your chance to enjoy JANS uncommon quality and service at prices even the mass merchants can't match. Doors open Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 a.m. It's sure to be a ski-for-all ! DOOR CRASHERS Special selection of new and trade-back boots. Values to $250. $28 High-performance trade-back skis, gaq some with bindings. 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Among all these heavyweights, then, who has the strongest singing voice? "Isn't it obvious?" asked Graf, as Barbara Bramble's voice belted out through the gallery space. Bramble also confesses she was the instigator who got IAE interested in doing the show. "I was the biggest mouth. I bore it from Connecticut, after I saw the show there," she said. She also got Steve Stanczyk Stan-czyk hooked on Brel's music, but he wasn't able to appear in the first revue. "Since then, his schedule calmed down enough that he could be in the show." As a matter of fact, Stanczyk was getting downright down-right itchy to appear on stage. Recalled Shapiro, "Barbara called me and said, 'I don't want to influence you, Roxanne, but Steve was here last night having tremendous withdrawal with-drawal pains in my living room.'" (From present indications, Stanczyk, will get his acting fix. After "Brel," he opens in April with the Egyptian's "Jean Brodie." And this summer, he's been accepted into three acting programs. He can take his pick from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the National Shakespeare Company in upstate New York, and the Carousel Players in Couer d'Alene, Idaho.) The other cast members spoke of Debby Rapp as a valuable catch for their production. "Debby has worked real hard for this show," said Shapiro. Jim ronner wasn't fami liar with the show. But he said the new cast is working well with the "Brel" veterans. vet-erans. Besides, he added, everyone has to learn new movements and harmonies. The songs have been changed around and given to different cast members. Some solos are now duets. "The fun is seeing the different interpretations that come out," Graf said. As for Graf he said he just wanted the songs "Amsterdam" "Am-sterdam" and "Jackie" as solos and he'd be happy with the rest. About the second song he said, "I feel like it came out of my pwn mouth." "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living is Paris" will play March 24-26 at the KAC Main Gallery. Showtime Show-time is 8 p.m. with a wine reception at 7 : 30 p.m. Tickets are $5 general admission; ad-mission; $4.50 for Kimball Art Center members, and $3.50 for senior citizens and children. They are on sale at the KAC or you may reserve them by calling the KAC at 643-8882 or the IAE at 649-6208. (jJunnoBMes by Rick Brough A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists only Vi Lady Chatterley's Lover If any movie adaptation could sink an esteemed novelist's reputation, this 1982 release might do the job to D.H. Lawrence. Sylvia Kristel previously played Emmanuelle, and her chief virtue as Lady Chatterley is the ability to look sexually famished. Lord Chatterley (Shane Briant) has been crippled in World War I, and urges his wife to find another lover if she wants one. But he's insulted when she steps out of her class and takes up with the local gamekeeper (Nicholas Clay). The meat, for director Just Jaeckin, lies in the skin-flashing skin-flashing love sequences, with the gamekeeper moaning about his low station, or just moaning, period. Between sex episodes, we spend an interminable amount of time with Lord Chatterley, who shuffles about with wounded piercing looks, amid bad night-lighting that is sup posed to be artsy. To reach a high point in crashing pretention, the movie mixes two scenes. While the lovers rendezvous in a cottage, decorating each other's nude bodies with posies, the crippled lord drags himself up the stairs to his wife's empty bed. The movie may have created a new category Erotic Classic Clas-sic Comics. High Road to China Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong make their way against international assassins, assas-sins, Chinese armies and Mongol hordes. The only real danger, though, is that they'll kill each other. Director Direc-tor Brian G. Hutton lumbers from one action sequence to another, but the only thing holding the picture together is that old plot about the two . lovers who start out hating each other. Charming, but not charming enough. Armstrong plays Eve To-zer, To-zer, a 1920s playgirl who learns her father is about to be declared legally dead by his greedy partner (Robert Morley). You see, Dad has been missing in Asia for three years. Given 12 days to find him, she hires two planes and a besotted World War I ace, O'Malley (Selleck), (Sell-eck), to search from Afghanistan Afghan-istan to India to war-torn China. This whole premise is resolved near the end of the movie, when a character simply walks in with new information that foils Mor-ley's Mor-ley's scheme. The script episodically drags in villains and then disposes of them. And the battle scenes never link together. They're just excuses for the heroes to drop bombs from their planes and blow up more extras. At the beginning, you're not charmed by Selleck's drunkard or Armstrong's snippy heiress. The actors become more appealing when they're allowed to drop the cliches. She's winsome. He is bullheadedly funny, but you wonder if he's really destined for big-screen stardom. star-dom. (Selleck barely missed playing Indiana Jones, so this picture is supposed to be his consolation prize. Just as well. Selleck couldn't have - kept up with the glib heroics of "Raiders.") Director Hutton supplies enough carnage, but his direction of it is leaden. When he can find a case of good overacting (Wilford Brimley as Eve's father) or even bad overacting (Brian Blessed as the Mongol chieftain) chief-tain) he lingers on it endlessly. endless-ly. Jack Weston as the sidekick, Struts, is out of a comic strip. The wonderful Robert Morley character never leaves his London office, and seems to inhabit a different, more entertaining universe. 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