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Show Page B10 D Thursday, January 7, 1993 The Park Record D Section B PMT presents award- winning Fences Fences, August Wilson's Pulitzer prize and TONY award-winning award-winning drama, will receive its first production in Utah at Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake City's Equity professional theatre. The production will run January 6 through January 23, 1993 at Pioneer Memorial Theatre on the University of Utah campus. The production is being underwritten by a grant from the US West Foundation. Fences was produced on Broadway in New York in 1987, with the actor James Earl Jones in the role of Troy Maxson. When it opened in New York, reviewers said of it: "Fences is a work of exceptional depth, eloquence, and power..." "...full of rich idioms, funny lines and arresting images." Since then, Fences has been a sellout sell-out favorite with theatre audience all over the country. Playwright Wilson has gone on to win two more Pulitzer prizes, for Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson. Fences takes place in 1957 in the city of Pittsburgh. The play tells the story of Troy Maxson, an African-American baseball player who came along too soon to play in the segregated major leagues. Now married, with one grown son and one in high school, Troy looks back on his past and tries to reconcile the chances he never had with the opportunities his youngest son is being offered. By turns funny, moving, and profound, the play examines the conflicting demands of responsibility and freedom for an African American man in 1950s America Kenneth Washington is director of this powerful and moving drama. Head of the BFA Actor in Training Program for the Department of Theatre for the University of Utah, Washington has directed more than 60 productions, most recently MaratlSade for the Babcock Theatre last Fall. Charles Dumas makes his first appearance on Lees Main Stage as Troy Maxson. He has appeared in nearly 100 roles in New York regional theatre, film and television. Eleanor McCoy plays Troy's wife Rose. Ms. McCoy has appeared on Broadway in both the original casts il 1 ..,:"V : yW.M --H.illWW--'V'W'inP V,,., ; V v r-Cv ; f - ' 1 ; . r ill II I HI! Ill Ml - I-'" - Rose (Eleanor McCoi) and Cory (Dion Graham) are two characters in Fenced, being performed Jan. 6-23 at Pioneer Memorial Theatre, on the University of Utah campus. of The Wiz and Timbuktu and recently completed her first year of graduate study in psychology at Hunter College in New York. Rony Clanton plays Maxson's brother Gabriel. Clanton acted recently in the films Malcolm X, Juice, and The Cotton Club. Clanton has also appeared on the stages of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the New Federal Theatre. Ron Bobb-Semple plays the part of Bono, Troy's best friend. Bobb-Semple Bobb-Semple is a native of Guyana and has been active theatrically in the United States for the past twenty years. Chris Walker also makes his first appearance on Lees Main Stage as Troy's oldest son by a previous marriage. Walker has appeared regionally in Pill House at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Miss Julie at the Yale Repertory Theatre and Inside Out at the Portland Stage Company. Dion Graham plays Troy and Rose's son and has performed in a variety of classical and contemporary roles both regionally and in New York. He can currently be seen in Spike Lee's Malcolm X. The part of Raynell, Troy and Rose's daughter will be played by two different actresses, Jevon Monique Howard and Carolyn Manning. Both are local actresses from Salt Lake City. Peter Harrison, who designed PTC's Letti.ee and Lovage set last season and Dracula, The 1940' s . Radio Hour, Saint Joan and many other productions for PTC returns SATURDAY JANUARY 9 DescRibEd by RoIUnq Stone MaqazIne as "A qusiy hEARTlANd ROCk bANd TrlAT WOUldN T SOUNd OUT Of plACE ON A JOrIN MeIIeNCAMP RECORd." v . ' t 4. i I LBTTLE WOMEN DOORS OPEN 8PM TICKETS $10 SATURDAY JANUARY 16 IN THEIR FIRST T PLACE APPEARANCE THE CRAZY WS' TICKETS $12 NOW OpEN 7 dAySA WEEk T PlACE ArcacJe Open 2pi MoNdAy ThROuqh FRidAy Open Noon on SATURdAy ANd SuNdAy For a qood time caII 645-9722 FrivQteClub Don't foRQET Z' PIace foR you Private Parties Aivd Group Events. 1 T PLACE as set designer for Fences. PTC Resident Costume Carol Welles-Day, who recently designed A Day in Hollywood! A Night in the Ukraine has created the costumes for Fences. Peter Willardson has designed the lighting and Barbara Rollins is in charge of stage management Fences is being produced by Pioneer Theatre Company at 300 South and University in Salt Lake City from Jani:. -.y 6 through January 23', 1993. Curtain tiuies are 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday evenings, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings, and 2 p.m. for the Saturday matinees. Single tickets for Fences and the remaining shows O Pioneers, Lend Me A Tenor, and Evita are on sale now. For tickets or more information, call the FTC box ; ; V office at 581-6961. Media yrotes An infrequent addition to the Park Record OK- so there were lots of celebrities here for the holidays. You want to see their pictures? Look in People we don't do that. You want to know who they were? Hey, they vacation here not to be recognized. We respect that. There are private lives and public lives, we try to separate the difference. In fact, that may be part of the reason the New York Times News Service decided Park City is hot, Aspen is not. Yes, expect to be cool now, or hot as the case may be. Papers across the country picked the new year's piece up and our copy was faxed to us from Arizona. The following is a partial list ,. NOT leggings Randy Travis the Rose Garden water bars Aspen, Colo motorcades cilantro pasta makers cabernet yellow ribbons sex Brussels raspberries mummies Bob Dylan silk Range Rover Charles HOT vests Garth Brooks the bully pulpit coffee bars Park City, Utah bus tours saffron bread makers merlot red ribbons politics Prague cranberries vampires Neil Young cashmere Toyota Land Cruiser Diane So enough already, you get the idea.. Recently relocated Robert Urich, now a Park City resident, whose fall series Crossroads was stuck in the Saturday goodbye slot and canceled (Too bad- decent scripts and terrific local scenery) is now featured on another show. The Emmy award-winning Evening Shade produced by the now very hot Thomasons in the lead off slot on the CBS great comedy Monday night Urich plays a community church pastor who is smitten with the less-than-saintly Elizabeth Ashley. Urich brought a certain Mark Heiss humanist quality to the role of the preacher. 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