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Show yVednesday, April 2, 1997 The Park Record B-5 Spalding Gray slips into skiing waasB Events: "Women and Investing," free evening seminar featuring Robert Arbogast and Vincie Logan, A Woman's Place Bookstore, 7-, 7-, 8 p.m., 649-2722 2nd Annual Snowsliders Festival, through April 6, Wolf Mountain, 649-5400 6th Annual Snowshine Festival, through April 13. Park City Ski Area, 649-8111 Music: Acoustic Jam night, no cover, O'Shucks, 8 p.m. .Locals' Night, Jam Band, Cisero's, 9:30 p.m. ; 10th Mountain, The Cozy, 9:30 p.m. pKatie Kuhn, Rustler Lodge, Alta, 7-9 p.m. i Theater: "Incorruptible," Salt Lake Acting Company, 7:30 p.m., 355-ARTS Music: Local live jazz, Mercato Mediterraneo, 6-9 p.m., 647-0030 -fAlleygators, Cisero's, 9:30 p.m. jHaymaker, The Cozy, 9:30 p.m. 5Katie Kuhn, Stein Eriksen Lodge, 4-7 p.m. sif Mulligan's Irish Pub, live music, 8 p.m., 658-0717 Fat Thursday starting at 5 p.m., O'Shucks .fFlamenco Blue, Thea's restaurant, 7-10 p.m.; live music with V Troy Griffin, Thea's pub, 7:30-11:30 p.m., free gourmet pizza party, 655-4575 Theater: "Phantom of the Opera The Good, The Bad & The Chandelier," Desert Star Playhouse, 7 p.m., for reservations call 266-7600 266-7600 "Incorruptible," Salt Lake Acting Company, 7:30 p.m., 355-ARTS Other: City Art Readings: Poetpourri, Mount Tabor Lutheran Church, SLC, 277-1510 fStorytime at the Park City Library: preschoolers (ages 3-6) 10-11 ' a.m., toddlers (ages 2-3) 11 a.m. Events: f'Marvin's Room," Park City Film Series, Jim Santy Auditorium, 8 p.m., 647-9747 jSnowboard demo days. Wolf Mountain, 649-5400 Music: ''Utah Symphony presents an all-Brahms evening, Abravanel Hall, 8 p.m., 533-NOTE ..Haymaker, The Cozy, 9:30 p.m. 'Alleygators, Cisero's, 9:30 p.m. ,Harry Lee and the Blues Ambassadors, Jammin Salmon, 9:30 p.m. Mulligan's Irish Pub, live music beginning at 8 p.m., 658-0717 ;'Rich Wyman, D.B. Coopers, 8 p.m., 532-2948 Katie Kuhn, The Aerie, Snowbird Cliff Lodge, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Flamenco Blue, Thea's Restaurant, 7-10 p.m.; Troy Griffin, Thea's Pub, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; 655-4575 Theater: "Incorruptible," Salt Lake Acting Company, 8 p.m., 355-ARTS V'Phantom of the Opera The Good, The Bad & The Chandelier," ' , Desert Star Playhouse, 7 p.m., for reservations call 266-i 266-i 7600 vents: f'Marvin's Room," Park City Film Series, Jim Santy Auditorium, 8 p.m., 647-9747 React97 gala, fashion and performing arts extravaganza for prevention pre-vention of child abuse, Abravanel Hall, 8 p.m., tickets are $20, 355-ART "Polar bears cubs' "coming out party," Hogle Zoo, 10 a.m. -3 p.m., 582-1631 ' Snowboard demo days. Wolf Mountain, 649-5400 2nd Annual Snowsliders Festival, through April 6, Wolf JU Mountain, 649-5400 6th Annual Snowshine Festival, through April 13, Park City Ski Area, 649-8111 Music: Thea's Pub: Flamenco Blue, 7-10 p.m.; Texas-sized Hootenannyl, l More Events on B-6 IP-IIIP- ma Two, 4, 6, 8, Who do we appreciate? DAINTRIE! DAINTRIE! DAINTRIE! We touck one pa jra' You're not sharp and ipry you were in your younger The memory goe. but you look Better nan ever. Happy Birthday1 Our love, your Pork Record colleague! . 5. . ' SPjULS 1 day! by John Bresee RECORD GUEST WRITER On Thursday i-cning. March 27. Spalding Gray stood before the Jim Santy Auditorium audience audi-ence a changed man and a skier. Spalding Gray is the premier Spoken Word artist in the United States, and the finest Rhode Island Jack-C.'hristian-Scientist storyteller sto-ryteller currently touring. He is best known for his film Swimming to Cambodia, directed by Jonathan Deminc To the cognoscenti he is a poet artist from a giand tradition of historic storytellers, and to Spalding himself, him-self, he is an "actor who lives vic-ariouslv vic-ariouslv through himself." During the early moments of Gras s monologue. "It's a Slippery Slope." I here was a feeling that the traditionally melancholy artist had been dipping his toes into the world of Proac. Gone was the ' iWzU:f'J is PHOTO COURTESY SLAC Brad Slocum, Mark Larson and Gene Pack star as monks in the zany monastery of Priseaux in Salt Lake Acting Company's production of "Incorruptible." Visit the 'Incorruptible1 monks of Priseaux by Jolene S. Aubel RECORD GUEST WRITER Desperate tunes lead men even Catholic monks into desperate des-perate acts in Salt Lake Acting Company's current run of the black comedy "Imarrupnble. " Set about 1250 A D. in the monastery of Priseaux. France, the monks can't seem to get any parishioners to pay the penny for a prayer to the resident patron saint. Times couldn't get any worse when the monks hear the news that in Bernay. a patron saint (St. Foy) is performing per-forming miracles left and right. That has the monks of Priseaux scratching their heads and wondering what really happened hap-pened in Bernay because the real remains of St. Foy He with them. As the monks investigate, they find a one-eyed monk has sold the bones for 30 gold pieces in Bernay. This monk, who really isn't a monk, is Jack the minstrel, min-strel, who has sold the remains "UTAH'S QUALITY LENDER" "3- ,y sV mm rAlkV PARK CAIT SSFINANCIAL, LC WJ - ll - 2V HOME EQUITY -3 LOW COST LOANS $50,000 ---' CONSTRUCTION ' y TOS500.000 "7 LOANS. ONE f $100,000 minimum loan amount. f angst-riddled reminiscence one usually associates with his monologues, mono-logues, and in its place was a far happier upbeat tale. The temptation tempta-tion to yell "Spald, what's happened hap-pened to you? Have you found inner light, chemical balance, true happiness? Say it ain't so!" was overwhelming. Uncharitably, Gray's loyal followers were not seeking what is best for him. merely what makes the finest monologue. The cheery-by-eomparison prologue pro-logue had the theater crowd roaring roar-ing in laughter as he discussed the pitfalls of tackling skiing at age 52. He spoke of "feeling the sudden power of omnipotent ubiquity." This reviewer chuckled empatheti-cally empatheti-cally with the rest of the audience, yet went home to parse the sentence sen-tence and make dog-eared a perfectly per-fectly good Webster's Dictionary in the vain hope of comprehension. comprehen-sion. Gray's mastery of language of a pig farmer as the blessed saint. What comes later is a revelation revela-tion for the monks of Priseaux to get them out of their financial woes. The revelation being, let's sell across Europe what the monks have in their graveyard as blessed saints and watch the money roll in. The saintly chop-shop chop-shop has churches across Europe buying what they believe to be John The Baptist. 17 times over. Written by Michael Hollinger, "Incorruptible" has an outstanding outstand-ing cast that keeps you laughing and guessing what's going to happen next. Lead by Utah stage veteran Gene Pack as Charles, the Abbot of Priseaux. the cast kept you howling as the plot unfolds. Pack's chemistry with Jared Davis (Brother Martin) lights up the stage as his character convinces con-vinces Charles to follow through on this wild plan because the bodies would be "serving the church in death better then in r 525 7 1Q 0 38 pt. RESET 10 0 7.26 APR 15 YEAR 7 ciqO 14 pt. FIXED OO 10 7.76 APR 20 YEAR QO 18 Pl- FIXED O O 8.10 APR 30 YEAR QO 12 pt. FIXED OO 8.13 APR CITY 649-7898 I flKF 97-VWIfi i hniu. fciwvwiw REALTOR was a pleasure to experience. ..more so because of his hard New England twang. Yet slowly, unexpectedly. Gray brought the audience through an incredibly difficult story of changing relationships, aging, fear of death and other trivial triv-ial details. What originally appeared as a changed lightheaded lighthead-ed artist, was merely the refinement refine-ment of craft. It was impossible to see the knife go in, until suddenly before the audience Spalding Gray displayed the rending of his heart for all to suffer. As one who has seen Gray before, these thoughts came unbidden. Expecting to hear about his usual cast of characters, I thought. "Not Renee Spalding! She is your anchor, and your beacon bea-con home... and who is this Kathy person? We don't even know her." For all these feelings Gray had an answer, as well as discussing the ? f til ' V riffl: life." Hoodwinking Jack the minstrel min-strel (played by Mark Larson), also an experienced grave robber, rob-ber, to join the monastery helps the pieces fall into place. Not only are Larson's thespian talents tal-ents worth noting, he's not bad at juggling either. High-fives go to Brad Slocum for his portrayal of Brother Olf, the monk with a big heart and a mental elevator that goes only to his first floor. Slocum also makes a second appearance as the nail-spitting nail-spitting abbess of Bernay and sister to Charles. Agatha. Slocum captures what could only be described of the fury of a woman's scorn. If you are looking for a fun way to spend an evening, take a visit to the monastery at Priseaux. You won't be disappointed. disap-pointed. "Incorruptible" runs until April 27 at the Salt Lake Acting Company.localed at 168 W. 500 N Salt Lake City. 255 Main 655-4575 2 for I Spring Special nring this ad into Thea's for breakfast or jZunch this svriiw ana recievc d secon (free enlree muet be ct equa or !e' beverage. and Tip net "v ... Thea's new spring hours. Open W-Su Breakfast 7-11 Lunch 11-2 Pinner 5-10 curious nature of those of us who purport to know him mcrclv In attending his monologues So personal, per-sonal, painful, enthralling and hw terical are the tales he weaves, that dissociation between Spalding Gray the perfonnei. and Spalding Grav the man is difficult. diffi-cult. "It's a Slippery Slope" wound its way through Aspen. Tahoc and Stowe, telling the story of a man facing his fears by finally daring to learn that which scales and enthralls him: skiing. 1 lis pel foi -manec was uniqueh fascinaling and made for a fantastic evenim: For information on other locations loca-tions to see Spalding Guv 's new monologue contact Linda Greenberg at Internalion.il Production Associates. 212 "25 2100. A film version of one l Gray's previous monologues will be showing at the lower Theatre in Salt Lake City starting April IN Dance to the tune of the moon by Kathleen Shore RECORD GUEST WRITER "In the beginning, o best beloved, the night had not only no stars, but worse, no moon..." In the manner of Kipling's ' Just So Stories" and the world's creation cre-ation myths. Repertory Dance Theaters Per Mond will tell us the real story of how the moon came to hang in the sky. Friday and Saturday at the Capital Theatre, RDT combines forces with Children's Dance Theatre and 14 guest artists from the community to present this Grimm's folk tale choreographed by John Mead to music bv Carl Orff. Der Mond will charm audiences of all ages. When the brothers Jakob and Wilhem Grimm gathered gath-ered their tales from the German-speaking German-speaking lands of Central F.urope in the 19th century, they transcribed tran-scribed an oral tradition exactly as they heard it, complete with witches witch-es who eat children and wolves who eat grannies. In our family, nobody ever wanted a Grimm's fairy tale for a bedtime story; they were too scary. But Der Mond is an exception. Mead says he chose it because "I like things that have something positive to say." The story concerns four young men who find themselves in a foreign for-eign village one night, and to their delight they discover a brilliant orb hanging in an oak tree, illuminating illuminat-ing the countryside and keeping people from bumping into things at night. They steal the "moon," hang it in an oak tree in their own village vil-lage and take good care of it, trimming trim-ming the wick, filling it with oil and keeping it polished. One by one. the young men grow old and each asks to be buried with his fourth of the moon. When all four of them arrive in the underworld, the pieces of the moon magically reunite themselves and shine so brilliantly that the light wakes the dead. Being the underworld, of course, the dead are quite an unsavory unsa-vory lot, and they proceed to get drunk, sing loud drinking songs and start brawls. The commotion is so intense that it disturbs St. Peter at his pearly gates and forces him Please see RDT B-8 it uour rtl entree free |