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Show V THE PARK RECORD Scene, B-5 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 1997 SCENE EDITOR LisaAntonucci 649-9014 ext 104 Leave morals, ethics and education at the door for Greater Tuna show calendar June 18-24 IS Wednesday First Security Concerts in the Park, Michael Luccarelli. classical auitar. City Park, 6-8 p.m., 649-61 00 Scenic chairiift rides and mountain biking, Deer Valley Resort, every Wed. through Sun. and holidays, call 645-6733 h u r s d a y Fat Thursday startina at 5 D.m.. O'Shucks (now a private club for members) Story time at the Park City Library; preschoolers (ages 3-6) at 10 a.m., and toddlers (ages 2-3), 11 a.m., 645-5140 Festival of Animation, Tower Theater, SLC, 297-4040 w 5 t 20 Friday "firpator Ti ina " Part Pih WMkwi Wit IIai I Ml IX WHY Performances, Santy Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., 649-9371 Young Riders, recreational mountain biking for kids 8 and up, 9 a.m.-noon or 3-6 p.m., call Dave at 649-1104 or Kim at 336-2155 Stein Eriksen Lodge cooking classes: "Southwestern Cuisine," 6-9 p.m., 649-3700 Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll, 6 - 9 p.m., 461-6787 21 Saturday Story Hour, A Women's Place Books, 2 p.m., featuring Jane Mathews reading "Star in the Sky" from the Children's Book of Virtues Pedalfest, guided tours, barbecue and clinics clin-ics for all ages 9 a.m. City Park Book Fair to benefit Hogle Zoo, Barnes & Noble in Sugarhouse, 1 - 5 p.m. Savour the Summit, sample Park City's restaurants to benefit the Special Olympics of Utah, PCMR Resort Muckers Rugby, City Park, 1 p.m. Sunday Pedalfest, 9 a.m., City Park Historic Home Tour, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., tickets on sale at the Angel House Inn, $15 for Historic Society Members, $18 for all else. For information call Melanie at 649-5983 or Rosemary at 649-6117. Monday 'Spaghetti Night, Cisero's, 5-10 p.m. iV 'Advanced Youth Theatre Camp, presented by Park City Performances, 649-9371 24 Tuesday PUSH America "Journey of Hope," bikers riding from San , Francisco to Washington D.C. to raise awareness for people with disabilities stop in Park City for a barbecue in City Park, 649-3991 Mountain Trails Foundation Tuesday Trail Run Series, City Park, 6 p.m., 649-4035 or 649-0697 Locals' night, 5 p.m. to close, O'Shucks (now a private club for members) Locals' night, 20-cent wings until 10 p.m., Broken Thumb, 647-3932 by Melissa O'Brien OF THE RECORD STAFF Guns, the Klan and book burning are on their way to Park City. Yep, you read right. Political correctness, the NACCP and the ERA be damned! No, we haven't been thrown back into 1950 and no, David Duke hasn't been elected mayor. Greater Tuna, a comedy written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard making fun of the red-neck element of America many of our politically-correct selves would like to forget, will be presented by the Park City Players as part of their summer performance series. "Greater Tuna allows the audience, audi-ence, as well as the actors and myself, to laugh and poke fun at typically typ-ically serious subjects like bigotry and male chauvinism," said director Tony Larimer. . In Greater Tuna, Tuna, Texas represents rep-resents a town where if you were the member of any ethnic group other than white bread, apple pie, Anglo Saxon Caucasian you'd hope to never have car problems while passing through the city limits. It's a place where the title of the winner of the Tuna Junior High American Heritage Essay Contest is "Human Rights, Why bother?'' and where meetings for Local Chapter 249 of the Ku Klux Klan are broadcast over the radio. But instead of repulsing audiences with so many of the social ills this country has been trying to erase since it's inception, Greater Tuna, allows the audience to laugh at the ignorance of which these backwards back-wards attitudes were born. Greater Tuna is Larimer's second endeavor with Park City Performances. His first was last year's Voice of the Prairie. Larimer's background includes a lifetime of acting, directing and, in his own words, "being an advocate for all types of performing arts." "I was attracted to Greater Tuna because it requires no great, profound pro-found thinking. Its just a happy evening at the theater," Larimer said. The script calls for a cast of two to play 10 different roles each. Characters range from an angry housewife, still bitter about never making the high school cheerleading squad, to the good 'ol boy sheriff with his own ideas of how to enforce the law. Actors Gary Anderson and Geoff Spade both agreed that the biggest challenge, as well as the most fun, they experience with Greater Tuna is keeping up with all the character char-acter changes. "As an actor, you've got to love any play that allows you to be ten different people within one scene," Spade said. Spade, a freelance graphic designer design-er living in Salt Lake City, has been acting at the Egyptian Theatre since 1990, with a total of seven Park City appearances under his belt. Last year he was a participating director in the Egyptian Theatre's Second Annual presentation of short's and does voice over and commercial work with various Salt Lake City production companies. Both actors agreed the focus of the play is not to trick the viewer with the virtually constant character changes, or for it to be a test as to how deeply each of the actors can fulfill every role, but to show the audience how absurd and foolish the mindset of Tuna really is. "The biggest challenge for me will be to be able to really portray each character as vividly as I can in a very short period of time," Anderson said. "Although we're not trying to make the audience think we're anything any-thing that we're not, just give them enough time to get in on the joke," Anderson said. Please see Revel, B-8 fs i r fJ: j . PHOTO COURTESY OF PARK CITY PERFORMANCES Geoff Spade (standing left) and Gary Anderson make up the cast for the red-neck comedy Greater Tuna, opening on June 20 at James Santy Auditorium as part of Park City Performances' summer season. Dolls and quilts lend to an atmosphere of Americana in the Kimball Art Center Gallery SCOTT SINE PARK RECORD Marva Dalebout's "Quilts of Contrast," pictured above, and Contemporary Doll Art from around the United States will be on display In the Kimball Art Center Main Gallery from now until July 6. by Edd Kincaid RECORD GUEST WRITER There I was, trying to park near the Kimball Art Center to review its exhibits of Marva Dalebout's "Quilts of Contrast," Wendy Lavitt's doll art, and Charles Stubbs paintings. But, as it would seem. half of Utah had other plans for me. Cars, media vehicles and p'-(!i'Ktri:n, lined the bottom f Main Stieet, n ipating the ei! from the Mamott of the Chicago Bulls. Over the years I have been called by a close acquaintance (whose name shall not be disclosed) as "bull-headed." Now accepting such, I approached two cars, parked and packed with people, in the Kimball parking lot and informed them they were illegally parked.. They moved, I parked. Duty calls, even if it means getting a ticket. With my adrenaline at a high, it rose even higher on viewing the unbelievable talent of Marva Dalebout, the quilt maker of quilt makers. I have in the past enjoyed the quilt shows the Kimball has offered over the years, but this is without a doubt the best ever. Design, color and craftsmanship is superb. Humor? In quilts? There is you just have to look for it. Picking a favorite was impossible, so I chose to name my own categories cate-gories and select my favorites. Small choice: "The Blue Herons." I found it delightful. "I was attracted to the blue heron of America, with their long necks and long beaks, because of their gracefulness," says the artist. "The color scheme was taken from an oriental-looking border print, and incorporated incor-porated into the herons throughout the quilt in the border colors. The bright orange and red was used on the beaks and legs. The true blue was used in the bodies in some Oriental-looking Oriental-looking fabric 1 had been saving for just such a quilt. The beige grass as a background is a perfect contrast for the bodies." Perfect is an understatement. Intricacy: I couldn't choose. "Grandmother's Picket Fence" maybe pushes out "Heart's Desire" and "Gossiping Geese," but barely. "Grandmother's Picket Fence" has won First-Place awards at the Springville Art Museum and the Utah Quilt Show. In addition, it was juried into the American International Quilt Show in Houston, Texas, and the American Quilters Society Show, Paducah, Kentucky. Regarding this special quilt, created creat-ed in 1992, the artist responds, "A dream to someday make a grandmother-flower garden quilt finally became a reality when I decided to clean out my scrap barrel of fabric. 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