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Show Published A sDecial encore .(production of James Arlington's "Farley Family Reunion" will be Dresented Mav 7. 8. Pv and 9 at the Alhambra - - Theatre, 20 South Main in Pleasant Grove at 8 p.m. The play is a hilarious look at the - JAMES ARRINGTON and APRIL BLACK star in Reunion as a supplement to: Farley Family Reunion at Alhambra many types of people who congregate at that most universal of summer gatherings, the family reunion, says Arlington, who, along with actress April Black, portrays more than 20 different characters ranging in age from six to 99 Wfif m Steve K. Walz fflBUE American Fork Citizen, Lehi Free Press, Pleasant Grove spotlight - Thursday, May 6, 1982 - Page 1 during the show. -,. "The audience begins to feel during the show that they are actually at a family reunion," he says., "People recognize their own family members in the characteers, and every character has its own cheering section." ROYAL VIDEO The continuing media fascination with royalty especially the saga of Monaco's Princess Grace and her two rebellious daughters and the interest in Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana has created creat-ed the third video trend for the network's fall '82 season. At least three series pilots containing regal settings in fictitious kingdoms are in various stages of development. NBC's "Fit for a King" centers around a contemporary royal family in a small European country and stars Dick Van Patten ("Eight Is Enough") and Katherine Hel-mond, Hel-mond, ("Soap"). . : ... The idea for the play was actually generated by another sort of gathering. "Every time I go to a party, people say, 'You're an actor - be funny!" says Arlington, an accomplished accom-plished actor and director who is best known for his one-man show, "Here's Brother Brigham." "So, I developed these little characterizations characteri-zations over a period of four to five years," he says. "Then I Read Don Marshall's 'The Rummage Rum-mage Sale, ' which made me realize that all these people might somehow be related," he explain" ed. "I finally decided on the two-actor format in order to make it a challenge for, the actors.-' "It takes so much energy to do the show," he added, ''but it's enjoyable." "Farley Family Reunion" Re-union" premiered at BYU's Nelke Theatre in October, 1980 and has since toured throughout the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain West and Canada. Arrington is preparing to take the show to the Pacific Northwest and Washington, Wash-ington, D.C. this summer. Arlington's partner in the production, April Black, is a California native who has appeared appear-ed in a number of recent BYU productions, including "Watch on the Rhine," "A Christmas Christ-mas Carol," and "My Three Serfs." as well as a number of Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade shows. i I - DONOVAN SCOTT The diamond-clear actress, Bridgette Andersen, plays a "kiss-" "kiss-" behind-the" ear" child. Savannah, in her first feature film, "Savannah Smiles." Savannah acts as the catalyst for change as her need for Jove, her gentle warmth and her sense of joy effect those around her . . . even those irascible scoundrels, Boots and Alvie. Bridgette is rare and unique and six. It is awesome to see the human potential in one so young. At the age of two she said to her father: "I'm' an actress, you know!" Within six months an agent had accepted her as a client and she began a three year period of fashion modeling, TV commercials com-mercials and bit parts in a dozen TV shows, including in-cluding "King's Crossing" and "Washington Mistress" with Luci Arnez. She is not the product of ambitious stage parents. She is a child Review and Orem- WANTED as Boots MARK MILLER as Alvie Savannah Smiles who has an inner direction and her parents (who believe that each child is born with a sense of Self) have simply provided her with the atmosphere she requires to flower. Bridgette has a staggering IQ and has been reading since she was two and one-half years old. With a wild range of reading interests, in-terests, Hemmingway is her favorite writer and "Old Man and the Sea" her favorite book. She "picked up" reading as she. picks up other things . . . singing and dancing, for example. As Baby Mae in the upcoming television production of Mae West (ABC, May 2, Pacific Time) she plays Miss West at age six singing and dancing in front of live audience while carrying on a repartee with the piano player. She "picked up" dancing dan-cing by wearing tap shoes non-stop for a week and watching Gene Kelley in "Singin' In The Rain." At the point she was assigned CBS's entry is "Greystone's Odyssey" starring Jeff Conaway ("Taxi") as a dashing do-gooder in a mythical mythi-cal land during the days of King Arthur. ABC is making "The Quest," which is also known as "Lands End to Lands End," on location in France. The story, by Stephen J. Canned ("The Greatest American Hero") , concerns four Americans who have been determined deter-mined to be heirs to the throne of the tiny Mediterranean kingdom of Glendora. Perry King, Noah Beery Jr., Karen Austin and Ray Vitte are the contenders for the throne. Geneva Times to a dance instructor she was already so adept that she learned the routines in a few days. Her professional; attitude on the set could be compared to a well-centered well-centered adult. She is not a mechanical wind-up wind-up toy repeating memorized lines. She prepares for a scene by learning the ATTITUDE AT-TITUDE of the scene and the lines come as an outgrowth of the attitude. at-titude. Her father says of her: "Life with Bridgette is a total delight, a pure pleasure. It is like dealing with a tiny person who has a firm grip on herself. She has an almost spiritual quality that attracts both children and adults into her space." When Bridgette was very young the neighbor children would knock on the door to "see the little kid who talks like a ";rson." It is an enchanting experience to see Bridgette perform and it is only the beginning. |