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Show TWO SUMMER FESTIVAL SHOWS SCHEDULED AT U Under starry Utah skies, audiences audi-ences in Stadium Bowl of the University Uni-versity of Utah will watch perform- ances of the hit Broadway musical, "Brigadoon," and the most popular popu-lar of all Italian operas, "U Trova-tore." Trova-tore." U. of U. Summer Festival will present "Brigadoon," a fantasy a-bout a-bout a Scottish village that comes to life one day each 1 00 years, nightly at 8:30 p.m., July 6-1 I Lyrics are by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loew, the same two who wrote "My Fair Lady." The following week, Giuseppe Verdi's opera, "II Trovatore," will be presented on the Summer Festival Fes-tival stage July 15, 17 and 18 at 8:30 p.m. Three nationally known operatic celebrities will be starred in this English version of the famous fa-mous opera. Again this year, the University of Utah's highly .successful Summer Festival trio of directors will be in command: C. Lowell Lees, production produc-tion director; Maurice Abravanel, artistic director, and William F. Christensen, choreographer and ballet bal-let director. Sereta Jones and Vern Adix again are directing the costuming cos-tuming and scenery, respectively. Lead roles of "Brigadoon" will be re-created on the stage by Christine Mathew and David At- kinson. For "II Trovatore," Irene Kram-arich, Kram-arich, John - Druary and Virginia Copeland-Gordon will sing the role, with which they are eminently ident ified. In addition, each production will have prominent former Utahn. in supporting roles. Other stars of this area will round out the casts. A 32-voice singing ensemble, Utah Symphony Orchestra musicians music-ians and the U. of U. Theatre Ballet Bal-let will contribute to this year's memorable Summer Festival productions. |