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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Thirteen Friday. December 11. 1992 PTC's 'Private Lives' a classic romantic comedy o beautiful scenery. The set is complemented by rich and elegant costuming by K. L. Alberts. PTC Musical Director James Prigmore arranged the music. Ann G. Wrightson designed the lighting, and John W. Caywood. Jr. is the stage art-dec- BY KATIE SCRIVNER-WAYMEN- T Chronicle Entertainment Writer Currently on stage at the Pioneer Theatre Company is the classic romantic comedy 'Private Lives by Noel Coward. This is the play's first fully professional production in Salt Lake City. Private Lives follows the romantic misadventures of two couples who book adjoining honeymoon suites on the French Riviera. It's kind of like the current $' Vi$- - 4. film Singles, except that the characters are attractive, witty, y snobs wealthy, instead of attractive, funny, underpaid, slobs. And, of course. Singles trades in the setting of a hotel in the glamorous 1920s newlywed scene of Paris for an apartment complex in the grungy 1990s V A .' 1 high-societ- multi-employe- ' d. 1 1 I Theatre professional actors and - l 1 considerations. But this kind of perfect doesn't necessarily for truly satisfying theatre. It's like perfectly make prepared British food it's still bland. Noel Coward is like a bad playwright, but with talent. His popular, Will Kevin romantic as well." Morey is the artistic director for the Pioneer Theatre Company (PTC), whose magic and intimacy, but mostly serves to set patrons apart from the movie-goin- g masses. Private Lives runs Dec. 2 through Dec. 19. Curtain times designer, George Maxwell, once again dresses the Pioneer in get stuck 'Home Alone' in are exciting ways possible. You'll when you see it. howl Chronicle Film Critic In the classic tradition of the Three Stooges, Kevin, Marv and It has been a bumper crop of Harry manage to keep us in the Hollywood Christmas films. stitches from start to finish when With the releases of Home only slow moment coming director Chris Columbus chooses Alone 6, and It's a Wonderful to use the aftershave joke once Life Part II, the year 2000 has too often. Come on Chris, seen some of the best Christmas iftlll Going away to college is never 581-696- 2000? with 'Isadora' BY KATIE Isadora' Duncan, who gave us Saturday at Another Language Performance Studio. Isadora, ''- -i !y'V .iP is in dialogue and encourages them to participate in her dance of "natural movement." In the second half of the play, the children dance right along with the infamous Isadora. Duncan was one of recent history's most innovative and controversial artists. She threw off the corset of 19th century womanhood and donned the comfortable and dramatic Greek tunic, that was to become a trademark. Her new and unique r style of dancing,, her vibrant mystique, her unbounded fed finfirev. 0 j , and ,Ther bare feet, as of Duncan public opinion . , Dancer children , . the performed by Tommic St. Cyr, assistant professor in the department of theatre and film at the University of Utah. She also researched and wrote the piece. St. Cyr brings to life the genius of Duncan through her energetic and humorous portrayal of her. The performance is also highly personal, as St. Cyr engages the . copier, collator, SCRIVNER-WAYMEN- T the gift of modern dance, is being celebrated through an original children's show this -- , 1. Children find fun and frolic 0, bandit pair, Marv and Harry are plotting to steal the gold statue of Thomas College founder Peter Thomas from the school's main : I building. a conscientious Kevin, Yet nonetheless, either). political science student, is homeless still exist, and the people locked in accidentally in a building by the janitorial staff unfortunately, they . are before they go home for hopeless position. Anna Mae Jones.'played by the Christmas vacation. A telephone bride Drew In the mind of movie critic Jeff Jonsson's fantasy life in the year 2000, pole is knocked over, cutting off director's blushing keen Kevin in Home Alone 6. the building from the outside Barrymore, the granddaughter of Macaulay Culkin is still playing the world. Subsisting off stale candy George Bailey, married an George convinces hei to go Radio Free K.U.B.A.) who puts and soda pop from the building's abusive husband who has left no to Bedford Falls and seek the pieces all together in this home small children, vending machines, he is almost her with two no home. The process is an film which is truly worthy of the is roots. It. her too weak to set the traps and money, and. cold and emotional the and time richly rewarding Frank Capra mystique. death-dealin- g devices for. Mary Christmas Baldwin Barrymore and has gotten to her. She is journey which gives this film a and Harry when they come deliver a ' beautiful and her tender and singularly masterful heart, herself to about .' fling, calling. performances as granddaughter The best thing about the babies off of a bridge not' tone. and whose granddad. Barrymore hasn't Screenwriter Miller, Home Alone series has always knowing that her grandfather been this good since she won the fate. films similar Operation: ' previous been the traps and tricks Kevin once considered a in '96 for Beasts on Oscar The Gun) Shadow Lord, the Killing Archangels Luckily for her, uses to destroy the idiot duo. Baldwin., shows here her been show to Broadway. have spy a political largely The classic being the scanning send her guardian a match for his than takes a turn at a more he's more electron microscope he dropped the value of life and how she thrillers, it comes to when brother is tendert emotional piece, and older, on their heads in Home Alone 5. may be lifted up. The Angel All in all, roles. former dramatic, But it is meaty, In this outing, he manages to use none other than her own strikes jold. U is a. Part A It's Wonderful McBride Life, a Xerox, model 10,000 series, grandfather George. Bailey, screenwriter fourteen on "2000" see page Stillwater Park, Wolvesbane, mainframe (played by Billy Baldwin). and-despai- y, matinee on Saturday. Pioneer Theatre Company is located at 300 S. and University. Passes and gift certificates are available. For information call ar an easy thing, but Kevin has a harder time, because that Monday-Thursda- Chronicle Entertainment Writer us from to speak, comes-tscreenwriter Steven Miller, and director Sean McBride. They, with the backing of Tri-Stpictures, have chosen to do the unthinkable and make a sequel to the greatest Christmas movie of all time with It's A Wonderful Life, Part II. Eight years of a Bill Clinton White House have changed the America. of landscape less of a far is Homelessness to be, used it than problem this been never have high (taxes Kevin McCallister. This year, he's 18 years old, but still has that distinctive baby face which made him famous ten years ago. p.m. Friday and a 2 p.m. with Saturday, Macaulay has a full beard. The other side of the coin, so films ever made. Home Alone 6 once again stars Macaulay Culkin as that rascal 7:30 8 p.m. system in one of the most BY JEFFREY D. JONSSON plays are e appreciate his witty dialogue. But it's the kind of stuff that sits back and entertains people who want to sit back and be entertained. The theatre gives this sort of thing a boost of PTC's talented resident set A predictably comedic scene from Noel Coward's Private Lives now playing at our very own Pioneer Theatre Company. well-mad- very accessible, and audiences finished a highly successful run in St. Louis. Private Lives reunites four actors familiar to PTC audiences: Joyce Cohen, Anne Stewart Mark, Max Robinson, and Craig Wroe. L v 1 well-execute- d. appropriately technical pleasing. . - have theatrical comedies ever written." And. as usual, the Pioneer Theatre Company provides a nearly perfect production, with competent, adaptation of Dracula just l historians called Coward's Private Lives. "one of the most perfect singles scene of Seattle. Ok. so they're not all that much alike. Private Lives is) one of the best comedies ever written," according to director Charles Morey. "It's not only wildly funny, but touching and I' manager. " ' scandalous. Children ages six and older are Qt imritorl riiinran . ivy inin u n Pvp'c in iibu tn juiii j t uiiouti in, her lively dramatization, discussion, and dance honoring this great artist. , , see "Isador" on page fourteen |