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Show Age C2 THE DAILY HERALD. ( www.HaitTheHerald.com). Provo. Utah. Friday. May 5.2000 tear gOK DDO (Please note: This is not We're sorry we even have to explain that up front, but ..... i ' ... ' trust us, we do.) Letter to the Editor I read with horrific disgust the letters from people who feel the LDS Church has too strong a hold on politics in this state. I say, if you don't like being around Mormons, move out of Utah! Remember, we were Eric D. Snider pretty much our state, and we should use the First Amendment to shut them up. And no, I don't know what that means, either. Need I remind you that . the first thing Hitler did was make sure none of the citizens had guns? The other first thing he did was make sure the rutabega was the national vegetable of Germany, so we can't let anyone try that, either, for surely it, too, can only lead to Nazism. How can we not trust the NRA? Charlton you're lucky we're even ting you stay in it, you you. I am also surprised let- non-membe- at the lack of appreciation for diversity in Utah. So a few Utahns want to practice polygamy. I say, let them! After all, the only people they're hurting are the girls being forced teen-ag- e Jnto .thfiJoyelesstiflingi marriages. So if no one's getting hurt (except for the aforementioned), why Courtesy photo the rich ... Scott Holman and Mary Parker Williams Rob from star the Desert Star's production of "Robin Hood Boooos and Arrows." in T"ko O-fn- t i-"- f rrrrr rr-f- mileage out of jokes r By ERIC D. SNIDER IF YOU GO The Daily Herald What: "Robirvtood: Boooooooos and Arrows" When: 7 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays; 7 and 9:30 p.m. Fridays; 3, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturdays; through June 10 Where: Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State St., Murray with student Cost: and group discounts available "Sherwood" MURRAY sounds like "sure would." That's the basis of several thousand jokes in Desert Star Playhouse's "Robin Hood: Boooooooos and a i ii thing is, they're all really funny. The show, the latest hit in a string of solid productions at Desert Star, is the typical and a one, too. Every scene crackles with comic energy, never dragging, and even the songs often a weak link are good. (Robin Hood and Maid Marions duet, to the tune ol "Summer Love" from "Grease," is particularly good: "She's so cool, she really rocksIn a cartoon, he'd be a fox." You have to remember Disney's ani. mated "Robin - ' Hood" mm, THEATER swift-movin- man, Sir Guy (Jonathon Phipps, whom we like more and more every time we see him in a show here). The negative points about this show are small but worth mentioning: Liady Clydesdale is a fine character, but her Brooklyn accent seems to have been added primarily for the sake of annoyance, which it achieves. And Tayler is fantastically funny as the Sheik, what with his macho talk and girlish squeal, but his Arab accent often gets in the way of understanding him. The rest of the show, though, is one entertaining bit of zaniness after, another. The first evidence of the Sheriff's evil, for example, is when we see him slapping an old lady around for not paying her taxes. (I'm sorry, but beating up an old lady funny. I don't make up the laws of comedy, I just recite them.) There's also a great bit where Lady Clydesdale makes hand puppets in the shadow of Marion's serious-son- g spotlight, and a wedscene ding featuring three people dressed as brides, only one of which is actually a woman. (Men dressing as women also funny.) -- - but once you iiiif uu, uii man. j The scaled-bac- 266-760- 0 g , harass them? It seems to me this state has better things to spend its resources on, like making sure the people who speak out in favor of gun control are silenced, because their opinions have no basis in fact ("fact" being defined as "the statistics I heard somebody mention once"). If they're going to speak out against the Second Amendment which, I might remind you, was written by God Himself, right after He wrote "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" then GARDEN Continued from CI $8-$1- Info: Call , k story (Robin doesn't even do any robbing from the rich or giving to the poor while he's onstage) is that the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (Jack Drayton) is in cahoots with Sheik Hugh the also-evBoote (Randy Tayler) whose name sounds like "shake your bootie" if you to over- say it wrong throw King Richard. It's up to Robin Hood (Scott Holman, also director) to save the day and to win the love of Maid Marion (Mary Parker Williams), with whom the Sheik is also smitten. Along for the ride is Little John (Ben Millet), who falls for Marion's Lady Clydesdale (Leslie Richards). There's also the Sheriff's bumbling hench- il one will be able, to stop them, seeing where the exits are. They often can be found beforehand at the city hall, looking at old here first, unless you count .the Indians (and honestly, why would you?). This is At the center is Ilene, a pushy Mormon mom whose chief concerns include whether the bishop will see her drinking a caffeinated beverage, and the fact that her returned- - missionary daughter seems to have put on a few pounds while she wasgone. And whatever er Ilene thinks, she says out loud. Along with the bossy mom and the returned-missionar- y daughter are a quiet father, a brother, an engaged daughter (who's being groomed to turn into another Ilene), her doormat fiancee and a little brother who's even quieter than the ' dad. Director Becky Baird said, "All the characters semi-aposta- te are identifiable with Mormon culture, they're very true to life. I think every person, in some respect can watch the show and say, 'That's how my family is when they're " . out at dinner.' " This will be the first professional staging of the play, which was written at BYU by Josh Brady, who was then a student there. a stunt? Why does The Daily Herald waste paper and ink printing such atrocities? I seem to recall that a certain Mr. Hitler expressed a lot of opinions, too. And while we're on the the "Wt: subject, your ater cntic, Eric Snyder, recently wrote a theater review that was 500 words plan their shootings. No one ever just walks into a TV station or genealogy library at random; they first do a bit of checking on the place, making sure no a real letter. This is satire. Heston is their president. Need I remind you that he has played Moses AND John the Baptist in two separate lame movies? If ever there was a Christian, it is him. And to make it illegal for teachers to bring guns to school! Such ludicrousness! Why not just put up a sign saying, "Hey, crazy people who want to shoot a bunch of people, come in here! No one will be able to stop you!" Because we all know that most of your crazed shooters are very methodical and careful in the way they (Brady, who has since moved to California, also wrote "Joyce Baking,": which played on the BYU mainstage in the fall of 1998.) "Great Gardens!" went through the playwrit-inworkshop and had a staged reading in December 1998, and a limited-run production in ' casting-wise,- ; blueprints. I don't think anyone fully appreciates . the hours of research that go into a crazed shooting. If some of the teachers at Columbine High School had been armed, there ' would have been a lot more bullets flying than there were, and I think we can" all agree that in any given: situation, the more bullets fired, the better. As for putting fluoride in the water supply: That's the first thing Hitler did, you know, after those other first things he did. How dare the state of Utah try to inflict good dental hygiene on us? Such un-- " Christiannes! Sure, fluoride is the part of toothpaste that actually cleans your teeth. But it's also a chemi" cal element. Have you looked at the periodic table lately? It's right there! Next they'll be pumping the water full of argon, or molybdenum, or manganese, and before you know it, we've all got great teeth, no guns, and Hitler's irf the White House. I also object to something said by your columnist, Steve Cameron, the other "coday. In his lumn," he expressed an opin- ion. How dare he? Where does he get off pulling such 51 IL' tive, the other 488 being very positive toward the production. Obviously, the "man" has no idea what he's "talking" about." If he did, he would know that this was the finest play ever produced by mortal beings; in fact, I would not be sur prised if God Himself had a hand in it, because I felt the Spirit while watching it, n which obviously means it was and Yes, my l daughter is in the play, but " I fail to see how that's relevant. Snyder obviously just 59. doesn t like theater. He also obviously was in a bad mood that night. He also obviously drives a foreign car and got poor grades in junior high school. There are a lot of things that are obvious, just from reading one article. If they're not obvious to everyone else, 3' too, well, surely there s something wrong with you. t The first thing Hitler did was stop seeing things that "" were obvious. Wake up, Utah County! LeVerDean'1 well-acte- well-writte- n well-directe- ChrisTianSen ' ff Pouonn so-call- Eric D. Snider can be reached at or 344-256- .."j at ericericdsnider.com. - work in other areas. Idle said, "I went and hid in France for a long time, and finally, even the Continued from CI g long, of which 12 were nega- . -- IDLE April 1999, Both versions were enthusiastically received, nd Payne selected it for Little London without having seen or read it, based On the recommendation of BYU theater professor Eric Samuelsen, who guided the show through its first stages. Baird, who is directing this incarnation of it, played the sassy mother in the 1999 production. Two other cast members Susan Keller (the returned missionary) and Ben Sansom (the fiancee) have also returned for the Little London version; the other roles have been recast. "These people work really well together," Baird said. "I have absolutely no regrets, , so-call- French found out about cross next to Brian, cheerfully singing, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." That song, along with Song among them), is part of Idle's stage show. Numerous sketches from the Old series are also included. Not included are any :0' it." (You can always count on the French to embrace several other Python classics ("The Lumberjack, 1 --- other original cast members. Idle is the star, but he is joined by a dozen other performers and musicians to help act out the sketches and sing the & x something ridiculous, he 3' added.) Idle has been far from ;w idle since the Monty n a quite days, doing Python bit of acting and writing, including last year's "The, r. Road to Mars," a novel that : reached No. 8 on theL.A. Times bestseller list and best work." Idle finally decided to stop avoiding the Python legacy about six years ago, when he moved to Los Angeles. "The great thing about living in Hollywood is that everyone's famous, so no one cares," he said. "It's no big deal. I found that was 'important to me, because people spoil you if you're famous." songs. "This is me not running in the opposite direction anymore," Idle said. "People keep hitting me in the head with Python, and I've finally decided, if the cash comes, I'll take it." All of the original : Pythons have at various times tried to distance themselves from it, seeking recognition for their ' ; . ;'a iA" ,WV' Z. ;'P". Eric JQ. Snider can be or at reached at ericericdsnider.com. 344-256- " II! Eric D. Snider can be reached at or at ericericdsnider.com. 344-256- lady-in-waitin- Eric D. Snider can be ' reached at or at 344-256- ericericdsnider.com. 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