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Show Museum Movies Dolls: The Campbells Soup Dolls ' ' are ( MfiM IS! on display at the McCurdy Doll Museum Provo. C5 in Player: Kevin Costner's new "For Love of the Game" is a home-run- . C7 THE DAILY HERALD anus Provo Theatre Company, Ac Star parties Salt Lake Astronomical Society and the Hansen Planetarium invite everyone to view the moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn plus galaxies, star clusters and nebulae. Free public star parties are 8 p.m. today and Saturday for hands-oexperience with astronomical telescopes. . Today's event is in the parking lot of Harmon's grocery store at 7755 S. 700 East, Midvale. Saturday's star party is in Little Mountain at the top of Emigration Canyon. The next event is a daytime sun and planet viewing party at Harmon's the late morning and early afternoon of September 25. For more information please call the planetarium's free starline at or access Web site: . n 532-STA- www.utah.eduPlanetarium. Who ya gonna call? "Ghostbusters in Black They Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance" plays Thursday through Nov. 13 at Desert Star Playhouse, Murray. Written by Ben E. Millet and directed by Scott Holman, the production includes Police of the Paranormal, Watchers of the Weird and Orderlies of the Occult. Local theater hopes to reinvent itself with new season, new personnel i Slcto By ERIC D. SNIDER The Daily Herald the- ater. "Provo Theatre Company is a grand experiment, and I don't know if it's going to work," said Tim Threlfall,-neartistic director and ah assistant professor of theater at BYU. "This is the year that the place has to redefine itself and reach out more." Threlfall is filling the shoes of Charles Lynn Frost, who quit earlier this year, saying in a Salt Lake Tribune interview at the time that he was tired of doing "pablum theater," as "a denouncing local theater-goerkind of Stepford theater audience" who prefer "unchallenging, theater." His beef, basically, was that when PTC would do intellectual ' shows like David Mamet's "Oleanna," people stave?, away in droves. But thiSw on "Joseph and the;,! Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoa '(which Frost himself directed), and every seat is full. Both Threlfall and managing director Rich Hill have high praise for Frost and his efforts with PTC, which extend all the way back to its beginnings in 1986. Hill calls him "a creative genius," while Threlfall said, "I greatly respect what Lynn did and what he was attempting to do at Provo Theatre Company." s e, For times and tickets call (801) 266-760- 0. thought-provokin- Dancing friends The Dennis Miner Orchestra play s for the Dancing Friends' Harvest Ball today at the Eldred Center, 270 W. 500 North, Provo. Instruction is from 7:15-- p.m., then dance until 11 p.m. Other theme dances coming up are Halloween, pilgrim and Christmas. Memberships are $65 per year guests are per couple. irjvited at $12 per dance. ". Far more information call 8 Non-memb- 225-688- 6. ;. - World of dance I Uamfof ; When: 8 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 23, starting tonight. Where: Provo Theatre Company, 105 E. 100 North. with senior Cost: $12.50-$15- , and student discounts available. For more Information: Call 379-060- After a year of smaller audiences and a big change in leadership, Provo Theatre Company is gearing up for its fourth official season one that could be the turning point for Utah Valley's only r , The goals What he was attempting to do, and what PTC will continue trying, is to do shows that will appeal to a wide audience, but that are different from the shows being performed constantly elsewhere in the area drawing in the crowds, in other words, without pandering to them. Threlfall uses a personal illustration from his days at Seattle Civic Light Opera, where he directed "The King and I." "Given that there is a large population there, it was ah absolute necessity tha; every person on stage who is supposed to be an . be plajifid-- y That was simply a reality I in that market, ' "There are realities in this market that I might agree or disagree with, but in trying to run a theater, I have to lean to that" One "reality" in Utah Valley is that audiences don't want a lot of profanity or sex, and that's fine with PTC. But what about' pieces, like "Oleanna," that aie intellectually challenging and not just light, fluffy entertainment? Do "Provo audiences Asian-America- n Asian-America- n Asian-America- i 11 'i t ; , BYU's Theatre Ballet, Dancer's Company, the Cougarettes and the Folk Dance Ensemble are performing in World of Dance at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sept. 25., in the de' Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Artsi Center. Tickets are $8; call to 378-432- 2 ft" ' v J reserve them. Depart dearly Wasatch Theatre Company presents "Dearly Departed," a farce which runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. beginning today and going through Oct. 2 at Jim's Soupers Deli, 2278 S. Redwood Rd., West Valley City. ' Tickets are $6, adults, $5, students and $4, children. Seating is limited. ' For more information call (801) ,. 92051. Photo courteiy of Winter Dro. Plant one on me: The film version of "Little Shop of Horrors," Provo Theatre Company this season, featured Rick Moranis ending from the stage version. to be performed and a different by 1 I LI & r Ml c CHRIS SAULThe Daily Herald Dipping Into Shakespeare: Anne Fleming and Paul Walstad in Provo Theatre Company's "I Hate Hamlet," a farce opening tonight. The show is PTC's first of the season, and theater personnel hope it will be a season of revitaiization. not like to be challenged? "I think they want their challenge to be in the framework of entertainment," Threlfall said. "For example, The Last Night of Ballyhoo' (which PTC is doing this fall). It has a great message, especially for Utah County, where there is a predominant religion. It makes us say, 'Are we really living our religion? Are we creating little cliques within our religion?' The play deals with, 'Are you a Russian Jew or this kind of Jew or that kind of bring in audiences, but specific shows "the that you don't see too often best of both worlds," Hill said. The shows The lineup for this season is as lows: fol- "I Hate Hamlet," opening tonight, is a farce about a TV actor who is visited by the ghost of John Barrymore, who instructs him in how to play Hamlet. It was a hit on Broadway in 1991, and has been rarely, if ever, performed in Utah since then. "It's a very challenging piece," Hill said. "It requires tremendous acting. Acting in a farce is very difficult you can go over the top and it's not funny, or understate it and not be Jew?' "But someone could also come see that show and just see the delightfully warm characters, the witty humor, and totally miss the message. And that's fine. "I don't know how much you could walk away from 'Oleanna' with other than the message," he said. Hill hopes that this year's shows, chosen primarily by Threlfall, will manage to satisfy everyone. The leanings, are toward comedy and musical theater, which is exactly what every theater in the area does, But, Hill points out, "We're going to be doing musical theater pieces and comedy pieces that you don't see elsewhere in this valley." So PTC is doing the genres that ! ' funny." Director Steven Fales said, "The humor and wit is so sparkling. There are some inside jokes, but you don't have to have even seen Shakespeare to get this. A lot of people hear 'Hamlet' and get scared off. Don't be afraid of the title." 'The Last Night of Ballyhoo," by Alfred Uhry ("Driving Miss Daisy") is another Broadway hit it won a See PTC, C4 Petula Clark heads downtown in 'Sunset Boulevard' 7T1 I i . Ceo fife'-- National tour stops in SLC with British superstar as the lead . The Daily Herald LZo Archibald, Lifestyles wiih your calendar fterra and editor, ; or entertalrwnsnt storied i$$z$f art for the Get Away Friday section, t . f .Phone: (801) 344-254- 3 &pall: ihfam:iyheradextra.com .Vcfec (801) 373-54S- 9 1960s British singing sensation Petula Clark ("Downtown," "Don't Sleep in the Subway") will star in Ca,H Tawny X)R COPY If -- Courtesy photo Glamorous: Petula Clark stars as Norma Desmond in the touring company of 'Sunset Boulevard." "Sunset Boulevard" at the Capitol Theatre next week as part of a nation-wid- e tour of the show. "Sunset Boulevard " based on the 1950 Billy Wilder film, is considered by some to be Andrew Lloyd screen legend now fading' iftbfauty and stardom, and her chance Meeting with a young scrpeiiwiter When: 8 p.m. Tuesday through named Joe. addiSept 25; 7 p.m. Sept. 26; CJark played Norma Desmoid to tional shows at 2' p.m. Sept. 25 ' great critical and popular acclaim in and 26. i the London production of the 4iow, W. Where: Capitol Theatre, 50 and has been touring with it itt the 200 South, Salt Lake City. . U.S. since last fall. Cost: s; For more information: Call .. The Salt Lake City prodtfdioto is for tickets, or visit any being presented by the .TKfeater ArtTix outlet or the Capitol League of Utah. Other tours planned Theatre box office. V . to make stops in Salt Lake this tea-so- n include es MiserafcHf in ' in and November, "Jekyll vt. Webber's best work. It tells the story .February and, "Beauty aiii the of Norma Desmond (Clark), a former Beast next summer. 0& $25-$60- 355-ART- S . ( . ' K" |
