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Show victim iiieauc The Dairy Herald jfc, Va4 t When: 7:30 p.m. nightly (except Sundays) through Sept. 25. Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. Where: The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Cost: $6--$ 16, with student and senior discounts available. For more Information: Call 957-332- 0 with customary wit and flair in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." ;. This is a satire of the business world, though it's a rather gentle one no cutting, ' Tf pilbert"-8tyl'jmarks here. ? ' Just a finicky toss, a bratty nephew, and a guy who wants 'to rise to the top without ever really trying. 3" ;v"That guy is J. Pierpont Finch (Dan Larrinaga), a -washer who happens across a book whose title is the title of the show. He applies for a job at World Wide Wickets (following the book's advice to "work someplace where "no one 2. Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes, including one intermission. Objectionable material: Some "h" and "d" words get tossed around by blustering businessmen. e ElIVi: has any idea what anyone else is doing"). His rise to the top is nothing short of meteoric, as he shmoozes the right people, and pretends to be from the same university as Big Cheese J.B. Biggley (Spencer Ashby). window- 7 to Cucsccd The Grand Theatre at Salt Lake Community College has season opened its 1999-200- - cany u rco 'Haw By ERIC D. SNIDER , I This being a 1961 musical, anu there has to be a woman who falls in love with Finch, without regard to the fact that she has known him approximately one second and that he is too wrapped up in becoming successful to even pay attention to her, let alone fulfill her every dream in life by marrying her. That woman is Rosemary, played by Brenda Sue Cowley, and bravo to Cowley for giving the woman more dignity and pizzazz than she is written to have (she's got a great voice, too). Larrinaga is wonderful as Finch, making the scheming little liar seem perfectly lovable a sort of Harold Hill for the corporate world, and with no less energy required. Larrinaga fills the role perfect- ly. Mamie Sears' set design is worth of mention, too. There are about a million scene changes in this show, and they all happen fast and without much dead time in between. The show lags a little here and there; one wonders if the satiric edge has been lost in the 38 years since it was first staged, or if this production merely isn't playing it up enough, The second-ac- t in "Brotherhood of Man" which Finch convinces everyone not to fire him after his disastrous bungling because we is so are, after all, brothers and (thank big show-stoppin- The Daily Herald - MURRAY The Desert Star Playhouse's annual Halloween satiric offering, opening next week, is "Ghostbusters in Black: They Don't Stand a Ghost of a '' In what appears to be a combination of "Ghostbusters" and "Men in Black," and perhaps aliensci-f- i movies in general, the Ghostbusters in Black (GIB) must rescue a journalism student from the strange disturbances in her apartment appliances, and rescue a college professor from g choreographer Stephanie Howell) that we almost don't catch the scathing satire nestled in there. The business world is just a big boys' club, where women are merely secretaries and company party But that idea seems almost accepted here, not mocked like it should be. Nonetheless, toothless or not, this is a charming, entertaining show, ably staged by the Grand Theatre. drink-server- wiiiii ML ii.ii Ci in Black' opens Thursday Chance." Page 'Ghostbusters Desert Star's 'Ghostbusters' uiicud - THE DAILY HI RAIL f), Pnwo, I lah Friday, September 17. When: 7 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; additional shows at 9:30 p.m Fridays and 3 and 9:30 p.m. Saturdays. Opens Thursday and runs through Nov. 13. Where: Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State St., Murray. for adults, $6 for Cost: children, with group rates available. For more Information: Call $8-$1- the spirit of an ancient sorcerer named Drool. After the show, the cast will perform the "And the Beat Goes on" Olio, a revue with music from the '60s. e if J$tJp 1 (7j2l LPS ITEMS ON SALE EVERYDAyTI I SCRIPTURE SALE! C Plenty of funny things in Pioneer's 'Forum By ERIC D. SNIDER 'A The Daily Herald T A i 1 11 Funny TfcinJ I... 11' lheatre Company to take a show we've already seen a Fev times the musical vfapce "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and do the most Cost: $17-$3- 1 Running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes, including one intermission. Objectionable material: Some dirty-old-ma- vaudeville-typ- e jokes, but n nothing explicit. Problem is, Philia has already been purchased by a military captain named Miles Gloriosus (Erik Stein). There are also a dozen or so subplots involving Hero's parents Senex (Robert Peterson) and Domina (Lorraine Serabian), an old man named Erronius (Chet Carlin) and his search one-line- e thorehouse. w Along the way we get one great Stephen Sondheim musical number after another, from the slam-banopener "Comedy Tonight," to the delightfully lecherous "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid," to Senex and Hero's duet about whether the other could possible be in love with Philia ("Impossible"). Robinson is a wonderful Pseudolus, and Peterson is also especially enjoyable as Senex. Knowing that both actors are mature, talented thespians, adept even at the deepest of Shakespeare's works, makes them even funnier as they roll in the mud, as it were, with this lowbrow (but not childish) goofiness t-- funnier than, say, seeing high school kids doing it. In fact, everyone in the cast seems to revel in the sheer, wild silliness of what they're doing. 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