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Show arts & entertainment Players Produce Doonestoery.9 Musical DOONESBURY, directed by Gail McCulloch with musical direction by Chris Johnson, set design by Michael McCulloch and choreography by Armen Dilanchian, runs April 4 in the Jay W. Lees Courage Theatre (Converse Hall, second floor). Admission is FREE and curtain time is a prompt 8:00 p.m. Featured in this production are David as Michael Doonesbury with the lovely J J. being portrayed by Kim Williams. Fellow Waldenites are played by Michael Tiel-bor- g as Mark, Lance Bocquin as Zonker, Eric Plonski as B.D. and Michelle Maxwell as his faithful girlfriend Boopsie. Duke is played with fiendish delight by Jim Sams, accompanied by Leslie Bennett as his faithful gal Honey. Tood Tapper portrays the debonair reporter, Roland Hedley, Jr., and a real college graduate, Claudia Hellstrom, rounds out the cast as J J.s hippy-dippmother, Joanie. Not to be overlooked, for they certainly are not oversung, are Zonkers colorful singing flowers, played with verve by Colline Baxter, Annette Tribby, Karla Joose, and Shawn Mehling. Shawn doubles as the assistant director, and Jonathan Turkanis will be the performance accompanist. Join the Westminster Players April 4 in the Courage Theatre for DOONSEBURY: A Music Comedy, by Garry Trudeau with music by Elizabeth Swados. Remember, admission is free and curtain time is 8:00 p.m. April Fools Day, 1987, will mark a departure for the Westminster Players. For the first time in a long time, the Players will produce a musical in Courage Theatre. DOONESBURY is the title of this new musical comedy and for those of you who are devotees of the famous comic strip by Garry Trudeau, yes, the musical is based on the antics of Trudeaus loveable characters. The play begins with the Waldenites (e.g., those who inhabit Walden commune) preparing for their college graduation the following day. They ask the standard question asked by many future graduates, How coud this have happened to me?, as they greet friends (Roland), loved ones (Joanie), and potential fiancees (JJ.). In the midst of all the commotion Zonkers Uncle Duke, recently on trial for a minor drug infraction (the purchase of two kilos of cocaine with government funds), arrives on the scene ready to bulldoze the commune and begin construction of luxury condominiums. Throughout the bedlam Michael Doones-bur- y seeks the hand of J.J., who is trying to come to some sort of terms with the mother who left her, B.D. frets over his trade to Tampa Bay, and Zonker sings to his flowers. All in all the evening promises to be a delight, spiked with some political barbs (hear Ronnie rap to the American Blacks) and a good deal of warm humor. 1-- Ben-glesdo- rf y 1-- Angel Heart Good, But Not Worth Stampede by Erick Scheen Finally, this reporters opinion is that anyone caught by the obvious attempt to boost ticket sales by the controversial, almost media hype should try to recover. Wait for this movie to appear in the dollar theaters, then see it. This film is good, but not worth stampeding to see. Writer-directo- r Alan Parker's Angel Heart is a detective storyvoodoo thriller that makes the viewer do more than just watch the viewer must think as well. The story centers around Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a 1950s gumshoe who takes what he thinks is a simple missing person case from a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre (Robert DeNiro). The missing man is Johnny Favorite, a d singer who was injured during World War II, and disappeared from an upstate New York sanitarium before fulfilling contractual obligations to Mr. Cyphre. Throughout Harrys search for Favorite, which eventually takes him to Louisiana, where he runs into both a voodoo cult and several unsettling eyents take place: everyone who knew Favorite and speaks with Harry winds up violently mur- ed Gary Trudeaus B.D. big-ban- devil-worshipper- dered. The combination of Harrys foreshadowing dreams, the graphic murders, and the cult worship culminate in an ending that, while (I figured out the ending before the movie was half over), is still very intense and exciting. For all of the movies good points, the drawbacks cover up what had the potential to be. a very good film. The story itself would make an excellent Twilight Zone episode, but the overabundance of blood turns the viewer ed off. One of the major flaws in the film is Lisa Bonets portrayal of Epiphany Proudfoot, a young, seductive voodoo priestess. How many people can spend their entire lives in the bayou country of Louisiana in the 1950s and not have even a trace of an accent? From the minute she opens her mouth, her character is . unbelievable. While Mickey Rourke does very well as. Harry, the character itself is inconsistent. At first, Harry did not even flinch at the sight of a brutally murdered body. Later, however, he loses his lunch at another grisley death. . 6 J Forum Issue No. 13 March 20, 1987 |