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Show Arjs S Entertainment HIRING ACTORS! An Evening Full of February 19 1997 Wednesday The Forum am hiring Actors and Actresses of all age ranges and ethnic types to work as scene partners performing challenging roles from classic and contemporary plays and films in the advanced scene study workshop at the Actors Academy in Murray. Pay is $15.00 per hour for rehearsal and performance. Scheduling Is flexible. Please send I enters Rosalindas home and is about to pursue her when the police arrive. They are Ballet Wests presentation there to arrest Eisenstein for of Rosalinda is a uniaue bal- his rendezvous the night let Tilled with comeay, dis- before. Thinking Alfredo is guises and bats, as Rosalinda Eisenstein, the police try to tries to get back at her hus- arrest him. A chase scene filled with ballet moves and band, Eisenstein. Rosalinda is funny from comic timing ends with knocked the start as Eisenstein, played Alfredo being out wheeled and by Raymond Van Mason and unconscious his friend, Dr. Falke, played on a serving cart. West invited Ballet by Jeffrey Rogers, return from a costume ball in a very celebrity guests from news drunken state. Eisenstein is stations and sports teams to dressed as a skeleton and Dr. make special guest appearFalke as a bat. Dr. Falke ances during each perforn and flies mance. That night at the cosbecomes across the stage, while tume ball, KSLs Carole Mikita Eisenstein dances around a is one of the guests. statue of a violin player. Rosalinda, Eisenstein, Dr. During an altercation with Falke and Adele attend the two police officers, Dr. Falke ball, masked and unaware is caught and swears revenge that the others are there. on pisenstein, ' who manages Rosalinda discovers that " V jVEisenstein is there and proo escape. next The morning, ceeds to flirt with him. Rosalinda, played by the Eisenstein, not knowing it is back. flirts graceful Pamela Robinson, is Rosalinda, Daisy Lee Forum staff writer air-bor- ' - , . , displeased with Eisensteins Rosalinda pretends to faint drunken r- party 'going. and tak6s Eisensteins pocket Rosalinda takes advantage of watch when he takes her his hangover by having Adele, pulse, as proof that he was the maid played by the eomi-pa- l flirting with another. As Dr. Maggie Wright, turn on the Falke convinces Eisenstein to music. After Eisenstein leaves go to prison, Rosalinda disfor work, Rosalinda hears vio- covers Adele in a very comilin music playing outside. cal unmasking scene. Wright The violinist is her former has magnificent facial expreslover, Alfredo, played by tal- sions as Robinson pulls her ented Peter Christie. Alfredo mask off. - , : . Eisenstein and Dr. Falke arrive at the prison. Much to Eisensteins surprise, the police have already imprisoned him, Alfredo that is, who happens to be wearing Eisensteins smoking jacket. Eisenstein, Dr. Falke, Alfredo, the two policemen and the jailer, played by the acrobatic Jiang Qi, proceed to dance a hysterical, dance. .It is like something out of a Charlie Chaplin film as they tumble, crawl and dance across the stage. At the end of the dance, Eisenstein and Alfredo are thrown into cells and the jail- er is dragged to his chair. Rosalinda and Adele arrive to rescue Eisenstein. When Rosalinda is questioned by Eisenstein as to why there is a stranger in his smoking jacket, she reveals his pocket watch. They realize what they have done and forgive each other. Dr. Falke apologizes for seeking revenge on Eisenstein pd tefi tji pQltcs. to release him. Every one goes home happy as Dr. Falke,, who is bacK,in,.his fbt costume, flies across the siage.V "Rosalinda! is one of the best and 'most delightful bal- lets that Ballet West has presented. If you missed this ballet, be certain to watch for it to return to Salt Lake City, as Rosalinda is frequently . on photoresume to: 869 East 4500 South 148 Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Will contact as needed according to specific scene casting requirements. A Tale of Horn or Lin Sorenson Forum staff writer Beast On the Moon, the second production of the Salt Lake Acting Companys 1996-9- 7 season is a sometimes sometimes tragic funny,account of two Armenians,-- , Seta and Aram, who escape the Turkish program of geno to cide by emigrating America. The two suffered similar tragedies when their families' were annihilated by the Turks, leaving them orphaned and alone in a hostile country. But the two cope with tragedy and attempt to rebuild their lives in very different ways. The story takes place in - Paige Bradford In the twenty years since its first showing m the tiny Theater Upstairs at the Royal Court Theater in Sloane Square, The Rocky Horror Snow has become a cult classic, first on stage and then on screen. How it became a cult is one is of those theatrical unknowns it hit a nerve not just during its time, but seemingly forever. Strangely, it is built on the cult of those rather awful Milwaukee, Wis. from 1921 to 1933. Aram Tomasian settled there and started a photography business. He arranges for an Armenian picture bride to join him. The play begins when he first brings Seta, his bride, home. Aram two wants things: an Horror Show without the played in the right setting for movie being played behind it, nine months but lasted only obedient wife and a child. As the first act progresses, as you would, see while one month in a proper thebecomes more and more it attending the Tower movie ater on Broadway. Aram is trying that theater. This is Gryska and Curry and OBrien were apparent to recreate his dead family in Klocks first theater produc- also around for the film vertion. We hope to bring the sion which crept out in 1976. order to make himself whole most exciting new theater to The show seemed doomed for again. Meanwhile, he and Salt Lake. We are looking at all oblivion until it unexpectedly Seta discover that she will types of adventures, from wild became a favorite with univer- never have children because musicals, to the sity campuses in the United she was starved in an orphanmost daring dramas. We want States and late showings in age when she was nine years to give the people a theater New York which led to its cult old. This unforeseen event Now audiences experience they will remem- position. ber. interact with the film, helping causes some interesting The Rocky Horror Show Brad and Janet to the castle by changes in both Seta ana Aram. Once again, they deal is very happening. The audi- lighting matches and throwwith it in different ways but ence is shown into a neglected ing rice at the wedding. cinema ready to see a double The outrageous story little by little, Setas way is feature. An usher welcomes starts as our hero and heroine, winning. She does not want them and the film begins. It is the newly engaged Brad and to merely survive. She wants a simple device which Janet, get lost in their car on to learn to live and overcome changes the film to a stage per- the way to see their old sci- the past, which she feels has formance, a device which was ence tutor Dr. Scott. They turned them into, what she twisted when it became the have taken a wrong turn, it calls, walking dead. Seta Rocky Horror Picture Show. has started to rain and their reaches out to become part of In America, when Tim Curry car has a blow out. Luckily, their small community. She befriends the couple who and Richard OBrien (creator own the neighborhood groof the books, lyrics and music of Rocky Horror Show) cery, starts a small business making and selling cakes and -repeated their London roles, it 7 did well in L.A. where it brings home orphans from the 1950s B and sometimes even C horror, muscle, and science fiction movies which hinted at the outrageous but never really delivered the goods. However, on stage an important factor is its intima- cy with the audience and is audience participation encouraged. Ed Gryska and Brandon Klock, producers of E.J.G. productions gives people the experience once again to see the production of The Rocky off-Broadw-ay Sgg Rocky on Horror page '('tiiui .. .. j street for a meal and a bath! Aram, copes by workinghard and ignoring his wife (except to quote bible verses to her). He spends a lot of time read- ing the newspaper; looking amongst the German, Polish and Italian faces for those of real Americans, which he studies as if he could find the seprSt pf happiness in them. The entire play includes . 15-year-- Forum staff writer Dan Deniro setting "thri niMll1 ptchpnliv1; the,1 Toifrasian mgafpa'qf home! Yet J the ; nimiriial ; h'a'sf arid Sparse St4ge seltiiig- com1 . bine with the confined area of the theatre to provide an intimate, intense experience that works very well. Mark Gollaher does a wonderful job of moving smoothly from comic to tragic and back again as the confused but determined Aram. Patrizia Peterson, a recent graduate of Hillcrest High ; . School, marks her professional debut with the Salt Lake Acting Company as Seta. David Fetzer is captivating as the young boy Vincent a lively, funny, lovable orphan who is taken in by the Tomasians. Bob Ormsby plays Vincent as an older man, the narrator of the story. He is a regular in Utah theater, hav- ing appeared in numerous productions at SLAC, Pioneer Memorial Theatre and other local theaters. Beast On the Moon was written by Richard Kalinoski, who was born and raised in Wisconsin. The play won an Osborn Award, which is given by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Best New Play produced outside of New York. It made drama critics best of... lists in seven cities during the 1995-96 season. The play runs until Feb. 23. Performances are held on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. fc |