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Show F4 The Salt Lake Tribune ye ARTS Sunday, March 31, 1996 TheaterCritics Pick ‘Amazing Grace’ as Best New Play SevenGuitars” openedFriday at the Walter Kerr Theatre BALLROOM DANCING! Lessons TUESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY|**30pmm 8:30 - 11:30 pm DanceThe... swing © Samba ® Cha Cha @ West Coast Swing * Rumba © Tango (eee nvood Floor ‘ays a “Live” Band! @ Non-Smoking @ Non Alcohol Atmosphere. Admission Only $5.00 Ory] Nig!We Murray Arts Centre astat pete ce Saal 4868 So. State Street @ Murray 269-1400 or 266-5999 ht Michael Cr e y Awards Seven Guitars” Dollar Off Admission by August Wil was donated by the Columbus sented to Reggie Cheong-Leen’s of Louisville. Cris tofer and Greenlandattendedthe event in the Pamela Brown Theatre along with an international The Nanjing Race The 1996 winner, Grace’ audience of approximately 700 theater producers, directors “Amazing is a supernatural drama about a female serial killer, abused in childhood, who undergoes a transformation on death row after experiencing God's agents. actors, crities and patrons. Wilson was in New York, where golese leader Patrice L concerns afateful week in ician whose career is about totake flight. The play premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatrein January ‘95 ATCA critics attended more than 100 new. plays in 1995. Of those plays. 16 scripts were nomi ATCA membersfor the rds following world pre- mieres at regional theaters out- side metropolitan New York. The play premiered ir 95 at the Cleveland Play House. “Seven Guitars” continues Wilson's 10-play cycle about black Americans in each decade of the 20th century. (Two others, *The Piano Lesson” and “Fences” have been produced by Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Theatre Company.) Set in Pittsburgh in 1948, ATCA’s New Play Awards fre- quently honor major new works before their recognition by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awards committees. Among them: Wilson’s son,” “Fences,” “The Piano Les- “Two Trains Running” and Lee Blessing’s “A Walk in the Woods “Gui A Solid Concert Revival of Kurt Weill’s ‘One Touch of Venus’ by Ogden Nash, is surprisingly ara NEW YORK — “‘Encores! Great American Musicals in Con- spiffy production of of Venus. ‘One Touch sturdy. Weill’s haunting music has the same veneer of New York sophistication as his other big 1940s hit, “Lady in the Dark And there’s the added plus of poet Ogden Nash's wittylyrics. Suchsongs as “How Much I Love In the process, the revival re confirms thestar You” and “That's Him’ earned genuine laughs during a performance at the City Center. The story of a statue of the fam- potential of Me lissa Errico, a performer who plays the bewitching title charac ter with spark, style and graceto spare. Please, put this woman. totally wastedas a star of the televi sion series “Central Park West in a new musical. One Touch of Venus,” which has music by Kurt Weill andlyrics ous love goddess brought tolife was a collaboration between Nash and humorist S.J. Perelman. Ve- nus comesalive after a mild-man- nered barber places a ring on her finger, Theyfall in love, a situation that upsets the barber's long- suffering fiancee. To complicate matters, Venusalsois pursued by a wealthy art benefactor. Should Venus giveup the glamorous life of being the world’s most desirable woman andsettle for life as a Staten Island housewife? The answeris a bit bittersweet, but the authors soften the blow with an unexpected plot twist MaryMartin was Venus in the 1943 production. and theincan- descent Errico is her equal. 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