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Show The Salt LakeTribune ARTS Sunday,September 15,1996 #8 on ‘Pirated’ lardson,lighting designer]. I went to school with James Prigmore and Anne Stewart Mark and Max Robinson and here weall are together working on this show.” ‘Thelist continues as he names PTC staff members he has known @ Opens Wednesday Pioneer Theatre Company's premiere of Jim Christian's Sets Sail “The Pirated Penzance” is Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Pioneer Me- morial Theatre, 1340 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City. Perfor- On PMTStage nances continue Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Satur- day at 2 and 8 p.m., and continue nightly, except Sundays, through Oct. 5. Tickets, $13 to $34,are avaiable at the Pioneer Theatre boxoffice. @ Continued from E-1 concept. He also directed and choreographed. The Allred The- the audience. Seated with them atre audiences went wild, and were “75 judges for the annual ACTFcom: creative-management people that Louis had invited.” An agreement was reached, petition selected the musical as one of the country's top seven coilege productions from a field © Christian sold the first-rights options to Brickhill Burke produc- 900. Oneof those judges was Lov is Burke, a South African film, stage andtelevision director who had produced ‘Meet Mein Si. tions and dreamsof a Broadway opening did not seem farfetched. Butthat wasthenandthis is now. Last spring, Brickhill Burke's for years and actors who have plays Gilbert and Sullivan off the Hollywood framework. He held his breath, hoping Brickhill Burke’s one-year option would lapse, allowing PTC to premiere a musieal by a Utahn who had cut his theater teeth on the stage at Pioneer Memorial. Is Christian disappointed that the show, he contacted Christian one-year option ran out and nego- to say he wasinterested in the property. The professional joy was over- the professional premiere is in Salt Lake City rather than New York? Without hesitation, he says, professional production. “No.” He is wiser, his script has Louis” on Broadway. After seeiny tiations were completed with Pioneer Theatre to stage the first PTC’s artistic director, Charles shadowed when Christian's wife died of cancer in March '94 When“Pirated” was presented at the ACTF that month at the Morey, heard about the musical when it opened at Weber State and followed its progress with more than passing interest. He found thescript clever and highly Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Burkeandhis business-partner wife, Joan Brickhill, were in theatrical, delighting in the wayit been reworked numerous times andis better, but mostofall “I’m home. This is my undergraduate school, where I received my degree in musical theater. took classes from Carc] [Wells-Day, costumedesigner] and Pete [Wil- worked in his Utah Musical Theatre productions. His East Coast experience taught him a great deal about getting a play from page to Broadway stage. The difficulty in having a script approved by Actors’ Equity is startling; scheduling a theater, next, to impossible. The handing ofthescriptto one potential leading man and having to wait for his answer before giving it to another potential leading man stretches one’s patience. “There are layers after layers, steps after steps that must be taken once there is a commitmentto a project,” said Christian, “and the process is so slow because of the routines of the theater. I learneda lot and,no, I am notsorry for anyofit.” He praises Prigmore's re-orchestration of the score, saying it is muchless a Sullivan sound and __ “When you adapt a work of art, you are not destroying enjoy it. the original. It is still there for all who wish to Nothing has changed. It would be different if you took work. That the ‘Mona Lisa’ and painted over the actual would be terrible. But at least we are doing no damage to the original G and S.” JAMES PRIGMORE much more a ‘30s Hollywood sound. The show now has an overture, thanks to Prigmore, and a tap number for the G and S-in- spired policemen, who enter the charming and very creative. He spent two or three years ofhis life honing it and will probably con- 9 tinue to do more.” Prigmore saw “The Hot Mika- to audition for a partin the movie. do” several years ago in London, and there was not one recogni2- Prigmore says there was a time in his life when he thought it sacrilege to take someone’s work and nal G and S “Mikado.” scene not to rescue anybody, but able Sullivan tune in the show Only the plot resembled the origia you are not destroying the origi- He says Gilbert and Sullivan purists will recognize the tunesin “Pirated” but may be shocked at changed. It would be different if New York actress Ann Kittredge returns in her fourth role you took the ‘Mona Lisa’ and painted over the actual work. ‘That would beterrible. But at aret” and Marie in “O Pioneers?” redoit. His view has changed. “Whenyou adapt a workofart, nai.It is still there for all who wish to enjoy it. Nothing has what has happened to them. * at PTC, having appeared as Elita in “My Fair Lady,” Sally in “Cab- least we are doing no damage to She portrays Constance Marshall, the original G and S.” Prigmore says matters such as this always presenta sticky artis- movie-studio mogul Roger Mar- tie problem. What should you do with an original — but old work? Updateit or try to educate audiences to appreciate the culture of the past? “Both points of view are com- pletely valid, and you'll never find a resolution between the two,” Prigmore said. ‘On one hand,it is terrible to alter a masterpiece, but wereally haven't altered a masterpiece, because the masterpiecestill exists. The ver- sion Jim has done is utterly Daddy’slittle girl — Daddy being shall (PTC favorite Max Robin- son). + Kittredge makes a predictibn for the musical, and in the same sentence offers some advice to Utah audiences. ‘a “Trust me. This show will be done nationally. The people in Salt Lake should take pride in what they have and comeseethis premiere whileit is in their com- munity. It is going to get picked up, and there is something wonderful about being able to say 1 saw it when it was a baby.’ ” : MarketStreet Grili 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Market Street Oyster Bar" 10:00 AM to3: MULLBOONS (LONER « OER+ SUNY BRUNCH Rise and Dine Every Bay at Market Street Grill... Breakfast served from: * For private club members 6:30AM Monday-Friday * 700ArSe MWD)NANA BRO)UOMAoiaNe ONY AWARD-WINNING MUSJ@ALS ALL IN Sie PM Mh E SHOW. WRN BO regi | GUARANTEE COIT’S CLEANINGIS THE BEST Varn MheGoown SEPTEMBE Alt, 8 LARRY FARR - OWNER guaranteed OFF ORAPERY CLEANING to keep you dW. 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