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Show The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday, May 30, 1999 Salt Lake Shakespeare Is Back in Business BY NANCY MELICH THESALT LAKETRIBUNE After a one-summer hiatus, Salt Lake Shakespeare is back in the business of producing summer theater. The nonprofit company, founded in 1995 by two University of Utah theater professors, presents “The Compleat Works of Wlim Shkspr (Abridged)” begin- ning Thursday in the Babcock Theatre onthe lowerlevel of Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East. Thisis the third time the Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield comedy has been staged by SLShakes — previously in 1996 ack Goodman This attractively maintained house at 444 S. 700 East in Salt LakeCity is well overa century old. A Bloomin’ Example of Victorian Eclectic JACK GOODMAN obviously ior ist. Thetwo-story £ Hh ‘es a modern factory. A less im- will once again attract a June following. Mulloy had smoothed thelocal both left Salt Lake prior to 1980 I's ice creamparlor next door s been replaced bya pizza parwhile busy Trolley Squareis stdown the street 444 S$. 700 East appears to be a surveyof historicbuildings. «{ remnant of a residential et. Research down at the Utah storical Society provideda city {inning Commissionformthat ‘ls the full story — 444 S. 700 t was a residencefor mostof leavingmeignorant ofthefact they hadtakenpart in the local The homehas abrick exterior, an oddly truncated hip roof, heavycorbelled brick chimneys, tall, narrowwindows withseg: mentedarches, a roughstone foundation, plus someflat arches over some windows — thelatter being partially responsible for that Italianate look. There long life, although the block is commercial.” homas and Annie Mulloy had « home built in 1890, The Mul. mily movedintoquite a lifferent from most of Salt Lake City homes of period Mulloy was the are projectingfront andsidebays, with a small round windowinthe side bay that is pretty well hidden by the big tree just southof the house. The large, round-arched windowthat is front and center in today’s sketch and the big win dow belowit are enriched by isor of streets” when ew home, leading arly photographs show that der how many pot ipervised the filling of, the home had first- and second. story porches, since removed, Jany unpaved streets Yasphalted. The archi ontractor were left added on. Thereare shutters on its big front window, whilethe personal note ed historic survey of the an Rosenb: ton. Rosenblatt Any late wife friend, but T believe The home was soldin 1901 to Col. William M. Ferry, who trans ferredit to a daughter, Kate F.H Hancock, and her husband, George R. Hancock. They came to Utah in 1890 from Michigan, and Hancock soon becamesuccessful in the mining industry. If you are at all familiar with thehistory of WestminsterCol lege, you may remember that one building on the campus was named Ferry Hall. The Hancocks, who lived in the house for fully 38 years, were likewise active in Westminster College affairs. It was Ferry and Hancock who do nated the property near Sugar Housethat became the college campus. Westminsteroriginally was downtown, Mrs. Hancock was ac: tive in the affairs of the college as well, beinga longtime member of the Board of Trustees and the Women’s Board. She also served on the board of the National Fed. eration of Women’s Clubs. To catch glimpseofthe just anextensionoftheir work on ason includeda repeatof “Com “Twelfth As for street supervisor Mul nature makes ated with ihe Salt lake Tribune asa staff or free-lancewriter for years. the whole world kin. Lire SHAKESPEARE IN THE 2 ce $6 and available through ArtTix 355ARTS,or at the door on the evening of performance. BY JEFF MANOOKIAN SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE There was hardly a piano in Franz Liszt's time that could stand upto his brutal beating. Liszt requiredthree pianosfor everycon. cert, and he would normally dam: age all three before the recital’s end. When Viennese piano manu: facturer Ignaz Bosendorfer built an instrument that wouldn't fall apart under this 19 centuryvirtu oso’s touch, Liszt adopted the Bésendorfer piano as his instru A century and half has passed tionoutofstate andleft Utah. Last formed as Krameraccepteda teachingposi. season was canceled, primarily Bosendorfer’s goal for utmost quality, the company has produced the most expensive piano on the market. A 9-foot-6-inch Imperial Concert Grandcounting 97 piano keys other piano manufacturers equip their pianos with 88) lists for $175,980. If one is ona budget, Bosendorfer’s smallest grand, at 5 feet 8 inches, sells for just $79,180. Bésendorfer does make a 52-inch upright piano costing $40,680. What's it like being aroundall these pianos? According to Charles McHaley of Summerhays Music Center, “It's like being in heaven.” Summerhays Music has the Bésendorfer Klavierfabrik the exclusive franchise for the strument still attract the devotion of contemporary pianists the likes The Murray store is host to a display of Bésendorfer Klavier of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Sviatoslay Richter, Garrick Ohls son and Victor Borge The goal of the Rosendorfer Klavierfabrik is to build the fabrik grand pianos, the most ex: The quality and sound of the in world’s finest pian: regardless of price As a result of Bosendorfer line pensivepiano showever amassed in Utah. $1.5 million worth of pi anos ranging in size and finish are ondisplay. A special design in homage to Johann Strauss with a trumpet leg design will also be I Painful Periods? me : If so vou may qualify fora clinical RUSUL Tee See re Aas a) orton (SOL) 261-2000 or 3 Nighy aeentiiettiiieee The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies announces two new monographs by Jessie L. Emory pookstoresand Signature Books, 564 West 400 North, Sait Lake City. (801) 156 S6B7 « www signaturebooksin: com candle-holders to light up the mu sic. But the best part of this unique instrument is that. from reliable accounts, Franz Lis7 himself played on this pia Fromnow through June 12, the publicis invited to view this key boardgala at Summerhays, 5450 S. Green St., Murray through June 12, witha break June 4-8, when the pianosgo on display in Park City at the Eccles Performing Arts Center. The public is invited to ¢ receptionJune4, from 6to 9 pm at the E antique piano. all these ir ments arefor sale Jeff Manookian, a Salt | based pianist. composer and ductor, is the classical music for TheSalt Lake Tribune Celebrate G id ti \ pea Home of the Cormartary hrBow 373-1161 with evening entrees AKE YOUR PRINCESS TO THE KING om ew f, hogany finish is interesting! complemented by apair of slidin (R88) 261-6160 THIS SUMMER. cicero sy. Of most interest is an antique Bosendorfer dating from 1841 It boasts silver and gold inlay on the ornate fallboard. 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Two Night Lodging Packages Include: 1-888-AT-CEDAR expanded seasonin September comedy explores wha Thee comedy exptores: what happens when three actors at staging all 3 jakespeare plays, plus the sonnets, in 180 minutes, The satire includes “Hamlet” told M OE moo een stival in Cedar City will incl ie it as oneof two shows to open its “Side by Side by Sondheim.” Audience attendance, primarily by students, was sporadic but ShakopeePl ek ikfast ¢ , thenpresented as part of the Ed inburgh Festival in 1987 It opened at New York’s Marymount Man ttan Theatre in 1991 and has since become an international s. The Utah Shakespearean. = Sean et City. Tickets are $10 and 1 DYOm verti uffer from ag features A GrandDisplay of Bésendorfer Pianos since the first piano rolled out of of a mansion than seemed com mon on 700 East aire, on the lower level of Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake enthusiastic. “Compleat Works” pleat Works” plus Works” whomappeared in previous ver sions of the comedy, and new comer Matthew Mullaney The play was conceived in 1981 ‘hursdays through Sundays at 7:30 p.m., June 3-20, in Babcock The- Gy Night” and the musical revue family or two of notably good citi zens, slow down when driving along 700 East between 400 and 500 South. The multi-laned high Jack Coodmanhas been associ “Compleat SLShakes regulars Rory Kovoll piaye faculty. With a budget of i columns thanthe sort of porch on which a family might gather, The was shingled; the wood cornice is exceptionally heavy. All in all the Mulloy house was much more eel Ogged)” and Edward Webster, both of he Taming of the Shrew” The Comedy of Errors.” The second summer featured “Com: pleat Works, “Romeo and Juliet” and “As You Like It.” The third the U. $35,000, the first season premiered ment of choice. way is quile a busy raceway, al though Mulloy might approve of its relatively smooth pavement university “ ofWilmShkepe Daniel Kramer and Alex Gel mandecided in 1995 that some. century-old housethat housed a by handsome carving work, while many of the 25 windows have carved frames. The mansard roof influence is isible as any Victo- streets. because of the change from the quarter to semester system at {he @ Brush Up... thing was missing during Salt Lake summers. That “something” was Shakespeare and a place where people could go for an evening oflive classical theater. Kramerand Gelman wanted to createa pl theater, not of a formal entryway guardedby cornices and pillars are marked dubbed the jan Kelectic™ al mi Boyt with a newer lower-level porch lower “added on” porchis more vihe papers that were ce the building on the jilional registers of tractures carriages, wagons bvsiness no matter howcarefully ssive modernoffice structure sndsto the north. The old Fen- ltalianate loy & Ruth on State Street. The comea partnerinthefirm of Mul and agricultural implements. One suspects that the coming of the automobile at about that time put the State Street firm out of sble trees that may be © house ‘0 the south, there fice building that resem ine loy, heleft city employment to be- presence on the summer theater scene beforeheleft He selected a proven winner in hopes that it firm dealt in hasa trim lawn, ted flower beds anda ‘The Compleat Worksof Wlim Shkspr (Abridged)”stars Rory Kozol (as Juli et), Edward Webster (Hamlet) and Matthew Mullaney(Narrator) the theater and humanities de partment at Western Iilinois University in Macomb, He wanted to make sure that SLShakes had a Along Salt Lake City’s Busy 700 East ing I hin B and ‘97. 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