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Show The Satt LakeTribune RTS a ON MOVIES, D-2 BOOKS, D-5 ~MARTS LISTINGS, D-10-12 M PUZZLES, D-4 Toy SUNDAY SEPTEMBER2,2001 @ PUZZLE ANSWERS, D-9 Up,| p and A... Wait a Minute! Fall in Cedar City: ‘80 Days’ and No Balloon, and It’s ‘Fantastick!” BY CELIA R. BAKER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE “It’s an epic adventure with five actors,a foley artist — and no balloon,”says director Russell Treyz. He’s describing the Utah Shakespearean Festival's new adaptation of “Around the World in 80 Days.” Mark Brown, the play’s adaptor, says his balloon-free version of the classic story is being true to the Jules Verne novelthat inspiredit. “There’s no balloon — no balloon — in the book. The characters once speculate abouttaking a balloon, but there is no balloon. No balloon!It’s the curse of the movie,” Brown said. Audiences cansee the play in Cedar City begin- ning in previews Sept. 13; official opening is Sept. 15. Brown, who workshopped his adaptation with Treyz at the Orlando ShakespeareFestival, is also an actor and comedian. He appearedthis past summerat the Utah Shakespeare Festival as Dr. Einstein in “Arsenic and Old Lace” and Trinculoin “The Tempest. The1956 film version of “Around the World in Eighty Days”turned Verne’s fanciful tale into a travelogue that showedoff the recently invented widescreen Todd-AO film system, shot from the big screen-friendly vantage point of the hot-air Phileas Fogg, played by fan Stuart, and Auoda, a princess of India played by Enid Atkinson, examinetheir travel options. See 80 DAYS,Page D-3 Award--Winning ‘Side Man’ Opensthe Park City Theater Season BY SCOTT C. MORGAN ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE There are times wee actor Shawn Nottinghamgets goose bi during rehearsals of the jazz play/*Side Man” for riaby City’s Egyptian Com' | | ‘ | { pee's really scary,” said Who portrays the play’s ive nar-\, rator Clifford. “My mont }to go into tirades just like Terry (the’play’s alcoholic mother). Some scenes are almost word for word of what my mom would mn, director Jerry Rapier asked him: aeaudition less thatia month ago, | Nottingham had no idea how Clifford’s ' experiences’ (having an unstable mother, poe to succeed as a visual Warren Leight’s semi‘auhobbographical play “Side Man” ‘Would mirrorhis own. And ETC’s “Side Man” has hadits own share of curves on its way to opening night, which is Sept. 14, Just weeks before rehearsals were ‘to begin, the show's director, Richard Scott, resigned from his post as ETC's producing artistic director to work at the Grand Theatre in Salt Lake City. Three of the originally cast actors also left the production due to scheduling conflicts and film work. As the producingdirector of Plan-B Theatre Company,Rapier didn’t expect Carl Nelson as Al, Kurt Proctor as Ziggy, Brad Schroeder as Oene and Joe Debeve as Jonesyin See SIDE MAN,Page D-7 “Side Man.” Ryan Galbraith/The Salt Lake Tribune “CONTACT Is a sustained endorphinrush of an evening. Throbbing with sex appealand a perfectionist's polish, CONTACT restores the pleasure principle o'the American musical. It is that rare entertainment that leaves you floating all the way home.” BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORKTIMES a Siem vom weelee Golden Age of Broadway was really about.’ ALEXANDER DUMAS’ The Three Musketeers BY CHARLES MOREY SEPTEMBER 19 - OCTOBER6 his adaptation of the swashbuckling adventure classic has been a smash hit all over the Sountry since its world premiere at PTC “im 1980. Now it’s back by “One of the rare olutely dali oon popular demand in a new production ‘critics ave raved about: “Treatyourself to this sexy, ayer)i musica September7-22, 2001 eC ta aman eee September 11-16 Capitol Theatre All evening performances begin at 7:30p.m. with Saturday matinees beginning at 2:00 p.m. Ticket prices range from $8.50 to $18.50. All ticket prices are $2.00 off on Saturday matinees. Grand Tend Salt Lake Community College 1575, South State, Salt Lake City 1{ ie) To |