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Show end Be SEC TION C Cc NIGHT OUT PERSONALS Page C-12,13 Page C-10, 11 _MAYWE| SUGGEST OUT AND ABOUT From Butch Cassidy Days to the Mormon Miracle Pageant, summer is the time for celebrations in communities throughout Utah. Inside today’s Calendaris a list of what’s happening in coming months. BAND BANQUET Pack your picnic basket and enjoy an outdoor banquet of band music tonight in Red Butte Garden. east of Ft. Douglas That's the invitation from Barry E. Kopetz. di- rector of bands at the University of Utah, who will conduct the U. Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band in a 6 p.m. concert, featuring music of John Philip Sousa and others General admissionis seniors and children GOES TO PROVO Ilustrations ‘Bother!’ Conveys The Silly Old Bear From Page to Stage By Nancy Hobbs performancesof THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Jousting. jesting. penny pitching andtea, tarts nd clam chowder — ali will be part of the Olde glish Festival at St. Paul's Episcopal Church 261 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Theeventwill include performances by the Society for Creative Anachronism, readings from Shakespeare, and magic shows. Proceeds from the festival go to the church's outreach programsassisting the homeless andthe ill. EINE KLEINE MOZARTMUSIK Mozart's music — from poignant operaarias to the magnificent “Coronation” Mass — awaits audiences Saturday when the Utah Philharmonia and combined University of Utah choruses appear at 7:30 p.m. in Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple Salt Lake City Tickets are $10, $7.50 and $5 — half-price for students and seniors — and maybe ordered by calling 355-ARTS. “Bother!” Dennis also has discovered that the showis best suited to adults who have a fondness and appreciation for “children’s books” that really are not children’s books. He's quite specific when he requests that parents not bring children under 8 to his theatrical presentation “Winnie-the-Pooh was not written as a children’s book. It was written for the child within us, not for the child,” he lectures over his portable phone, easily imagined sipping Chardonnayand weeding roses asked him in January 1970 to go with her to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum for Ernest Shepard’s ‘‘Pooh” exhibition. “I said, ‘To what?’,” Dennis reealled with his King’s English accent, via telephone from his Topanga,Calif., home. “She said, ‘Winnie-the-Pooh.’” “T said, ‘Whatis that?’ ” «Pooh i Bear.’” *‘T’ve never heardofit.’ But Dennis was so entranced by the illustrations — Shepard preferredto call them “decorations” — that he borrowed all four of his friend’s books and kept them for three years. He became equally enamoredof Milne’s poemsandprose The books finally returned and his own copies purchased, Dennis said his poor manners made him resolve neverto loan or borrow books or music.‘They areso terribly precious. That is my new rule: I don’t lend booksor music, andI don’t borrow booksor music.”” He does, however, give freely of himself in transporting audiences from inside intimate theaters to the serendipitous 100 Akre Wood and the innocent world of Pooh and Friends. The mechanismishis trav- BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES been loved. or on whom a brick has descended from very high — meaning people who have beenhurt, who have suffered in life,” said the actor, reflecting on the insight and poignancy of Milne’s works and audience response to more than 200 Peter Dennis lived his first 36 years in London unfamiliar with Winnie-the-Pooh, but in the past quarter-century he has developed a close relationship with A.A. Milne’s lovable Bear of Very Little Brain. It started, the British actor remembers distinctly, when a friend eling one-manshow,‘Bother! Readings from the Complete Works of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne.” Dennis is packing up the simple production — copies of Milne’s When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six and The House at Pooh Corner — and bringing it to Provo next Thursday and Friday Soon after Dennis’ introduction to the stuffed menagerie of Christopher Robin — namedafter Milne’s son, Christopher Robin Milne, now 75 and living out of the limelight in London — Dennis knew that reading Pooh aloud was something he wantedto do. For 12 years, he appealed to The Pooh Trust in England for permission to read Milne’s stories and verses onstage. “T was refused and refused and refused and refused,” hesaid. ‘“Fi- nally, in 1981, I got permission.” He is the only person ever given such rights by the estate. Evenbeforethat, Dennis couldn't resist the temptation to be Pooh, andPiglet, and Eeyore, and Tigger, before appreciative audiences. He gavehis first public performanceat Cambridge University in 1976, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Winnie-thePooh. “T wasn't allowed to doit; therefore I had to doit for free,” he explained. And though he expected only a handfulto thelate-night performance, the theater was packed That continued for several night running, which convinced Dennis ot Pooh’s popularity. Whenhe accepted an invitation several years later from AnnaStrasberg to present the American premiere of “Bother!” at the Lee Stasberg Theatre in Los Angeles — with official permission — Dennis was surprised to find that Americans love Winnie-the-Pooh “almost more than the English.”” “I find the best audiences for Pooh are people whohaveloved, or and $2 for students. Ernest Shepard as he talks from his garden. “I had never read what are called ‘children’s books’ before Winnie-thePooh. After that, I went back and started reading other ‘children’s books’ that aren't really: Alice in Wonderland, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Wind in the Willows, Jungle Book." By reading Milne’s stories and poems rather than memorizing a performance, Dennis said he hopes to rekindle interest in A.A. Milne’s works — which go far beyond Win- he-Pooh. Among several other . he was a celebrated play~ «in the early 1920s, the actor pointed out “I'm not interested in people thinking howclever I am for being able to memorize all those stories and verses. I'm interested in them listening to howbeautifully and economically Milne writes; how he doesn't waste a word. I want themto Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune Michelle Goeglein, Jack Whitaker and Karen Early-Evanswill appear in “The Emperor's New Clothes” at Utah Opera's OperaFest ‘95. go home and pull a book from the OPERAAL FRESCO Operais only one item on the menuJune 9 as the Utah Opera Guild presents OperaFest ‘95, an evening of foodand festivities on downtownSalt Lake City’s John W. Gallivan Utah Center Plaza See PETER DENNIS,C-13 and crafts for children, storytellers and conces- Activities begin withstrolling entertainers, arts sions at 5:30 p.m, on the plaza, 36 E. 200 South Alumni of Utah Opera’s Young Artists Program MORT ROSENFELD'S LAST PICTURE SHOW- will perform “The Emperor's New Clothes” at 6:30, with a concert of operetta and Broadwayfavorites at 8 Tickets for th tival and concert are $5, or $ for families. / icket buys a festival box dinner in additionto thefestivities. The event is a fundraiser for Utah Opera’s training program. Tickets may be purchased at the Gallivan Center ti booth on the dayof thefestival or bycalling 943 8861. Reservations for box dinners can be made by calling 278-5688 Special Screening Celebrates Utah Film Pioneer’s Legacy ANGELIC SOUNDS “The Musicof Angels” resounds in an appropri ate venue Sunday night when harpist Konrad Nel son and a chamber ensemble performin the concluding concert of this year’s MadeleineFestival of the Arts and Humanities Thefree, 8 p.m. event is in the Salt Le landmark Cathedral of the Madeleine South Temple. The orchestrais under the Terence Kern By Sean P. Means THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A blurry image comesinto focus to reveal Mort Rosenfeld, hunched over a movie camera as he points it at a mirror. Rosenfeld does this for several minutes, adjusting the tripod and fiddling with the aperture, until the viewer begins to wonder whathe’s upto So begins ‘Downin the Valley,” written and directed by Rosenfeld, filmedin the Salt Lake area withlocal talent. The 1977 film— whichgets a rare | LAST WEEKEND'S screening at 8 tonight at the Utah Film & Video Center, 20 S. West Temple — is a forerunner of Utah’s independent film movement, anda legacy of an artist's tragically shortenedcareer. D WASATCH FRONT “Mort's whole philosophywas, ‘Here's a camera — go makea movie, Trent Harris, who wrote | ae cea ee goad Oat films “Ruin & Ed” and “Plan rom Outer Space. In 1970, Harris was about to drop out of the University of Utah, Then he met Rosenfeld, a docu mentarian hired that yearas thefirst filmmaker to teach at the U.'s just-formedfilm department. The U, had atonof film equipment, Harri Mort Rosenfeld’s 1977 “Down in the Valley” was a forerunner of independentfilms in Utah Bone nfeld ‘was not the best orator,” Harris re- calls, “but he was so damnlikable and had so much energy, Once hegot going, everybodyelse gotenergized and gotgoing, too.” “His ideas weren't ve y quiet andreserved, but his personality was Dale Angell, a staff specialist in the U. film department, Hehadan outrageous sense of humor, and he always found some thing funnyin the most peculiarof situations." In 1975, Rosenfeld convincedhis friends and stu dents that they could make their own movie — the first independent film ever made in Utah. “The idea of making a featurefilmin Salt Lake, it was preposterous,’ Harris says. ‘Mort gotit in his head that we could do it.” Thefilm, “Downin the Valley,” starred Rosen feld as Leslie, a filmmaker who wants to make a the lie l ajoles his Paula, and his lawyer friend, Charles, to let mera invadetheir lives, too. Eventually Les: obsession with capturing the truth on film 's to disaster; alienation from his friends, sepa ration from Paula and the suicide of Charles’ girl See ROS ELD, C-13 NATIONAL Film Title Natl. Weekend Rank BoxOffice 1 1 $124,112 : 2 | 3 i $78,839 $77,618 aaa Braveheart 3 $12.9 -26% DieHard WithAVengeance2 $19.0 CAG Z Fy 5 $68,134 56% While You Were Sleeping8 : and prosenteld prodided his students to get out anduse Rank Weekend Change Box Office This Week $69,953 Carper 1 $22.1° 6% Crimson Tide $12.6 $5.8 6 $58,979 31% Forget Paris 5 $7.7 7 $38,458 6 8 $30,662 Johnny Mnemonic Mad Love French kiss $74 > $68 10,834 A Little Princess 11 $2.6 ‘over theater from Ogden to Prove *In millions of dollars Dataata In Inc Movies, Page C-2 |
