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Show IB THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, January 7, 1988 Enjoy A JLaugh A Minute In Hale Theater Production by Olga Milius Green Sheet Theater Critic SOUTH SALT LAKE. For a laugh a minute dont miss the Hale Center Theater production of I Came To Your Wedding, now playing at the newly enlarged theater at 2801 So. Main. Directed by Ruth Hale and Sally Swenson, the play offers a riotous look at a girl from an average American home, engaged to marry into a rich, not to mention snobby, department store dynasty and the trials and tribulations resulting as family members try to plan a "small, backyard wedding," to the horror of the grooms mother. City Rep Offers 'Break A Leg!' SALT LAKE. The City Rep' Ensemble will perform the most popular songs from their first and second seasons in Break a Leg!, a fast-pace- . d of involvement hillbilly relatives and a interfering aunt offer a hilarious show with plenty of snappy dialogue, and even the fact a few cast members didnt have that dialogue down pat Saturday night couldnt distract from the fun. Since the show is double cast, such kinks have probably been resolved by now as both groups have had time to settle in to their roles. Stealing the show Saturday was Sally Swenson as the charming, but opinionated aunt, The well-meanin- g who cant resist trying to get everyone back in their own class. Her dry comments brought the most laughs in a laugh filled she says. Sterling as the somewhat scatterbrained bride with Burton performances given by Lynda Brady as kid Yuen as the groom. Darron Nord sister Susan and Bob Bedore as played well as Johnny, the boy next door and former boyfriend, who never missed one of aunt Dorothys suggestions. Stan Conrad got his share of laughs as Leek Barton, the hillbilly cousin with Hale regular Virgie Ostler in good form as his wife Florabelle. show. Michael Guarino played rich her Wallace, bumbling boyfriend. "They want a copy of the family the most accident prone kid in Anthony Adams with style and tree, with a complete pedigree town. Richard Wilkins, in a cameo chart hanging from every nut," Tara Meyrick turned in a good performance as the Reverend Green Sheet ft Review performance were 1 m Bartholomew was, as usual, in great form. Altogether, this is a delightful comedy, and a real brightener for a January evening. I Came To Your Wedding will play through Feb. 2, with performances at 8 p.m. The next Hale childrens theater production, Pinocchio will open Feb. 4, playing at 1 p.m. every Saturday through April 30. Season tickets will be available through the middle of February. For reservations and ticket information call 484-925- fr Vi? entertaining music and dance revue. Break a Leg! will be performed at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Friday), Saturday, Tuesday and Jan. 15 and 16, in the City Rep 2nd Stage Theatre located on the second level of the ZCMI Center. The show will be production presented the last in the intimate space and is sponsored by the City Rep ensemble to build a fund to assist in moving the 2nd Stage theatre to a larger facility. The new facility will be close to the ZCMI mall and City Rep plans to continue the balance of its season which includes Sunday in the Park with George and Once Upon a Mattress. 100-se- "Our ZCMI experience has been said . City . . Rep excellent," president, Thomas W. Parker. "Since we opened Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on Dec. 17, 1986, it has been a "standing room only situation" for most of our shpws there. Everyone has been delighted with the intimacy and location, but the lack of sufficient space to make the audience and casts larger than eight people feel comfortable has been, a problem." Parker hopes to announce the 2nd Stages new location within a week to 10 days, as soon as lease negotiations are complete. Tickets for Break a Leg! are $6.50 per person and are available at the City Rep Box Office (532-6000- ). Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. Break a Leg! features songs from Cats in Concert, Rhapsody in Blue, Tuxedo Junction, Mary M!, Oliver, Poppins, George and the Amazing Joseph Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Paint Your Wagon Revue, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, She Loves Me, 42nd Street and Day, in Hollywood Night in the Ukraine. The idea originated from two veteran City Rep performers, Mearle Marsh and David Maxwell. They had received, on several occasions, requests from audience members to perform songs from City Reps past shows. "They were really memorable numbers," said Maxwell, "and for many of our shows, particularly those at the Capital Theatre or Symphony Hall where there were only four performances, there is a great desire to do and to see them again." Other members of the cast are Bruce Bredeson, David Glaittli, Sharia Green, Alisa Harris, Ron Jewitt, Cathy Kelly, Dennis Lee, Troy Lunt, Jennifer OHaley, Amy Richards, Linda Skoy and Duane Stephens. Marilyn Montgomery, consistent choreographer for City Rep, is both director and choreographer for the production. Marsh is the music .director. Assisting Marsh are Val Smithson ad Sherrie Rasmussen on keyboards, and Tim Taylor on the drums. "We have included songs from nearly every show," said Marsh. "We concentrated on those which really entertain the audience. The cast is having a great time we putting the show together and hope to raise some significant money to put 2nd Stage into a larger permanent home. Commercial Security Bank is now Key Bank. 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