Show i The Utah Statesman Watercolor art in FAC The 13th annual Watercolor West art show opened Friday in the USU Chase Fine Art Center Gallery bringing fine acpainters to complished works of major campus Participating artists in the invitational show are national the prize winners from the three US watercolor fraternities' A me r Kan Watercolor Society the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor USA Included in the show are artworks by three local painters The local works of Jerry Fuhnman Gaell Lindstrom and Adrian Van Suchtrien are creative and beautiful pieces of art that all Cache Valiev residents should enjoy Fuhrtman Lind-stoand Schtelen have done a fine job of representing Utah in the national show FAC Gallery hours are 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m daily and extended hours can be arranged by appointment nationally-recognize- Monday May 18 V Hfj d sfv 4 -- Steve Peterson and Jill Bell exchange dialogue during Friday night's premiere pwf ncian dA Little Night Music” 'A Little Night Music' is dynamic sb Scharmal Sc hroc k gss-- the acton eight to get in touch with their characters ‘ Instead of telling the scion precisely (A4 to do Bird let them experiment He sllcmed them to grow within their characters themselves and their respect for each other The costumes and the sets were inodenul the peotm according to Bird lie considered final the product more important than $ All of this aside the performance finest I have ever experienced at this :j tkm Let me stress the word "njwits because at all times the audience was feet of the action onstage e Billed as a musical for mature audiences A LiltU A'gb Mujte burst into a I I closet like space within the ) V FAC Friday night Profanity allusions to sea and a story that dealt primarily with marital affairs seems hardly the type of material usually connected with the Utah State theater department especially considering the “age of Reagan institution N A LuiU S'tgki Afsix was an experiment If tested whether or not a USU audience could handle an alternative to the saccharin-sweproductions usually done by the theater department It tested whether or not a musical could be done on a shoestring budget It tested whether or not a musical could be done within the confines of a 30 by 50 foot room in a theater-in- type environment On all counts the experiment was a great success More on the production later but first I would like to talk about the unusual manner in which it was birthed A Limit Nigki Musie grew out of a joint workshop of the theater and music departments It combined theater students who knew little about music and music students tho knew little about theater In contrast to most theater department where all energy is directed toward fin protection in a rfmrt amount of tnne director Gary Bird and musical director et Unisonic put a calculator in Dad's wallet the-rou-nd And he'll never be caught off balance again! Calculator Is than a ciedit card fits flat in the handsome leather wallet 2935 Father's Day JuaeUst pro-ductK- Elegantly at no charge T ed £t££ ZA1CS MALL ZAUSt MWT INC lUtipCG-SOOA- T PlAN-SA- Mt s‘udCTt Accounts Welcome ASCASH Crcclcd look yew bM fw cractecSan 7I3-3U- 4 SSSoiCStKch o A theater-in-the-roun- d experience unusual within itself particularly when i musical set at the turn of the century It - i a story about relationships and theirgw that (curiously like the workshop and poignant-was The script witty also had songs that were performed Send quality One song in particular was Clowns' particularly Lloyd Judy Collins' shoes was Cole nwc Armfeldt She delivered it with as lion as I have ever seen onstage 1 In fact the main impression with was the quality of acting pcesfl of the cast Particularly Lloyd Kuf Fredrick Egerman and Jill M Petra If I had the space to name members I would because all of them were dynamic ) jam 1 hope that the theater departm us more productions like A fittk Ajr ( It b sad that it had to be presented virtual veil of secrecy Because to the arts nothing should be censtomoving-FiBn- j 1 mw-except- ion |