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Show .. !PAGE 12 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2000 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS Fall Shakespeare Festivai opens Ga1·1 ery will exhibit national park art Evening performances to be held at a time !3arlier than in summer The Utah.Shakespearen - Festival, this year's recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, o pens its fall season this week, with previews tonight and tomorrow and opening festivities on Saturday. "We've selected two fabulous productions that our audiences are sure to love," said Festival Founder and Executive Producer Fred C . Adams. "These two plays and the actors who play in them are destined to become festival favorites.· Both plays will be presented each Wednesday through Saturday-through Oct. 14. Matinees begin at 2 p .m . while evening performances begin at 7 :30 p .m, an hour earlier than the Festival's summer productions. The Randall L:. Jones Theatre will be transformed into the Grand Ole Opry as the Festival presents Always ... Patsy Cline. The legendary country singer and her most devoted fans take the stage while Patsy performs 24 of her most popular songs including "Walkin' After Midnight,· "Your Cheatin' Heart," and ·crazy." This musical revue is based on a true story, and the musical selections are linked to the anecdotes of Louise Seger who knew Patsy Cline personally. . Kitty.Balay will bring to life the role of Patsy Cline. Balay has previously played the role at the PCPA Theatrefest along with Festival favorite Leslie Brott who will play Louise Seger, Patsy's most loyal fan. Jonathan Gillard Daly, will direct the Festival's fall production. Although Balay is new to Utah Shakesperean Festival, story told in Always. ... Patsy Cline, the Festival is also presenting Driving Miss Daisy. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the often bumpy road traveled by two seemingly different people: a southern matron and her chauffeur. The road they travel spans 25 years in post World War II Georgia and eventually leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Patricia Fraser, who · first appeared at the Festival in 1998 in Relative Values, King John and All's Well That Ends Well, will play the role of Daisy Werthan. The role is a familiar one to Fraser who also played Daisy in a national tour of the play. Festival newcomer Ernest Perry, Jr. will play t,er chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn. This is also a familiar role for Perry, who has performed it on Broadway· opposite such well-known actors audiences will remember Brott as Sada Thompson and Ellen Burnstyn. Daisy's son, Boolie, will and Daly from the stage in seasons past and as Mrs. Darling be played by another Festival and Tiger Lily and Mr. Darling and newcomer, Ned Schmidtke. Captain James Hook, Driving Miss Daisy was written respectively, in this summer's by Alfred Uhry and will be directed production of Peter Pan and as by J.R. Sullivan, who directed the Charlotta lvanavna and Boris popul'3r You Never Can Tell Simeonov-Pishchik, respectively, during the Festival's 1999 season. in this summer's The Cherry For tickets and information call Orchard. the Festival Box Office at Complementing the friendship 586-7878. Large format color panoramic photographs of many of the nation's.national parks and monuments will be featured in an exhibit opening 1oday and runoing through Oct. 27 at SUU's Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery The exhibit, titled "These Rare lands,· has been organized by the · Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services. It features the work of photographer Stan Jorstad. During the past 40 years, Jorstad has visited and photographed 54 of the United States National Parks as well as many of the more · than 300 wilderness areas and other sites set aside by the National Park Service since 1872. The Braithwaite exhibit includes 43 photographs. It also features an introductory statement by actor/director Robert Redford and six text panels describing Jorstad's career, his photographic techniques, and a brief history of the National Park Service "These photographs truly capture the majesty of our national parks and monuments," Lydia Johnson, director of museums and galleries at SUU, said. "The artist uses a painter's style to capture the diversity of America's· vast wilderness. The photographs range from a sunrise at Haleakala Crater in Maui to a moonscape over Death Valley. Jorstad served with the elite 1oth Mountain Division ski troops during World War II before beginning his career as a commercial photographer. He became the cinematographer for the "Wild Kingdom" television series in the. early. 1960s, and hps spent more than four decades as a photographer. "Mr. Jorstad has bee·n influenced by the work of his friends and mentors, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Torkel Korting," Johnson said. 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