| Show - - I'754-g- ' 4 - s - 4 "1" - - - - - I 1y '0 v Ever optimistic Fred Adams talks of the past present and future of Shakespearean Festival By Nancy Melich ditional week proposed to be added in 1991 and 1993 to the existing 10- week season Adams said it is the festival's hope that by the end of the century audiences will be attending plays from through September The company which this year totals 250 performers and technicians from 30 states will continue to expand through the hiring of additional professional actors and designers An intern and apprenticeship program in- Tribune Theater Writer on the eve of the opening of the 29th Utah Shakespearean Festival founder and producing director Fred Adams is his usual optimistic self He and his dedicated staff are already discussing the 1995 season (a strong possibility: all three of the "Henry VI" plays) and moving ahead with plans for the Performing Arts Complex to be built on "Shakespeare Square" the block immediately east of the current location on the campus of Southern Utah State College in Cedar City Last season the first phase of the block's development was realized with the dedication of the $55 million Randall L Jones Memorial Theatre The 767-seindoor theater is a companion to the outdoor Elizabethan-styled Adams Shakespearean Theatre and enables the festival to present six plays a season rather than the customary three Adams cautiously predicts that the square will be completed by 1997 In addition to the Randall the complex will house: a 200-setheater for new and experimental work the Adams Theatre (which will be moved from its current location) a Renaissance Study Center administrative offices a clock tower a tea room old English specialty shops fountains statues and a central plaza The entire area designed in an Old World motif will be "walled in to shut out all intrusions of the 20th century" The artistic plans for the '90s are equally ambitious A new play and playwright's program will be implemented with the Iplaywright in residence working with actors directors and designers The festival season will continue to expand with an ad a - HY ':' '''' ': ::s !i ' :'fft ': -- ee e :S: a' '::' :: 1: '''''': '''' liV:if'''::!'::':i:'':' s' ' L''rees''':'H'1 ' - s''-- ' - hs ' ::!:'':' '''''' ' es- as: :s e:::::::eses la:''''4-'-:''''':- '" ''''' ' sst r ::::ses es: ':::: a rs::: :4 a" I :: ::: :4s ts"-'- :i: t5 ss: ss: e : :::: - "'''"- :1 s : :1sa :' 208 ''''''' at 2 pm - S' i':'''s::::!:'K::' a''''':' ' veae443 'r: f : :':'"'"':::-'- 0 The Park City Shakespeare Festival opens Friday with "Love's Labor's Lost" followed on Saturday by "The Taming of the Shrew" and Sunday (July 8) with "Measure for Measure" All performances begin at 8 pm on the outdoor stage at Park City Resort Ron Burnett artistic director said the festival now in its ninth year has "weathered storms of cutbacks in the arts personnel problems and lack of space in Park City to present the festival" He remains "a bit opti- - i::: SS:S ::' :1i:' ::'s :!:e:::ii Sil'!'i: 'glitON':: e — SS:SS'SS's ::':'1'''s'': '''''''''''- '- - "-: is is a sseaa 4:' Cast members include Stuart Mitchell and Julie Broadbent Smith as Oberon and Titania with Steve Nichol as Puck Others include Brian Burrell as Demetrius Cheryl Ann Cluff as Helena Annie Kleckowski as Hermia Michael Fox as Lysander and Ron Jewett as Bottom Performances continue July 14 16 and 30 and Aug 3 11 13 7' and 25 at 7:30 pm Matinees will be offered July 7 and Aug 4 and 18 s:C (l''-- 417es'SsS::iSiSS:aae:4 4 :"':::: di - ::: :e ' ''' ::: 'sfs eees:::'::::'S S7 ' ':0!'' 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Assorted Baskets '(''' ' 4 i"''- '- :'!''' --!-' - ' - - Judy Collins July 6 el"eKst 1 tions are salaried Also needed are Chinese musicians and anyone from Salt Lake City's Asian community interested in the project Ed Gryska SLAC artistic director will direct the show which is scheduled to open Sept 19 Rehearsals begin Aug 20 A limited number of scripts are available for checkout from the Auditions for the Salt Lake Acting Company's production of David Henry Hwang's "M Butterfly" will be Saturday and July 8 from 11 am to 4 pm at the theater 168 W 5th North All roles are open and include three males age 30 to 45 two females age 30 to 45 one Asian male age 25 to 35 to portray both male and female roles and four Asian actors male or female who have a knowledge of Chinese opera andor acrobatics All posi- - k I i i i 1 A ' t - tie--:- 4 Iv - - ::11l: :tv4f:'--I---- 1:w4'-'--' - t' ''' ''''' - PA ! Hunt Cherie Schroeder Larry - : '1: i Webb Randy Barton and Richard Scott Performances continue Saturday at 8 pm at the Egyptian Theatre 328 S Main Park City The show wwill then be presented in repertory "Greater Tuna" which opens July 13 and plays through Sept 8 ' 47'IniA': ''T at::' 11!:ii ri : For further information regarding the plays and other festival activities contact the USF box office at (801) Mondays through Saturdays 10 am to 8:30 pm or write: Box Office Utah Shakespearean Festival Cedar City Utah 84720 Tickets are $6 to (24 4' 4''41 FREE 90 DAY INTEREST WITH APPROVED CREDIT Mon-F10 to 6 Sat 10 to 5 r ': ' Pia Egon -- elateesese as 11 444 1 Is Fred Adams is founder producing director of Utah Shakespearean Festival which opens its 29th season this week ''11 — Airtil ! 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Do you know the Kennedy Center sells champagne for $250 a glass and buys it for only 7 cents? Just think of what we could earn with that sort of a deal" Opening week of the 29th festival includes: "Romeo and Juliet" Monday "Titus and Andronicus" Tuesday "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" Wednesday lbsen's "Ghosts" Thursday Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" Friday and Wilde's "The In addition to the applause given annually to the excellence of the acting company the festival receives raves for its lavish costumes But there have also been the detractors who have said less money should be spent on the elaborate costumes and designs and more should go to the acting company "First of all" says Adams "we will never reuse a costume We build 380 costumes a year and all from scratch We are a Shakespearean festival We do a period in history not just a play Years ago when we were starting all this I was given a piece of advice that I never forgot: The Shakespeare festival that hires - - f:: ::: :'Ss l: s:e: s:' s'' $ '' ::'':'''" ' e -- ' :: - :: ''''''' ''' :::: :: :'S!S re rectors" 1500000 n 'a''' Isaest :S s production most specifically acting theater administration and scenic and costume design will be off and running by 195 The inevitable question of financing comes up and Adams responds in customary style "The festival has always operated on the fiscal philosophy that it will never spend money it does not have Our budgets are carefully drawn annually and if we don't have the anticipated funding we have programmed in such a way that we can scale back" Case in point: The newly opened Randall Theatre lost money last season Though artistically successful the theater did not sell out and as a result operating expenses cost the festival $310000 Adams said the festival had a built-ibuffer of $317000 for the Randall to be used over a three-yea- r period but "all but $7000 was eaten up our first year" To help compensate and to maintain the budget that had been approved by the board company members were asked to take a cut in pay for the current season and work an extra week "It was hard for me to face that fact but we had to do it Instead of receivirkg $1650 for 12 -ss ':ils '''':' e Though overall attendance for the two theaters was up last year — 100000 tickets were sold in 1989 compared with 63281 in 1988 — the Randall still is some distance from becoming self suppporting "We're still trying to figure out what our audiences want in that theater" said Adams "but things are looking good Advance sales have already equaled our final season sales of last year The matinees are going particularly well That's where we should have put our emphasis last year instead of offering so many evening shows" The festival is funded nearly 70 percent by ticket sales Concessions amount to approximately 9 percent with the balance coming from major donations and grants and private donations This year's budget is il - li ' tion" volving all areas of theater ' - " :!' mid-Apr- costume designers to come and use last year's stuff will end up being a second-rat- e festival and we never want to be that" However the USF rents many of its costumes to other companies including theaters in Illinois Texas California and Pennsylvania As for actors salaries — though admitting he would like to pay more — Adams said "Oar salaries our comparable with those paid by the Berkeley and Colorado Shakespeare festivals But I will never pay an actor more than an electrician or a seamstress Actors get rewarded by applause The others don't We do however pay top dollars for our di- weeks everyone agreed to come for $1500 and 13 weeks We cut the scenic- and costume-desig- n budget by 25 percent and the same for promo- v I - ' ' |
