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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Stage notes Sunday, February 1(1, E3 1)86 Satire, Shakespeare, Heilman plays bow "Hun For Your Wife." a British sat ire on polygamy, will open a engagement Thursday at Theatre 138. 138 S. 200 Fast, at 8 p nt Director Tom Carlin stated that Hay Cooney's comedy has been for two years in Londun and was '.ailed by the Londun Tunes "one of 'he five funniest plays ever written " Carlin says the play not only polygamy, it leaves few other stones unturned, including the Catholic Church and "all things contempo" four-wee- k run-lin- sati-rire- rary Kit Anderton. Janet Jensen and Carolynne Record are featured in (his which production, continues Thursdays through Saturdays through March 15 at 8 p.m. The Student Director Series at the Lab Theatre continues this week with Israel HoroviUs The Indian Wants the Bronx," and a new one-ac- t by University of Utah graduate student Yvet Crandell, "The Way to a Mans Heart In the Horovitz drama, two young New York "punks" encounter an East Indian named Gupta who does not speak English. The Indian visitor has become separated from his son and is trying to find his way back to the Bronx The encounter turns into violence because, according to director Wayne Kennedy, the "deliquents are unable to relate to Gupta's passivity. So they deal with him the only way " they know how, w ith violence A M Allcott is cast as Gupta with Anthony Roberts and Brian Leahy Doyle as the attackers Dian McGlone directs The ay to a Man s Heart" a story about a young ' woman with several domestic skills who can't figure out why marriage eludes her "The frustration of not being married makes her incapable of having meaningful relationships with oth ers," said McGlone According to the author, when men sense Camile's insecurity and dependence. again and again, "they choose to marry her girl friends. Shannon Bennett portrays Canute, with D'n'id Cropper, Jim Vooihees Jaci Hlubin.Claudia Vorwaller, Mary Garcia. Vicki Pugmire. and Holly Claspill in other roles. The plays will be offered Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p m with a Friday matinee at 5 p.m. Seating is limited in the Lab Theatre. located in the Performing Arts Two Utah authors read Thursday Utah writers Scott Cairns and Aden Ross will read from their works Thursday at 8 pm at the Art Barn. Reservoir Hark and Finch Lane (1350 East.) Cairns, a teaching fellow in the University of Utah creative writing program, is currently working on Ins doctorate. His first book of poetry. The Theology of Doubt was recently published. In addition his poems have appeared in The Atlantic and Quarterly West. Ross, vvho is on the English faculty at Utah State University where she teaches drama, oral literature and creative writing, is a published poet and playwright She was one of three playwrights selected to participate in the first Utah Playwrighting Confer- ence at Sundance in 1980. The play she developed there. "Oedipus Unbound. was later produced by the Salt Lake Acting Company. Wanted. Billy the Kid also was produced by SLAC. productions of "Charley's Aunt,' "Life With Fattier" and "Women Behind Bars, will portray the leading role of Regina Giddens, made famous on Broadway in 1939 by Tallulah Bankhead The drama, which has been de scribed as a stinging attack on the capitalist system, concerns the Hub bard family, a group w hu ll "plots and plunders its wav to wealth and powei in the occp South at the turn of thi " century Following the opening, the pi j v will continue through Saturday and Feb 28 28 and March Curtain is 8 Building on campus Keseivatium may be made by contacting the Pioneer Memorial Theatre box office t Weber State Theatre will Shakespeare s "The Merchant oi Venice" Thursday through Satuiduy and Feb 28 through Maich in the Allred Theatre of the Browning Center. Ugden The drama, which featuies Shy lock the money lender, Antonio, the mcr chant, and Portia, fiance of Antonio s friend Bassanio. is under the direction of Larry West Robeit Vaughan is cast as Antonie with Sharon Rowlette as Portia and Brian West as Shylock. Director West describes the work as "a show of different colors and textures. ranging from tragedy to farce to romance. It is an easy play to un derstand. The characters do not get caught up in waxing eloquent in 'Venice' as they often do in other Shakepie-sen- 1 1 p.m "C'harly." the Mormon musical based on the book by Jack Weyland will be presented Monday at 8 p m. at Kingsbury Hall on the University ot Utah campus. Michael Bennett directs with Margot Jensen Watson as Charly and Michael Fames as Sam. Music is by Lex de Azevedo with lyrics by Heather Young and stage-plaby Young and Ben Lokey. Snow College in Ephraim will present its version of the musical LiT Abner, Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p m in the Snow College Theatre Kim C'hristison directs this musical based on A1 Capp's popular cornu strip concerning the folks from Songs include "Namely You." "If 1 Had My Druthers." and "Jubilation T Cornpone " The large cast features more than (in Snow College students as well as young people from the community In conjunction with the Fridav night performance, the Snow College Theatre will be dedicated to and renamed for the late Joseph W. Crane, who served for some 30 years as professor of theater and Eng- speare works." Adding that the play is actually a satire on humankind, the director said he is intrigued with what it says about Everyone quotes the quality of mercy speech, and no doubt, it is the most beautiful in the play, but nobody adheres to it. The Christians in the play are anything by merciful and are stereotypes cut both ways, covering Jew and Christian alike 'The Merchant of Venice' is. in some wavs a dark comedy with probing social " questions 0 Lillian Heilman's "The LittU Foxes" bows at the Lyric Theatre. 28 W Center. Logan. Thursday, untlci the direction of Utah State Umversiiv theater department chairman Sid Perkes. The production features a combination of USU students, townspeople and guest artists. Molly Cameron who has been seen in Salt Lake City y "pseudo-Christianity- Dog-patc- Snow-Colleg- e lish. Ed Joyner, Molly Cameron, Patrick Williams play in Lillian at the Lyric Theatre, Logan. Heilmans "The Little Foxes Chorus Line" auditions at PMT Pr.incer Memorial Theatre will hold auditions for "A Chorus Line" Thursday in room 217 at 1MT Auditions arc upon to students, faculty or stall d tin University of Utah or members of Actor's Equity Association All persons auditioning must sign up for a lime slot outside PMT room 110 no later than Tuesday at 6 p.m. A photo and resume are required. Those auditioning will he taught three dance combinations, one jazz one tap, one ballet, by guest Patti D Beck o( York Following the mandatorv dance auditions, those who applied will be notified whether to return lor the singing audition Friday. Rehearsals begin April H the award-winninmusical is scheduled to run May 14 through June 4 on Lees Main Stage. director-choreographeN-- Gilbert and Sullivans "Pirates of Penzance to sail at PMT Continued from E-- programs printed on either white or silk, all of which contained for the first time the line: On the OPEN INC NIGHT the Orchestra will be conducted by Mr. Arthur Sullivun US. copyright was thus secured The New York critics and audiences were largely receptive, with The New York Herald writing that the performance was constantly stopped by laughter and applause The New York Times said that judging from the response from the packed house, it was evident that the new work was a success. The production received nine curtain calls. Became Classic Needless to say. The Pirates of Penzance, with its tale of a youth who is accidentally indentured as a baby to a band of pirates, has received countless productions since that auspicious opening and is a clas- l all set to work at the Overture. Gilbert and Clay knocked off at .3 a m. Cellier and 1 wrote till 5 and finished it." That 5 a.m. entry was written just 15 hours before the New York premiere. Later that night, "Pirates of Penzance" opened with none other than the composer serving as conductor! Of that experience Sullivan's diary reads. When went into the Or- chestra at alive, and told me 8 I felt plum-colore- more dead than luoked so. everybody When the curtain went up after the Overture. I began to pull myself together and thought only of the piece. Though the true world premiere of "Pirates was indeed that night at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, over in the motherland earlier in the day in a town called Paignton, on the Devonshire coast, another gathering of Pirates had been assembled. The performance was at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 30 and advertised "For One Day Only. The purpose clearly was to secure British copyright. Sidestepped Custom To avoid U.S. piracy of this work, the custom of passing out tabloid-siz- e librettos to the New York audience was not observed that night, nor for the next several months. Instead, ticket holders were handed souvenir I . d sic. In 1980, the ingenious New York theater producer Joseph Papp took a new look at those old swashbucklers and presented a rousing, highly amplified version with stringless orchestra at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Won Hearts With musical adaptation by William Elliott and with Wilford Leach directing, these Pirates bounded cate the impact that the original work had on the original audience but most of the music is still sung . . in the original key, and all the actors have been told to play their roles with absolute sincerity." Rock Stars Rock stars Rex Smith and Linda Honstadt played the young leads Frederic and Mabel with George Rose as the major general and Estelle Parsons as Ruth. Kevin Klein provided a virtuosic performance as the dashing Pirate King. Following its successful outdoor engagement, the production moved inside to Broadway's Uris Theatre in January of 1981 where it stayed for 807 performances. Londons Drury Lane welcomed Pirates" in May of 82 foF an extended into the hearts of the summer audience. The critics were unaminous in their praise, with one writer sounding extremely grateful for the transformation: The fact is that for many of us the DOyly Carte Company had so effectively embalmed the work in our youth, that we welcomed any sign that it was capable of being restored to life. Leach and Elliott have encouraged it to leap out of its coffin and join in an exceptionally merry wake!" . Encrusted With Tradition discussing his adaptation, director Leach told the Saturday Review like the that These musical pieces have become plays of Shakespeare encrusted with a lot of notions about how they ought to be played. But the aesthetic factors are different now from what they were in the 1880s, and while you can restore the traditional way of doing a play, you cant restore the traditional audience that experienced it. Pirates was popular theater in its day, and I thought that it should be to reach the same kind of popular audience. So we started by concentrating on the material and trying to respond directly to it, in order to recapture the kind of rough vitality that is characteristic of any new work of art. We have used the individuality of pop voices to dupli In run. Larry Carpenter, who comes to Pioneer Memorial Theatre as director for the first time, candidly admits that "a lot of the stuff were doing here I simply stole from the Delacorte production, because it was so good." Doesnt Monkey Around Admitting that he tends to be stuffy and conservative when it comes to directing the classics, Ihis New York resident said, You better have a very good idea of what you are trying to do if you decide to start monkeying around with the classics." free in-ho- "CLOSE estimate. 942-090- IC- 2 - Departure For PMT Carpenter, who smiles a lot while talking about this production, is more than pleased with the company he has assembled. He cast the show first with people who could sing; second, with people who could act; third, with people who looked right. The result: Sal Viviano from New York as Frederic; Caroline Peyton, repeating the role of Mabel which she created for the New York Shakespeare Festival National Company; Mary Slout as Ruth, a role she has previously portrayed on several occasions, including at Wolf Trap in Washington, D.C.; New York veteran actor Haskell Gordon as the Major General, and Robert Peterson as the Pirate King, This show is a departure for - - Un opening night, any opening night. I hope we can hit the silhouette of our intention. Whether we fill the breadth of that silhouette is up to the night and the gods." Promises Grand Time they really should come theyll have a grand time. Following Ihe opening, "The Pirates of Penzance will continue through Saturday and then nightly. except Sundays, through March 12 at 8 p.m WOK STAR 1W6 KBRUARY i ml intAriu: wiih in mi c.moi. 12-2- 1 USINGS x 1 RPAY MA 1 L 1 K Kl IN XI 2, AH SYMPHONY l 11 A I A TKsOOI'.M. INI 1 SA T 2:00 P.M. WlsniUKH on IU wist fivsouin A I DAI A llOl '.mviiiuiui' G) hi iotas Q-IO- W wi-wi- i 111 lx , And then with that smile returning once again, the cautiously confident director added. Tell the people that HOT CHINESE M ICCffON Updated Version This updated version has police resembling the Keystone Kops, routines familiar to any Marx Brothers buff, an orchestra heavy on electronics, cut-ou- t and a tiny ship which miraculously arrives on stage loaded with kindly pirates PMT," said Carpenter, "and I think, I hope, audiences will be pleasantly surprised. You can never predict what the actual performance is going to be like. The audience is that last character. Perfection is not possible in the theater and that's the beauty of it If I wanted to get it perfect, I would be doing film. I believe that when theater works best is when all the different energies of all the people are combined into one moment. Theater is a collaborative art a community ethos which started with the Greeks as a religious expertence. It still can provide that opportunity for one group of people (on slage) to become a collective with another group (the audience ) HARLIE CHOW cwom The Closet Connection offers a simple, economical solution to a messy closet. We'll design and build a versatile, efficient system of adjustable shelves, drawers and multiple hanging rods that will get your storage project off the ground once and for all. Call the Closet Connection for a "We want to make sure that the bits w'e do come out of the characters, not somewhere from the North 40. Papp found the contemporary parallels in this Gilbert and Sullivan, and that is why it worked." CHARLIE 1 ; ; |
