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Show Sundae February The Salt Lake Tribune, Singe notes 1(1, Wifi El Satire, Shakespeare, Heilman plays bow Building on campus Reservation may be made by contacting the Pioneer Memorial Theatre box office Weber State Theatre will present Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Thursday through Saturdav and Feb 26 through March in tin Allred Theatre of the Browning Center. Ogden The drama, which features Shy lock the money lender, Antonio, the mor chant, and Portia, fiance of Antonio's friend Bassanio. is under the direction of Larry West eludes her "The frustration of not being marRobert Vaughan is cast as Antonie ried makes her incapable of having with Sharon Rowlettc as Portia and Brian West as Shylock, meaningful relationships with othsaid McGlone ers," Director West describes the work Thursdays through Saturdays According to the author, w hen men as "a show of different colors and tex through March 15 at 8 p.m. sense Camile's insecurity and depenThe Student Director Series at tures, ranging from tragedy to farce dence. again and again, "they chouse to romance. It is an easy play to un the Lab Theatre continues this week to marry her girl friends." derstand. The characters do not get with Israel Horovitzs "The Indian Shannon Bennett portrays Camile, caught up in waxing eloquent in VenWants the Bronx." and a new one-ac- t with David Cropper. Jim Voorhees. ice as they often do in other Shakeby University of Utah graduate stuJaci Hlubin, Claudia Vorwaller, Mary speare works." dent Yvet Crandell, "The Way to a Garcia, Vicki Pugmire. arid Holly Mans Heart." Adding that the play is actually a Claspill in other roles. In the Horovitz drama, two young satire on humankind, the director The plays will be offered WednesNew York punks" encounter an East said he is intrigued with what it says " Indian named Gupta who does not day through Saturday at 8 p m. with a about Friday matinee at 5 p.m. speak English. The Indian visitor has "Everyone quotes the quality ol become separated from his son and is Seating is limited in the Lab Themercy speech, and no doubt, it is the atre. located in the Performing Arts most beautiful in the play, but nobody trying to find his way back to the 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 ways, is who on Ross, the Utah writers Scott Cairns and English faculty a dark comedy with probing social at Utah State University where she Aden Ross will read from their works questions." teaches drama, oral literature and Thursday at 8 pm at the Art Barn. Lillian Heilman's "The Little creative writing, is a published poet Reservoir Park and Finch Lane (1350 bows at the Lyric Theo're. 28 Foxes" of one and three She was East.) playwright. W. Center, in Logan, Thursday, undvi the playwrights selected to participate in Cairns, a teaching fellow of Utah State University the direction Conferof first Utah the creative Utah writing Playwrighting University chairman Sid program, is currently working on his ence at Sundance in 1080. The play theater department Perkes. she developed there, "Oedipus Undoctorate. His first book of poetry. The production features a combibound," was later produced by the The Theology of Doubt was recently h s noems have Wanted. In of USU students, townspeople Lake Salt addition nation Acting Company. published. and guest artists. Molly Cameron Billy the Kid" also was produced by appeared in The Atlantic and Quarwho has been seen in Salt Lake City SLAC, terly West. Hun For Your Wife." a British sat ire on polygamy, will open a engagement Thursday at Theatre 138. 138 S. 200 East, at 8 p m Director Tom Carlin Mated that Ray Cooney's comedy has been run-unfor two years in London and was called by the London Times "one of 'he five funniest plays ever written " Carlin says the play not only satirises polygamy, it leaves few other stones unturned, including the Catholic Church and "all things contempo" rary Kit Anderton. Janet Jensen and C'arolynne Record are featured in this production, which continues ' four-wee- k 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. with violence A.M Allcott is cast as Gupta with Anthony Roberts and Brian Leahy Doyle as the attackers Dian McGlone directs The Way to a Man's Heart." a story about a young woman with several domestic skills who can't figure out why marriage 1 "pseudo-Christianity- Two Utah authors read Thursday productions of "Charley's Aunt.' "Life With Father" and "Women Behind Bars," will portray the leading role of Regina Giddens. made famous on Broadway in 139 by Tallulah Bankhead The drama, winch has been described as a stinging attack on the capitalist system, concerns the Hubbard family, a group which "plots and plunders its way to wealth and powei in the deep South at the turn of tht " century Following the opening, the play will continue through Saturday and Feb and March Curtain is 8 1 26-2- 1 pin "Charly." the Mormon musical based on the book by Jack Weyland will be presented Monday at 8 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall on the University ol 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 Christison directs this musical based on A1 Lapps popular comic strip concerning the folks from Songs include "Namely You." "If 1 Had My Druthers." and "Jubilation T Cornpone The large east features more than 60 Snow College students as well as young people from the community In conjunction with the Friday-nighperformance, the Snow College Theatre will be dedicated to and renamed for the late Joseph W. Crane, who erved for some 30 years as Snow College professor of theater and Engy Dog-patch- . lish. Patrick Williams play in Lillian Heilmans "The Little Foxes" at the Lyric Theatre, Logan. Ed Joyner, Molly Cameron, , Chorus Line" auditions at PMT Iluncer Memorial Theatre will hold auditions for "A Chorus Lane" Thursday in room 217 at UMT Audition; are open to students, faculty or stall of the University of Utah or members of Actor's Equity Associa- tion All persons auditioning must sign up for a time slot outside PMT room 110 no later than Tuesday at 6 p.m. A photo and resume are required. Those auditioning will be taught three dance combinations, one ja r one tap. one ballet, by guesl Patti DT "k of New York. Following the nandatory dance auditions, those who applied will be notified whether to return for the singing audition Friday. Rehearsals begin April 14. lhc award-winninmusical is scheduled to run May 14 through June 4 on Lees Main Stage. director-choreographe- g Gilbert and Sullivans Pirates of Penzance to sail at PMT Continued from E-- l all net to work ut the Overture. Gilbert and Clay knocked off ut .3 a m. Cellier and I 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 Sullivans diary reads; When I went into the Or- chestra at alive, and 8 I felt more dead than looked so. everybody told me 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 programs printed on either white or silk, all of which contained for the first time the line: Un the OPENING NIGHT the Orchestra wdl be conducted by Mr. Arthur Sullivan. U.S. copyright was thus secured. The New York critics and audiences were largely receptive, with The New Turk Herald writing that the performance was constantly stopped by laughter and applause. The New Turk 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 clasplum-colore- 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 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!" 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 Ronstadt played the young leads Frederic and Mabel with George Rose os he 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 lor 807 performances. London's Drury Lane welcomed "Pirates in May of 82 foF an extended 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 . I Encrusted With Tradition In 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 c. pop voices to dupli good. Doesn't Monkey Around Admitting that he tends to be "stuffy and conservative when it comes to directing the classics, this 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." (Mini "We want to make sure that the bits wte do come out uf the characters, not somewhere from the North 40. Papp found the contemporary parallels in this Gilbert and Sullivan, and that is why it worked. Updated Version This updated version has police resembling the Keystone Kops, routines familiar to any Marx Brothers buff, an orchestra heavy on electronics, t and a tiny on which arrives miraculously ship stage loaded with kindly pirates. cut-ou- 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 Stout 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 yHP I I i f Va tf is a departure 1 tyt' B- for 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 thats 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 stage) to become a collective with another group the audience ) H wm mu iii "On 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 And then with that smile returning once again, the cautiously confident director added, Tell the people that they really should come theyll have a grand time. Following the opening, "The Pirates of Penzance will continue through Saturday and then nightly. except Sundays, through March 12 at 8 p.m. HARLIE CHOW iHj HOT CHINESE WOK STAR 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 free estimate. 942-090- 2 in-ho- 'hqdseT(Tconnfction FEBRUARY mi YlMNC.s s.Ml IK Ktl V 12-2- 1986 2, CUITOL "THEATRE I All SYMTHONY I A T VI 11AE1E1 WIST fOOSOU MM) A I WlTinHE 8;00 P.M. RDA'i MAT1M.ES A TMVI'.M. tsniCKEI l It DAI A TIN Ol SHVi IIU P ID Cji'K KJIJS ill-6- 11 6 DEI ICE ; - mm iNva ; OIOW I CHARLIE r i |
