| Show 1 MO I The Salt Lake Triune MUSICTHEATER Sunday January 12 1992 Playwright intrigued by response to 'Babies' ---------7 material world She wants to embrace a yuppie spiritualism that believes -- I can have a1 of the to3rs By Nancy Me lich THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE " ''4 - Rick Gould has seen his "Babies" on three distinct stages: one in Salt Lake City another in Seattle the third in Los Angeles At each stop audience members have taken exception to his depiction of a vapid yuppie couple while nodding in agreement at his interpretation of Brother and Sister Featherstone the Mormons The playwright finds the response intriguing it was not his intention to have either couple viewed in a rosy light "I wanted to present two dis- s 41‘ i------ ) v I - 7:- - i 1' is a theme suggesting that we are all raised with a fundamental belief system and at some point we either accept those beliefs embrace them or run away director ) - i ' ----' from them - A p Mr Gould who was raised a served an LDS mivsion to Japan and later married in the LDS Temple said he writes in reaction to the theology of his back-ground I don't want to be perceived as someone who has an ax to grind with the Mormon church but at the same time that I write about is not The play is not a Mormon play per se but I ese Mormons as metaphor It is such an American religion" The MormonAmerican theme surfaced in two previous works by Mr Gould: The Best Years of Our Live- s- about two missionaries in Japan and -- The Possibility of Precision at a Distance- - a look at patriotism and apathy The two s w ere included in Theatre-Work- s West's -- Utah Shorts- - last year Mr Gould's most recent work is -Every Tongue Confess- which is being considered for production next season The drama is based on an incident in Logan in 1921 when Utah State University student Rodney Lundberg fatally son in a stabbed his of the biblical sacritrice of Abraham Mr Lundberg' was found not guilty by reason of insanity spent 3 12 years at the ) tinct and perhaps perverted accounts of what parenting is all Mr about" said the Gould "In my mind Neil and Laura the yuppiesj do not come off any better than the Feather-stone- s but for some reason audiences — those hip artistic types in their black clothes — don't want me to lambaste liberal ideas They don't mind however if I take a view of Mormons" stereotypical -Babies" opens Wednesday at the Art Barn under the auspices of Theatre Works West The play begins in Neil and Laura's hving room two weeks after the birth of their daughter The couple have plied themselves with material pleasures and when unable to think of anything else to own add a baby to their possessions When they decide they donl hke being parents they eat their baby Laura is startled by the reaction to their unorthodox resolution In an attempt to explain — not justify — the action she turns to the audience and begins to talk We saw a problem and this is how we soft-spoke- forever" At the heart cf the play said the '"- - '1 n ffrit : kokA i fr 1 I iv Jt r) - :' i I '' I 4 1 - IP I A ''1 4 IP' x i-- Mormon ) $ 11 i j 4 1 )-- --40 41-x-44 in oh Griffin Die Laze Tribune Cast of 'Table-s- — clockwise Richard Scharine Mithael Behrens -Trudy Jorgensen and Marilyn Scharine — also performs The Bald Soprano" on an absurdist double dealt with it" She is certain that once people hear her side they will understand Enter the Featherstone a devout Mormon missionary couple ill bill at the Art Barn hearted musical Director LL West said is dark with nothing subtle about its bread humor 1'he Mormons are certainly stereotypical Sister Featherstone wears an apron bakes cookies and thinks it's wonderful to have fruit floatBrother Feathering in Jell-stone s extremely patriarchal and is committed to saving souls- He described Net as a lovable vacuous and successful rnan who rarely says anything significant Laura slightly more thoughtful is looking for something beyond the abies- Mr Gould admits that on paper the premise sounds horrifying but his desire is not realism This is theater of the absurd employing broad humor -- Ity- can Le awful and it can be funn- said the author O 'Some audience members thinking they were corning to see the musical 'Baby' have been aghast My play is not a light light-hearte- d Kranes for encouraging him to write -- I took a CLIS3 from David and wrote the worst play ever written but I kept going" He is married to U business gradaate Leslie Anderson and they are the parents of two sons He supports his pla3rwritng habit Scharine Gary Aldrich is featured as Angelotti the escaped political prisoner with Charles Austin as the Sacristan Local singers James Miller Eric Glissrneyer and William Goeg lein will sing the roles of tta re and the Jailer i r Late City 5 I (1Ws ' Claws Begin Jan 13 BALLET TAP JAZZ RIANKHIP HOP Beginning thmugh Art‘ianced besets Ash-bak- Ages Four through FACT I L first Utah Opera appearance as the Duke in 1990s "Rigoletto'' and was featured soloist in last year's gala concert honoring the company's founder the late Glade Peterson Baritone Greer Grimsley makes his Utah Opera debut as Baron Starpia the villainous chief of police The New Orleans native re-centy appeared in Salome" with the Scottish Opera and has also sung at Glirnmerglass aautauqua Israeli Opera and in Europe and the Middle East 1 1 r 4'--- -- r:- el t Ca - 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