Show nHoaHinEBn MUHBHB liBBO The “Stage Door Slasher” strikes Geary Theatre Todd Handy staff writer Secret passages dark hallways and a dead body that just will not go away all these will combine for an evening of fun when the College of Eastern Utah Theater Department presents its spring quarter production The Musical Comedy Murders of the 1940 s" “MCM40s" is being directed by CEU alumnus Todd Olsen director of high school relations who makes his Geary Theater directing debut with this production Olsen brings to the theater department a very qualified background in both acting mid directing not only has he acted in CEU productions but he has also directed many plays in die Price area Those who saw the underground theater production of “The Day Room" last quarter will be well acquainted with Olsen's directing abilities and with his choice in productions The Musical Comedy Murders of the 1940's" is actually a deceptive title The production is not a musical but is does have a great deal of comedy and carries its own share of murder and intrigue The play involves a group of 10 theater people who have gathered for a backer's audition -- in reality it is a reassembled cast of a previous play that met with tragedy when the "Stage Door Slasher" began killing chorus girls in the production The polios have managed to gather all the suspects together in one place to find the "Slasher" and hopefully put and end to the bloodshed Produced on Broadway from late 1987 to early 1988 "MCM40s" has never before been presented in this area Olsen said he chose it for the final production of the theater season because "it was (continued on page 5) Oregon's poet laureate reflected his world at CEU reading y V i ' : ' t! i Frailer Artsentertalnment Ryan I 0 Poet William Stafford was in residence 1 and he held a at CEU from March poetry reading in the Alumni room in the SAC on April 1 at 8 pjn The reading was open to the public at no cost It was sponsored by CEU the Utah Arts Council and the NEA 29-A- rVVA r l ''l t ' - or! ' a 5J- ‘‘I-!!- J - 1m- - " P"Tr? t H I) I j: i'- iV 1 'i: ? William Stafford had earned the National the Shelly Lamar Award and has the Library of Congress for poetry He has published more than 20 collections of Book Award Jan Minich an English instructor from CEU introduced William Stafford by stating "In my opinion and in most people's opinion he is one of the very best poets writing today and he is one of the nicest and wannest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing" Here's an example of one of his poems: : - 'At the Klamath Berry Festival " - i ''I ' r‘ - ' - ’ jW- V Tha Utah Art Stafford April - Vi — Council 1- - The war chief danced the old way the eagle wing he held before his mouth- and when he turned the boom-boo- and bashful holding the eagle wing before his mouth listening hg danced after others tinning stopped He took two steps A sociologist stopped was there the Scout troop danced He took two steps the boom caught up Itnyicd him the places where he had not the mountains rose the still deep river slid but never broke its quid The Outside again he I looked back when I left: heard pwmDcgan CEU and tha NEA aponaorad a reading by William the stick the and Blackfoot game gamblers he took two steps he look two steps arauina at noker under lanterns past the sociologist ' b iSiM Af V a JT i Im 1 "V S - I : poetry in the United States Pakistan Iran Nepal Thailand Singapore and other countries He is presently living in Oregon pr - Ni" ill ett co-edit- or m Still-moccasin- ed |