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Show Tho Eureka Reporter Six I'am Maivh (. 1!)S1 Man of LaMancha at Osmond Studio Playhouse page the crash of 1929, the Man of LaMancha Peterson as Don Quixote mining industry ground to opened at the Osmond has been described as a near-hal- t and Mam- Studio the Playhouse "Merely Magnificent, moth, like every other February 28 and will run proto-typof the show community, keenly felt through March 14, with a stopper!" the depression. The Kristen llurst-Ilyd- e extension Record's revenues possible Kristen Hurst-Hyda depending upon ticket gradually diminished and sales. former student at Weber with great finally, Robert Peterson stars State College, starred in reluctance, Ike Diehl as Don Quixote, his such productions as West wrote 30- to his jour- favorite role for the tenth Side Story, Destry Rides nalistic career which had time, and Kirsten Hurst-Hyd- e Again, Annie Get Your spanned nearly a stars as Aldonza. Gun and Man of Written Dale LaMancha. She was seen by His printing shop Wasserman, Man of in the Theatre 138' yielded a meagre income, LaMancha first opened though, and he was a November 22, 1965, at the familiar figure in both Anta Washington Square Mammoth anc( Eureka Theatre in New York through the 1930's. On City's Greenwich Village. July 13, 1940, he died At the time no one knew while hospitalized in that it would become one Tooele. of the biggest Broadway The journalistic career hits in all of musical of Isaac Diehl might theatre history. At first easily be overlooked ticket sales were slow, the because his writings were "Prophets" of Broadway in newspapers which said that it wouldnt last. have virtually vanished in But audiences grew the dust of time. But steadily and finally in to 1966 it received the survive enough demonstrate that he Coveted Best Musical Of upheld the highest ideals The Year Award. The of his chosen work, faithcast album became a best fully recorded in his seller and The Impossible columns both the eventful Dream became a national and routine happenings of hit. Since then Man of his community and richly LaMancha has been comproduced all over the memoration in the Utah world and in languages Newspaper Hall of Fame. ranging from French to e e, -- half-centur- y. Productions of Carnival, Girl Crazy, a Little Night Music, and has performed with the Utah Opera Company in The Nightingale and Hansel and Gretel. She portrayed Arabel in the first American production of Robert and Elizabeth starring Robert Peterson at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre. She also starred opposite Mr. Peterson at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre. She also starred All, The Nightingale and opposite Robert Peterson Vida Breve. in his 1978 production of Man of LaMancha. Kristen has recently the from returned Juilliard School of Music is She currently a towards working vocal in Master Degree in New York City where performance at the she received a scholar- University of Utah and ship for professional will be seen as Cinderella studies in opera. While in New York she appeared in the University of in the American Opera Utahs Opera Wrokshop La of Center productions of Production LaRondine. Mother of Us Cenerentola. deserves Japanese. Robert Peterson Robert Peterson was born in Omaha, Nebraska A. Clifford Stapley and Clifford Stapley, 73, died Thursday, February 19. 1981 in Murray. Mr. Stapley is a brother to being attracted by a to the scholarship Juilliard School of Music attended the University of Utah before A. in New York City. Beginning his singing in opera, Mr. He was born April 23, Peterson was the leading e at the to 1907, in Mammoth, Pierre I,. Eureka. Stapley of career bass-bariton- Arthur Clark Josephine He and Metropolitan Larsen married Stapley. Opera Studio for five years. He first gained national Dortha Underwood April acclaim when he replaced 25, 1936 in Provo. She died Robert Goulet as Lancelot in the Broadway Dec. 14, 1945. I !e was a member of the Production of CAMELOT. LDS Church and a retired Since then he has starred of productions employee of HiLand in Show Boat, Brigadoon, Dairy. Survivors include two Guys and Doll, South daughters, Mrs. Fred Pacific, The Sound of (Karen) Hodgson and Music, Kismet, and as' Mrs. Brian (Rose Ann) King Arthur in several McCarty, both of Salt productions of Camelot. and Currently City; a step-soat the University Howard L. of Mr. Peterson has Webb. Utah, Orem; Mrs. in The Music Jeanne Johnson, Cedar starred 15 City; grandchildren; 4 Man, My Fair Lady, great - grandchildren; a Carousel, Kiss Me Kate, brother and two sisters, Antony and Cleopatra, L. Pierre Stapley, Robert and Elizabeth, Eureka ; Marie Stapley Hans Christian Anderson and Norma D. Randle, and other many both of Salt Lake. at the productions Funeral services were Pioneer Memorial held at the Deseret Theatre. Last summer he Mortuary in Salt Lake took his own production of I Do! back City. Burial was in the I Do! a east three week for Springville Evergreen engagement at a dinner Cemetery. Artist-in-reside- n ikc step-daughte- theatre Of nt r, a study of elderly Americans taking who were prescribed PA. in Harrisburg, On television networks, Mr. Peterson has been featured on Omnibus, The medications, only 4.9 percent had received Bell Telephone sufficient instructions on the safe use of the drugs, to the according University of Minnesota News service. As an example, a woman, upon cleaning out tier medicine chest, saved one bottle of pills that she recalled the doctor had said worked just like a vitamin." The drug was later discovered to be a potent male hormone. ld Hour, Celebrity Talent Scouts, the Art Linklctler Show, and The Mike Douglas Show. Mr. Peterson has four recordings out and will be releasing a fifth one this fall. This is Mr. Peterson's tenth production of Man LaMancha and the third one he lias directed. Aside from being his favorite role, Robert of 0 |