Show The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS COMING UP THEATER Compiled by Nancy Melich Making Headlines: Anyone who has walked into a newsroom knows that although the technology may be different the atmosphere has not Hildy Johnson in Pioneer Theatre Company's production of 'The Front Page" The play opens Wednesday at 7:30 pm Feel Like a New You A Better Color Better Look Better Hair Believe Itl changed much since the 1920s when Ben Hecht and Charles Mac Arthur were Chicago reporters Hecht and MacArthur eventually left the clatter of typewriters and roar of the presses in the Windy City hooking up in New York where The Front Page emerged from their own Royals Wednesday at 7:30 pm the classic comedy returns transforming Lees Main Stage at Pioneer Memorial Theatre into the 1928 press room of the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago The three-ac- t play concerns the escape of a prisoner the night before he is to be hanged Reporter Hildy Johnson has decided to leave the daily grind of newspaper life get married and lead a respectable life in advertising He stops by the press room to say goodbye and learns of the escape Managing editor Waiter Bums enters the scene and mayhem ensues PTC artistic director Charles Morey said the play combines two of his favorite theatrical Sunday March 15 1998 genres: melodrama and farce But mostly I love this play because at its center it is about passion for work Specifically the play is about a newspapermans passion for getting the story a passion that is not unlike the passion theater people frequently have for telling the story Ross Bicknell returns to PTC from New York to portray Bums Michael Lasswell new to PTC stage is Johnson The cast also includes Utah actors Margaret Crowell Frank Gerrish Jayne Luke Richard Mathews Robert Peterson Max Robinson Richard E Scott and David Valenza Performances continue Thursday at 7:30 pm Fridays at 8 pm Saturdays at 2 and 8 pm and Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 pm through April 4 Tickets available at the theater box office 1340 E 300 South are $14 to $32 with discounts for University of Utah students For res1 ervations call 467-997- 1 u 6:00 am - 8 pm Tu-S- at For more information call the Dermatology Research Center (801)269-013- 5 weekdays Leonard J Swinyer MD Investigator The story tells of a mother and six daughters in the Plain States making a quilt each block telling a different story The fabric serves as as metaphor the foundation of the legacy the women left behind in their quilts k 572-414- Block Party: Molly Newman and Barbara Damasheks celebration of pioneer women Quilters opens Friday in the Pardoe Drama Theatre Harris Fine Arts Center Brigham Young University Provo Pre- Performances continues nightly except Sundays and Mondays through April 4 with a 2 pm matinee March 28 Tickets are $10 half-pric- e for previews and available at the fine arts ticket office 2 view performances begin 378-432- Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 pm And Your Little Dog Too: The Riverton Arts Council plus more than 130 youthful actors will bring its version of The Wizard of Oz to the community beginning Friday Dor ree Smock directs with Jerry Hatch as choreographer Alli- - Tim Threlfall directs the work that premiered in 1984 at the Denver Center Theatre The authors collected hours of oral tradition stories and combined them with stories from the book The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen See next page Pirates Politics: Richard Alsop the mayor of Draper is returning to a favorite role that of the Major General in the Draper Historic Theatre production of The Pirates of Penzance Elementary school teacher G Ray Jensen is the pirate king with lawyer Loren Lambert as Frederick Mayoral candidate Katie Shell is Ruth The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta opens Thursday at 7:30 pm and continues Fridays zs: naan Pit McManus HemI yANNI LIVE 1998 TRIBUTE WORLD TOUR Mbs Davids f Saturdays and Mondays through April 13 Tickets are $7 and $5 with $1 discount opening night Theater is located at 12366 S 9th East For 4 reservations call 581-696- A pleasant experience In every way 2020 E 3300 So D7 jjf? 1m twfi Urry Theft Egypt) Mar The Canyons Ski Passes 25 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL SMITHS T1X OUTLETS OR CHARGE CARD AND INFORMATION UNE vj The Canyon Now April TOLL FREE TICKET HOTLINE ALL SMITHS TIX PURCHASES ARE SUBJECT TO A SERVICE CHARGE 467-TIX- jii ONE NIGHT ONLY FRIDAY MARCH 27 8:00 RESERVED SEAT TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL AND THE DELTA CENTER CHARGE-BY-PHON- E CALL: Tickets subject to applicable service charges X PM MJ OUTLETS OR 1(800) ADEUA CENTER if- 3 nil Event date and tune subject to change - Conrad John Schuck starring &s Oliver Warbucfcs Brittny Kissinger Introducing as Annie Also Starring Sally Struthers as Miss Bd Hannlgan Orphan Annie" Uted by permtuun cl Tnoune MMit Services Inc www tnre?0th com on Lift t Groups (20) e Safia at 2200 Cali Jr t tr i 4 Photo Caro! 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