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Show A JUNE CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHT MIA Drama At Its Best By STEPHEN W. GIBSON Church News Staff Writer When lt at the MIA June drama festival this month, conference will have a chance to see MIA drama the curtains rise its best. MIA drama committee members have arranged for the presentation of three dramatic productions, designed to entertain and inform the audiences. The three shows will be presented twice daily, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on June 26, 27 and 28. A play, And They Shall be Gathbe will ered, staged in the Pioneer Memorial Theatre on the University of Utah campus. Drama committee members have called the play, powerful, stirring and dramatic. The story is about Armenian family. two young members of a close-knThe play, written by Martin L. Kelly, was originally produced at Brigham Young University. The play will be directed by Dr. Charles W. Whitman. Dr. Whitman, a convert to the Church, teaches at BYU. Mr. Kelly is a 1969 BYU graduate in dramatic arts. The idea for "And They Shall Be Gathered, according to Mr. Kelly, was the result of an experience he had with an Armenian family while a Church building missionary in Salt Lake Valley several years ago. Five capsule-forroadshows, called miniature musicals, will be presented at Kingsbuiv Hall, also on the University of Utah campus. The five roadshows are: which is about the 1. Roadshow Rigmarole problems of a roadshow production. 2. Deau Beat Disaster which is a Sherlock Holmes mystery. full-leng- th it the drama committee during the conference, but not as part of the drama festival. Youth from Mesa, Ariz. region will recreate A Blue Ribbon Affair the story of an 1869 fair in a town. snrU musical designed to bring the It is an between parents and problems of communication youth into focus at the parent and youth session of conference in the Tabernacle. A variety show, entitled One Hundred Years of Vaudeville is being produced as an entertainment feature of the Centennial Ball. The show includes seven acts representing various periods of vaudeville since 1869. Tickets for all performances of the three major productions may be purchased prior to curtain time, according to Mrs. John Bennett of the MIA drama mid-weste- hour-lon- g 1869-196- committee. der give choral reading in Sounds of Theatre." m " is 3. Would You Believe Were about the senses of human beings. 4. Plane Crazy involves Lindbcrg's first flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 5. "A Dream Walking show's the audience the different shoes a by wears during his life. At the Sound of Theatre, to be presented at the Babcock Theatre at the University of Utah, audiences will hear comments about the Salt Lake City made in 1869 by famous w'orld travelers. Thej il also hear women talking about the establishment of ZCMI and about the joining of the rails near Corrino, Sense-ational- Utah. All these scenes will be by dramatic . in the A Hundred Years Ago. production Two other productions will also be presented by teadci-- WEEK ENDING JUNE 21, 1969 Cliff Fry, left, Gaylen Young, Steven Salvesen, Laurence Reiser, Rick Moore, Larry Skidmore, seated, are in middle of the action of Plane Crazy," roadshow. |