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Show Haunted corn maze Crop circles aren't the only way that corn fields can be scary. Read more on B3. Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan rolls like a stone and brings his extensive song catalogue into town. Read the concert review on B3. ALISON WORTHEN/UVU Review Pick of the week AARON ANDERSON/UVU Review Amazon.com Tegan and Sara: Sainthood, Oct. 27 Sting: If On a Winter's Night, Oct. 27 Amazon.com The Swell Season: Strict Joy, Oct. 27 Amazon.com Pink Martini: Splendor In The Grass, Oct. 27 Amazon.com Pick of the week • Al MITTON/ UVU Review The Dust Witch, played by Jillian Petrie, is one of the show's creepiest and best-acted characters. Ray Bradbury's Halloween classic comes to town EMMA HUNT Copy chief & " LINDSEYLINGE Culture editor In taking on the project of directing a stage production of Ray Bradbury's ultimate Halloween novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, D. Terry Petrie faced a challenge which the UVU Theater department does not always take on. How to create a play for which the audience has no expectation and the cast and crew no precedent? Romeo and Juliet, Farley Family X-Mas and Charlotte's Web are all well-known stories where the viewer's notions and expectations for the play are practically scenery. But not the little-read Something Wicked This Way Comes, which has previously only been performed once in the United States. While few members of the audience, cast and crew had previously read the book, it is even more unlikely that they would have seen either of the abysmal film adaptations of Bradbury's eerie, haunting and seasonally appropriate coming-of-age story about two boys and an aging father who discover the sinister truth about a mysterious carnival that has rolled into town and its menacing leader, Mr. Dark (Wes Tolman). The latter fact turned out to be of tremendous benefit to the production, allowing for a cohesive, distinct and, well, very cool look. It was certainly not a hinderance for the actors either. "I really loved the script when I first read it. ... I didn't know what to expect and 1 just loved all of the parts where it was really theatrical and very visual and scenes that were dramatic as well," said Topher Rasmussen, who plays William Halloway. The story is complex and requires an ambitious director. But Petrie was just the man for the job. "Terry came up with a strong concept and having that concept allowed us to deal with some of the staging challenges the script presented," says Alex Ungerman, a theatre major and assistant director. The Discovery Park playground in Lindon served as the inspiration for the set, which was a remarkably flexible W h a t : Something Wicked This Way Comes W h e r e : Noorda Theatre W h e n : Oct. 22 - Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Midnight shows on Oct. 30 and 31. C o s t : $6-$10 canvas for the onstage action. Petrie's creativity as a director extended to an astounding dream sequence in which one of the boys, Jim Nightshade (Chris Vest), is captured by the carnival freaks, which was not included in the original script. This scene proves that the power of theatre lies not only in words, but in the expressiveness of the human body. In addition to having a visually intriguing and oft-changing setting, the sound effects and lighting, while not generally intrusive, effectively set and maintain the mood for the story. 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You will notbe disappointed. • Wliere the Wild Things Are is the latest;from tli&;creative minds of director Spike Jorize (Being John Malkovich and producer of the Jackass movies) and Dave Eggers, the best-selling author of A Heartbreaking Work of "minds on the project, including an allstar cast and an innovative soundtrack from Karen O, vocalist for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a of approval from ^^ Where The WildThirigs[Afei£&ems sUre*1^1 to at least interest, if not completely enchant, audiences. ' The film expands on Sendakjs famous protagonist. Max by bringing to the scjreen family life. Max's sister ( erichs) is distanced by her friends and his single working mother (Ga©erihe;J Keener) has a new boyfriend'(fttaJFlt:;--: Ruffalo in a small cameo role).In a Staggering Genius. Additionally, the film was produced by Tom Hanks and Maurice Sendak, the author of the book, who also spent nearly every day on the set. 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