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Show Order Shakespearean Festival Tickets Cedar City residents and others in the area are urged to place their ticket orders very soon for the forthcoming 15th annual Utah Shakespearean Festival in order to obtain seats of their choice. Helen Leavitt, Festival Box Office manager, announced that current ticket sales are well ahead of any previous season and that the Festival could easily be a $ell-out before it opens on July 15. "We do not want anyone to be disappointed this year", she said, recalling that several local patrons had, difficulty obtaining tickets on their preferred dates last season. "We still have good seats and we want out local people to have the best," she said. Townspeople are not only ask-ded ask-ded to get their own tickets early but to encourage their friends and relatives to get orders in as soon as possible. The box office is open Monday The 1976 Bicentennial season features three of Shakespeare's most challenging plays in "The Tempest," directed by Bob Leonard of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Tex., "Julius TCaesar.V directed by Howard Jensen, SUSC alumnus, and "Love's Labour's Lost," directed by Sanford Robbins of Los Angeles City College. Directors Leonard and Robbins are newcomers to the Festival. Dr. Jesnen directed the 1975 version of "Two Gentlemen Gen-tlemen of Verona" and performed per-formed the title roles in the first and second Festival season productions, respectively, of "Hamlet" and "Othello." The three plays of the new season will be staged nightly with the exception of Sundays July 15 through August 14. Information In-formation may be obtained by calling the Festival Box Office at 586-3636 or by writing to the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah. t .i through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. |