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Show Successful season forcast for Utah Shakespearean Festival Producers, directors, and company com-pany members are preparing for what could be the most successful succes-sful of twelve seasons for the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Three festival plays, "A Midsummer Mid-summer Night's Dream," "Macbeth," "Mac-beth," and "Much Ado About Nothing," will premiere on July 12, 13 and 14 to open a cycle of performances which will play in the new Adams Memorial Shakespeare Theatre Mmriavs throuph Saturdays through August 1L Box office reports from the festival indicate brisk weekend and holiday ticket sales in particular, par-ticular, with some nights now perfect their arts. Entertainment Entertain-ment by these groups begins each evening at 7:30 and lasts ' until audiences are called to their seats by trumpet fanfare for the play performances at 8:30 p.m. Dance mistress is Kara Lynn Farr, Ely, Nevada, who Is also returning for a fourth year. Barbara Adams, wife of the festival's founding producer and permanent director,. Fred C. Adams, supervises pre-play music. Concessions and vendors are under the direction of Cedar City's Mary Anker, a veteran of 11 festival seasons. The Vemile Terry family, also al-so from Cedar City, will carry on a six-year tradition with their Punch and Judy show, solely created, produced, and enacted by family members. totally sold out. "Those who are able to attend at-tend the festival Monday through Thursday will have a better chance at this time of getting choice seating," was the advise of Gary Mclntyre, managing director. He added that there are actually act-ually no undesirable seats in the theatre and that the utmost effort will be made to accomodate accomo-date everyone who wishes to attend the festival. Directors Fred C. Adams, Michael Finlayson, and Richard Pllcher are working their casts diligently in meeting production produc-tion deadlines. The same three directed the 1972 season which was judged to be outstanding and sold out to nearly 99 percent per-cent capacity for the four-week run. Festival music Is also in full rehearsal under the direction of Dr. Frederick Gable of the University Uni-versity of California at Riverside, River-side, returning for his fourth season with the festival. Festival music is also in full rehearsal under the direction of Dr. Frederick Gable of the University Un-iversity of California at Riverside, River-side, returning for his fourth season with the festival. Pre-play dancers, madrigals, puppeteers, and refreshment vendors are working dally to |