Show success makes Kingsbury history By MILTON HOLLSTEEN Utah's 1948 varsity show probably was the wackiest two and one-half hours' entertainment in Kingsbury hall history a hodge-podge of rah-rah and social that amazingly turned out to be rather delightful Behind its facade of high gear Man With a which played to near-capacity houses Friday and Saturday assuredly lacked But it was easy to see why the audience should not have missed the forest far the why they should have the show almost as much as did the Phil who rescued the idea of an original varsity musical from obscurity and co-authors Sam Rosen and Dan dished up an oft-times hilarious book vacillated between the predominant slapstick and subtle Risque lines never were allowed to degenerate into crass while tickling the As a youth whose pure simplicity wins him a halo and a host of Del Faddis was admirably He was less a sympathetic character not by virtue of his performance but because his identity often was obscured as the show kidded the pants off local persons and local Florence Marie as sweet-but-worldly-wise Judy was as lovely a of voice as has been seen in this As Waldo's sweetheart he steered her befuddled beau through snares set by Roger Burnham a flawlessly and energetically played by Alan Frank and Gabriel a character in which arch-extrovert Ken Jensen found his Although the show's tirade against race prejudice was incongruous contrasted with the raccoon-coat settings of original even the hideout sequence provided its moments of rare good largely due to Art Jackson as the Bruiser and Bill Curtis as the The climax in which brotherly love triumphed over intolerance was less profound than Satire was sharpest when Frank Wilkinson and Howard as conservative Deseret News pub and Frank Jacobsen and Johnnie Belle Hofley as Myrtle and keepers of the were on If flaws are to be found they must be sought in the inadequate orchestra and ill-rehearsed choruses which mauled some otherwise fine music written by Joseph Kenny Whitlock also and Betty Some catchy music was among the songs which graced the Easier to Be a My Heavenly and Believe in and the bouncy title Choreography by Ralph Cannon was but was unhappily tossed into the production as a redundant Certainly not reflective of the University of Utah its local setting and and never very nonetheless represented a great deal of well-turned effort and Special mention should go to Paul La who designed and William Wanda Clayton Thomas was faculty coordinating Leo Dalton assisted with drama and Bruce Shelly handled the omnipresent publicity for the |