Show Showing By PAUL CRACROFT Our lack of musical knowledge is but when Robert Hoffmann rattles Stadium Bowl 1 with a high above gosh all we just p can't stay mad atS fj ftp Handsome formed his pro-H- v o c a i feats more seldom on ing night of Hoff- on last Thursday while this piece last may by now be slightly mossy about the the memory of that brilliant Summer Festival opera will linger for many a Pardon if our provincialism but we got a more solid wallop out of than we did even from last year's excellent The dramatic effects possible from the story-with-in-a-story technique of The show was abetted by some comic which heightened the near-tragic stuff of the final Splendid as was Don Jose two years his performance we'd must play second fiddle should wo say second to his royal Despite the fact that he looked like Bobby Clark in his Olympia performed in that first sequence like a who has just made the startling discovery of the pretty girl next We were sitting on the track and watched his emoting through binoculars Japanese and marveled at the manner in which he worked himself into a sweat most to project his teen-age bounce across the intervening blocks to the Any lad that'll work as hard as he does at such a distance from his audience deserves a pat on the His tavern with solid male chorus also were spine Infield Support He had good support from the George on his merry way as the baritone ever to hit the In make-up that ranged from Lum and Abner to Lon Chaney he paraded around raising all manner of operatic hell with that rich voice that has everyone in town clamoring of next year's Let George do His beguiling performance as Miracle especially when he was bringing Rocky Ruby to life hastened no end my spouse's third trip to the OB but cost the evil Miracle a possible Vera our personal candidate for Miss America despite her admission to almost a dozen and a half started out the show as a completely wanton She got converted during intermission and showed up convincingly as Antonia pure and old-fashioned as a cameo Miss Bryner's voice was never and it's a tough one to She was free in her dramatic action and costumed so that she did not look seven months as she did in Merry merry can you We personally are convinced that Miss Bryner is the primary cause of the torrid spell See 3 from which has settled over Zion since her arrival Gracious Trio So gracious has been this imported trio that they were as thrilled as the next guy when a Salt Lake honestly Jewel stopped the show with her portrayal of When that famous doll company starts turning out stuff like they can drop Sparkle Plenty and settle down to real There were lots of other fine folk assembled for the best-staged Festival of them Ra-chelle Finkelstein waged a long tussle with acute laryngitis and doing a good job as who played the servants roles hit his peak in the comic song about his vocal and Terpsichorean talents or lack Ruby as the came to life nicely for her part of a third-act Even John who hasn't sung a note since we were problem children together in the boomed out with a couple of nice Carl J. Christensen took time off from his deanship of mines and mineral industries to quite Luther the tavern-keeper and Antonia's Marvin who has gradually picked up more and more work in the Summer showed himself worthy of larger program He's Joseph Halgren and Lloyd Neal did well as the principal Dancing Short Willam Christensen's choreography made up in quality what seemed to us to be far too little With all that imported headed by people like Barton and Sally we thought the dancing came out on the short end of the This is a relatively new art here in the and it seems a shame for such a talented pair with their cohorts to get to do so little that means so We feel about this as deeply as we do about the policy of serving the real filling of the double bills only half as long as the whipped In let it be noted that the staging by Vern Ralph Margetts and Company no little to the whole Still making newly-ordered scenery during the Division Bands' stirring rendition of the national boys and girls who don't often take any bows herewith get a low one from our padded Costuming by Sereta Jones and and make-up by Stan and the College of Pharmacy all helped supply the splash needed for Our rusty typewriter wheezes out one final compliment to the lighting especially for the third act when the pole-sitters had to follow disembodied head around the When any minute a stiff breeze might send you through one of Abravanel's it's difficult to concentrate on such a All in we think the Summer Festival with its trio of C. Lowell Maurice Abravanel and Willam Christensen ought to be made a permanent part of the even at the expense of such academic things as Commencement and football and all the above have made this a great showplace and a great |