Show No Time For Sergeants Laughter Rocks By George Spelvin The intimacy of the does not easily lend itself to a production the size of Time For but three top-notch performances split the seams of the tiny theater with laughter in the opening performance Tuesday night The story is familiar to almost In short it is just Georgia hillbilly military Time For appeared first as a best-selling novel and has since that time become a television a long-run hit on and a hit Still the humor of the play remains and the experience of seeing it performed by local people adds to the Michael Ivie makes an ideal Will After his performance it is difficult to believe that he is actually a college student and was not flushed out of the hills for the purpose of playing He has mastered the hillbilly drawl and dim-witted reactions to a and keeps a deadpan expression even when he has the audience doubled in fits of Jay Lees adds another fine performance to a long career in He is one of those truly professional people who find time in their busy schedules to treat Salt Lake City to high-style His Sergeant King is by turn lovable and pitiful in his wild attempts to keep ripples in the lake from Jon Jory handles the difficult role of Ben the straight with a wild enthusiasm which compliments Ivie's performance and adds a great deal of color to his The role of straight man is a hard one to handle well in any but Jory's experience and know-how keep him in good and he has come up with a completely different interpretation of Ben but one is equally as good as any of the others have Bravo for his ingenuity in finding something different in a The rest of the cast perform and the standouts are too many to mention in the space allowed It should be that Douglas Clark is just about the funniest drunk that ever tread the |