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Show 11 ;;-... . . s i . r I r . A ! , 5 f 1 1 I j ! - I ir . n u nmi.MH ii in ifiBii urn i i ii urn Silver Wheel Theatre owner Gene Johnson poses on (he Melodrama set he created last week for Friday's opening. Virtue Wins Out; Melodrama Back Parkites will have a chance to hiss, boo, cheer, and be thoroughly entertained entertain-ed this weekend when the Silver Wheel Players open the season's first melodrama, melo-drama, "A Widow's Weary Way, or Virtue Wins Out." The Silver Wheel Theatre is also offering a different film each week, shown Tuesdays Tues-days and Wednesdays. The Melodrama is under the direction of Bob and Kathy Lee who also play the hero (Hector Splendid) and heroine (Glory Tateman). The setting of the piece is the Park City of 1806, when all was woolly and wild. Questions such as "Were those all really accidents at the Mine?" are answered in the melodrama. Members of the acting company have all appeared previously on the Opera House stage. Most have been together for many years although al-though they only perform in Park City. They are based in Salt Lake City. The nearest near-est melodrama is performed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, so Opera House owners expect ex-pect groups and individuals to come see the performance from a wide area. The melodrama melo-drama will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 through February. Melodramas are usually based on a fairly simple plot, where lines between Good and Bad are clearly drawn. Although contemporary performances per-formances are usually done tongue-in-cheek, the melodramas melo-dramas were written to be played straight. A serious rendering, as the Silver Wheel Players attempt, tends to highlight the absurdities absurd-ities of melodrama situations. situa-tions. The owners of the Silver Wheel Theatre do most of the technical work of the production produc-tion themselves. Gene Johnson John-son spent last week creating the entire set and his painted paint-ed drops look professional. Costumes were available from previous melodramas although they have been al tered. The cast, in addition to the Lees, includes the following fol-lowing players: Dave Strong (as Jonas P. Sumac True Villain), Marva Banks Lindsay Lind-say (as Irene Tateman a widow and good mother), Carman Mann (as the Grandmother Grand-mother who sees through the Villain's plot), Bill Cleff, (as Hamilton Jefferson, and Honest Banker), Ed Dean (as Rod, Sumac's henchman), hench-man), Pat Peterson (as Sheila Lace, Sumac's partner part-ner in crime). Frances Vane composed and arranged the "scintillating and tuneful musical investiture", and she will also play this piano accompaniment. Movies have been chosen for showing the next four weeks. They are: "Lion in Winter," October 15, "Night-comers", "Night-comers", October 21 and 22, "Happy New Year", October 28 and 29, and "What the Peeper Saw", November 4 and 5. |