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Show with ParkCity, we all have a role to play for this scenario . to have a happy ending... Pick your part.. . Jamie. ' ' - ' " - ' " ,-rrr- I : charming and a lot of fun. ..The "cast" was varied with social workers and mental health experts,, airline air-line marketing directors, and . chemical salesman, and even a male hair dresser and his son. Together we formed an ensemlbe piece not so unlike "Romanoff and Juliet"... Without backstage help, like our own David Fleisher, the play would have never been such a success... So it was with our trip, Dee Holladay and his perky wife Sue worked to insure all our comforts were not only met, but surpassed. Holiday River Expeditions is a memorable experience because of the personal thought that Dee and Sue put into it. ..It's always more than meets the eye... Working together is a"; characteristic of Park City people. Eighteen months after the fire of 1898, there were more than 50 new businesses and homes. It is a part of our heritage to carry on that unity. (Listen up. City officials)... The theatre, a river trip, even the Chamber's Social, are all examples of our need for one another... Kenneth Haig once said: "You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something." Strike a Vein?.. .So it is Keyholes... Peering in and taking a look, a peak as it were, of other people and their behavior behind closed doors... Now before you jump and assume this is going to be an expose on City government, let me explain that it's not... Often times we find ourselves to be in a position of unintentional voyeurs in all this era of let-it-all-hand-outism. Encounter groups often give a look "behind closed doors" beyond be-yond your interest quota. But the theatre, ah the theatre, has always been an exception excep-tion to allowable viewing and sharing of the human experience. experi-ence. This week's production snuck us into ''the smallest country in the world" within" the physical confines of the Kimball Art Center. "Romanoff "Rom-anoff and J u liet" is an enchanting comedy- in which we can share with the cast that age old theme that love was facing death or Siberia, I'd insist on a frivilous hat too!)... Jean Piatt proved to be a charming soldier in an army of two. Her lovely singing voice is an added treat to the comedy... Finally, it is Curt Graf who stops the show with his role as a Russian Spy. His confessions, and his desire to suffer in "the most austure monastry" are highlights of the evening. (Just one question, Curt. ..when you tell the soldier to put the post cards 'on my account', I had this errie sense of de ja vu... aren't you the same character charac-ter who promised Lloyd Stevens iri "Cactus Flower" to put all those girls teeth bills 'on your account?'..; You're not afraid you're being type cast, are you?...) Congratulations Director Gomes, you have put together togeth-er another community play convincing us that Park City, has the talent and the interest for regular commun- starting to visit, that some of the rafters were eager to let others peek behind their "keyholes." I heard of abortions and divorces, tragic deaths and childhood fantasies unfullfilled. I laughed with people who when the trip began I was certain I wouldn't share six words with. (I mean an ex-marine, ex-marine, former jock from UCLA, that wears his Wheaties visor at nine in the morning, isn't usually the kind of guy I seek out..., but I was wrong Bob...) Dr. Little and his wife from Salt Lak e were a delight. I lved hearing the heart surgeon describe A -and B type people for heart attacks listing himself as a certain A (not wanting to scold but weren't those Camels I saw you smoking Doctor?)... Their two teenage daughters - were examples of how parents dream of their teenagers becoming; bright, Quint Bishiop: ' f The General conquers all... Director Don Gomes is to , be appauded . (a privledge usually reserved for the actors) on his near perfect' casting of the play. Quint Bishop as the General of this little country proves is more cleaver than the ambassadors ambassa-dors of either the East or West countries. It is to his Credit that we find him totally capable to trick both sides. Susan Jarman is the saucy American Juliet. She is in love and confused (isn't that one state, the same?) and as her stiffed American fiance says of her: "When I knew her she was pretty, now she is beautiful. More than I can not explain." (By the way Wes, keep that beard off... I almost didn't find you convincingly sappy enough for Juliet to be dumping you for Romanoff...) Roman-off...) Romanoff's father. Chuck Falkerth, gives one of the best confessions possible. (I wonder if he's that violent in real life...) No one of course "steals" the show but.. .there certainly certain-ly were performances capable cap-able of it. Once again I found David Gomes to be wonderfully wonder-fully cast. As his "High Altitude" the ArchBishop is convincingly old and positively positiv-ely hysterjal... Mary Ellen Wharton has come a long ways from her three lines in "Cactus Flower". As the wife of the Russian Ambassador, Ambass-ador, she turns in one of the strongest performances of the evening. (Believe me if I ity theatre. Let's see now a season of plays that we can count on for the; winter months. ..(I for one, rather enjoy being allowed to peek in all those keyholes... I disagreed with the General only once, and that is when he said he found a keyhold "an . unsatisfactory frame"...) There were no doors and no physical, keyholes on my trip down the Colorado River this weekend. Heart-thumping rapids and lots of swift water and warm sunlight. Somehow though, there was a sense of all of us being carefully cast to "star" together in our adventure. From Park City the characters charact-ers (and 1 do mean characters) charact-ers) included Tim O'Brien and his lady Lisa, Kenny and Kathy Shoulders and Jim Beaver and Mary Tuttle. Outstanding talents were displayed in saving one's beverage while crashing into a rapid, and incredible consistant ability to move one's wrist to one's mouth , under the scorching' sun. (Really this was a' rugged trip, aVen't you convinced?) ...The food was fabulous (steaks for dinner; omelettes' for breakfast... I mean, I don't ea t that well at home!)... The company fascinating. fas-cinating. We stopped to explore a cave hideout of some outlaws and we stopped stop-ped to explore why each of us , had chosen this trip at this time. It was a sense, after stopping for the night and |