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Show IAE Opens 'Pippin' Nov. 5, Season Slate Announced and 2. SHENANDOAH is one of the strongest musicals written for an ensemble. IAE is looking for a director to stage the show. Burnett explains "That most of our staff will be busy during the production period on the summer Shakespeare festival festi-val and we are looking for new people for the cast and production staff for SHENANDOAH. SHEN-ANDOAH. Anyone with a solid background in musicals should contact Ron Burnett at 649-6208. In addition, IAE was so successful last summer with its Park City Shakespeare Festival that it has formed a subsidiary company to run the festival. Ron Burnett and IAE board member, Salt Lake professional actor Anthony An-thony Leger will be producing produc-ing the festival this year. Anne Burnett will handle public relations, Quint Bishop Bi-shop and Ron Burnett will be stage directors. The Shakespeare company will form in March through a series of auditions to be held in Park City, Salt Lake City and on college campuses state-wide. The 1983 productions produc-tions will be LOVES LABOR LOST, ROMEO AND JULIET JU-LIET and HAMLET. LOVES LABOR LOST will play Thursday evenings, ROMEO AND JULIET will play Friday evenings and HAMLET will play Saturday evenings during the months of July and August outside under the stars at one of Park City's famous facilities. The 1983 festival expands it second edition to include a green show and to present an afternoon matinee on Saturdays Satur-days enabling the audience to see the shows as they were presented in Shakespeare's time. "With the addition of Tony Leger to our production staff and the board of IAE we are looking forward to our best season yet," comments Burnett. ' 'Tony's work for us last year was outstanding both on the stage and off. During our period of growth and adjustment he was a big help to the board and he has left his imprint on our season. We are privileged to have on our board and working with us an actor of his stature." The Shakespeare festival ends IAE's 1982-83 season and its board of directors hopes the season will entertain enter-tain a lot of new faces on stage and off. Auditions to all of the productions of the company are open to all Utah residents and visitors. The 1982-83 season of the Intermountain Actors Ensemble En-semble begins November 5 at 8 p.m. at the Prospector Square Theater in Park City. On that evening the curtain will rise on Bob Fosse and : Stephen Schwartz's musical fable PIPPIN. Director Anne Burnett is hard at work with her cast of veterans and newcomers to the Park City stage. After an I overwhelming group of peo- Kle showed up for tryouts Is. Burnett chose a cast of 22, most of them newcomers to IAE and to the Park City area. IAE resident director Ron Burnett comments that PIPPIN, along with this summer's Park City Shakespeare Shakes-peare Festival, "has drawn talented actors who have heard of us and want to work with us, taking us out of the realm of being just a local community theater which has been the goal of IAE since we were founded." PIPPIN will play at the Prospector Square Theater Nov. 5, 6, 12 and 13 with a special "inflation fighter" matinee on the 13th. Several of the roles are being understudied and the understudies under-studies are going to play the matinee to be offered at half-price. Tickets go on sale for PIPPIN OctT 15 by reserving at 649-6208. Prices will be $5 for adults, $4.50 students and senior citizens. The Nov. 13 matinee will cost $2.50 for all comers. IAE resident director Burnett Burn-ett explained that while the cost of musicals and plays have gone up, IAE is holding the line with the $5 top price for musicals and $4.50 for plays plus the special matinee mati-nee prices and groupsenior citizen discount rates. A special group rate (10 or more) of $4 for musicals and $3.50 for plays has been established. Group reservations reservat-ions can be made at 649-6208. "We are the best bargain in live theater in Park City," says Ms. Burnett, Bur-nett, "IAE believes that theater is for everybody regardless of their financial situation." IAE board member Linda Martin furthers the growing list of women directors by making her Park City main stage directorial debut in December, with the classic American comedy ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. ARSENIC will play at the Prospector Square Theater Dec. 10, 11 & 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. Admission prices will be $4.50 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizens. February brings IAE's series ser-ies of one-act plays at the Kimball Art Center gallery. This year IAE hopes to present original one-acts around the topic of women. "Our first series featuring women authors was a tremendous tre-mendous success," says Ms. Burnett who will be in charge of the event and is looking for original one-act scripts dealing with women and their roles in society or dealing with any subject but written by a female author. On April 15, IAE's Ron Burnett will pick up the directorial reins again to guide the first production IAE has done of Eugene O'Neil. LONG DAYS JOURNEY JOUR-NEY INTO NIGHT will bring O'Neil to Park City. "This is a play I've wanted to do for years but have been scared off because we didn't have the calibre of actors available to us to do it, but this year I feel we can go ahead and attempt it," says Burnett. JOURNEY plays April 15, 16 and 22, 23. Curtain at 7:30 p.m. SHENANDOAH, the civil war musical will grace IAE's main stage June 24 at 8 p.m. The musical features a strong book and score and will also play June 25, July 1 |