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Show ; - ii ." : - ! .:..; jj , jj ... ; ! ! ! j i ! - - 1. i - Utah's answer to LA's Cal Worthington, the original T-Buff demonstrated his famous "thank you" as he and Mike Phillips kicked off the KPCW talentshow. Talent Highlights KPCW Radio Show "What we're asking people money for this time is so we can improve our services. We're a public service and for a $15 donation, that averages three cents a, day." Interspersed between the fourteen acts Tuesday night were a number of unrehearsed unrehears-ed bit skits by local gossiper, "shaft," "Old Bill," an aimless, wandering chicken, and an equally aimless, wandering drunk. And local director Don Gomes and wife, Teri, performed briefly, brief-ly, depicting a "typical Park City married couple," who, incidentally, were not actually actual-ly married. Of KPCW's talent show, station General Manager Blair Fuelner may have ;put it best when he said, "It was a helluva show." KPCW, "the station that Park City built," kicked-off its marathon fundraising drive Tuesday night at the Egyptian Theater with a highly popular live radio talent show featuring fourteen four-teen vocal, instrumental and dramatic acts. Prizes provided provid-ed by Park City Resort, Park City Performances and the Cowboy Bar were awarded to winners in the three areas of competition. KPCW disc jockey Mike Phillips served as master of ceremonies for the show, that attracted over two hundred audience members at the Egyptian, and a special guest . appearance was made by T. "Thank you!" Buff, marketing representative re-presentative for Brown Bro-f thers Furniture in Salt Lake. Mr. "Thank You!" is known locally mainly for his less-than-inhibited advertisements advertise-ments on television. David and Daniel Bates, a nine-year-old son and father team from Coalville, were crowned grand prize winners and awarded $150. Playing violin, banjo and guitar, they also took first place in the vocal category and were given two single day ski passes. Actor Steve Stanczyk, who has performed in a number of local productions, finished in second place in the vocal category and was give a season pass to Park Citv Performances. Southern California Cal-ifornia bred Shelly Hart, third place winner, received a single day ski pass. Mary Drummond from Allentwon, Pa. sang two original songs and received a single day ski pass for her fourth place finish. Donna Van Buren, who sang "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue," finished in fifth place and was given two tickets to see John Hammond at the Egyptian. Kate McCutcheon, a columnist colum-nist for the Park Record, captured sixth place in the vocal competition- and was awarded two tickets to Country Gazette; MeCuth-eon MeCuth-eon played the piano and sang. Two tickets to Country Gazette concert were also awarded to Walter Ludlow and Doug Dean, seventh place, for their rendition of "Ramblin' Man." There were four winners in the Instrumental category. First place went to Andrew Arne, who played an interpretive inter-pretive piece on the guitar about a cheetah chasing his prey. Arne received two single day ski passes. Jim Totora gaive a rather moving and sometimes humorous performance on the bongo drums and finished in second place with a season pass to Park City Performances. One single day ski pass was given to third place winner Evan Williams, and two tickets to see Glenn Yarbrough were awarded to fourth place finisher Wayne Penlon. In Dramatic Monologue category. Curt Graf, a Park City actor, captured the top prize with two single day ski passes. Graf read poems written by Park City writer and actor Mike Hamill. And Brian Harris, who read "Twas the Night Before Christmas," finished in second se-cond place; he was also awarded a single day ski pass. An Honorable Mention was given to Diane Van Clausen, and she received a KPCW t-shirt. The six judges for the fund-raiser were Park City Mayor Jack Green, Park City High School football coach Bob Burns, Park High basketball coach Bruce Reid, Tim Conville ("concerned citizen), reporter and drama dra-ma critic for The Newspaper, Rich Brough, and Park Record columnist David Fleisher ("Ten O'Clock Whistle"). In determining the winners, the judges were aided by an audience reaction react-ion decibel system. Local resident Doug Ryan tallied the results. KPCW's live radio talent show was organized by station employees Steve Lloyd and Pat Lucey. "I thought it was a great turnout," 'lucey said. "We're planning to make it an annual event. We were really pleased." The station is trying to raise S25.n'X) during iis marathon, and Pa: Lucey explained. |