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Show Local Actors Await 'Applause' in Upcoming Prodution "Applause" is more than just the title of the Kimball Art CenterPark City Player's upcoming performance -- at least as far as the cast is concerned. After two weeks of rehearsal, most of the singers, dancers and actors in the fast-paced musical candidly admit (hat it is the promise of audience applause that keeps them going. As Bob Toy, a veteran of Park City stage and one of the leads in "Applause", puts it: "I'm not doing this for the money, you know. Well, mavbe an item on a future resume, but the applause is where it's at." Toy First got hooked on audience accolades when he was twelve years old and played in a trumpet-clarinet duet in church. Park City actress and Mt. Realty employee Janet Mann plays Margo Charming in "Applause" -- the role that earned Lauren Bacall a Tony award on Broadway. After appearing in numerous stage productions, she concludes, "I love applause. It makes me come alive." Mann's part is the key to the "Applause" theme, the story of an older actress trying to hang on to her youth and talent in the face of younger competition. iElizabeth Ncsi-Smith? a professional dancer and ballet teacher tor Kimball Art Center, remembers first hearing applause at age three, when she danced to "Oh You Beautiful Doll" on the Liberty Park bandstand. But. as a dancer, she found the audience approval, "An interruption of the fantasy world I had been living in during the performance." The general feeling of the cast is summed up by Dick Cummings, who plays Buzz in the upcoming show: "Applause is what keeps the ego inflated." The Kimball Art CenterPark City Players performance of "Applause" will run three weekends starting June 5. Tickets go on sale May 15. .,. - IWWti.'Kt' t .d ; j ' v -I , v I i U V . ' s - ' . .:., 5 i ":-... '' '' ' i L ; 4, M- . V 4 L v f L " m $ . . |