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Show Rent set for Egyptian Theatre By Rick Brough Under a new agreement, Park City Performances (PCP) will pay a monthly rent on its home in the Egyptian Theatre, in addition to other expenses. PCP president Ann MacQuoid said the company will pay $500 a month to landlord Randy Fields of Silver Mill and Silver Mill's 1 parent company, Field Investment Corp. The company will also pay utility costs, said MacQuoid, which will probably average $1,000 a month. The $500-a-month rent will be reviewed every quarter, she added. The plan apparently has the company living month-to-month in the Egyptian. But MacQuoid said this has always been the situation. "Even Don Gomes (PCP director from 1981 to 1983) never had a signed lease." The new plan replaces a year-old agreement between Fields and PCP. In 1983, the financially-troubled PCP agreed to pay Silver Mill half the profits, after expenses, from productions. Utilities were paid by Fields. "Silver Mill has really been pretty generous," said MacQuoid. Meanwhile, she said, the company's deb has been reduced to around $25,000 and PCP should be in the black by March of 1985. To do ' this, forthcoming plays should at least break even, she added. MacQuoid also announced PCP's tentative season for 1984-85, which will include the plays "Dracula," "Oliver" and holiday revivals of "This is the Place." After its season ticket drive, she said, PCP's season will begin with "Dracula" in the last two weeks of October, climaxing with a show on Halloween night. "Oliver" (presented by Park City actors in 1979) will be done in early December. This is a change from past practice, when the Yuletide play was presented during the holidays. A week before the holidays, MacQuoid said, the theater will present three or four nights of1 special Christmas programming. It will probably feature entertainment , from out of town. "This is the Place", Park City's ' centennial musical, will be revived twice for holiday tourist audiences. It will play from December 27 through early January. On President's Week in February, it will begin a 16-performance run through mid-March. In January, the company will present a one-act play, perhaps an original work. A comedy, to be announced, will be presented in April. And MacQuoid said the season will end with a musical in the first two weeks of June. |