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Show Sundance Slates Musical Opening Sat., July 16 I "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," which became a hit on Broadway and in the movies, will open July 16 at Sundance Summer Theatre in the north fork of Provo Canyon and alternate with the current musical variety show for the rest of the season. This was announced today by Dee Winterton, producer, who said the show will fill out the usual Sundance format of both a regular variety show and a musical. The variety show, which has been playing since June 13, will continue Tuesdays through Saturdays until July 16, when "Molly Brown" will open and play each even calendar night with the other performance on the odd dates. The children and family show is each Monday night, with no performances on Sundays. Shows begin at 8:30 p.m. those attending are advised to dress warmly. Two well known Utah Valley performers will take the leads of "Molly Brown," said Mr. Winterton. Jayne Luke of Provo, a veteran Sundance actress who played Ado Annie in "Oklahoma" and princess Fred in "Once Upon a Mattress," will carry the role of Molly Brown, the dauntless girl who rose to fame and fortune in the heyday of the old mining west in Denver. Miss Luke last year produced "West Side Story" in Provo, and last January produced and played the lead role in "Diary of Anne Frank." Several years ago she played Molly in an abridged version of "Molly Brown" for a summer's sum-mer's run at the Prudential Dinner Theatre in Salt Lake City. Chip Boynton of Mesa, Ariz., remembered for his lead role of Tony in "West Side Story" and other performances per-formances (he won best supporting sup-porting actor award last year at BYU) will play Leadville Johnny Brown, Molly's husband. The part was made famous in the movie by Har-ve Har-ve Presnell who played the top role in "Brigham" during BYU's Centennial. Christmas Morgan, the . heart-of-gold bartender, will be played by Jeff Hilton, Salt Lake City, new to Sundance this year. Starr Hayner Roman, Las Crusas, N. M., well-known for her comedy at Sundance over several seasons, will take the part of Mrs. McGlone, the society leader who would never accept ac-cept Molly into Denver's "Sacred 36," the city equivalent of the Four Hundred. Hun-dred. Michael Noll of Reading, Pa., will be the French prince who seeks Molly's hand, and Princess DeLong, his sister, will be Jan Brady of Las Vegas, Nev. Sundance veteran Walt Price takes the role of Shamus Tobin, Molly's father, and the versatile dancing dan-cing talents of Dave Neiman and Craig Call, will be utilized as Molly's brothers, the balance of the cast will be filled out by other Sundance performers of the current season. The production contains some of the best-remembered songs of Broadway musical history, written by Meredith Wilson, said Mr. Winterton. It has a western setting that should appeal to Utah audiences, he stated. |