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Show Marriage comedy opens at BYU ;. "Mary, Mary," a light comedy ; about marriage, will open ' Thanksgiving night, Nov. 22, at BYU. The Jean Kerr play will begin at 8 I : p.m. in the Pardoe Drama Theatre I ' in the Harris Fine Arts Center, v .' Additional performances will be V : Nov. 23, 24, 27-30, Dec. 1, 4-8 at 8 (? '. p.m. with a matinee Dec. 3 at 4:30 ! p.m. Tickets are available through I the drama ticket office, 378-7447. ; "The play has subtle sugar and ; spice humor in the vein of Erina ; Bombeck, but not so bold," explains ; director Jean Jenkins. "It talks about marriage in a subconscious message, but its purpose is to en- tertain. 'Mary, Mary' is somewhat 1 predictable, but it's charming in its !; simplicity and delightful in its 1 characterization." i The play opens with a couple, Mary and Bob, who have called it quits on their marriage. Uncle Sam, however, won't leave them alone. The couple is thrown back together to do battle with the Internal Revenue Service, and the result is billed as a "frolicking fiasco you won't want to miss." All of the characters in "Mary, Mary" are nice people says Jenkins. "There isn't a villain among them. The audience will like them and wish they were the people next door." The director believes in casting all students whenever possible in her productions and likes to pick contrasts among her characters. To contrast with her red-headed female lead, for example, she sought a dark male counterpart. She also likes to expand the development of her cast players and has taken one performer, Randy King, who usually gets character parts, and has placed him in the lead slot. Filling the roles are King, Laurie Harrop, Gary Insch, Tammy Hughes and Greg Barden. Charles Henson has designed a condominium con-dominium set; Janet Swenson is costume designer and Lisa Wygant has designed the lights. Assistant director is Gail Palmer. Jenkins selected the play because she sees a universal need for people to laugh. : "I wanted to do something just for fun to give people an evening's entertainment." She also enjoys Jean Kerr, an author and playwright married to drama critic Walter Kerr. Kerr's best-known book', "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," is a whimsical autobiographical look at their marriage. Also among her works is "The Snake Has All the Lines." The director is known throughout Utah as both a director and performer. per-former. She directed "The Admirable Ad-mirable Crichton," "Anastasia," "The Marriage Go Round" and "You Can't Take it With You" at BYU. She is best known for the one-woman one-woman shows and interpretive readings she has taken across the U.S. The former differ from most one-person shows because she does many characterizations instead of one person. |