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Jody Button works with director Jerry Franken during her audition for a part in the Blyth Festival
production of ‘‘Fires in the Night, The Story of the School on Wheels”. Dozens of aspiring young actors
from a wide area lined up to audition Monday and Tuesday for the half-dozen roles for children in the play
which will open in late July.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988. PAGE 35.
GOOD
TIMES
Grand playbill
changed for
88/89 season
Children's workshop announced
The Blyth Festival Children and
Youth Workshops will again be
offered for area youth during the
1988 Festival season. The work
shops provide a theatrical experi
ence for three different age groups
from five to 20 years.
The first age level is five to eight
years and their sessions will run
weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon,
Monday, July 4 to Friday, July 15
when the children will present a
public performance. The next age
level is 8 to 11 years and their
sessions will run weekdays from 1
p.m. to4p.m. for the same period,
Monday, July 4 to Friday, July 15
with a public performance on the
last day of the workshop.
The last group is for ages 12 to 20
and the sessions will run week
days, all day from Monday, July 11
to Sunday, August 14. The focus of
the workshop willbe afour-part Janie Gattinger, Clinton; Bill
soap opera by Colleen Curran Farnell, Wingham; Imperial Oil
(“Miss Balmoral of the Bayview” Limited and CKNX Broadcasting
and “Cake Walk”) and each of the Limited,
four segments will be directed by a
professional director.
All the age levels will benefit
from a special period professional
instruction in movement, voice and
many other aspects of theatre.
These classes will occur July 11,
half days and will possibly continue
through to July 22. Associate
Artistic Director Ron Gabriel is
going to be co-ordinator/director
of the workshops.
The workshops are tree and
participants must register in ad
vance by calling the Blyth Festival
Administration Office at 523-4345.
The youth workshops are made
possible through the generous
sponsorship of: Dr. Art Steed and
Ron Gabriel to star
in Festival's 'Lucien'I
This summer’s production of
“Lucien” at the Blyth Festival will
bring together the comedic talents
of two of the theatre’s favourite
company members: Ron Gabriel
will play ‘Lucien’ himself, directed
by Ted Johns.
This dynamic duo was last seen
together in Ted Johns’ “Garri
son’s Garage” in which Ron played
the hilarious ‘Bert’ while Ted was
the incomparable ‘Garrison’. Ted
will also be remembered by
Festival audiences for his amazing
one-man tour de force “The School
Show”, while Ron had audiences
rolling in the aisles with his
portrayals of “Boomer’ in “Coun
try Hearts” and ‘Butter’ in “Blue
City”.
“Lucien”, written by Marshall
Button, has been described by
critics as ‘Hilarious’, ‘funny,
poignant, refreshing’ and ‘very
entertaining’. One audience mem
ber was overheard saying “Don’t
tell me to be quiet, lady. That’s me
I’m laughing at”!
Set in a paper mill, the title
character regales the audience
with his (sometimes outrageous)
opinions on subjects which vary
from sex, marriage, and birth
control, to unions, religion and
safety on the job! Button never
dreamed that the summers he
spent working in the mill in his
home town of Dalhousie, New
Brunswick, would provide the raw
material for a one-man play that
would make people laugh righ
across Canada.
Lucien opens Wednesday, July (
and runs in repertory to Saturday
September 10. To order tickets
call the Box Office at (519^
523-9300/9225 or write to the
Festival at Box 10, Blyth, Ontario.
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present Pal Joey, music by Richard
Rogers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book
by John O’Hara, in the 1988/89
season. Pal Joey will be the fifth
show of the season, running from
March 14 to April 8. Larry Lillo will
direct Pal Joey, and the production
will star Martha Henry as Mrs.
Simpson.,
“We are disappointed that, due
to circumstances beyond our con
trol, we are unable to produce A
Little Night Music this season.”
saidMs. Henry. * ‘However, the
opportunity to recreate the success
of Larry’s Pal Joey, which originat
ed at the Tarragon in Toronto, was
irresistible. Wethoughtit was time
London saw Larry’s version of a
nightclub chorus line.”
Pal Joey is a classic 40’s musical
about a sleazy club singer, the girl
he loves, and the wealthy woman
whokeeps him. Hits from the show
include “Red Hot Mama’’, “I
Could WriteaBook”, “The Lady is
aTramp”, and “Bewitched, Both
ered, and Bewildered.”
The revised 1988/89 season
playbill is as follows: Biloxi Blues,
October 18 - November 12; The
Man Who Came To Dinner,
November 22- December 17; Blood
Relations, January 3 - 28; Toronto,
Mississippi, February 7 - March 4;
Pal Joey, March 14 - April 8;
Wingfield’s Progress, April 11 -
May 6.
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