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'Stammers' in Wing ham Sunday
“BlueCity Slammers,” the movie
which dominated much of the
conversations in Blyth during sever
al days of shooting in late May, 1987,
will be shown at the Lyceum
Theatre in Wingham on Sunday,
November20, at 1:30p.m. and again
at 4 p.m.
JaneGardner, director of com
munications for the Blyth Festival,
said that writer Layne Coleman and
producers Raymond International
Ltd. and Shatalow Productions Inc.
helped arrange the showings to give
local people the chance to see
themselves in action in the movie.
Auditions were held at the Blyth
Inn in early May, 1987, for 10 minor
parts in the movie, attracting people
from many parts of Huron County;
while dozens more turned up to
serve as “extras” in the crowd
scenes at the ball park bleachers, at
the movie “beer tent” at the park,
and at the Blyth Inn lounge, under
the sign which had been changed to
read “Blue City Hotel” for the
occasion. Extras were each given a
free “Blue City Slammers” T-shirt,
as well as free pop, hot dogs and beer
as they waited out the endless scene
takes and re-takes which are part of
the moviebusiness. Filming took
part over some of the hottestdays
ever recorded in a north Huron
spring.
Members of the real-life Blyth
Ladies’ Softball team, among them
Cheryl McClure, Kim Albrechtas,
Kim McDougall, Barb Patterson,
Lori Souch and Karen Coultes (then
Karen Souch), sporting their own
Blyth uniforms, got to play as the
opposition to the Slammers in the
movie ball game scenes, but Cheryl
McClure said she doesn’t know
which of them might actually appear
in the movie in its final version.
Several girls, including Darlene
Gulutzen of Blyth and Patti Rean and
Tracey Wilson of Goderich, got to
“play” for the Slammers.
Blue City Slammers, which was
adapted from playwright Coleman’s
play “Blue City” which was origin
ally produced at the Blyth Festival in
1984, is about a women’s softball
team and their adventures in a small
town ball tournament over the
Labour Day weekend. It enjoyed a
limited run in Toronto earlier this
year, but has never been shown
locally.
The movie is rated for a mature
audience, and admission, available
only at the door, is $5 per person at
each of the two Lyceum showings.
Lost Heir results
Dorothy Daer and Mary Walden
had the high scores in the weekly
Lost Heir card party at Blyth
Memorial Hall Wednesday night.
Edythe Giousher and Harvey
Sillib had the low scores. Margaret
Nesbit and Nora Kelly won the
special prizes. There were eight
tables of players on hand. There’s a
Lost Heir party every Wednesday
night at 8 p.m.
Ms. Gardner said that Mr. Coleman
and the film’s producers have said
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She added that other local show
ings of the film may be arranged if
“Blue City Slammers” is enthusias
tically accepted in Wingham.
‘ ‘ Blue City Slammers, ’ ’ the movie partially shot in Blyth in May, 1987, will be
presented at two showings at Wingham’s Lyceum Theatre on Sunday.
‘ ‘Playing” ball with the Slammers are Darlene Gulutzen of Blyth, centre, and
Pattie Rean and Tracey Wilson, both of Goderich. Proceeds will go to the
Radford’s ball diamonds and the Blyth Festival Theatre.
Theatre expansion contract
let to Goderich firm
Jim Morris from JAM Construc
tion Company of Goderich was
selected from five tenders received
by the Blyth Festival’s Board of
Directors as the contractor for the
first phase of the Blyth Festival’s
expansion program.
Tenders for the project were
opened Nov. 8 with the Board, at a
meeting Thursday, unanimously
accepting the contract for the lowest
of the five tenders received.
The first phase includes changes
to the Dinsley St. Garage and an
addition to the building that will
house carpentry, props, and cos
tumes shops and a paint shop.
Ground is expected to be broken for
this phase of the project before the
end of November now that funding
from the Federal Department of
Communications has been approv
ed.
When tenders were first invited,
11 companies expressed interest
although only five submissions were
received. “We are very impressed
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by the number and quality of bids
receivedfromtheregionbutwewent
with the lowest bid,” Don McCaf-
fery, the Board of Directors building
committee chairman said.
Work is also planned to renovate
the Festival’s.administration build
ing at the corner of Queen and
Dinsley and later still to link
Memorial Hall with the administra
tion building in the next two phases
of the project.
Hullett Central
School news
Two senior students Cheri Taylor
and Christy Scott are learning
secretary duties. They have been
taking over office duties at noon
hour, so regular secretary Ruth
Madill can enjoy her lunch break.
The girls have been enjoying their
secretary role.
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