HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-04-08, Page 27THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1987. PAGE 27.
Entertainment Blyth Church wins award
Pomp Boys and Dinettes, a lively musical abont two ririer* who ran a dtaer in the southern U.S. and their
neighbours, four boys who run agarage had toes tapping at Memorial Hall Sunday. It also showed just how
well the Blyth Festival’s own musical productions stack up against competition.
The Sunday School at the Church
of God, McConnell Street, has
been recognized for significant
growth in attendance this past
year.
Recently the Sunday School
received the Sunday School
Growth Award from the national
offices of the Church of God in
Anderson, Indiana. This Sunday
School is one of 400 schools which
have been recognized for achiev
ing a growth pattern of 10 per cent
or more during the past 12 months.
The Blyth Sunday School rate of
increase was 100 per cent. The
award is part of a national 10-year
program aimed at strengthening
theimpactofthe Sunday School
upon church and community life.
When asked to whom or to what
the credit went for such an
increase, the Blyth congregation
all agreed it was God at work in
human affairs, people praying,
and responding to God’s leading.
“It was all God’s doing,’’ they
said.
Pastors Bob and Cecile Barn
hart, and Superintendent John
Steckle extend a warm and friendly
welcome to children and adults
alike to meet with them on Sunday
mornings at 10 o’clock, at the
Church of God Sunday School.
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Theatre review
Import proves Festival's strength
Phone 357-1630 for 24 hour movie information
Winnerof Four Academy Awards Including Best Picture
Playing from Friday to Thursday, April 10to16
Showtimes: Friday and Saturday at 7:00and 9:15 p.m.
Sunday to Thursday one show each evening at 8:00 p.m.
BY KEITH ROULSTON
One of the things that the touring
productions the Blyth Festival
brings to Blyth Memorial Hall
spring and fall do, besides provid
ing entertainment in the off-sea
son, is to provide us a scale to show
just how good the Festival’s own
productions are.
“Pump Boys and Dinettes’’
performed to a packed house at
Memorial Hallon Sunday after
noon, provides proof of the quality
of the Festival’s summer fare. The
show originated in New York, and
this production owes its life to the
Charlottetown Festival and The
Variety Theatre in Toronto and
there are certainly many good
things to be said for it.
The performances were excel
lent from a talented and likeable
cast. With Robert Mciag as a Tom
Selleck-look-alike as Jim and Jodie
Riesen and Janet MacEwan as the
Cupp sisters there was plenty of
wholesome sex appeal to either
gender. The music was toe-tapp
ing and well performed, (although
as is so often the case when touring
groups visit the intimate Memorial
Hall it was so over-amplified it
drove some senior citizens from
their seats and made it hard to hear
the words of the songs).
The show brings a string of rave
reviews, and awards with it. The
production won four Dora Awards
including best production in Tor
onto. It was nominated for a Tony,
New York’s top theatre award.
And yet... for this one viewer
anyway, thoughts kept coming
back while listening to the country
and western music to the Festival’s
own production of the Ted Johns/
John Roby collaboration of “Coun
try Hearts’’. The comparisons
were not complimentary to Pump
Boys and Dinettes.
Expectations may have played
partofthe problem. Pump Boys
and Dinettes is supposed to be a
piece of theatre but it’s really little
more than concert with an elabor
ate theatrical set. The 21 lively
musical numbers are strung to
gether with a bit of patter to try to
give them an excuse to be there.
There’s no chance to see the
characters develop, no chance to
get involved in their lives and care
about them as in a musical like
Country Hearts. It seems like a
throwback to the musicals of the
1920’s and ‘30’s when producers
brought good songs from various
composers and created a show
around them.
It’s not to say the audience didn’t
have a good time because most
people seemed to enjoy the lively
production. It’s just a little like
eating candy floss in comparison to
a superb full-course meal. It’s
enough to really have one looking
forward to another season of the
Festival and more John Roby
music in “The Girls in the Gang.”
for Earl & Marg Caldwell
fortheir
50th Anniversary
Saturday, April 11
2-4p.m.&7-9p.m.
at their home on Queen Street
Blyth
Best Wishes Only
THURS., FRI., SAT
5P.M.-12A.M.
Blyth Inn
EAT IN OR TAKE OUT
523-9381
Brussels Homecoming
Fashion Show
Thursday, April 23rd at 7:30 p.m.
BMG Community Centre
$5.00 (Advance sales only)
DOORPRIZES LUNCHPROVIDED
SPONSORS-BRUSSELSFIGURESKATING CLUB
Tickets nowon sale at: Brussels 5-$1.00 Store, Ken’s Men’s
& Boys’ Wear, SomeThingSpecial, Todd’s Bakery, Young’s
Clothing & Footwear.
Also - Helen Craig, Sharon Dobson, Karen Hastings, Judy
Hahn, Mary Lowe, Pat Mathers, Barb Mutter, Bonnie
Pennington and Debbie Seili.
“ ’PLATOON' IS A GREAT MOVIE."
— SISK EL 8 EBERT 8 THE MOVIES
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The first casualty of war is innocence.
DINNER
AUCTION
and
OLD FASHIONED
JAMBOREE
Date: Saturday, April 25th/87
Time: 5:00 p.m. (Social Hour)
6:00 p.m. (Dinner)
Followed by: Auction
Featuring Novelty, Practical
and Antique Items
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OLD FASHIONED JAMBOREE
Featuring: Wayne McClinchey,
Ken Scott and Others
TICKETS - $20.00
Contact: Mildred Ament, 523-4230
or any Ladies Auxiliary Member
Proceeds to the Blyth Community Centre Lift Fund
Sponsored by Branch 420Ladies Auxiliary
Items forthe Auction can be donated to
Kay Hesselwood, 523-9623
Auctioneer: BURT LOBB
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