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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1993-02-10, Page 23Pizza, Pizza, Pizza Buy one at regular price and get a second for 1/2 price Eat in or Take Out Thursday, Friday & Saturday Only 5 p.m. -12 midnight at the Blyth Inn 523-9381 Is it Cannonball or is it Scooter? Happy Birthday - 4:111/.: .411,--- • PARK THEATRE • .-41.--:inc ---,....1441111?-" Jai% GOBERIC1 524-7111 HELD OVER l I 2ND WEEK ITLIE5°A' TOM JACK CRUISE NICHOLSON DEMI MOORE- A FEW GOOD MEN KE\I \ BKO \ KIEFER SlITHERL KE\ I\ POLL aR Fri.-Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 7 & 9:15 PM Feb. 12-18 Sun.-Thur. 8 PM PARENTAL tyjpANCE LONG DISTANCE? CALL 1-800-265-3438 FOR TOLL FREE MOVIE INFO 0 Blyth community play gets public reading, February 17 E ntertainment Johnny Bond to perform at Huron County Playhouse THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993. PAGE 23. By Bonnie Gropp For the curious or the interested the wait is over. On Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Bainton Art Gallery, the Blyth Community Play will be unveiled through a public reading. Playwright Dale Hamilton says, "By going to the reading the public can get not just a sneak preview but have an opportunity for input." The play's first draft was completed by Jan. 25, but Ms Hamilton says it is "not written in stone". Following the reading, there will be a discus- sion during which the public is invited to voice their views or add ideas which may be incorporated into the play. Taking part in the reading are: John Rutledge, Project Co-ordina- tors Fran Cook and Karen Stewart, Steering Committee Secretary Janet Baillie, Artistic Director Peter Smith, Director Jon Oram and Ms Hamilton. Also taking part will be composer Michael Taylor and designer Ruth Howard. The play is a chronological jour- ney through time from the Ice Age to the present, part drama, part comedy, part musical. "There are of course some serious moments because there are serious moments in life. There will be lots of light moments and quite a bit of music encouraging entire families to come and dancing," promises Ms Harrill- out to auditions. "It is a beneficial ton. opportunity for families to do something together." The title selected for the play, which will preview June 7 with the opening June 8 is Many Hands. "Many Hands appeared on both Jon's list of potential titles and my own, without any consultation. I took that as a good sign," said Ms Hamilton, adding it was also the first choice of Ms Howard because it lends itself to design ideas. "To me 'hands' relate to fanning, working, applauding, loving, wel- coming and rejecting. Many Hands means working together to accom- plish a common goal, which describes not only a main thread throughout the script, but also the goal of the play project itself. It takes many hands working together to create a community play and to build a healthy community," said Ms Hamilton. Johnny Bond needs no introduction. As part of the Big Band era of the '40s and '50s he played under many masters, as well is fronting his own band. "Jazz is reating and improving — something you do yourself" says Bond. "It's an emotional experience, getting right into the swing. It's happy music." And Johnny Bond will be bringing this happy music to Huron Country Playhouse for the third year in r, row. In 1991, together with Clarence Brodhagen, Bond introduced a Sunday afternoon jazz series at Huron Country Playhouse called All That Jazz and it took off. Repeated in 1992 one of the highlights was The Festival By The Bay Orchestra conducted by Bond and made up of about 20 fine musicians from across Southwestern Ontario including London, Stratford, Sarnia and HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY LAWRENCE Februar 9 Toronto. The members of the orchestra love to play slow ballads that feature many soloists plus special swinging up-tempo numbers that generate great energy. In 1993 All That Jazz Concert Series at Huron Country Playhouse runs every other Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. beginning June 27. Featured this year will be The John Noubarian Trio, The Phil Murphy Jazz Quartet, The Kenny Crone Jazz Group and Johnny Bond and The Festival By The Bay Orchestra featuring vocalist Denise Pelley. Tickets for concerts one - four in Playhouse II will be $6 each. Concert five, The Festival By The Bay Orchestra on the Main Stage will be $10 each. Series subscriptions are $28. Tickets car be ordered after May 3 by calling the Box Office at (519) 238-6000. Some of the colourful local play- ers individuals will meet during the script reading will be clairvoyant Maggie Pollack, local vet Doc Per- due and his dancing bear, Bruno, John Young, the Sage women and their musical glasses and Billy Thuel, the man largely responsible for electricity coming to the area. Ms Hamilton says there is also a"locomotive of local heroes", such as Tiger Dunlop, Blyth's first reeve Patrick Kelly, the Earl of Londes- borough, Henry D. Blyth and George Reid. The stories promise to be as rich in local history as the characters. One of the last scenes of the play, will be in the ghost village of Sun- shine. Casting will begin immediately "on the heels" of the reading says Ms Hamilton. Interested people are asked to call the office at 523-4830 for an audition appointment. "One of the first things people will be given at the audition is an availability form to establish how much time they can give to rehearsals," said Ms Hamilton. "This will determine in a large way what part or parts they will play." Ms Hamilton says they are A theatrical masterpiece to be presented at the Grand A milestone of the contemporary theatre, Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten previews at The Grand, London Feb. 16. 17 and 18, opens Friday, Feb. 19, 1993 at 8 p.m. and continues until March 13. Written by the only playwright ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times, this classic masterpiece is set in the 1920s, on a barren Connecticut farm adjacent to the estate of wealthy oil tycoon T. Stedman Harder (Hardee T. Lineham). Mike Hogan (Andy Jones) escapes from the farm with the help of his sister Josie (Mary Walsh), an earth-mother figure who hides behind a wanton reputation. Josie and her conniving father Phil (Roland Hewgill), an Irish trickster as rough as his rocky Connecticut homestead, are left to wrestle with the tortured soul of James (Colm Feore), the womanizing landowner who views life through the bottom of a whisky bottle. The production stars an illustrious cast including Stratford Festival leading man, Colm Feore in his first Grand appearance. Joining him are two Newfoundland-based actors making their Grand Theatre debuts: CODCO veteran Mary Walsh and Cupid's Ball Saturday 13 February 1993 Blyth Memorial Community Hall Dancing 9 - 1 to Cripple Duck Tickets $10 each - Hot Buffet Included Age of Majority Only four-time Gemini Award-winning writer and actor Andy Jones. Hardee T. Lineham, last season's Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, will portray the wealthy landowner, T. Stedman Harder and Roland Hewgill returns to The Grand as Phil Hogan, the role that garnered him a Dora Award from the Tarragon Theatre production in Toronto. Mr. Hewgill last appeared at The Grand in the 1989 production of Blood Relations. Artistic director Martha Henry directs this celebrated cast with the set designed by Grand newcomer Ange Zhang whose recent design credits include Toronto's Canadian Art Group, the Blyth Festival and the Banff Centre Music Theatre. Costumes are designed by Christine Plunkett who designed the McManus presentations of Birthdays, Snowsuits and Giants and Liars, with lighting designed by John Munro whose previous Grand productions include A Christmas Carol, The Dining Room and A Walk In The Woods. A Moon For The Misbegotten, O'Neills' compassionate memorial to his older brother, has been lauded as one of the greatest plays in American dramatic literature. 92ND BIRTHDAY PARTY The family of ALICE PROCTER invites friends to a 92nd Birthday Party at the Women's Institute Hall, Belgrave on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Best Wishes Only Please! Happy Birthday Scooter (Cannonball) 0 c. FREE DRAW for a painting currently displayed in the front window of Snyder Studio, Wingham Everyone who visits the exhibit has an opportunity to win! ... ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT sponsored by the Friends of the Wingham Library opens Tuesday evening February 16, 1993 7:00 p.m. and runs until March 6 during regular library hours Exhibit features area artists and includes a special display by senior students of F.E. Madill art class P LOPED r_P a