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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1993-10-06, Page 27Everyone sing-a-long Jim Parker entertained local children Oct. 2 at Memorial Hall with music, songs, magic and a puppet. "Though the audience was small, they all really enjoyed the show and participating in the performance," says Festival General Manager Ray Salverda. E ntertainment Musicians play variety of music 25th Wedding Anniversary Adam & Kae Smith Everyone is welcome to the Brussels Legion October 16, 1993 from 9 - 1 to help us celebrate their anniversary. Best Wishes Only ONTARIO JUNIOR CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS We're looking for the "good kids" of Ontario Contact this community newspaper for details. Deadline for nominations is October 31st, 1993. Forthcoming Marriage Jacobus and Rita Verburg and Garth and Dianne Walden Are pleased to announce the forthcoming marriage of their children Maria and Tim The wedding will take place October 16, 1993. 50th Wedding Anniversary The family of Lawson and Muriel Ward wish to Invite family, friends and neigh- bours to their parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary Open House on Saturday Oct. 16th, 1993 from 2 - 5 p.m. at the Listowel Kin Station. Your presence will be a treasured gift. Happy 30th Daddy October 9 Love, Trevor, Lacey & Kristen ,attic n the Original Letter from vit F arm by Dan Needles \)1.\•i A 44 BlYI II I I SIIVAI Thursday 14 October 1993 8:30 p.m. Blyth Memorial Hall Tickets $25.00 Tickets Available from: Blyth Festival Box Office 523-9300 Campbell's Photography, Goderich 524-7532 Crossroads Gift, Clinton 482-5855 Bluewater Office Equipment, Wingham 357-1554 Bob & Betty's, Seaforth 527-1680 A Blyth Festival Fond Raising Event JAMAICAN BOBSLEDDERS? A Comedy Inspired by the First Jamaican Bobsled Team FRI. - THUR. OCT. 08-14 FRI. & SAT. 7 & 9 pm SUN. - THUR. 8 pm LONG DISTANCE? CALL 1-800-265-3438 FOR TOLL FREE MOVIE INFO 0.P Eft] 'a C., 9-fappy 50th Wedding Anniversary Ralph & Gladys Caldwell 1943 1993 t E : 5on In honour of our parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary, the family of Ralph & Gladys Caldwell invites you to an Open House October 17, 1993 at the Blyth United Church from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Let your presence be your gift P al:1 THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1993. PAGE 27. Grand announces cast for new season Continued from page 26 Kimberley Schedler and Craig Fair. Every type of music was represented from classical to jazz, folk to current musical hits. Seventeen ensemble numbers used one and two pianos for the duets and quartettes. Some numbers used synthesized sound through the Roland digital piano. Ms Henry announced as well that More Munsch! will replace the Theatre For Young Audiences presentation of Murmel, Murmel, Mortimer Munsch originally scheduled to take place in the McManus from Dec. 14 through Jan. 8, 1994. Under the collective title More Munsch!, five more beloved Robert Munsch stories, adapted for the stage by Kim McCaw, will be brought to life in the McManus. Featured stories include "Show and Tell", "Purple, Green and Yellow", "The Fire Station", "Jonathan Cleaned Up — Then He Heard a Sound (or Blackberry Subway Jam)" and "Something Good". Mary Lisle and Lesley Pike performed a vocal duet while accompanying themselves on piano and guitar, and the Bokhout girls: Rachel, Jessica, Stephanie and Sara Louise played a piano quartette with their new brothers John and Colin on rhythm instruments. Then their father Maarten joined the girls to play in a "string quintet". More Munsch! is recommended for children between the ages of four and nine years. Tickets are $7 each. Eiggdjt°17*, Bell Grand Theatre's Artistic Director Martha Henry announced Sept. 29, casting for the first two productions of The Grand Theatre's 1993-94 season set to open Oct. 29. The season opener, A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, will feature a different couple for each of the four weeks of the run. William Hutt, a former artistic director of the Grand Theatre (75-79), will star as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III in the first week (Oct. 26-30) opposite Patricia Collins in the role of Melissa Gardner. Both Mr. Hutt and Miss Collins starred in last season's productions of Gurney's The Dining Room and Timothy Findley's The Stillborn Lover. Mr. Hutt also starred as Scrooge in Mayor Moore's musical version of Christmas Carol last season and will returning the same role following Love Letters. During week two (Nov. 1 to 6), Stratford actors James Blendick and his wife, Mary Hitch Blendick will take to the boards at The Grand. Mr. Blendick's last Grand Stage role was that of Soviet arms negotiator Andry Botvinnik in A Walk In the Woods in January 1992. This production marks Ms Hitch Blendick's Grand debut. Week three (Nov. 8 through 13) will feature another Stratford Festival couple, Goldie Semple and Lorne Kennedy, both of whom have performed on The Grand Stage. Ms Semple appeared in Top Girls and The Man Who Came To Dinner; Mr. Kennedy in The Man Happy 85th Birthday Grandma Hallahan Who Came To Dinner. Casting for the week four couple will be announced shortly. Returning with Mr. Hutt in Mayor Moore's musical adaptation of a Christmas Carol will be Peter Hutt, Brigitte Robinson, Jan Alexander Smith, Ellen Horst, Eric Woolfe and Aidan de Salaiz in the role of Tiny Tim. A Christmas Carol also marks the return of former artistic director Bernard Hopkins to The Grand Stage. Rounding out the cast will be Paul McQuillan who will be performing at The Grand for the first time. `More Munsch' comes to McManus Theatre