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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1998. PAGE 19.
Blyth couple marks 50th
"Stage Door on the Net
announced the winners of the
second annual Stage Door Awards.
The 20 awards, also called the
Stage Door Johnnies, are made to
recognize excellence in live
professional theatre on the stages of
southwestern Ontario for the
1996/97 season for winter theatres,
and 1997 season for summer
festivals.
It appeared to be a Stratford
sweep this season, with 15 of the
20 awards going to productions on
that Festival's three stages
(compared to nine, last year). The
Shaw Festival took three awards
(compared to five last year), while
the Drayton Festival and Theatre
Aquarius each took one.
"There were several extremely
difficult choices this year," said
Roger Kershaw, who, along with
Jim Lingerfelt, created the Stage
Door Johnnies in 1995 in the
absence of any other regional
recognition. "However, some
productions clearly stood head and
shoulders above the competition,
marking some of the most brilliant
contributions in Ontario stage
history."
"While excellence is not a direct
result of budget," said Lingerfelt,
"it is clear from the winners that
having the financial resources to
cast the best talents on stage and in
technical assignment does have an
undeniable benefit. And there is no
doubt that some of the finest talents
on the continent are available to the
stages of Southwestern Ontario."
The Stratford Festival production
of Arthur Miller's Death of a
Salesman is selected Best Drama.
This production also earned a Best
Actress Award for Martha Henry,
who played Linda Loman, and Best
Supporting Actor for Geordie
Johnson as Biff. The Best Actor
Award is presented to Nicolas Van
Burek for his Stratford Festival
debut as Alan Strang in Equus and
the Best Supporting Actress Award
goes to the accomplished young
professional, Maggie Blake, who
delivered an unforgettable Mary
Tilford to audiences in the Shaw
Festival production of The
Children's Hour.
Selected as Best Comedy is the
Stratford production of
Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew, which also garnered a Best
Actor for Peter Donaldson, as
Petruchio. Also heading to
Stratford are the comedy awards
for Best Actress, to Lally Cadeau in
the title role of Eduardo De
Filippo's Filumena, and Best
Supporting Actor, to Brian Tree as
Joxer in Sean O'Casey's Juno and
the Paycock. The Shaw Festival
production of Vernon Sylvaine's
Will Any Gentleman? earned a Best
Supporting Actress Award for
Mary Haney as Beryl.
Selected for the Best Musical
Award was the Stratford Festival
production of Lerner and Loewe's
Camelot, which also picked up
awards for Best Actress for Cynthia
Dale as Guenevere and Best
Supporting Actor for Michael
Therriault as Mordred. Camelot's
two additional technical recogni-
tions made it the most awarded
production of the season. the
Drayton Festival and the Shaw
Festival shared the remaining two
musical awards, with the former's
production of Harman and
Herrmann's Romance/Romance
earning David Rogers the award for
Best Actor, and the latter's
production of Oscar The Chocolate
Soldier hosting the Best Supporting
Actress Award for Karen Wood.
The final category included
technical awards. Selected for the
Best Director Award from among
all qualifying productions in
Southwestern Ontario was Diana
Leblanc, for her direction of Death
of a Salesman at Stratford.
Desmond Heeley is this season's
only two-time winners, and both
awards, for Best Set and for Best
Costumes, were for his design of
Stratford's Camelot. Stratford's
final award is given to John Munro
The Tour of Champions featuring
some of Canada's fiddling legends
has opened an Ontario Tour and
will bring its country and fiddling
showcase to the Blyth Memorial
Hall on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 2 p.m.
The show will star three
Canadian champions, who achieved
that distinction by winning the
Canadian Open Fiddling Contest in
Shelburne. They are Victor
Pasowisty, 1955 champion, Rudy
Meeks, four time winner at
Shelburne and Ed Gyurki who won
the Canadian Championship a
record seven times. Also featured
on stage will be renowned country
singer, Lance Russworm, Ron
Coulthard on the banjo, Molly
Whiteduck, the Princess of Song,
Mike Slauenwhite, fiddler
extraordinaire and Lynn
Russworm's Barn Dance Band.
"Many of the great names on the
championship list are no longer
here such as Lavigne, Mooring,
Allen, Marlin and Cherry," says
Willis McNeilly of Orangeville, the
tour's designer and producer. "It is
time that some of these remaining
legends are given the opportunity
to stand under the spotlight an.d
again hear the thunderous applause
that rocked the Shelburne arena on
those great nights."
"The old guys have not lost their
touch and the audience is in for the
fiddling show of their lives," he -
added.
for his lighting design in
Shakespeare's Richard III. Selected
from all new plays premiering in
the region this season for the award
of the Best New Play, is Canadian
playwright Norm Foster's Jupiter in
July, which was directed by
Christopher McHarge at Theatre
Aquarius.
All new, live professional stage
presentations running at least two
weeks on any of the stages of
Southwestern Ontario outside of
Toronto are eligible for the Stage
Door Awards. Nominations are
made from among the 50
productions in the region that arc
reviewed by the staff of Stage
Door, a non-profit Internet Website
resource representing all theatres in
SouthKestern Ontario and selected
Toronto theatres, located at
http://www.stage-door.org.
Tickets are $10 each on a general
admission basis and are available at
Blyth Decor Shop, Ernie King's
Music in Wingham and Goderich,
the Dixie Lee outlet in Clinton and
Blyth Festival Box Office.
Orchestra
London
heats up
The musical season of 1998 is
underway for Orchestra London as
they kick off the year with a week-
end of The Pops.
On Jan. 10 and 11, The Pops,
under the leadership of Conductor
Brian Jackson, will present Too
Darn Hot, with entertainer Michael
Hope.
The Saturday performance will
begin at 8 p.m. with the Sunday
afternoon show at 2:30 p.m.
Jeans and Classics performance
of Neck & Neck will come to Cen-
tennial Hall, Friday, Jan 16, at 8
p.m. The show will feature Peter
Brennan and friends.
For more information or to pur-
chase tickets, contact Orchestra
London at 519-679-8778.
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Wobbe and Peitje (Venema)
Bylsma of RR 1, Blyth, celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary
Dec. 23.
Married in Marum, The Nether-
lands, the couple immigrated to
Canada in 1948.
Mr. Bylsma worked as a carpen-
ter until 1955 when they located the
farm of their choice on the 13th of
Hullett Twp. Mrs. Bylsma helped
with the farm work while raising
seven children.
Their familiy is Theresa and Jim
Brand, Auke and Chris Bylsma.
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Wibbina and Gerald Toonk, John
and Ruby Bylsma, Anne and Terry
Kaastra, Cory and John Kuipers
and Pat and David Brodie. There
are 32 grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
After their retirement from farm-
ing in 1982, the couple has kept
busy with their yards, flowers and
woodworking as well as their mem-
bership at Clinton Christian
Reformed Church.
They currently reside on Allboro
Line in Hullett Twp.
E ntertainment
Stratford Festival cleans up
at 2nd Stage Door Awards
Fiddling champs tour