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The Huron Expositor, 1994-07-20, Page 13Entertainment Pirates hit, miss in Festival show BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Staff All hands on stage. The fun -lov- ing Pirates of Penzance are afloat at Stratford's Festival Theatre this season. In a modern adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's singing sailor story, film producer Max Meisner brings together a touring British theatre company and a masochistic German film director, Heinrich Von Schtompinc, to create a musical movie version of Pirates of Penzance. This cinematic framework sets the production sailing and allows for a few more laughs and special effects to be incorporated into the original musical. The story is of Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to a pirate king and his crew as a child by his nursemaid, Ruth. Now that he's 21 Frederic is about to be set free into the real world but makes it his duty to come back and destroy his for- mer shipmates. The older Ruth has fallen in love with the handsome Frederic (Robert Yeretch). He has, however, become enraptured by the lovely Mabel (Aggie Cekuta Elliot), one of Major-General Stanley's many daughters. Elliot's voice is hypnot- izing, even when doing comedy numbers her pitch is flawless. Yeretch plays a convincingly naive and bashfully comedic Frederic. Like the motion of a ship on the high seas this production has its high moments and low moments. Its up and down pace can lull you almost asleep...Until the arrival of characters like Major-General Stan- ley (Douglas Chamberlain) and movie director Heinrich Von Schtompinc (Tom Wood) who blast on to the stage like a pair of crash- ing cymbals. Both of these flam- boyant characters add some spark to an elaborate production that some- times sinks with drawn-out songs or worn-out jokes The Keystone Cops • slapstick scene loses its effectiveness after Blyth announces new play fund On the opening night of the 20th Anniversary Season the Blyth Festival announced the establishrhi;ht •of The Roulston-ou Roy Play Development Fund. The fund will be specifically directed towards the creation and development of new scripts by Canadian writers with a particu- lar view towards possible pro- duction on the Blyth stage. The Roulston Roy Play Devel- opment Fund is being inaugur- ated in the 20th Anniversary Season to recognize and honour James Roy, Keith Roulston and Anne Roy, the Founders of the Festival. Me mandate for new play development at Blyth began with the first season, in 1975, when James and Keith chose to take the considerable risk of presenting a new Canadian play Mostly in Clover, based on the work of Huron County native Harry J.S. Bolye. Over the ensu- ing two decades over 65 new Canadian works have premiered on the stage of Blyth Memorial Community Hall. The establish- ment of this fund will enable the Festival to pursue its truly unique mandate of developing and presenting our own stories on stage well into the future. Anyone interested in contribut- ing to The Roulston Roy Play Development Fund may do so by contacting Lynda Lentz, Devel- opment Co-ordinator, Blyth Festival, P.O. Box 10, Blyth, Ontario NOM 1 HO (519)523- 4345. Receipts for tax credit will be issued. Thursday SPOILED ROTTEN LADIES NIGHT Friday Fabulous ('over Act! GLIDER 52.00 at the door Saturday OPEN TIL 9 P.M. Next Saturday ACES WILD (r)1(,I,,., r.,ru 3171turnn.ct. inM,. e1 t I nTm 482.1234 PIRATE PEER PRESSURE - The Pirate King (CoIm Feore), right, tells Frederic (Robert Yeretch), left, it's his duty to rejoin the pirates after it's discovered Frederic was born on Feb. 29 of a leap year and is actually five and a half years old instead of 21. (photo by Cylla Von Tiedemann, courtesy Stratford Festival). the 27th time someone is hit over the head with a billy -club. Colm Feore is the funny and fearless Pirate King. As in his lead role in Cyrano de Ber$erac Feore plays a physicall•i demanding part that has him leapng, lunging, roll- ing and dancing across the stage. Particularly funny is the sexy tango - like dance number he performs with the seemingly quiet, book -worm daughter of the Major-General. The pirates attempt to carry off the many daughters of the monocle - wearing Major-General but the mass marriage ceremony is averted by the pleas of the girls' father who untruthfully claims he is an orphan - who can't be harmed under the pirates' code of honour. Frederic finds out he must return to the pirate ship after it's revealed he was born on February 29 of a leap year and is only five and a quarter years old instead of 21. The pirates find out through Frederic of the Major-Gen(•ral's lie and raid his residence wh..re they clash with the local police who look like they belong in a Chaplin film. As in all happy musicals there is a happy ending when it is dis- covered that there is a royal, blue - blood connection with the pirates and they aren't such bad guys after all. So the Major-General gains many sons-in-law and the movie version of Pirates is complete. But not without a few parting jokes from the fanatical Heinrich Von Schtompinc. 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