The Huron Expositor, 1978-07-06, Page 10BL.
SUMNIER
AL,
SEASON
OPENING'
July 7
- '8:30 p.m.
"HURON TIGER"
BY
Peter Colley
Turkey Dinner 6:30
Square. Dancing
after show
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their vehicles away from the main ,
street, to avoid last summer's
parking problems. •
' Mem bersof council agreed that
the market had proved a drawing
card last year, bringing more
visitors into the basines's district
of the village.
HURON HOTEL
HWY. a DUBLIN
THIS WEEK
Thurs, Fri., Sat.
and Saturday Matinee
Tom Destry
and the
Wild West Show
THANK YOU
Thank you ,to all our patrons and friends.
We enjoyed our eight months operating "The
Kitchen" at the Huron Hotel Dublin.
Phyllis and Lamont
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Are still available at:
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krsimp's Shack Bar
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"Candleshoe- AND "Derby O'Gill
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Sereridipicy
OveroSirnonized
Duffy as Unger is suitably neurotic, petulant, forlorn and
certainly fussy - all the things we've come to expect the character
lobe. His bits of business on the stage, when he's pacing around
the room, fussing around the men trying to play Poker or just--
sitting dejectedly pondering his ruined London broil, disylay the
comic mastery we've come to expect from puffy over the years.
Carlson's role as the loud and boisterous Oscar sometimes
seemed too enthusiastic but for the most part he's convincing as
the cigar chomping slob who's idea- of a fun loth anniversary
party is to take his wife to a New York Rangers hockey game.
But the treat of the evening comes in the second act• of the play
when the two bachelors decide to liven up their existence by
inviting two English sisters, called the Pigeons., down to dinner. -
Garish
Ann de. Villiers and Marion Gilsenan, the bird-brained Gwen
arid Cecily, dressed in oh-so-tight garish coloured mini dresses
and terrible costume jewellery, are a convincing pair of
comediennes from their first peak' arand the door .to their
attempts to sit down in the tight skirts and their tears when they
join Felix in crying over spilt ex-mates.
The Pigeon sisters provide some of Simon's cleverest disalogue
in the play.
When the girls compliment Oscar on his tidy apartment, he
says snappily, "Yes, I have a man who comes in every night."
One of the Pigeons answers wistfully, "Aren't you the lucky
one." .
Or then there's the famous response to Felix Unger's
explanation that he writes the news for 'CBS.
"Oh," coos one of the Pigeons, "where do you-get the ideas?"
Duffy's attempt to be the suave host, which ends in, disaster,
and the sisters cut little wigglings on stage gave the audience
some of its best entertainment of the evening.
Predictable
Although the outline of The Odd Couple is predictable, the play
certainly hasn't lost any of its bite in the years since it's first
production. The situation or-two- men- trying to set'- up -
housekeeping and eventually facing 'the same trials and
tribulations of marriage is as funny as the day it was written.
While the play may not leave us with any profound insights on
contemporary life, it does entertain in style. Artistic director
• James Murphy hasn't erred in 'opening this year's season with a
production which can't help but draw audiences. If the play
doesn't sparkle quite as much as we expect, it might be partly
because we've just been over-Simonized in the past.
The Odd Couple continues until July 15: The next production at
the Huron COuntry Playhouse this summer is Parlor, Bedroom
and. Bath, a 1920's Broadway hit.
The show was written by Charles Bell, a Hamilton lawyer and it
concerns the problems of a man who tries to live up to his wife's .
image of him as a ,ladies' man.
This play, which became a movie starring Buster Ketton,
hasn't been produced on stage for over 40 years.
The Grand Bend production will star CFPL weather girl Judy
Savoy as • the gossip columnist, New York actor Rex Stallings, -
formerly of Oh Calcutta! fame as the husband and Ann de Villiers
as the wife who likes to think her husband a casanova.
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath opens July 18 and runs for only one
week.
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By Alice GO)
Simon, the American playwright who has made a career
of making us laugh at the pitfalls of modern life, is at his best in
The Odd Couple.
The Odd Couple, now considered vintage 'Simon, has been a
smash Broadway hit, a very successful movie with Walter
Matthau and ,lack Lemon and finally, a long running TV series
starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall.
The past success of The Odd Couple may be one problem the ,
Huron Coutiry PlaYhouSe faced in staging the comedy-So many,
people have already seen the play in one form or another that
they can't help bringing past responses to the Grand Bend
production. .
The Playhouse, which has a policy of presenting light Mit
entertaining classics, this season is featuring a tribute, to the six
decades from the 1920's to the 70's so it's not surprising Simon's
Odd Couple turned up.
The Grand Bend production stars two familar Canadian faces.
Jack Duffy, who started as a singer with the Tommy Dorsey
orchestra and appears regularly on Party Games and The Wayne
and Shuster Show and Les Carlson, who won an Actra award
recently for his supporting role in the CBC prodUction Raku Fire
and starred the movie. Who Has Seen The Wind.
13 Years Old
For anyone who managed to escape contact. with The Odd
Connie, now 13 years old, it's basically the story of two divorced
men iniNew .York whodecide to combat the perils of living alone
'by sharing an eight room apartment.
Although the two men have been poker playing buddies for
years,-they're as different as day and night. Oscar MadiSon is a
Sloppy, easy going sports writer who keeps 'his apartment
looking something akin to a pigsty.' Felix Unger, the husband
who's tossed out by his wife at the beginning of ‘he play, is a
fussy, neat, overly domestic fellow who's idea of an exciting
evening_ is waxing the kitchen floor and spraying Lysol through
every room in the; place-.
The play's first act was the one .which provided the most
probleins in the Grand Bend production. Madison and hiS four
friends are• sitting around a table at their weekly Friday night
-poker-session. Same of tholiw_i have become Simon classics.
When Madison serves up sandwiches filled with a pecUliar
greenish centre he explains-"it's either very new cheese or very
old meat."
Later, after his wife has called to remind him he's several
alimony pap:I-tents behind and his friends are suggesting maybe
he consider re-marrying, he moans, "How can I afford a wife
when. I can't even afford a broom?"
Unfortunately, the staging of the first act, with the backs of the
playerS to the 'audience, means , many of Simon's funniest
observations arc lost somewhere on stage. The punch one has
come to expect from Sinion just isn't evident and some of the
actors, including David Douglas as the accountant Ron and Stan
Lacey as Vinnic, need lb bc, a little more assertive.
It's only when the distraught linger, played by Jack Duffy,
arrives on the scene that the act picks up. What can you say
about a man who sends his
wife a suicide telegram, knowing she'll have to tip the delivery
boy a quarter.
Flea market to
be. in Bayfield
The town of Bayfield is going to
host •ti flea market again • this
summer on Saturdays in July and .
.August:
The market. will be located on a
lot Southpf the Woollen shop on ,
the.- villages 'main street. .
This' year, vendor's will be
charged a'525 fee to participate in
the market and asked to 'park .•
EVERYONE WELCOME
TO THE SEVENTH ANNUAL
FIDDLERS'
and Step -Dancers'.
JAMBOREE
JULY 9,1978
MITCHELL COMMUNITY ARENA
Starting Time 1:30 p.m. to 10:30 P.m.
ALL DONATIONS ACCEPTED FOR THE ONTARIO
ASSOCIATION FOR MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
Receipts for all donatiOns SSA smd over an request
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a Seaforth r"
THIS WEEK
ThUrs.; Fri. & Sat.
Ian Weir
Next Week
Thurs., Fri. & Sat.
Rollin' Smoke
Daily Lunch
Hour
Specials
,OPEN :-11.01./SE,-1364 Stanley McDonald,, minister of the United Church In;
Londesboro held an open house on 'Wednesday at the manse which was built 100
years ago. ,Helping to serve tea to the guests ,were:, on the left Olive KnIsley whose
husband Is chairman of the . Presbytery and• Doris Zurbrigg'Of Listowel, president of
the Huron-Perth Presbyterial.' (Standard Photo)
2nd
mortgages
at competitive
rates.
St
mortgages
from •
as lovv as
930.
at Pool during the week or come -
on$ .Saturday morn ing, says
'Eugene Todd of the pool staff.
Synchronized swimming will
run twice weekly as soon as
there is enough to start classes.
The swim team starts offieialfy
'Thursday, July 6th at 4:34.m. at
'the pool. Anyone interested call
the pool or just come'to the pool
On Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
' A reminder - Registration for
.....4„.‘,1alaj.trAbe second sessibn of '.swimming
' Jes.sOns „is • Saturday....luly. 22nd.,,, •
he fourth 'Summer"COtieerfwill ThrS-yearl'' Come an d bring your Mr. Todd says.
be given July 9 by. the Kiwanis summer guests to Victoriayark at
Youth Band of Stratford. This • 7 p.m. These youthful musicians
young, band of 40 musicians are are under the direction of Messrs.
making a name for theMselves Manning and Irvine. r•-.
49 and 46 points respectively.
Other riders contesting the
$2,500.00 purse include Dave Taff
and Joe Bardoel of London, Brian
Holloway Woodstockand
A Bronze Medallion Course is Bigelow of Rochester, Michigan. Wayne Ryerson of Clinton.
-to starf at Seaforth Lions Pool BigeloW leads the pack with 50 Some 200 of the best riders in
Saturday, July 8th at 11:00 a.m. points following closebly by Leo Ontario and neighboring states
cost is •315.00 which includes Wilson of Delevan, New York an will blast off at Noon.
and Alan Logue of Hamilton with manual and exam fee. "Register
ronze
course
July 8
ENTERTAIN VETS — Seaforth Branch 156 Royal, Canadian Legion•entertained first
war veterans and wives to dinner on Wednesday of last week.' Taking part were
(left) Lorne Dennis, Dave Netzke, Dr. Chas. Toll, Andrew HOuston, Joe.White,
Wilson Allan, Harry Penn and Geo. Flewitt. Other first war veterans in the branch
absent when the-picture was taken were_ E,C.-C, Paul-Doig,, Secord-MeBrien-, -
Wallace Archibald and Art Nicholson. (Expositor Photo)
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The Ontario motocross
Championships are coming to
Hully Gully this, Sunday, July 9th.
Heading the list of Pros entered
for, this Sunday's event is Kirk
ampions up coming • •• •
VICTORIA
and GREY
TRUST- "
The families of
Mr. & Mis. Theo
Van Bakel
ond
Mr.&Mrs.Herman
Van Bake!
wish to invite friends,
neighbours and relatives to
their parents
25TH WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY
Friday,
July 7th
Mitchell Community Centre
9 o'clock
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