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Times-Advocate, 1980-06-04, Page 18PIANO DUET — George and Gordon Cleland, 14 year old twins from London, play a piano duet as part of the auditioning for roles at Huron Country Playhouse.Staff photo FLOWERS AND BEES -Patty Love with a flower project and Heather LoVe on bees were winners in the recent Science Fair at Stephen Central School T-A photo Playhouse subscriptions now at an allmme high The Biggest Country Music Extravaganza.. MOHAWK JAMBOREE An Outdoor Family Concert Featuring Roy Clark plus 17 other artists June 28, 29th Tickets at Exeter Electric or Country Musk Promotions 433-9225 Fitness., It gives much more than it takes. PaffliCIPX710/1 8 HARWOOD DRUGS Ltd. 238-8540 Beside Post Office 22, 81 CRESCENT GRAND BEND, ONT. A FINE SELECTION ) OF GIFTS including handcrafted articles from Quebec. Children's workshop Huron Country PlayhouSe is sponsoring a special Children's Workshop in creative dramatics for youngsters between the, ages of nine and twelve imlusive (a few especially interested younger and. older children will be accepted,) The program will be conducted by ^memkers of the Playhouse youth coin- pang: The Young Players, and will be supervised by a fully trained professional. children's theatre director. This creative learning ex- perience will consist of theatrical exercises and improvisations, as well as rehearsals leading toward a single Saturday per- formance of a play. This presentation will be per- formed by the young par- ticipants on July 19, for friends and family, many of whom will be seeing the youngsters on stage for the first time. The two-week workshop gets underway July 7 and runs Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4;00 p.m. Cost for the entire program is $10.00. To ensure a successful and beneficial session, enrollment must be limited to 50 children. Those in- terested may obtain registration information by writing to: Children's Workshop, c. o Albert Brule Huron Country Playhouse Grand Bend, Ontario NOM 1TO Huron CoAty Family Planning Project Invites You' To Attend FAMILY PLANNING. CLINIC Every Tuesday fiorn 6:30 - 9 p.m. HURON. COUNTY HEALTH UNIT Ann St.; Exeter For Information Call 235-1014 Weekdays or Tuesday evenings Everyone welcome juneTtitcte Sage 4' All Our Major Appliances at REDUCED PRICES Over 200 major appliances - On -Display •°,4 ' SHARP REDUCTIONS " on FREEZERS AND AIR CONDITIONERS Even if you are not a June Bride you will save dollars at this once a year Sale. Compare our prices - Quality Merchandise - Service Speed Queen - GE - Hot Point - White Westinghouse - Frigidaire - Jen-Air Woods Etc. We Do Our Own Service DRYSDALE MAJOR APPLIANCE CENTRE LTD Hensall "The Place To Buy 262-2728 Appliances" Closed Monda s fags A Time:-Advocate, 4, 1980 Spring Thaw prpsentfition sold out for weekend SPRING THAW CAST — Starring in the satiric review will be Mary Ann McDonald, Marvin -Karon, Brenda Bradley, Patrick Young, Rosemary Radcliffe and Paul Brown. 41, Outdoors is 4-H theme Nine girls met Wednesday evening to begin a 4-H course on "Outdoor living." The meeting was held at the home of leader, Tina Mar- tens. Assistant leader is Marjorie Martens. , Officers elected were: President - Lori Turnbull; Vice President - Elizabeth Martens; Secretary - will be rotating; Press reporter - Marilyn Walper. The- girls did a series of fitness exercises, and discussed camping equip- ment. During the week of May 25 to May 31 provincial police at Pinery Park laid 52 charges under the provincial parks act. They charged 45 people under the liquor licence act, and five highway traffic act charges were laid. Four thefts were investigated and one missing person was reported. They looked into 14 miscellaneous occurances. Ontario Provincial Police at the Grand Bend detach- ment investigated three thefts valued at $250. They charged 17 people under the liquor licence act, and one impaired driver was charged. They charged 11 mbtorists with minor traffic offences, and issued 11 traffic war- nings. One person was charged for driving while under suspension. Two cases of wilful damage were investigated, and nine inquiries on lost and found were handled. It appears as if Huron Country Playhouse is going to have bigger audiences this summer than ever before. Publicity Director Heather Redick says that 1811 sub- scriptions have been sold, which is an all time high. Last year total subscriptions sold were 1581. Mrs. Redick says that they will easily surpass their goal of 2000. Subscriptions for the season of five plays will be on sale until July 5. Mrs. Redick says that for a part in a play at Huron director Aileen Taylor-Smith Staff photo seats for various per- formances have also been selling quickly. She says she doesn't want to scare people, but nearly all the good seats are gone. She' expressed concern about subscribers who haven't yet turned in their vouchers for reserved seats. "I hope there are no hard feelings," she said. She added that she doesn't like td see subscribers disappointed because the good seats are already taken. The individual ticket sales are well over double what they were last year at this time, Mrs. Redick says. She attributes) the high sales to the number of ticket outlets. All the outlets are doing well, Tickets can be purchased in London at Theatre London, in Sarnia at the Keyboard Centre and all W. Groom- bridge ticket outlets, in Stratford at the Information Centre, in Exeter at All Thumbs, in Bayfield at Artistic director' Aileen Taylor Smith says that she was more than satisfied with the auditions she heard over the weekend at Huron County Playhouse. About 50 children and young people came to the theatre on Saturday and Sunday to show their talents. Ms. Taylor-Smith says she is looking for three girls and a boy to play in Annie Get Your Gun. The children will be Annie Oakley's young brother and sisters. Ms. Taylor-Smith added that because she was im- pressed with the turn-out of talent, she is considering getting children for the chorus in Annie Get Your Gun as well. The children would have to be able to sing and dance. Children who are being considered for the parts will be called back for a second audition at the playouse in front of the musical director, Ms. Taylor-Smith says That a day will be set up for the second set of auditions when schools are out. The children will have to look like a family, she added. Although family members do not always resemble each other, it "looks nice theatrically," Ms. Taylor- Smith said. Many of the children at the Tickets are completely sold out for two Per - forinances of Spring Thaw 'so which will be at Huron Country Playhouse this weekend. Spring Thaw '80 is being produced, by a. touring company, and is a revival of the old Spring Thaw revue. They have already had recent successful engagements at the Victoria Playhouse in Petrone and Theatre London. " New artistic director at the playhouse Aileen Taylor Smith brought' the Spring Thaw show to Grand Bend as a pre-season opener. The show is being followed by the Annual Monte Carlo night to raise money for the playhouse. The first showing of Spring Thaw was scheduled for 7:00 Graham's General ntore, and in Grand Bend at the Anchorage. Mrs. Redick says that a big promotional drive this spring has helped ticket sales. A brochure and poster in area newspapers brought many people to the playhouse to buy tickets who had never heard of it before, she says. One playhouse employee was kept busy for a day after the brochures went out, giving people tours of the barn theatre who had never been in it before. The good line-up of play8 for the season has also boosted sales, Mrs. Redick added. She ,says that many people have expressed in- terest in the four comedies and the musical that are playing this season. The season opens with Private Lives on June 26, and con- tinues with The Sunshine Boys, Same Time Next Year, Free at Last, and concludes with Annie Get Your Gun. audition came from the area, but some came from as far away as Chatham, Goderich,, Stratford and London. Ms. Taylor-Smith says that she is also trying to find some attractive young women to take parts in Private Lives and The ,Sunshine Boys, Saturday night, When it Sold out. arly". a, Matinee was set for Sunday, which also sold out quickly. • , Starring in. Spring Thaw '80 will be six Canadian. actors and actresses. You'll recognize Mary Ann. McDOpald ,as the girl on television who's drain cleaner won't hurt her metal. pipes,She hasbeen in aeVeral Toronto area theatre productions' and in Kiss Me Kate. at Theatre London last year. Marvin Karon has been in several Canadian. theatre productions. Brenda Bradly will be recognized for her appearances on Wayne and Schuster specials on television, - and Patrick Young has been A guest star on CRC's The Great Detective. St. Marys native Rosemary Radcliffe had a childrgn's television program Coming Up Rosie, and she played Larry's girlfriend Tina on King of Kensington one season. Paul. Brown can be seen on The debate as to when Grand Bend council should declare Civic Holiday carries on. The Grand Bend Chamber of Commerce has requested that council declare a day in September rather than August 4 as Civic Holiday. The Chamber says that more tourists will come to the village if they know that the Brewers Retail, the liquor store, banks and post office will be open on that Monday. They also feel that having the whole town open will boa courtesy to American , visitors. Clerk. Louise Clipperton told council that she con- tacted the stores and ser- vices involved and that all said they would have to stay open if Civic Holiday was not declared. She added that most of the businesses did not feel that staying open would be that advantageous. The post office reported that they would have to stay Continued from page lA station master and Kevin Alger as the general storekeeper were all well cast. As well there was an excellent back-up of Avonlea people -- Carrie McLeod as Mrs. Barry, Karen Kading as Mrs.' MacPherson, Cathy Dawe as Mrs. Pye, Tina Humphries as Mrs. Sloan, Dan Green as the minister, Vida Iskauskas as Mrs. Spencer, and Nancy Southcott as Mrs. Blewett. The array of Avonlea school children were all in good voice -- Linda Allister as Josie Pye, Darragh Mehagan as Ruby Gillis, Karen Bexton as Prissy Andrews, Paul Kaempf as Malcolm Andrews, Donald Campbell as Mooday Macpherson and Bill Lan- drey as Tommy Sloane. Three narrators filled in details and kept the play moving quickly. Ric Graham, Cathy Norris and Patty Green did excellent jobs of informing the audience. A very good 30 voice choir filled in the music and added to the performance. One feature that made this production of Anne of Green Gables unique was a slide show during the Ice Cream and Open the Window numbers. Slides had been open, but no mail would be going in or out anyway. The LCBO reported that they felt staying open would not change their business, because most people stock up. Bank of Montreal manager Lorne Campbell told reeve Robert Sharen that they would stay open , with a skeleton staff. They would not be able to do business with other banks, because their computer,would not be operating. Councillors Bill Baird and Keith Crawford supported the idea of remaining open August 4. Crawford said that most of the village is open; why not have the whole village open. It was decided that council would ask the Chamber of Commerce for a report of how the same idea works in Port Stanley. Sharen said that if they tried changing the holiday, they would need some system to measure the success of it. photographed of the children in the outdoor scenes earlier, then shown on stage during the production. The slides, which also included some beautiful scenery, were taken by Rev. Harley Moore. A very efficient back stage crew kept the performance moving smoothly. Special credit should go the the workers whose job it was to catch the microphone when the actors threw it from the stage. • Settings and props were well made and revealed that a lot of work had been done by stage crews. Stage director John Moore and musical director Gail Overholt as well. as pianist Lyn Tremain deserve a lot of credit for the work they did with the children. I had the opportunity of viewing the production on both Wednesday and. Thursday nights, and I must say that the confidence gained over the two night run by the actors was remarkable. There wasn't a hint of stage fright in the second performance. The long standing ovation and the encore proved that the audience enjoyed the show. Don't forget Burgerfest June 20-21-22 anything, timely and Canadian. One of their past tricks has been to play God Save ,the. queen and Q. Canada. at the same time in different keys as the national anthem. 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Another deer was killed on highway 21 along the Pinery stretch on May 26. Park naturalist Terry Crabe says that four deer have been killed in that area since the Victoria Day holiday. Lyle Smith of Southamp- ton was driver of the car which struck the deer. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $500 and there were no injuries. Constable C.F. Russell investigated the accident. Trucks crash on road construction AUDITIONS — Anne Penistan of London prepares to audition Country Playhouse Sunday. Pianist Sue Smith of Parkhill and go over her choice of music together. Auditions please artistic director Canadian. Pacific, com- mercials and has starred in some TV Ontario produc- tions,. Producer Allan Gordon has leased the Spring Thaw name frond originator Mayor Moore. Spring Thaw Was , originally launched as a satirical revue in Toronto in 1946. The idea carried on for. years after that making Canadians laugh at diem- selves, Various Canadian talents had their send off in Spring Thaw over the, years until its death in 1970, after ' struggling on and off for about five years. Don Harron orginated • Charlie. Farquarson in Spring Thaw. Catharine McKinnon, Bob GoUlet, Dave Broadfoot, Toby Robins, Barbara Hamilton and Rich Little have all been part of Spring Thaw casts. Writers have included such people as Pierre Berton, Eric Nichol and Johnny Wayne. Spring Thaw pokes fun at Civic Holiday debate continues 'Mn' ct success