The Citizen, 1997-11-12, Page 26E ntertainment THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1997. PAGE 27.
The second time around
Brad and Gail will be taking their vows once again, as Blyth Festival prepares for its second
run of the production Gail and Brad's Marvelous Wedding Adventure. After a successful
performance in May the show is being brought back by popular demand on Nov. 28 and 29.
Blyth announces 24th season
Say
thanks
to Janet
After serving as artistic director
of the Blyth Festival for nine of its
23 seasons, Janet Amos has stepped
down, and friends and members of
the community are invited to say
thanks on Saturday.
An open house is planned from
2-4 p.m. on Saturday at the Bainton
Art Gallery, Blyth Memorial Hall,
for admirers to show their apprecia
tion for Amos’s long work with the
Festival. She served a term from
the 1980 through 1984 seasons,
then returned in the fall of 1993 to
take over the Festival when it was
in danger of foundering under a
$269,000 accumulated debt
Over the last four seasons Amos
has returned the Festival from that
debt to a surplus position. She and
her husband, actor-writer Ted
Johns, have also been popular in
the community and will continue to
call Blyth home.
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As winter sets in, the Blyth
Festival is all fired up with plans
for next summer. Artistic Director
Anne Chislett says audiences can
get set to laugh during the
Festival’s 1998 season. She has
chosen four captivating, funny,
romantic, and meaningful stories
about people in situations that
audiences will recognize as true to
life.
In announcing her inaugural
season to the Festival's board of
directors recently, Chislett said,
"I'm asking the board to roll with a
season of comedy on the main
stage - comedy with a capital "C"
for charm, but also with "B" for
bite and "A" for affirmative
attitude."
The 24th season opens June 26
with Yesteryear, a sunny comedy
with the hopeful message that love
can be lovelier the second time
around. One of Canada's best-loved
playwrights, Joanna McClelland
Glass, turns pretension and
hypocrisy upside down when an
Irish sweepstakes ticket exalts the
meek above the might in a tightly
knit prairie town. Yesteryear is the
perfect play for open-hearted,
open-minded, joy-loving people.
The whole family will enjoy the
shenanigans when high-tech
madness kisses sweet common
sense in Jobs, Jobs, Jobs by Keith
Roulston. The new mayor of
Winstead, hoisted on his own
petard of election promises, leads a
larger-than-life cast through this
frolic of economic opportunism.
Meanwhile, the young women of
the small town are cooking him a
dish of humble pie, garnished with
a dollop of love at first sight.
Thirteen Hands, by Canada's
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Carol
Shields, deals a trump-laden hand
in this witty, wise, and heart
warming tribute to uncelebrated
generations of women who lived
before the feminist movement.
Shields catches them at their most
vivacious, around a card table -
where it's not a sin to compete! -
where no one is relegated to a role
as wife, mother, daughter - where a
woman can simply be herself.
Can shared laughter tear down
barriers of fear and mistrust? In
Huron County Blues by Andrew
Moodie, a Nigerian immigrant
seeks a safe haven for his teenage
son away from the tensions of a
Toronto ghetto, but is himself
afraid to join in community life. It
takes a teenage romance and a set
of unlikely conspirators to turn
Ben's village house into a home.
The Festival’s second stage mini
space (the Garage) will also be an
integral part of the '98 season with
an eclectic mix of shows, beginning
with a mini musical composed by
Blyth Festival favourite, rollicking
John Roby, with book by Paul
Ledoux.
Festival coupons packages for
the 1998 season are on sale now,
with substantial savings if
purchased before Christmas. For
more information, contact the Box
Office at (519) 523-9300.
Eric and Marjorie Anderson
November 8, 1952 - November 8, 1997
Happy 45th Anniversary
We hope you enjoyed your special evening.
Love, Your Family
‘Scrooge and Marley’ at Goderich
Goderich Little Theatre is set to
bless everyone with a production of
the Christmas Classic, A Christmas
Carol.
Adapted for stage by playwright
Israel Horovitz, A Christmas
Carol: Scrooge and Marley stays
true to Charles Dickens' Classic
Tale of a misery man finding
redemption at Yuletime.
This stage version of A
Christmas Carol focuses on
Scrooge the miser and his once-
partner-in-life, Marley. As narrator,
Marley prepares the audience to be
"ready for a miser - to turn his coat
of grey into a blazen Christmas
holly-red."
A cast of more than 25
community members, under the
direction of Goderich local
Maureen Penn, bring this story to
life.
The play will be staged at the
historic Livery Theatre at 35 South
Street in Goderich. The production
premieres with a Sunday matinee
premiering on Nov. 23 at 2 p.m.
Evening performances at 8 p.m. run
from Wednesday, Nov. 26 through
Saturday, Nov. 29.
Canadian Theatre
BLYTH
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P.O. Box 10
BLYTH, Ontario
N0M 1H0
519-523-9300
fax 519-523-9804
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As winter sets in, we're all fired up with
our plans for next summer. We've chosen four
captivating, funny, romantic, and meaningful
stories about people you will recognize as true to life...
your life, your relationships, your challenges, your
victories.
1998 Season
Yesteryear by Joanna McClelland Glass
fobs, Jobs, Jobs by Keith Roulston
Huron County Blues by Andrew Moodie
73 Hands by Carol Shields
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