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The Huron Expositor, 1997-08-06, Page 3Musical creations in Young Company collaboration EY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Editor For a youthful slice of sum- mertime theatre entertain- ment the Blyth Young Company is presenting Pieces of Alligator Pie. a pro- duction based on the poems of Dennis Lee and others. "We are really having fun with this (production). 1t is truly a collaborative effort and we're coming up with some beautiful material," says Blyth Festival's Artistic Director Janet Amos who is directing the Young Company this year along with Rachel Brophy and David Archambault. Kendra Fry is the stage. manager and technical director. Brophy. from Lucknow, and - Archambauit and Fry, both from Goderich, are all former PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT Young Company members 1N REHEARSAL - Blyth Festival's Artistic Director Janet Amos, right, gives some pointers who now have professional to members of the Young Company during a recent rehearsal at the Londesboro hall. Mille theatre careers, according to a Mullin, of Seatorth, is pictured standing at tar left. Their show opens on -Monday, Aug. 11. Blyth press release. The two Vere URMeU aXPOSIT . Augvst tis $ 7-o 1.1.11111111101111111111.11111 McLaughlln Chev-Olds Ltd. 13111sia gL Sedotth.121.1140 •Service 43eteolion *Saving* •SaWladbn taming 'Coiv late BODY P SHO8eMce latter were- also part of the Festival's Quiet in the Land cast this season. The youths participating in the show come from Blyth, Clinton: Vanastra. Goderich. Seaforth. Listowel" and W ingham. For Mike Mullin of Seaforth, this is his fifth year in the Young Company oast. This is the first time he's worked with Artistic Director Janet Amos. One benefit of working with the seasoned theatre vet- eran is that she's got pull with the box. office. They've seen all the shows at Blyth so far. "We're going to see Melville Boys (at Blyth) and Romeo & Juliet (in Stratford)." he said. Ga Compared with the other productions he's done in the past with Blyth, there's more music in this one, he says. Mullin, a guitarist, says he will hopefully have a chance to play as part of this perfor- mance. There is actually so much music in this collection of skits that the Young Company has its- own musi- cal director - Cathy Nosaty, whoa was musical director for the 1995 Blyth Festival pro- duction of Ballad for a Rum Runner's .Daughter. Pie also features original songs by the Company and a variety of instruments - everything from flute, trumpet and accordion to piano and guitars. "The production itself is as eclectic as the music, featur- ing fantasy, skits, poems, songs, dances. stage fighting, acrobatics and even fencing," according to a Blyth press release. When the Huron Expositor visited the compa- ny in rehearsal at Londesboro. Mullin said the content was still being worked on. "It's growing as we're making it." Of the cast of 12, five have returned, including Mullin. from previous years. When asked why.he likes to be involved with Young Company productions instead of spending the summer on the beach like lots of other kids, he was kind of at a loss for words. "Because I crave attention? People pay atten- mbling over consumption' a problem CONTINUED from page 1- • the Clinton Raceway. The racing director noted he . Therefore, he continued, a to realizes that there are people gaming centre could prove who do not approve of gam- be- a real drawo theatown, being, and stated.thathe can and woulddcreate local employment. "It's understand why they do not going to crpace.a IK> gu); lul.0 Jpyment... aPPn » ifiVftated, '1C11y r' � -eatabiia�settt of a °°°811"114441""is y --ging c would also aid the Clinton -Raceway, he said, as the initiative would help to improve the number of race days in Clinton, as well as the facilities at the raceway. -He stated that the racing industry is one the govern- ment is interested in seeing prosper. "There arc, I think, 28,000 people working at tracks in Ontario," he said. "It is an industry they (Ontario government) are interested in keeping going." Apart from assisting the • problem." but he also noted, "Over consumption. whether it is eating, drinking or gam- bling, is going to be a prob- lem. ' He added that with the post sibility of the over consump- tion of gambling becoming a problem in Ontario, "the gov- ernment is going to have to allocate- money for any prob- lems that gambling docs cre- ate." He stressed again that by having the gaming in a restricted area, it will be available only, to those who make the effort to go and gamble. In answer to concerns that a building for such activities as horse racing, or playing VLTs and bingo in Clinton would create gambling problems in town, Fleming pointed out that a small percentage of those who bet on horses in town are in fact from Clinton. He explained, for example, that at the off-track betting facilities at Jonnymores "less than 10 per cent of the people there for the races pay taxes in the Town of Clinton." This same 'figure, he said, holds true for the Sunday races at raceway, along with the Ontario government coffers, there is also the chance that communities hosting gaming centres will benefit. However,. 'the method for splitting the price tadt,from„ a naming cen- tre has yet to -be -resolved. In fact, the whole issue of having VLTs come to the province has yet to be decid- ed. 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Hopefully you don't screw up," jokes the SDHS student who will be entering his OAC (or fifth) year at the local high school in September. He says he'd like to continue in "small town theatre" but isn't interested in acting in the city. The cast has been in rehearsal since July 7 at the Londesboro hall and will continue until the end of this week. Pieces of Alligator Pie runs from August 11 to 16 each evening at 7 p.m. in the basement of the Blyth United Church on Milt Street. What's different this year than from past years is that the cast is taking the show on the road. sets and all, to the Heritage Theatre on Main Street, Lucian August 13 at 1 pm. And to the Livery on South Street in Goderich August 15 at 1 pin. 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