Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba A photo review up with playhouse 21 troupes Energy evident by Bohdan Gembarski saying something bad about up with people would be like kicking a after thousands of Young adults from around the world have Given their Best efforts to the which is now in its third us message All along has we can All change whats wrong with the certainly an Ideal worthy of although their intentions Are com and their afternoon performance at the playhouse yesterday was packed with Energy and the presentation was and its not Likely the More than 120 performers in the Manitoba tour or be problems with vocal arrange ments were most the sing ers with Lead parts in colors of the heart and the sounds of the sixties Medley were mismatched for their their voices occasionally distracted As they dropped out of ear shot on the lower Patzi von due Strohle of West Ger Many was noticeably of key in the up with people the nearly foldout House of appreciated her but she was completely Over matched for the Overly cramped a notable exception was Nebras Kas Jerry his stage pres coupled with his Tenor voice made his contributions to songs like does it really matter the choreography was obviously structured for a larger stage than the playhouse even with an upper Walkway and stage the intricate routines at times necessitated unplanned balancing just to avoid theres More room in an average phone Booth than most of the dancers had to work addressing social issues in a superficial manner was a Cornerstone of the groups the Point of lets a rap number about Street didst contribute to a solution of the especially in the just in the performers did their Best to get the crowd to like them just As a Puppy and the people liked what they saw a but uneven All in Gino and his in rehearsals to prepare for last nights opening performance of the Barber of Seville at the new York metropolitan trumpet treat of halloween pops by Neil Harris before last nights halloween chills pops concert one of the sym phony musicians was heard to say we May not get Many of the notes but were going to have a lot of he was Only half they had a lot of fun and they also got most of the notes or As Many As we could what with All the non musical it was a spooky night at the pops As Eric Kunzel surpassed himself with an evening of if it want exactly an evening of Blissful music it a lot of fun for the orchestra and the near capacity audience of almost if most of the evening was involved with halloween certainly the treat of the evening was Brian Skoras playing of the famous Hummel trumpet one could argue that such a Delight Ful piece of music was completely out of place in an evening of frightful if it then let us be review halloween chills pops Winnipeg symphony 2122 Sykora has an unusually Large tone which might seem to work against the lightness of this but it is so pure and his playing is so secure that it was a musical the lyrical second movement was elegance some real music there were some other examples of real music in the first half of the concert Saint and the inevitable night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky As orchestrated by Rimsky the second half of the concert consisted of no fewer than 11 Selec All from particularly frighten ing this was All very Superior movie and considering that most of it must have been new to the it was played with the kind of Elan these thorough professionals bring to such and then there were the distract to begin the entire orchestra was in we had and ghosts and Bun Nie rabbits and and the entire male percussion Section As beards and conductor Kunzel made his in trance from the Hydraulic pit in front of the orchestra through a Mist of dry suffice to he looked like the almost every number played in the second half included winsome Little old ladies who kill Frankenstein monsters and spooks of All shapes and there were Strobe glitter police storm sounds and Darth it in just your Ordi everyday symphony it will be repeated this Gin plex Odeon theatre guide 24 hour information i 9436512 presented in shoppers drug Mart tickets accepted on All rims except on Friday evening and saturday Garrick North of Portage 9422034 next of Kin 1 parental accompaniment Eguires under age of 1 i the fabulous Baker boys parental accompaniment required under age of 15 language warning lies and videotape parental accompaniment required under age of 15 language Jesus of Montreal parental accompaniment required under age of 15 controversial lifestyles Grant Park Eram y closed for renovations thank you for your patronage Smith Al Ellice sea of love restricted no admittance under age of 18 a footage at Berry Patrick Swayze a Chicago cop from the Hills of Hunting his Brothers seeking Justice country Odeon next skin parental accompaniment sea of love restricted no admittance under age of Twne i now showing at Garrick i Check theatre guide Tor and Princess halloween 5 restricted no admit Lanca 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merchant of Venice at the Phoenix theatre was the Only smash hit in an otherwise lacklustre summer for British Hoffman As shylock was a risky it want just the new York inflections in his but How the fastidious British theatre Public would react to a Hollywood Star attempting i didst quite know what it would be Hoffman All i knew is i would learn he blamed the mixed reviews on the Speed with which the production was rushed on to the due to his fathers illness which forced him to spend time at his bedside in the United incisions we opened in this play after 10 Public and my performance for me was like those incisions you see from people whole been operated he said in a you still see their fresh wounds and their stitches now in at a Point where you can barely see the shylock is the jewish moneylender whose thirst for revenge against Antonio Leigh the Vene Tian merchant of the finds its match in the Exa tingly legalistic Portia Geraldine who directed the said that As an authentically jewish actor Hoffman changed the part historic merchant seemed to me particularly right for Hall shylock is about the outsider the Man coming into the society which he is foreign to which was very much Dustin situation coming into an English theatre assessing hoffmans achievement toward the end of the London Hall said shylock is Wheeling and dealing and and that what Dustin seizes hold to he answers the is shylock comic or by saying Hes both Hes a the shylock character traditionally provokes the accusation that Shakespeare was and any one involved in staging the merchant of Venice knows How sensitively it must be to have a jewish actor play shylock is mandatory in our said if youre going to talk about youd better do it from a position of integrity and not Ham some of the plays Success May have been due to renewed enthusiasm for but the real draw undoubtedly was fresh from his second Academy award for rain in a play that marked his British and shakespearean stage Legrande Chemin the grand Highway restricted adult night la Ellice Sherbrook Cin Marv Hoffman eschewed above retitle Billing and appeared Halfway Down the cast but the play quickly sold Only the London Mega musicals such As phantom of the opera and aspects of love sold As Many show bits Singer Rose apologizes for threats from the news services los Angeles a Axl Lead Singer of the Rock group guns n apologized on stage for telling a concert audience he was quitting the guns n roses is booked As the opening act for the rolling stones four los Angeles with the last performance scheduled for to Rose made the apology at the los Angeles memorial coliseum after complaining on stage last week he was going to quit because of excessive drug use in the i just didst want to see my friends slip Rose Rivers drops lawsuit los Angeles a comedian Joan Rivers and writer Ben Stein agreed Friday to Settle her Mil lion us libel lawsuit Over his Maga Zine Story alleging she joked about the death of her Rivers agreed to drop the lawsuit and Stein agreed to donate Money to charities of her Richard Rivers said further details of the settlement will not be the Stein Story was published in go Magazine in december Welby producer Dies Hollywood David an emmy award winning producer who was forced by the depression to forsake his own interest in Medicine yet with Marcus and Kildare made House Calls into millions of american has the Russia born Victor was 79 and on vacation in when he died of a heart at in addition to the Welby and Kik dare Victor also produced the Man from Lucas Owen Counselor at Law and women in gun smoke returns a televisions most famous sheriff will Saddle up and ride again in gun smoke James will revive the character of Matt Dillon in a two hour lbs follow of american tvs longest running Western filming is scheduled to begin in famous players Capitol 1 313 Donald v parental guidance not suitable Lor Young children vital six is Vit Dumisi Tom Selleck an innocent Man parental accompaniment for those 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