Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor Morley 6977307 entertainment Winnipeg free press july Young always looks ahead rockers next project becomes his favorite by John Sakamoto Canadian press san a gloriously sunny the winding drive up Skyline Boulevard is pretty much guaranteed to put you in the perfect Frame of mind to interview Neil during the 15 White knuckle minutes it takes to navigate the treeline Road to the Mountain House your vehicle continually passes from darkness into Light and Back till its difficult to resist the temptation to fashion the experience into some unspeakably Hokey metaphor for Youngs but while David Crosby and Graham Nash once said of their in that they were scared of the heartache and scenes with the Cowboy of the Winnipeg raised Young is responding to his first interviews in Many a year with the easy magnanimity of a Man who knows his place in the world and Doest need especially a lowly to reinforce it for though the ostensible reason for this accessibility is a High profile Mirror Ball Warner with Pearl Jam this Winter in just four get the feeling Hes already put that project behind him and As looking at the for theres a european tour in with most of Pearl Jam in and where Pearl Jam the ticketmaster controversy Over Price gouging allegations is sure to until its i wont use Young these has other things on his Hes started the next crazy horse which will feature songs written by the other members of the More than a Quarter of a Century after hooking up with the he still Hast quite Young comfortable with his place in figured out How to describe what makes the combination it builds to a certain place and it kind of he weve been working on we know How to do this fall will bring a new Jim Jarmusch dead for which Young composed the one id seen it once and read the and i knew where the scenes i had themes for the different and i just kept working with by the time hed watched the movie three times through without he was and then theres his chronically delayed Box that coming he but i dont have a release Date for and its not Gonna get in the Way of anything weve got it All chronological and everything All including music dating Back to his Days in Winnipeg and his first serious the there Are different ideas of How it should come one big set or in three or four volumes Over a period of six to give you a Little bit at a sounds like the perfect Neil Young album the past running headlong into the Asim getting ready to i casually ask Young which of his albums hed most like to be remembered peering Over his he the next he extraordinary songs locked in vault Canadian press these extraordinary songs Are languishing in Youngs Ordinary people this 12minute epic is one of the most remarkable things Young has rec slated for a second Blue notes album that never came to love Art blues Why must i choose Between the Best things i Ever had a deceptively Breezy singalong about the breakup of Youngs marriage to Carrie Snodgrass because of his Devotion his interstate a month Road Ballad that deals with the same conflict at the heart of love Art recorded for a five song up to Benefit farm Aid that Geffen records refused to re Grey riders spooky tall tale powered by one of Youngs catchiest another farm Aid Home fires i walk these Borders in search of a biting lament from another shelved evening Coconut pasto ral ode to Youngs first per formed on tour with the stills Young Gonna Rock forever a fist waving Anthem that sounds like something off an old Bach Vanturner overdrive in tended for a crazy horse album that went of f the separate ways a Staple of the 93 tour with Booker and the this melancholy Ballad dates Back to the in tended followup to traces a Lovely mid Tempo item once slated for to nights the night but tailor made for who harmonized All Over it on their 74 if you got love a i Norkey love song that shifts into one of the sweetest choruses Young has Ever recorded for trans but dumped at the last minute for Young has too tuesday 1 Road Market alive empty prime time from Lincoln Point of your shadows of show trek next shadows of pulse More sport rapid show id league baseball Minnesota twins at Toronto Blue King Money City Une Page Deards a to the to the Cracker to say 1 love i they do they do from Lincoln into last rapid in prime time Neej he vision Huntley eh3ee tracks of Veuve mais Pas 03 the great american movie if you could see what 1 meatballs movie Samurai maximum they Only kill their patrol league baseball White sox at red Winnipeg plays finale too grotesque f or Canadian hot for hog town a scene from a Winnipeg play depicting a Queen screaming As she gives birth to a stillborn baby has been deemed too graphic for Toronto most of produced by Winnipeg offbeat company Pri mus was deemed accept Able for the audience at Ontario a family recreation area on Toronto but the scene with the Queen is of officials told the troupe on the Ontario place officials Felt the final part of the performance was offensive to the said director Richard who was to Fly Home to Winnipeg last its its absolutely based on fear and Ontario place general manager Max Beck called the Brouhaha much ado about he lauded the Superb work of Pri mus and the fantastic Quality of except for the very grotesque scene where a stillborn doll is its a great performance and a Little bizarre in a Nice Beck said its not a Case of there being anything wrong with the its More our problem in that we have a wide open site and we cant warn anyone about the few complaints he said Ontario place received a few complaints and staff had observed several unhappy parents turning their kids Heads from the offending that scene was added after the show premiered at the Winnipeg International childrens festival two years Primus began its seven Day stint last monday and agreed to fulfil its contract minus the but following their final officially sanctioned they performed the uncensored ver Sion in nearby Coronation it was absolutely essential for us to present in its entirety the work we absolutely believe Fowler if Only one person comes to the Point is scarab esque is an outdoor Stilt performance that combines acrobatics and it features a vain a seedy a pompous general and two lascivious ser in the controversial the Queen gives birth to a dead infant representing the decadence of rigid societal Power the dead child then turns into a a Symbol of metamorphosis into responsive new fewer fringe tickets raised More Cash it was a Case of Good news and bad news after the Winnipeg fringe festival tallied up this years Box office outgoing executive producer Craig Walls happily announced yesterday that average attendance per show was up five per More sobering was news that ticket sales for the alternative the atre festival fell to from in this was Down from the record High of in Walls attributes the attendance slippage to operating one less venue eight instead of nine this year presenting 48 fewer performances than the 571 staged last some of the blame for lagging ticket he had to do with the absence of such fringe stars As Anna Michael English suitcase theatre and atomic i have a Hunch there is a specific audience for those and if we Are not presenting them then people might not come to the festival at Walls the artists Are ecstatic because More of them did better than Ever he said a fluctuation of tickets is not Indica Tion of the festival continues to the which ran july 1423 in the Exchange generated for the 87 up about from the festivals decision to upgrade the Quality of performers on the out door stage in old Market Square paid off with attendance of a significant jump from a year the arts Kevin Prokosh who will hand Over the reins of the festival to Bertram Schneider in a couple of said he has mixed feelings about he enjoyed the three months Lead ing up to the festival but loathed the nine months of writing Grant applications and lobbying reluctant Spon he Hopes to return to teaching in the fall and to the fringe next sum Mer with a Sqq heard around the fringe Beer tent Diana who starred in the controversially titled 1994 fringe play the Happy is the father is Michael who produced the which played with some notoriety at the fringe Here two years its scary to think what they might Call their Sqq theatre projects Manitoba is accepting applications for the Post of artistic deadline for applications is next interested parties should Supply a covering letter As Well As a resume and the names of three ref Board president Chris who is also heading the search com said the company Hopes to present its new artistic director and announce its new season at the same time in popular shows held Over some of the most popu Lar Winnipeg fringe festival shows Are being held Over starting thursday evening at the Gas station the playbill for thursday features a package Deal at 7 and playbills at 9 fridays schedule has shakes Peares interactive circus at 7 and two gentlemen of Soho at 9 the saturday playlist has playbills As the Early show and a package Deal As the late on two gentlemen leads with Shakespeare inter Active circus wrapping up the tickets Are for All week two of fringe hold overs starts 3 and Fea Tures was god dumb enough to think its important and in loveable ticket prices the annual fringe festival ended were looking for someone with a lot of a Good solid professional background and a working knowledge of the local theatre com said were not looking outside the theatre projects has produced 17 plays in its first five seasons in its Home stage in the Prairie theatre Exchange studio Vogue patterns sewing thread All in store Stock buy 1 get 6000 Yard Cones available in White Only of equal or lesser value fashion fabric Bol tends selected remnants Cottons buy get Home decor Center a huge selection of All bargain Stock Home decor prints Broadcloth All in store Stock special occasion All in store Stock Christmas prints All 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