Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Camboa noon Victoria return from289 Las vegas prom2dd Orlando it Tymn from 278 9822800 travel arrangements by Jutt vacations saturday free press show bits today on television owl and the pussycat bar Baba Streisand plays a prostitute and George Segal is her Prim Neighbour in this 1970 comedy based on a two character Broadway 8 Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this repeat Buffy offers to act As Cordelias As a series of suspicious accidents revolve around her in Campaign for May condition this 1990 com Edy with Denzel Washington and Bob an cop receives a heart transplant from his whose ghost wants the cop to Nab his today in music history in the class first album was released in the and two years after it came out in the groups native born this Day Mick 1943 Blake 1922 Jason 1922 soundbite just humiliating did Playboy because i had but once you they think youre going to get naked in anything you Jenny whose fully clothed sitcom premieres in the today lineup concerts the offspring with the dough boys and the Winnipeg convention 8 Cor fest Westview Saskatchewan and to Sun Day free admission with out and about red River Valley Rodeo red River Park 8 to Midnight meet your Neighbour Market crafts fair organic Farmers Market featuring baked kids f iced cappucino and childrens Corydon Hugo Piazza 10 to 4 Winnipeg fringe festival old mar Ket to frequent Fringer passes entitles bearer to 10 admissions South Pacific Rainbow to 8 to comedy rumours Tom 8 and comedy Island Bob 9 and no cover sports live thoroughbred racing Assini Boia free admission and crash Wash weekend Stock car racing and demolition Victory Lane Hwy Miles South of Winnipeg 6 to nightspots Buffalo Bills wild cafe a Livre Grant Park shop Ping danish a club la Verendrye la Compaq ice works Java zone Macaroni bar fringe club party with do diva mirrors red Oriley Tooles Palm room hotel fort Jose pockets bar Grill almost Blue featuring Jennifer Pyramid cabaret mood Ruff and Royal Albert Walter pais Ley and spotlight cafe and bar Gerry Atwell the Texas connection 1463 Pem Western Windsor hotel Deano Dean blues the zoo Osborne Village minus Murray Kraw Chuk and entertainment july b h Barry of i fringes Al n est capable Crews turn out series of polished timely Humour Best of the fringe the free press sent a bold Crew of reviewers out to see every one of this years plays at the 10th annual Winnipeg fringe of More than 100 our theatre addicts gave five Star nods to Only bravado has already wrapped up its so you can still catch the rest of the Best of the fringe this Here is an encore presentation of our five Star picks for the Best of the fringe the life and times of Edward Liechtenstein theatre company Mac Rupert Lily 9 if youve had your fill of sex jokes and toilet Humour for this this Winnipeg company show will feel As refreshing As an Ocean Breeze blowing through an airless and what else is there to laugh about besides farts and you May Well ask in which you really cant afford not to see this this is truly a show that will be most fully appreciated by then those of us too Young to Call the late 70s and Early 80s our but old enough to have seen it and mocked perhaps the first clue was the Cool jazz Medley that opened the show Layin i touch and Mony Mony the Grade 7 school dance this is 75 minutes of great comedy on a lot of the concepts of the sketches Are from the woman who literally talks to herself to tin tins Job search to russian funniest the physical jokes were done with Treyve got festival is is As much fun As it is Treyve got Treyve got a polished and professional comedy show in the great Canadian they even had a real jazz the stomach to Back them and the sex jokes will have you peeing in your if youve read this what Are you wasting your time for get yer tickets and see for Treena Khan a Christmas the Book productions cinematheque noon its Way too Early to think about but John Huston vivid and Lively presen tation of this yuletide classic makes thoughts of Winter almost Welcome although its certainly Nice to leave a Christmas play and walk out into a warm Huston is a consummate Story that All that needs to be he pulls you into the Well known Story of three Christmas ghosts and their effect on the miserly his voice and Demeanour change As the characters but its never Over his narration swoops and races along Dickens descriptive painting a Clear Pic although theres Only him standing on the no no Gim just language and and there the theatre seems to shrink and you can imagine him at the front of a Small draw ing room with a Roar ing dressed in the 19th Century garb Dickens would have worn when he told his stories to similarly rapt Hus ton is Kim Guttormson red River Valley of the sleeping Beauty club underground 70 Arthur a topless accordion dancing lounge lizards and a Camilla Parke Bowles rated peepshow All rolled into one Start the were going to the fringe this is a must see performance that is As much fun As it is entertain the stage is a lounge Lizard cabaret where More than a dozen performers appear to entertain the some of whom leap from their chairs and do an act of their the cast is All and include standup dancers of the Afore mentioned accordion Why is she topless who cares her singing act is hilarious and has nothing to do with being if you Are worried about seeing a bit of dont its a big accor if you know what i another highlight in this excellent cast was Singer Buffy who bubbles and smiles her Way through a song about alien Given the Quality of this performance and the work of the sleeping Beauty it is no wonder the show opened to a Soldo i audience on the first night of the one word of warning is about the the underground seat ing in the restaurant is a bit cramped and the stage can be hard to so get there on the other being Able to have a few cold Beers while you watch the show is a Doug Naime bravado cabaret Mamie Cooke Mac Rupert Lily final performance yesterday like the Little violin player appear ing Between each act of this top notch musical Marnie cookes annual fringe shows just keep getting better All the cookes bravado cabaret is a is 75 minutes of great riotous on hour song an dance show in 10 parts like her past fringe is All about the reduction and Abs drum of the Fine in other Cooke and her 15 member troupe use classical dance and tap dance As their raw then transform it All into some of the funniest musical sketches youve Ever Cooke runs the bravado dance and her choreography along with guest choreographer Judy Cook brings out the Best in the per her troupe really can and the Harley Ballet sketch Fea Tures a Ballet company of bikers that give new meaning to the word River a tribute to the flood of features flying sandbags and two women in overalls with taps attached to their rubber they tap dance in rubber top that off with some hot Flamen co and some cute transitional sketches Between scenes and you have a real fringe Garth Buchholz in therapy big main at Bannatyne 6 if not for the it would have been impossible for Suburbia View ers to Tell that they were witnessing a play rather than real Winnipeg thespians in therapy production of the Eric Bogosian script is that Good and that the opening night audience sunday was left with the feeling that they could see this about the stubbornly stultifying life of a group of Young people who hang out at a suburban played out at any nearby convenience Bogosian is celebrated for his ability to confront audiences with the daily ugliness of american in the acclaimed american Mon Logist captures Youthful disillusion with scary and fascinating acc Suburbia introduces seven then Tysom things who hang out in what one Calls this tar pit of and do their endless drink drug taking and daydreaming expose their feelings of social alienation and personal Orrele at 100 Suburbia is a full length play which Borders on being almost too Long for a fringe that about the Only quibble with this marvellously acted which must rank with the Best at this years fringe Kevin continued please see simple b2 Mel Gibson Julia Roberts motion picture theatre association of Manitoba Warner entertainment i a Benefit premiere tickets All proceeds for habitats Cycle of Hope Manitoba flood recovery project july 1997 pm Portage place Cinema in Wimpey Advance tickets available it tie Box off Itei of fun mob play ii pm plea Odeon Lowne Cinema 8 imia us hoi Tuye place Cinema City b Alio the Guiry Llie Ulie in Selkirk Advance ticket on sule july 2b to 2v me i Only limited amount of tickets will be Usu Luble at flip door additional Moi nution available us 339 9190 ;