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’On Borrowed Time’
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THURSDAY, JULY I, 1971
Reviews Of Area Summer Theatre i are
Fine Singing Saves
’Showboat’ At Park
MIDDLESEX -- When thel Mr, Brink becomes the tree’s
Foothill Play House took an old hostage and Gramps"¯ is tara
TITUSVILLE -- A cool evening The plot of the operetta based on
favorite out of mothballs and airedbetween
pleas to free the
under the stars in a wooded glenEdna
Ferber’s novel rested in
it Wednesday night, June 23, we hopelessly ill and suffering and
fragrant with honeysuckle, memory as a stirring romance;
wondered why Paul Osborn’s "On simultaneously submit himself to
without mosquitos because the revived it is a grotesque story.
Borrowed Time" had ever been death and Pad to Aunt Demetria
smudge pots are effective, with It serves as rather disjointed
packed away in the first place. and his desire to spare Pad "a fate
the wooden benches comfortably framework
~ for half a dozen ira-
Sentimentality is never out of worse than death."
spaced on the terraced hillside, allmortal
tunes, fifteen scenes,
season and considering our need
this plus the delight of Jeromedivided
into two acts that span,
for relief by tears from .today’sThe
Foothill Play House cast
frustrations, it should be much in
performed a worthy service in
Kern melodies are the setting forforty
years and three generations
vogue now. The performancerescuing
"On Borrowed Time"
the moonlight picnic that was theof
show people, the family of
directed by Eve Johnson is a from the attic. It had been stored
opening of "Showboat" at the Captain Andy Hawkes.
Open Air Theatre at WashingtonViewed
as a whole each scene
humanly warm and compellingtoo
long, wrapped in memories of
Crossing State Park on Fridaysparkles
and blends into one big
one
Lionel Barrymore and tarnished
June 25.
gala extravanganza. The gay
John J Curran as Gramps Hollywood tinsel.
Tile Pennington Players, precision of choreography, the
blasphemed his way to the cockles You may see it again Thursday,
directed by Harry Schultz, keptfine
vocal music both solo and
of my heart and his adoringFriday
and Saturday night at 8:40
"Showboat" going on a mostlychoral,
the vibrant sets, the zippy
grandson, Pad, played by 12-year p.m.
even, fa]~’ly professional keel. orchestral accompaniments, all
old Stephen Arnott, followed right
Jean Delgado played Julie and add up to a striking revue.
along.
Reservations may he made
her voice was the most beautiful "Showboat" was performed
The action centers on their between I and 4:30 p,m. and 7:30
sound of the evening, although the again last Saturday and will be
attachment to each other and the and t0 p.m, by phoning (201) 356voice
of Sandra Schultz in the lead repeated Thursday, Friday and
plans to separate them by Granny, 0462.
as Magnolia was also of highI.Saturday nights, July l, 2 and 3
who wants to do the right thing by
Julia, played by Jean Delgado is asked to "Only Make Believe" by ,i
The Foothill Play House barn is
quality and, in fact, all the singing train date. July 4) at 8:30 p.m. at
Pad, by his aunt, Demetria Riffle, located on Beeehwood Avenue and
was unusually good. the Open Air Theater in
Gaylord Ravenal, portrayed by Brant Monahan in "Show Boat"
who wants Pad’s sizeableI
may be reached from Highway 28
which may be seen again at the Open Air Theatre in Washington
Brent k. Monahan, who had the Washington Crossing Par
inheritance, and by Mr, Brink, a in Bound Brook, by turning left at
male lead as Gaylord Ravenal, is~ Co een Z rn te Crossing Park, Tltusville, on July I, 2 and 3.
messenger of death, who wants the veterinary clinic or from
a fine tenor. The one thing lacking
Gramps,
Highway 22, by turning east on
Gloria Slawson so captures the
Stephen Arnott as Pad pleads with his Gramps, portrayed by John
-- and it is missing from most
Mountain Ave., then north on
outdoor theaters - is a good sound
mean, nasty spiesterness of AuntShepherd
to Beechwood. J. Curran, not to surrender to Mr. Brink, in the tree, a messenger of
Bucks ’Jean’
system. However, the singing
Demetria that we catch ourselves
death played by Jack Matthews, in "On Borrowed Time" at Foot-
voices of the Penning(on Players
joining the chant, "Aunt Demetria
Colleen Zirnita hill Playhouse in Middlesex. (Photo by David Hamer.)
needed no amplification.
Explosive ,,
is a pismire."
Virginia White is a dear sweet
old Granny whose love encompasses
all. Stephen ArnottGood
Performances Make Success Of ’Rainmaker’
And Vibrant
feels so comfortable on the stage,
NEW HOPE, PA. - "The Prime
he surely will be seen there again. PRINCETON - "The Rain- Deborah Savadge is an ap settling on File, the sheriff’s[grand finale in Aaron Copeland’s
of Miss Jean Brodie" is a three-act
maker," by Richard Nash, is a pealing and versatile Lizzie. young deputy. Alas, he is reluc- ballet style.
The "curtain opens on an
play at the Bucks County
rather spare skeleton not much There is nothing they can do abouttan(.
I Copeland’s music set the pace
Playhouse that opened-exploded
aesthetically and functionally plot, no ringing lines, that depends the drought, but to Lizzie’s em- The Curry family has just about Ifor the Intime players and they
open-Tuesday with such force,
beaut ful set featuring a very realon
the quality of its performers forbarrassment
her brothers and resigned itself to the futility of managed some rather lively
the audience actually needs the
apple tree and showing the sitting I
stature.
father try to find her a beau hope when Starbuck, played by dancewithout ever losing step and
ziifl ! two intermissions to. recover it-
room where Granny rocked and
John Vennema, arrives, lahvays keeping the audience’s
knitted and Gramps and Pad The 1971 Summer Intime
self, especially from Act I.
John Vennema is radiant as the ]feet tapping in time. Their spirit
studied rocks and ripe frogresident
company develops it to
We are introduced to Miss Jean
Children’s Playscon
man who agrees to make it was bouyant all evening, but
specimens.
perfection, fleshing it out with a
Brodie, vibrantly played by
rain for $100. He persuaded the particularly joyous in the person
most exuberant performance, the
Marcia Mahon, an uneonforming
Gramps forgets himself andl
audience and further ingratiates af Andrew Bloeh.
first of which was ThursdayEvery
Thursday
teacher in a drab orthodox
wastes the wish that will come
himself to us and the Currys by "The Rainmaker." which
evening at the Hamilton Murray
true because of a good deed by
his kindness to plain Lizzie. played through last Sunday, will
:. ,dh!ii i Scottish girls’ school. Like a
Theater on the Princeton
wishing whoever climbs his apple
Fanfare Productions will
ili| ili,,i parakeet in a rusty cage of.
She knows it is for one standre(are
to the Hamilton Murray
University campus.
present a series of shows for
Marcia Temm, Warren Erhardt and Shad Upbin are three of the sparrows, she struts in her gay
tree to stay there until he sets him
only, but she lets Starbuck makeTheater
on Thursday, July 8 and
free.
Drought I has mantled the children at the Bucks County
principals in "Night Must Fall" et the Villsgers Barn Theatre. flapper dresses, preens herself
love to her and his words wash hercontinue
through Sunday, July I I.
Playhouse in New ltope, Pa., i
and talks to the 12-year-old girls as
western prairies in dust and
in a glamour that lingers. Curtain time Thursday through
adults.
despair, particularly the Curry
starting today, July l, with The victims of Starbuek s pastSaturday
is 8:30 p,m. and 7:30
ranch where H. C, sensitively
"Beauty and the Beast."
’Night M ust F all’ F ails She tells them she is in the :’4
swindles have set the sheriff’s; p.m. on Sunday. For reservations
prime of her life, which she
portrayed by Rush Rehm, and his A now production will be given
office on his trail, which leads to and ticket ’information call (609)
dedicates to them and their in-
two sons Noah, (Richard every Thursday at It a.m.
the Curry ranch, thus gathering 452-8181.
struction in the humanities and
Ferrugio) and Jim, (Andrew
all the characters on stage for a
Colleen ZirnitaTo
Satisfy Its Premise
through Sept¯ 2.
arts. She appeals to their "bud-
Bloeh) find their troubles comding
sexuality."
pounded by the unmarried Lizzie Ticket reservations and further
MIDDLEBUSH -- "Night foolishly flattered by his doting She bids them prop their texts
whose prospects appear equallyinformation
may be obtained at
Must FaU" is a Ig35 "Psycho," attention, and Mrs. Terence the and listen to her asshe weaves
]arched and hopeless. the box,office of the Bucks County
and while it is not now as pragmatic cook, played by romance, her own ill4ated one as
Phlyhouse.
thrilling or chilling as it was Marion Mangano, who finds well as history’s, into lessons in
then, as it opened at the Village him charming, by Olivia love and life.
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Barn last weckecd it is still a Grayne, Mrs. Bramson’s niece She postures and dramatizes
DANCING
first-rate English melodrama, portrayed by Raye Canzonier, with pomp and tells the girls they
EVERY SAT. & SUN. NITE MIDDLEBUSH -- Exhibiting in
Each of the characters is who is never deceived but all are special because they are hers.
the Munsell Gallery, at the
developed to expose the in- the more captivated, and even !They are hers and so is the
NOTTINGHAM Villagers Barn Theater, during
dividual psychoses. to Bob Simonsen as Hubert audience when the curtain falls for
the run of "Night Must Fall," will
Mrs. Bramson, portrayed by Laurie, Olivia’s suitor, who the first time.
BALLROOM he photographer George Philcox
Marcia Tamm, is a peevish old feels guilty about their Doubts creep in with the second
Mercer St. Hamilton Square, N.J.
o: Spotswood. On view will be a
hypochondriac who has taken suspicions.
act and we are not so harsh on
The Largest Ballroom =n the East collection of over 40 photographs
to a wheelchair to rule and The audience is put in the Miss Mackay, the punctilious
¯ With all Big Bands!
in both black and white and color,
harass her household. position of knowing what it does headmistress played by Minerva
Sat. Stun Maze including seenics from Europe
All the action takes place in not Want to know and of jniningDavenport
in her censure of Miss
,Sun. BennySnyder and North Africa, portraits,
the sittingroom of her the cast in their circumvention Brodm’s unwholesome influence,
9 to 12. Fun Alone or Couples character studies, dance
bungalow in the quiet Essex of horror, conviction of the
We also ]earn that Hugh, her
photographs and flower studies.
woods.
murderer and disclosure of the valiant lover, killed at Flaoders
One day in 1935 the quiet is severed head.
the day before the armistice, was
I I I I II
broken and the woods invaded Somehow when the final not the only man in her life. She
by police seeking a missing curtain fell, despite the good has baden affair with the married
young woman whose headless performances, I did not feel art teacher, father of six,
The ONE and ONLY in this area...
body is found buried in the quite satisfied that the promise, magnificently portrayed by J
Deborah Savadge as Lizzie Curry and John Vennema as Starbuek Bramson garbage pit. Mrs. or more precisely, that the Frederick Major, and is engen- ’11
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heat up the stage for a brief time in the Summer I ntime production, Brumson relishes the notoriety premise that all would be dering another with the slow-
"The Rainmaker," on the Princeton University campus. the unearthing brings to her. adequately explained had been footed bachelor music instructor
Short Uphin is Mrs. Brain- fulfilled. Perhaps Emlyn played by William Simington.
son’s cockney maid, made Williams wrote it that way. We are aware that Miss Bredie
has music that’s more fun than
pregnant by an irresistible Americans are often barred" is living in illusion, that she claims
drifter," a handyman named from success in presenting
her girls as her own because she
Dau, who subsequently drifts t~ English drama by language; fancies them each a different
the Bramson household, because the subtleties of dialect
extension of herself. She pushes
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to realize the fantasies she
captivating rogue, a rogue who faithfully reproduced ¯ and herself is afraid to live. Her
keeps his own psychosis secret maintained, and usually mold a potential danger to the girls
Danceable Music
and beguiles one after another hodge-podge of accents. The becomes gradually apparent.
of the ladies.
Village Players reduced this
The story is told in flashback by
The feminine inability to hazard by using them to a
one of Miss Brodie’s girls who has
resist his charms extends minimum, authored a book while in the
beyond that of the maid to The Villagers will aresent ~ cloisters of a nunnery and under
include Mrs. Bramson, who is . ~.=....Yi ~..,, 5. .... t. /the vow of humility a book that
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