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for jazz joy

B Swing by Dean Regan. An Arts Club Theatre production
at The Stanley Theatre until Dec.13. Information: 687-
1644.

FAMILY legend has it that my father used to win
eggcups for dancing in the years of his youth just
before the Second World War.

After secing Swing 1 want to ask him
if he did. Swing thar is. Jump. live. Not
just waltz and quickstep.
Bur then maybe the big bands that
ed the Coventry area ballrooms
‘for their foxtrots and not
m of high energy that
The Tommy Vickers Orchestra can gen-
erate,
Wo numbers into Swing the man in
front of me was not just rapping his Marni MieRcHiP
foot, he was pounding, the balcony floor CURTAIN CALE
hard enough to test the footing
newly refurbished Stanley Theatre. ;
Grumpy critics have been known to protest such behaviour
but, vou know what, this time I was stomping along with him.
And I don’t even like swing.
The 13-piece band led by the suavely swinging Gary :
Guthman are the stars of this show, Photo David Cooper
We meet them as they appear from behind the world’s worst HIGH steppin’ to the beat! Stephen Lilly and Debbie Timuss are energizer bunnies driven by the powerful j jazz
cardboard cutout of a bus and wander across our stage towards music in Swing, the musical revue that is playing the newly restered Stanley Theatre.

» the stagedoor of their gig.
“Oh my God,” read my notes. Is there anything else to Dean Regan’s show?

| What T'was thinking was “Please don’t let this be the stan- Not really. Not in the sense of plot or script, anyway. But ° — :
: dard of staging for what will then, it’s not necessary. Regan probably believed the music Condo Alert

be perceived as the flagship of would stand on its own and he’s right. : ;
the Arts Club.” = The show moves the band from The Crystal Ballroom Before you Buy or if You Own
Then the lights hit, the scene through The French Quarter and Club Casbah to Club .
changes and the band stand rolls forward as easily as atrombone — Copacabana and Pier Five Danceland. -You need to know...
* slide and with it comes the music. Brassy mostly, although clar- Each locale is set with a change of drop and appropriate about financials, the Condominitn Act, Minutes and
inet and piano get their turn in the spotlight, good rhythm and music: Club Casbah gets I’ve Got A Gal In Kalamazoo (and Disclosures, major upgrades/repairs and all aspects of
"some amusing Keystone gendarmes) while Club Copacabana condo living. Eliminate the guess work.
. "athnan real cool leader (and he plays a mean trumpet), - gets the Carmen Miranda treatment. ae
but watch drummer Dave Pierce on his vintage drum set. - Basically Regan is just bopping round the world with swing. Clare
Pierce is the credited musical arranger and director for Swing But he has the smarts, after building to a rousing climax with - Guernsey Call our condominium
and i it’s obvious he enjoys his work. Every little thing he does ; Support line 922-9265
has his entire body inivolved. Like any good musician he’s living
“th moment and the j ¢ joy: of it shines through. “  " See Musical page 22

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