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LELAN! Marrell takes the stage in the premiere of Easy iifoney at the Stanley, a musi-
cal comedy about famed promoter Murray Pezim and the VSE of the ’70s and ‘80s.

Theatre West Van enter original work

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bag with a zip fastener on a
First, World War set?

The other Deep Cove
Stage entry is Lee Blessing’s

Inde lependence, 2 touching and
renee mother-and-three-
daughters drama, while
North Vancouver
Cornmunity Players ania a
two-hander, Canadian play:
wright David French’s beau-
tiful love story Salt-Water

Moon.

Theatre West Van boast
the only original script in
competition, Magpies and
Delirium, written by John
McGie for well-known local
Theatre B.C. maven. Anne
Marsh. McGie had-success
many years ago with a script
for First Impressions — 3
company that has chosen this
year to concentrate on their
upcoming show, On Golden
Pond, rather than the festival.

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always entertaining Stage
Door troupe with a self-cre-
ated sketch, Frederceko’s
Foibles.

Saturday night will be nail
biting time when the awards
will be presented after reprise

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Revisit

Friday, April 30, 1999 — North Shore News — 21

ing the ‘Pez’

playing with money

@ Easy Money by Mark
Leiren-Young at the Stanley
Theatre to May 30. $22.50-
$39.50. Box office: 687-
1644.

Layne Christensen

News Reporter
layne@nsnews.com

Easy Money is Lelani
Marrell’s first Arts Club
appearance in six years.
But there’s nothing easy
about getting the North
Shore actress to talk
about her role.

Marrell plays the three
blond wives of Murray Pezim
in Vancouver playwright Mark
Leiren-Young’s musical come-
dy which premieres
Wednesday at the Stanley
Theatre. The music is by John
MacLachlan Gray.

Easy Money takes its audi-
ence back to the not-so-distant
era when “greed was good
and the VSE was the wildest
investment circus in the world,
with the part of PT Barnum
played by a flamboyant pro-
moter named Murray Pezim.”

The Pez’s money-making
and money-losing ventures
were legendary, He bought
the B.C. Lions, backed gold
mines and promoted prize
fights.

He also had a fondness for
women, Pezim had so many
ex-wives, say Easy Money's
publicists, that his bank con-
sidered colour-coded joint
chequing accounts. But
Martell won’t speak to that.

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In fact, on the subject of
the Pez’s trio of rophy wives,
she is apologetically tight-
lipped. The actor demiurely
declines to discuss her portray-
al of what Easy Money reters to
simply as wives No, 1, 2 and
3
3.

“They may come to the
show,” she says, contemplating
a backstage confrontation with
the real-life Mrs. Pezims who
she playfully caricatures in her
song and dance routines.

“These women are all real
but we take them up a notch
for the musical comedy
effect,” says Marrell, who has

travelled the world as a head-
lining act on Princess Cruises.
She was last seen on the Arts
Club stage in Ann Mortifee’s
Reflections an Crooked
Walsiua.

Joining Marrell in the cast
of Easy Money is Alec Willows
as “The Pez,” Bernard
Cuffling, Adam Harrington,
Scott McNeil, Neil Minor and
Debbie Timuss, who play
friends and cohorts from
Pezim’s past.

‘The production is directed
by Bill Millerd, with music by
Bruce Kellett and choreogra-
phy by Denis Simpson.

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