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SINCE THE holiday season

= Martin

Wednesday. December 20, 1995 -- North Shore News - 19

STORIES

The title Belts longer this year —

Christmas theatre offerings

tints the old opera glasses a
rosier hue than their usual
steely glint, Curtain Call har-
nessed its critica! faculties up
to Rudolph a couple of weeks
ago and went looking for
some seasonal shows that
might meet with family
approval.

{think this is the third tip I've
made to the Gulf Islands via the Arts
Club in the company of the North
Shore's own Nicola Cavendish.

| Millerchip

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It's Blowin’, Growin’ and Glowin’
en Bowen — but the message stays
much the same: Don't be greedy,
don't cut down trees and be nice.
Complicated this isn’t. In terms
of writing that’s a criticism, but as a
holiday message we could do a fot
worse than take it {o heart.
Fortunately director Roy Surette
has assembled a fabulously funny
cast who refuse to take a buck seat to
Cavendish's renowned comic skills.
The result is that even if the writ-

See Istand page 20

NEWS photo Mike Waketield

' THE CAST of The Grand

Old Duke of York — Deep
Cove’s annual  pan-
tomime plays the Shaw
Theatre to Jan. 6.

THIS WEEK’S PICKS:

1. Apeiin 13

2. Judge Dredd (new)

3. Species

4, First Knight (new)

§, Crimson Tide

6, The Santa Clause

7. Congo

8. Forget Paris

9. The Englishman (new)
f 10. Bad Boys

on AAW

THEATRE CRITIC Martin Millerchip calls Show Boat (above) the the
“most spectacular musical to ever hit Vancouver."

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