cursing you can hear all
over Vancouver this
week signais

the official end”

of summer,

The hisses and
hurrahs are deter-
mined, of course,

_ by school age and
the prospect of

freedom for par-

» ents or the immi-

“ment lack of for

_« the-offspring. ;
oe Soy in its aneiyal attempt
at promoting familial harmo-

a “hy here is a suggestion that’

that might work for a mixed-
“age theatrical outing at the
“end of the holidays... ~.
“Reé Rock Diner has

" proven so popular at the Arts

: Club Theatre that it has -

seat
: local deeja and.
gave sme

Rocking

Regan’s show follows a sim-
ple format.

There’s a band on stage
with five young performers
who sing and dance to the
tunes that Red spins in a re-
creation of CKWX’s Teen
Canteen, Robinson's radio
show from 1957.

Thae’s pretty much it.

The action alternates
along the lines cf song, pat-
ter, song, patter, commercial
break (sung), song, patter
etc

Now I might wish for
some sense of who Red
Robinson was beyond the’
image of nice
goof, and a
bigger back-
drop — the
rausical roots
of rock rock ‘n
roll and what it
replaced on the
radio — but
that wouid be
my musical.
Regan’s version
celebrates “the

’

a
millerchip

‘ joyous heartbeat of youth

and music” and does that
very well.

The band under Tom
Arntzen’s musical direction is
so Hight i it squeaks while the

‘. cast’s energy, enthusiasm and

charm almost succeeded in
masking the tack of any real
si

‘T's probably unfair to sin-

:, .gle anyone out from such a
‘Gghr ensemble but Neil

o7’s. athletic counter-hand

‘Meanatety ouzworks everyone

onstage and deserved to win

Society ‘contest,

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with Red

the talent contest that is the
focus of the Act IT high
school grad party, while Mark
Weatherley lends an easy and
engaging naturalism to his
portrayal of Robinson.

The night I attended the
(mostly older) audience

bounded to its feet with
more enthusiasm than the
usual Vancouver standing-O
Even my son, who is harder
to please than his old man,
was bopping to the beat.

If grease was your word,
you'll rock to this robin.

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he District of North Vancouver is proposing the
development of a mulit-sheet arena on the property at
the south east comer of Mt. Seymour Parkway and Berkley
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Tuesday, September 9
7:00 p.m.
Windsor Room
Ron Andrews recCentre
931 Lytton Street

- North Vancouver

he purpose of the nieeting is to present details of the

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" Berkley Road extension. It is anticipated that anewice
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