A10 - Sunday, January 30, 1983 - North Shore News

Carousel Theatre embarks on a busy, varied
new year — beginning with their delightful
SOMETHING EVERY SATURDAY series for

children.

Running through February and

March, this popular series offers children a
new show each Saturday at 1 pm at the Water-
front Theatre. The clowns dazzle, the magic-
ian mystifies, and their young audience and
their parents revel in the fun — a perfect
suggestion for birthday parties, as part of a
day-trip to Granviile Island, or as diversion on
a rainy afternoon. Cail 669-3410 for further

information.

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A New Stage of Development con't

Started with JACQUES BREL. We
had nowhere to move it to and we
checked out everything including
stripjomts.."’

The Revue Theatre was conceiv-
ed as part of a plan to build a much
larger theatre as well. The Seymour
Street Theatre had grown in
popularity, as had its company’s ar-
tistic ambitions.

The intimacy of Seymour Street's
small stage enhanced many pro-
ductions. Unfortunately, it pro-
hibited many more. Larger casts
and accordingly larger costs simply
needed more square footage and
more seats to which tickets could
be sold. So, plans were drawn up
for the Arts Club Theatre Granville

island and in the building alongside.

it, the Arts Club Revue Theatre.
Unfortunately, funding did not

come through as quickly as was

hoped. The REVUE THEATRE was

So on August Sth Bill Millerd with _

a crew of enthusiastic musical per-
formers and a crowd of sidewalk
supervisors picked up the shovels
and heave-hoed the wheelbarrows.

Today, the paint is fresh, the
seats are new and the show is on!
An audience of two hundred sits
comfortably around tables on tiered
levels in this intimate cabaret-like
theatre, while Ruth Nichol and
Leon Bibb, two of the performers
who started it all way back then with
JACQUES BREL are cracking the
floorboards with their fresh new
revue.

$30,000 remains to be rarsed,
but between Gala Opening Tickets
and continued seat sales, it will be
Govered. Some seats at $100 and
$200 each remain. For that sum,
the buyer receives lasting recogni
tion by way of a plaque on the seat

of their choice and permanent _

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regretfully relegated to Phase Il
status.

Plans for the Arts Club Theatre

1979. Who will forget that first
season! PIPPIN could never have
happened within the constraints of
the Seymour Street stage.

“The day after the main theatre
opened, we started fundraising for
the Revue Theatre."’

One quickly comes to under-
stand that, though relegated to se-
cond place for financial reasons,
the REVUE THEATRE was a dream
that held first place in Bill Millerd’s
heart.

“So many excellent artists have
moved away because there wasn't
work for them here. People like Pat
Rose, Ruth Nichol, Brent Carver,
Sheila McCarthy and many, many
more."

In the summer of ‘82 there was
some dark talk of delaying the
REVUE THEATRE by a few more
years. Flying in the face of a reality
as depressing as the international
economy would be mighty
typical of the Arts Club!

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listing in the lobby.

Wilt filling those seats each night
_be a problem?

“One of the reasons | wanted to
proceed with it is because | believe
the REVUE THEATRE will be one
space that will be very popular. It'll
offer light entertainment, small
musicals, comedy and light
refreshments. A relaxing place to sit
down and enjoy!"

As for what is planned in coming
months:

“The REVUE THEATRE was
originally dreamt of because of the
wealth we had in revue performers.
We are now fortunate in writers as
well: Andy Rhodes, Alec Willows
and Simon Webb; the writers of
LAST CALL, Morris Panych and
Ken MacDonald; Phil Savath, Peter
Anderson and the people par-
ticipating aA. THEATRESPOR
and many, many more. We'll now
have the space to showcase this
talent as well as the performers.”’

Some of the. magic has found its
way from Seymour Street to Gran-
ville island.

That old Gospei hall held magic.

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