38 - Wednesday, September 4, 1991 - North Shore News

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Arts Club Theatre: The Club. A
musical. Previews Sept. 11, opens
Sept. 14. Shows: Mon/Tues. at 8
p.m.; Wed-Fri. at 8:30 p.m.; Sat. at
6 and 9:30 p.m. Res: 687-1644,
Revue Stage: A Closer Walk with
Patsy Cline. A musical revue.
Opens Sept. 25. Mon.-Tues. &
p.m.; Wed.- Fri. 8:30 p.m.; Sat. 6
and 9 p.m.; Wed. 2/1 matinee 5
p.m. Info: 687-1644.

Station Street Arts Centre: Move
aver Mrs, Markham, presented by
the Actor’s Company. Fifteen years

Of marriage, a business deal with
Bow-Wow Books and a scandal
alltake place atop floor tat in
London - where else? Opens
Sept. 10 at B p.m. fo Sept. 28.
Tickets: $10 (Tuesdays 2/1). Into:
688-3312 oF 925-2115.

Heritage Hall: [he Frog Galliard.
Written by former Sun theatre crit-
ic Christopher Datoe and directed
by his daughter Sarab-Anne Dafoe.
The Frog Gatliard is an Elizabethan
black comedy, starring First im-
pressions Theatre's lively cast in-
cluding a rare performance by the
playwright. Pact of the Fringe Fes-
tival. Sept 7-15. $7 GST. Check
Fringe schedule for showtimes.
The Doll's House. Kathryn Shaw
directs Angry Actors production of
Henrik Ibsen’s classic. Part of the
Fringe Festival. Sept. 7-13. $8.
Granville Island Information
Centre: Just Push Play Audiomo-
tion Theatre presents Scoop, a
cassette-directed, outdoor walking
adventure about a reporter cover-
ing the environmental beat for the
local paper who receives an
anonymous tip about an impen-
ding ecological disaster. Admission
is $5 for tape and Walkman rental
(plus deposit}. Runs daily between
10 ain. and 4:30 p.m. Info: 687-
3311.

Back Alley Theatre, 731 Thurtow:
Vancouver TheatreSports League
presents Star Trick: The Musical.
{ts mission is to seek out comedy
lovers, entertain improv fans and

Matraca Berg produces
strong country album

From page 30
voodoo energy.

For a taste of the high life take a
turn around the floor to the band’s
reading of the traditional McGee's
Reel or the insistent uptempo call
to good times, Sophie.

He bebe, quoi ca dit? Le
chanky-chank (French accordion
music) is in effect.

Vesta — Special, A&M Records
1991

Serviceable shower music for
exotic dancers. This is damp and
steamy mush.

David Byrne — The Forest, Sire
Records 1991

When he’s not busy being a
Talking Head or compiling world
music, the dabbling dilettante
gives us an orchestral piece in-
spired by the Sumeric epic of
Gilgamesh.

Byrne’s questioning of nature's

place in Western culture results in
a lyrical composition that
resonates with much the same hip
minimal structure of a Philip Glass
piece.
Matraca Berg ~— Lying To The
Moon, BMG Music 1990

This release stands up as one of
the strongest country albums put
out during the past year. Berg has
the vocal ability to back tender
fragility with passionate power as
called for, song by song.

Production by Wendy Waldman

and Josh Leo is crisp and there is
nota weak tune in the bunch.
The title cut, Lying To The

Moon, is an elemental tear-jerker
of the first order. Alice In The
Looking Glass, Berg's pastiche of
southern women she has known,
skirts maudlin sentimentality to
come up as a surprisingly moving
meditation on the march of time,

Cary Grant used his real
name in the Gunga Din role

From page 34

Timid Joan Fontaine rushes into
marriage with the brooding
widower (Laurence Olivier) who
hasn’t quite swept away the
cobwebs of his late wife, Rebecca.
Hitchcock's usual touches are sub-
dued, but what a cast — besides
the leads, there's oily George
Sanders and Judith Andersan as
the foreboding housekeeper. (Filer
butts should set aside about eight
hours for the laserdise’s sup-
plemental extras,

Gunga Din *** (Turner Home
Video/Image Laserdisc) Unrated

This good-natured ranip, very
foosely based on Kipling’s poem,
was ane of Cary Grant’s favonte
films. In fact, he sed his real

name (Archibald) for the charac:
ter. Helping Grant battle the
murderous Thugee cuit in colonial
fndia, are tellow British soldiers
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ancl Victor
McLaglen who, incidentally, felt
that this was his best rofe,
Theatre of the Imagination
***y, (Criterion Laserdisc,
audigy only) Unrated

If you don’t feel like secing any -
thing, try listening. The six-hour
compilation of radio plays comes
courtesy of Orson Welles and his
Mercury Plavers including foseph
Cotton, Agnes Moorehead and
even Lucille Ball reading Dorothy
Parker}, While the infamous iar
of the Woedlds is absent, Tales oF
Two Cities, Heart of Darkness,
Rebecca and others more than
compensate.

take them to herghts of laughter
where no audience has pone be-
tore. To Sept. 7, Wed-Sat. frade
tonal TheateSports games will
continue brdays and Saturdays at
midnight, Rookie improvisors are
fed to the lions Monday and
Tuesdays at 8 pom. Res: 688-701 3.

North Shore
Capilano College Noon Hour
Concert Series: Linda Fails, Piano

recital. Sept. 10 trom 1-2 pom.in
HEdT3

North Shore

West Vancouver Memorial
Library: Collages. Janis Blyth.
Delightful, often whimsical art. To
Sept. 16.

Gallery Alpha: Fertility Rites: A
Celebration of Generative
Energies, Thomas Aniietd, Sonja
Bunes, Carole Driver, Ron Fal-

cron. Joy Zemel Long, Gregg
simpson and more. To Sept. 28.
207-1331 Marine Drive, West
Vancouver, Gallery hours: 12-5:30
p.m., Tues.-Sat. Info: 926-1263.
Ferry Building: Shirley Legare.
Theme and Variations. Oils, mixed
Media and monatypes depicting
still lifes and landscapes. To Sept.
8. Gallery hours: Tues., 11 a.m.-8
p.m.; Wed.-Sun., 12-8 p.m. Info:
925-3605.

Earthview, Ross Munroe and Vin-
cent Massey. Bold acrylics, scenic
watercolors and sculpted ceramic
creations. Sept. 10-15.

See more page 48

Follow the Wizard to

Centennial Theatre Centre’s

oa wizardly collection
of whimsical wonders

PAUL HANN
Sunday, Sept 22, 2 pw

AXIS MIME THEATRE

“The Wild Rose and Kali-A-Step”

Sunday, Oct 6, 2 pw

CHARLOTTE DIAMOND
& her Hug Bug Band
Sunday, Nov 3, 2 pu & 4:30 pu

GUMBOOT LOLLIPOP
“Is There A Santa Claus”
Sunday, Dec 15, 2 pa

* ABRACADABRA
WITH JOHN KAPLAN
Sunday, Jan 19/92, 2 pa

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