'MISTER ROBERTS' REVIVED FOR RUN AT LANCASTER CENTER.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - ``Mister Roberts'' sails into the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. on Friday on a two-weekend run. Aboard the cargo ship U.S.S. Reluctant in the South Pacific during World War II, Lt. Doug Roberts is all that stands between the crew and a quirky and ambitious captain who is tormenting them. ```Mister Roberts' has been a very positive challenge to direct,'' said Charles Houston Charles Houston can refer to:
Based on the novel of the same name, ``Mister Roberts'' won the 1948 Tony Award for best play See Tony Award for information about the complete set of Tony Award categories. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre and went on to become a 1955 movie. Henry Fonda played Roberts on the stage and in the movie. Heading the cast is Palmdale resident Matthew Grissom as Roberts. A San Francisco State University • • [ graduate in cinema production, Grissom has written and directed short films and has theater credits in such plays as ``Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play by Arthur Miller and is considered a classic of American theater. Viewed by many as a caustic attack on the American Dream of achieving wealth and success without regard for principle, Death of a Salesman .'' Dennis LaFollette of Lancaster is petty tyrant Captain Morton. He recently appeared in the Cedar Street productions of ``Grapes of Wrath'' and ``Rapunzel.'' Scott Hickerson plays Ensign Frank Pulver, Roberts' bunkmate bunk·mate n. A person with whom one shares sleeping quarters. Noun 1. bunkmate - someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself . Hickerson has been seen recently in ``Comedy Latte'' and ``Singing in the Rain.'' ``Like the crew in the play does, this cast and tech crew has bonded and come together as a group, striving for one common goal: to do something for Mister Roberts,'' said Houston. ``Mister Roberts'' can be seen at 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Jan. 17 and 18, and at 2 p.m. Jan. 12 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center, 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. All tickets are $12. For more information call (661) 723-5950. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Actors prepare for the Cedar Street Theatre production of ``Mister Roberts,'' which won a Tony Award for best play in 1948. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer (2) From left, Bill Armstrong Bill Armstrong (born June 25, 1966 in London, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in one NHL game for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1990-91 NHL season and spent the rest of his professional career in the AHL and IHL. , Scott Hickerson and Matthew Grissom rehearse for the play ``Mister Roberts,'' which begins Friday at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. |
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