A funny play about a not-so-sweet little girl.Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard A musical comedy about a ruthless little girl and a series of stories about young heroes confronting their dark sides are two new theater productions. Actors Cabaret of Eugene If Pippi Longstocking is a role to die for, young Tina Denmark is willing to kill to get it. Or so it seems in "Ruthless! The Musical," opening Friday at the Actors Cabaret of Eugene. ` `Ruthless!' parodies the classic stories of `The Bad Seed,' `All About Eve,' `Gypsy,' `The Women' and `Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls portrays self-destruction of drug addicted starlets. [Am. Lit.: Valley of the Dolls] See : Drug Addiction ,' ' says director Joe Zingo. "The score echoes the great composers of our time, and the story spirals ever outward, ever more outrageous, to a surprise dynamic ending. ``This is definitely not `Annie.' ' No, this is Tina, a sweet little kid whose cute countenance masks a sadistic sa·dism n. 1. The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others. 2. The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty. streak. She will let nothing and no one get in her way. In this case, Tina (played by 11-year-old Ashley Apelzin) believes she was born to play Pippi Longstocking. When she doesn't get the lead role in the school production of "Pippi in Tahiti," murder and mayhem break out. "It's a farce, a musical, a mystery all rolled into one Adj. 1. rolled into one - made up of several components combined into a single entity combined - made or joined or united into one ," Zingo says. "It's one of the funniest things I've ever read." "How it meshes the important lines from each one of the famous shows, and threads it all together, is completely logical. If you are theater-literate, you will pick up every single one of the lines from `The Bad Seed,' `Gypsy' and so on. You don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. who is who or why they're doing what they're doing, but it's so much fun to find out." "Ruthless!" - with book and lyrics by Joel Paley and music by Marvin Laird - had its premiere on May 6, 1992, at Players Theatre in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and ran for 302 performances. It won the New York Outer Critics Circle Award Begun during the 1949-1950 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway. The awards are decided upon by theater critics who review for out-of-town newspapers, national publications, and other media for Best Off-Broadway Musical in 1993. Its star, Lindsay Ridgeway A ridgeway is a road or path that follows the highest part of the landscape. Roads and pathways
In Zingo's Eugene cast, besides Apelzin, are Sue Schroeder-Whiter, Amanda Fackrell, Lisa Moes, Helene Morse, Erica Jean Pierson, Margot Trieger and Maggie Tryk. "Ruthless! The Musical" will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28 and March 1 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 2 at Actors Cabaret of Eugene, 996 Willamette St. Admission is $17 in advance, $22 day of show. Tickets are available at the theater box office (683-4368). Churchill High School/ North High School Students from Churchill High School, Churchill Alternative High School, North Eugene High School North Eugene High School is a public high school of about 1,200 students in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located at 200 Silver Lane near the Santa Clara area of Eugene.[1] North Eugene's mascot is the Highlander. and Impact Theatre will use original music, dance and script to re-envision world myths in "A Hero's Journey," a multicultural theater experience opening at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Churchill High School, 1850 Bailey Hill Road. After Monday's performance for Martin Luther King Day, the show will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Feb. 2. Tickets are $5 at the Churchill High box office, 687-3421. "A Hero's Journey" is the second collaboration between theater teachers Jami Teran of Churchill High and Al Villanueva at North High. Last year, they directed advanced students from both schools in a production of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown This article is about the stage musical. For the 1985 animated television adaptation, see You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special). You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown " in the Hult Center's Soreng Theatre. "A Hero's Journey" was inspired by both teachers' fascination with the writings of Joseph Campbell Noun 1. Joseph Campbell - United States mythologist (1904-1987) Campbell and with stories from other sources, such as "Star Wars," "Dead Poets Society," "Les Miserables" and Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (French for "Circus of the Sun") is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. performances, that allowed the audience to identify with heroes and learn important life lessons about a person's place in the grand scheme of things. They decided to encourage the students to create their own stories based on their study of Campbell's "Hero's Journey" and to tell these stories in a theatrical production Noun 1. theatrical production - the production of a drama on the stage staging production - a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television; "have you seen the new production of Hamlet?" . Sixty students signed up for the class. Impact Theatre's shadow puppets also have a role. All together, a team of more than 80 has been working to present these stories, in which a young hero, guided by his mentor, must deal with his "dark side" to complete and understand his journey. CAPTION(S): Lauren Ruff (left), Brittany Katter and Melissa Dupalo dance in a joint Churchill-North high school production, "A Hero's Journey." |
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