ACE helps smaller theaters get a clue.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard When Actors Cabaret cabaret Restaurant that serves liquor and offers light musical entertainment. The cabaret probably originated in France in the 1880s as a small club that presented amateur acts and satiric skits lampooning bourgeois conventions. of Eugene puts on "Blues Clues Live" this weekend, the play might mark the beginning of a beautiful friendship. That's because Actors Cabaret, a local community theater company, hopes to forge a lasting alliance with Nickelodeon, the communications giant that produces "Blues Clues," the popular preschool children's television series Children's television series are television programs designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. on which the play is based. Nickelodeon officials will be in town this weekend to see the show, says ACE's Joe Zingo, who is directing the play. "Blues Clues Live" - the play - is based loosely on the original television show and on a professional traveling production that its creators acknowledge was big on spectacle Spectacle Speed (See SWIFTNESS.) Aïda opera renowned for its scenic grandeur; sometimes played with on-stage elephants. [Ital. and a little short on character. What ACE and Nickelodeon hope to create with the Eugene production, Zingo says, is a scripted play with a flexible cast list that can be adapted easily by community theaters across the country. "We have been working on this particular idea for a year," Zingo said. "We are really honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. that we are selected for this reworking of it. We are the first company in the U.S. to do a production of it since its tour." Zingo has been working with the script from Nickelodeon to create a show suited for a community theater stage. He's added parts - the television show has a few humans and a lot of animated characters - and worked on costumes. "Jim (Roberts, Zingo's Actors Cabaret partner and the play's musical director) and I have really worked on making it uniquely ours. I think they will be pleased with how animated we made it. `We want to work with this humongous corporation and develop their properties. We really do." The show is aimed at the preschool crowd, but adult friends and family should enjoy it, too. Characters in the local production will include Blue and Steve and their friends: Mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). , Slippery Soap, Tickety Tock, Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper and several other characters. Children attending the shows will be given a notebook and a crayon crayon, any drawing material available in stick form. The term includes charcoal, conte crayon, chalk, pastel, grease crayon, litho crayon, and children's wax colors. to help keep track of clues during the interactive performances. "Blues Clues Live" at Actors Cabaret will feature local actors Ashley Apelzin as Slippery, Maida Belove as Mrs. Pepper, Devan Coombes Coombes is a hamlet and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It is located three miles (5km) north of Shoreham by Sea on the River Adur. The 11th century village church has frescoes, some of the most important in England, and painted about 1100 A.D. as Paprika paprika: see pepper. , Laura Elizabeth as Mail Box, Colin Gray as Wolf, Tyler Holden Holden, town (1990 pop. 14,628), Worcester co., central Mass., a residential suburb of Worcester; settled 1723, set off and inc. 1741. Manufactures include electrical and metal products, plastics, and machinery. as Steve and Laura Holden as Blue. The cast also features Margaret Innocenti as Pail & Shovel, Marc Innocenti as Giant, Ben Klute as Jack, Bruce McCarthy as Mr. Salt, Braden Smith as Planet and Piggie, and Gaylord Walker as Tickety Tock. CHILDREN'S PLAY PREVIEW Blues Clues Live: The Most Spectacular Place What: Live theatrical performance for 2- to 8-year-olds based on the Nickelodeon children's television show Where: Actors Cabaret of Eugene, 996 Willamette St. When: Previews 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; opens 2 p.m. Feb. 17 and runs at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through March 11 Tickets: $15; $10 for previews and 12 and younger; 683-4368 Reach Bob Keefer at 338-2325 or bkeefer@guardnet.com. |
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