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COMMUNISTS, ZOMBIES MENACE CAST IN COMEDY.


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James Valcq's ``Zombies Zombies

Companies that continue to operate even though they are insolvent. Also known as living dead.

Notes:
It's advisable to avoid investing in zombies at all costs their life expectancies are highly unpredictable.
 From the Beyond'' is this season's pre-Halloween production at the Canyon Theatre Guild Theatre Guild

U.S. theatrical society. Founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner (1890–1962) and others, the group proposed to produce high-quality, noncommercial plays.
, where performances are scheduled for each weekend through Oct. 20.

Directed by Ingrid Boydston, ``Zombies'' is a musical comedy about American ideals and foibles of the Eisenhower era. Taking a cue from pulp-fiction movies popular in the 1950s, the play features a tuneful score and laughs galore.

The story is set in 1955. The Cold War is raging and space-race paranoia is threatening the good folks of the fictional Milwaukee Space Center.

The staff is abuzz at the arrival of rocket scientist Rocket Scientist

In the world of finance, these are people with science and math degrees who work in the finance field building highly advanced quantitative finance models. These models help banking, insurance and investment firms to price financial instruments.
 Trenton Corbett (played by Coby McLaughlin.) The budding romance of Trenton and Mary (Beth Sweezer), the daughter of Space Center commander Major Malone (Greg Finley), is jeopardized when a flying saucer flying saucer: see unidentified flying objects.  lands in Milwaukee.

Piloting the craft is Zombina (Lori D'Itri), a buxom alien who is bent on procuring he-specimens to repopulate her planet. Accompanied by her army of Zombettes, she is prepared to destroy anyone or anything for her goal of dominating all known worlds.

Can Mary uphold her ladylike la·dy·like  
adj.
1. Characteristic of a lady; well-bred.

2. Appropriate for or becoming to a lady. See Synonyms at female.

3. Unduly sensitive to matters of propriety or decorum.

4.
 demeanor while using her intelligence to save Milwaukee from the Red Menace and a flying saucer invasion? Can the mayor's right-hand man (Michael Collins) survive brainwashing brainwashing

Systematic effort to destroy an individual's former loyalties and beliefs and to substitute loyalty to a new ideology or power. It has been used by religious cults as well as by radical political groups.
 by a musical menace from another world? These and other questions are answered in this production that recently opened.

Also featured in the cast are Phil Schwadron, Allison Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
  • Beth Gibbons (born 1965), British singer
  • Billy Gibbons, guitarist for ZZ Top
  • Cedric Gibbons (1893–1960), American art director
  • Christopher Gibbons (1615 - 1676), English composer, son of Orlando
, Jennifer Faulkner, Rachel Forster, Mo Davis, Cherie Lynn Ackerman, Jeri Zuccari, Laurie Morgan and Linda Roth-Grayne.

`ZOMBIES' FACTS

What: ``Zombies From the Beyond''

When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 20; 2 p.m. matinee Oct. 24.

Tickets: $10, general admission; $6, kids and seniors

Where: Canyon Theatre Guild, 13660 Sierra Highway, Saugus.

Reservations: (661) 298-0058.

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Date:Oct 1, 1999
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