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3 P.M. & 7 P.M. Sunday, March 10
adult $20• student/sr. cit. $18

Charlie Daniels
Band

3 P.M. & 7 P.M. Sunday, March 24
adult $24 • student/sr. cit. $22

The Dancers and
Musicians of Bali

8 P.M. Tuesday, April 9
adult $23 • student/sr. cit. $21

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on the
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1995-96 season
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at is this obsession games of chance and bouts of ver-
with Hamlet? When last bal sparring. They are also enter-
we pondered, I Hate tained, although not enlightened,
Hamlet was being per- by the Player and his traveling
formed simultaneously at St. Dun- troupe of Tragedians, who are
stan's Guild of Cranbrook, the preparing to perform for the
Players Guild of Dearborn and court."
Grosse Pointe Theatre.
When I called Foster to find out
Now, we have six Shake- more details about the show, I
spearean actors gone awry, play- asked whether Rosencrantz and
ing 24 roles, in an unusual Hamlet Guildenstern were nice Jewish
version spoofed in Kenneth boys. She delved further into both
Branagh's newest film release, the R & G and Hamlet scripts and
A Midwinter's Tale. Read
was unable to get a
more about this film,
clear reading either
showing this weekend at
way, suggesting that
the Detroit Film Theatre,
the characters could
in today's Out & About
also just as likely be
section.
Danish or German.
In addition, through to-
However, there are
morrow, we've got the
two nice Jewish men
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's
JULIE SMITH
worth noting in the
production of Rosencrantz
show, Foster added.
YOLLES
& Guildenstem Are Dead,
Troy D. Sill plays
ARTS &
where two of literature's ENTERTAINMENT
Guildenstern and has
most unimportant char-
performed as Harding
EDITOR
acters take center stage
in One Flew Over the
in this clever twist on
Cuckoo's Nest and as
Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Franklin Roosevelt in Annie at
Playwright Tom Stoppard be- Ann Arbor Civic Theatre (AACT),
came an "overnight sensation" in Shooting Simone at the Per-
when the play was first produced formance Network in Ann Arbor
in 1967. Since then, he's written and in Two Sisters at the Purple
several screenplays and more Rose Theatre. Joseph Badding
than 20 hit plays, including The is the Player in R & G, serves on
Real Inspector Hound in which, the board of directors and has
ironically, Mark Nathanson played Duke Senior in As You
(Channel 56's producer of 'Detroit
Like It and McMurphy in One
Remember When I and II," whom Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, all
I spotlighted here last week) and at AACT. A graphic designer by
I appeared together the summer profession, Radding also designed
of '83 at the Michigan Union Din- the set for R & G.
ner Theatre in Ann Arbor.
Foster also points out that the
As the character Felicity, I had cast of 11 men is rounded out by
a pale-pink motif to my costumes nine "rotating' Ophelias — an
(a hue that is definitely not in my Ophelia du jour for each perfor-
color palette); I wore pink Keds mance, if you will. O
and a cute little tennis outfit (pale-
pink shirt, white pleated skirt). In
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
the dialogue, Felicity was de-
Are
Dead runs at 8 p.m. tonight
scribed as having "trim buttocks"
and tomorrow at the Ann Ar-
(in my dreams), but who would
bor Civic Theatre. Tickets are
know, back then, that this would
$9, with student and senior-cit-
serve as a foreshadowing for my
izen
discounts available. 2275
soon-to-be released story in the
Platt Road (just south of
health section of The Jewish
Washthnaw). For information
News. Watch for it in the next few
call (313) 971-AACT.
weeks. And now back to Hamlet.
According to Director Liz Fos-
ter, "Rosencrantz and Guilden-
stern are old college buddies of Fiddlin'Around At The Fisher
o continue in the same vein
Hamlet, who, at the request of
in today's JIVE section,
King Claudius, come to Denmark
we've
got Itzhak Perlman
to see if they can 'glean what af-
"In
The
Fiddler's House,"
flicts' the melancholy Dane.
klezmer
music
and all, on Chan-
"Stoppard's play parallels
nel
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Shakespeare's, but with the focus
And, from April 23-April 28,
on R & G. The audience meets
Hamlet, but, whenever he leaves we've got the "Fiddler" coming to
the room, Hamlet goes with him, the Fisher for the 30th Anniver-
and we stay behind with Rosen- sary National Tour. Starring
crantz and Guildenstern, who are Theodore Bikel, who's got to be
suitably baffled by the prince's be- a rich man by now from playing
havior and blissfully ignorant that this role so many times, Fiddler
their own fates hang in the bal- on the Roof will run at 8 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday; 2 p.m.
ance.
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