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By BARBARA SEYFRIED "A Funny Thing Happened on the Rouse indicated that some of the Its mass meeting time has not nization for which they are solely
Way to the Forum." best talent for MUSKET was been released. responsible.
Three student organizations nave MUSKET has been presenting , found among those who had had Soph Show is run entirely by This year's mass meeting for
traditionally presented dramatic, increasingly more professional per- no previous experience upon the sophomores. Students select, di- sophomores will be held September
performances during the year at formances in the past three years, stage. rect and produce the play them- 3 at 7:15 p.m. in the League Ball-
the University.n These perform- according to Jack Rouse, Grad, He also explained that there selves. The play they are present- room.
ances are designed to make use of MUSKET director. were numerous opportunities for ing this year, "A Funny Thing The reason behind MUSKET's
student talent on campus. Use Talent students to participate, not only Happened on the Way to the For- selection of "West Side Story" this
This year MUSKET (Michigan Rouse explained that MUSKET in MUSKET, but also in Soph um," was described by Rouse as a year was that it has a "message"
Union Show-Ko-Eds Too) will attempts to use the talent of Uni- Show and G&S. Students in any "nutty, vaudeville, farcical, plot- to deliver. Rouse explained that
present Leonard Bernstein's "West versity students in any area of of these organizations can audi- less play which moves at an ex- from the musical standpoint "West
Side Story"; The Gilbert and Sul- study, in any year at the Univer- tion for the cast of the play or tremely fast pace," Rouse explain- Side Story" is extremely difficult
livan Society will present "Pirates sity. This year it will hold a mass petition for jobs on stage crews, ed that the play is a very stylized to produce. Because of Bernstein's
of Penzance," and Soph Show will! meeting September 8 at 7:30 p.m. working in such things as costume production and is extremely amus- background, he wrote the music
present Steven Sondheim's play, in the Michigan League Ballroom. design, set design, makeup and ing if it is done well. in such a way that it possesses a
----_._.other areas of work. He explained that last year's symphonic, almost balletic quality
- G&S Production Soph Show performance of "Fio- which is rather hard to produce.
G&S Society presents a Gilbert rello" was hailed as a success. Male Dancers
and Sullivan production in the fall One benefit of Soph Show, ac- The biggest problem Rouse an-
and winter semesters each year. cording to Rouse, is that it pro- ticipates with the MUSKET pro-
Last year it presented "Trial by vides sophomores with an oppor- duction is locating male dancers.
Jury" and "The Sorcerer." tunity to get involved in an orga- Rouse said he was sure that the

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PTP--ualty Theatre
By ROBERT MOORE

FWhen the University's Prof es-
sional Theatre Program (PTP)
set a new record last April for
advance subscriptions by selling
over 1,000 in just one week-even
though the first performance was
almost a half-year away-theatre
in Ann Arbor reached a new high.
The University, through its
PTP, offers a varied and often-
brilliant array of theatre. As one
part of the Professional Theatre
Program, the PTP brings in the
Association of Producing Artists
(APA) to Ann Arbor every fall to
put on a series of plays in
repertory.
Just a few comments that have
been made about the APA are
enough to indicate the quality of
the University's PTP schedule.
"America's most skillful reper-
tory company," the Saturday Re-
view called it.
"The finest repertory company
in America," the New Yorker
magazine assented.
"Exhilarating . . . mature the-
atre . . . a joy," the New York
Times exulted.
Prof. Donald Hall of the Eng-
lish department, one of Ann Ar-
bor's ranking critics and men of
the arts, once said that "the the-
atre in Ann Arbor is not to be
equalled anywhere."
Even the University Regents
passed a special resolution prais-
ing the APA's performance of "An
Evening's Frost," a play written
by Hall and premiered in Ann
Arbor.
The PTP presents the APA; but
also it presents two other pro-
grams for Ann Arbor audiences--
it's "play of the month" program
and its annual presentation of an
original play. One APA original

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play later went on to be a success
on Broadway.
This season, as usual, the PTP
will present three plays through
the APA, its play-of-the-month
program, and one original play.
This season APA will present:
-"You Can't Take It With
You," one of the funniest comedies
in America, by George S. Kauf-
man and Moss Hart;
-"The Wild Duck," a poignant
classic about hope and failure by
Henrik Ibsen;
--"Herakles," the world pre-
miere performance of Pulitzer
prize winner Archibald MacLeish's
provocative new play.
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an adapted version of Leon Tol-
stoy's "War and Peace" by Erwin
Piscator.
To do this the PTP used the
epic theatre style of acting
in which one scene is blended into
the next. Stage hands moved
freely on stage to raise and lower
platforms which were the essence
of a scene change.
The entire play was presented in
short, critical scenes which com-
municated the essence of the story
to the audience.
This was the premier of the
play in the United States.
Other plays presented were Jean
Giradoux's "Judith," Brendan Be-
han's "The Hostage," and George
Bernard Shaw's "Man and Super-
man."
The APA productions run be-
tween Sept. 28 and Nov. 14 in
repertory. Single show seats range
from $1.80 to $5.00. Season tickets
range from $5.40 to $15.00. Stu-
dents, however, receive a special
25 per cent discount.
The season tickets are available
now and single tickets will be sold
in September. Tickets can be
bought through the mail (U-M
PTP, Mendelssohn Theatre, -Ann
Arbor) or at the subscription of-
fice in the Women's League
building.
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talent was available but the diffi-
culty lay in getting them to audi-
tion for the play.
However, he did indicate that
there were also a great number
of people willing to try out. Last
year there were 35 roles and over
150 students turned out for audi-
tioning.
Rouse said he expects more peo-
ple to turn out this year and hopes
he can get the male dancers he
needs for the performance.
Stylized Scenery
One innovation which MUSKET
directors plan to make this year 5
is to use an extremely stylized
form of scenery. As Rouse ex-
plained, the entire set will be con-
structed out of metal.
This will be done, he said, be-
cause of the difficulty present in
setting up complete sets of a New
York skyline.
This is probably the first time
an all metal set has ever been used t
on any stage in Ann Arbor, Rouse: 4'^z=, Xa
remarked. It is something also_>
rarely used on other stages r"
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throughout the nation.h nt
Buy Choreographyf h
While it is possible for MUSKET
to buy the Jerome-Robins chore-
ography for "West Side Story"
used in the Broadway version of
the play, Rouse said he plans to
do his own 'choreography for the'FrH IsA Enlhm '
play. For He Is n Englishman
Both Rouse and the musical di- --- - ---- - ------ ---- --
rector of MUSKET, Bruce Fisher,
'66M, have been working on MUS-
KET productions for the past
three years.
Both directors worked together
on the 1964 production of "The
Boyfriend" and the 1965 produc-
tion of "Wonderful Town," anoth-
er Bernstein musical.
Subtle Change
Rouse said that during the years
MUSKET has undergone a subtle
change. He explained that it used
to be more of a social organization
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