The Michigan Daily - Saturday, June 22, 1985- Page 9 Fest to bring variety of entertainment The Canadian Brass Ensemble By Neil Galanter commences the Festival next Satur- day, and from there on out expect a deluge of classical music, film, BOREDOM will be a remote theatre, mime, magic, and jazz. possibility during the upcoming Every night of the festival features an weeks in Ann Arbor. Beginning on event, with some evenings having two Saturday June 25, a multiplicity of or three, distributed among local cultural events will be featured in the auditoriums, theatres, an art Second Annual Ann Arbor Summer museum, and a church. Festival. Who said that there is no reason to Showy musical poised to merrily roll along By Susanne Baum high school to speak at the 1980 commencement ceremony. The P RACTICALLY everyone, at one musical follows Shepard's speech time in their lives, fantasizes recollecting his success beginning about the glamorous world of fame with his high school graduation in and fortune. This fascination seems 1955. . to keep a sizeable portion of the The audience sees Shepard as a media in business. Where would young, romantic recent high school People magazine, The National graduate with great musical talent. Enquirer, and Entertainment Tonight He and his two best friends, Charlie be without the juicy, glamorous and May, who are also talented stories about the rich and famous? musicians, make a pact to devote But what not many people ever their lives to composing music. As consider is that behind all that glit- time passes, Frank becomes ob- ter and glamour lies many sacrifices sessed with money and power and and hardships. commits his life to getting to the top. The story of what one man gave up He turns his back on May, Charlie, in order to get to the top is portrayed and his wife, and he replaces his in UAC's production of the musical, dreams of composing music with Merrily We Roll Along. greed for material wealth. "This show is an idealistic, While gazing upon the young, romantic statement about what is idealistic, high school graduates he important in life," said Don Rice, is speaking to, Frank remembers his the show's director. The main dreams and suddenly realizes that character, Frank Shepard, has all the money in the world can never sacrificed his wife, friends and replace dreams. musical talent in order to achieve "It's a delightful show," ex- power, success, and money. Riding claimed Rice. * the crest of his success, Shepard Merrily We Roll Along, will run realizes what he has lost along the trom June l-29 at the Lydia Men. way and ponders the worth of what delssohn Theatre. Tickets are $6 and he has gained. available at the Michigan Union Merrily We Roll Along centers Ticket World. Shows begin at 8 p.m. around a rather clever excuse for a All profits go to Mott Childrens flashback. Shepard, a famous movie nrndie.r gets invited back to his old Hospital. get out of bed early on a Sunday mor- Finally there are outlets for from audiences." Alexander en- ning? Try the School of Music's Sun- museum buffs. Approximately 100 courages people to come to the "Top day A.M. Concerts. The Renaissance works including color lithographs, et- of The Park," a gathering spot ad- City Chamber Players from Detroit chings, engravings, and various other jacent to the Power Center where will perform on June 30, and Ann Ar- American prints from the '30s will all people are welcome to mingle, relax, bor's 13-member baroque music en- be on display at the University and enjoy various films that will be semble, Ars Musica is scheduled to Museum of Art during the Festival. shown on some evenings at 10:30. perform in concert on July 14 and 21. Robert Alexander, executive direc- For tickets or more information for Then get set for a marathon concert tor of the Summer Festival remarked, any of the above events and all of the series of all of J.S. Bach's organ "We hope that there will be a greater other Summerfest performances call works. Marilyn Mason, a chairperson of response and an even greater support 763-0950. the Organ department at the Univer- sity, along with several guest organists, will present a series of 16 afternoon recitals at the First Congregational Church, in honor of J.S. Bach's 300th birthday. Mason says that the concerts are planned in the afternoon so that people can hear a 5 p.m. organ con- cert, graba bite to eat, and then go to an evening event. Other exiciting attractions include an appearance on July 7 by Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, in his one- man show Mark Twain Tonight. For July 3, Conductor Maurice Peress has programmed the music of Gershwin, Berlin, and Kern for the Paul Whiteman 1924 Historic Aeolian Hall concert. Marcel Marceau, the king of mime, will also teach a series of master classes this summer for prospective - students of mime. For prize winners, you can see the three best performers from the Fifth International Van Cliburn Piano Competition perform in recital and as orchestral soloists on July 2, 9 and 21. If great movies are more your style, then you may wish to take advantage of a special series sponsored by the Alumni Association and the Michigan Theatre. Charlie Chaplin Lost and Found, a film series examining the Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITH work of the silent era's greatest star, Bassist extraordinaire will be shown on Tuesdays through The master of the bass is coming back! Legendary bassist Stanley Clarke Saturdays July 2-6 and July 9-13. will play at the Royal Oak Theatre on Friday, June 28th at 7:30 p.m. All you Scarlet O'Hara fans out Clarke last played the Detroit area September 1st at the Michigan State there can enjoy showings of Gone with Fair, where he held the audience spellbound with his amazing speed. This the Wind on July 19 and 20; there will time around Clarke is not supporting a new album, so expect such classic be showings of childrens' films in- tunes as "School Days," "I Wanna Play For You," "Wild Dog," and cluding the Wizard of Oz and Willy tuea ,S", Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Heaven Sent. Agreeable but without massive appeal By Byron L. Bull IN MASS APPEAL we encounter Father Tim Farley, to whom there would appear to be no business quite like show business. Father Farley - played by Jack Lemmon - hugs his pulpit the way an emcee clings to his microphone, dispen- sing with sermons to dish out snappy anecdotes and fast one-liners with the slickened aplomb of a veteran enter- tainer, which is just how he sees his calling. There are no souls to be saved in Farley's stately Eastern diocese, only fancies to be tickled, the very affluent to be assured that their Sunday devotional will be painless, if not altogether entertaining, and to ease any possible vague guilt over their wealth. They return the favor by keeping their priest quite comfy in his Mercedes, polished wood, and ample supply of wine. Until Farley is charged with the task of straightening out one Mark Dolson (Zeljko Ivanek), a passionately pure, intense young seminarian whose idealism and selfless devotion to his calling threatens the contentedly plump underbelly of the Catholic fraternity/business - his most recent infraction being to suggest to the Monsignor that scripture, if interpreted literally, might implicate Jesus and St. John as having a homosexual affair. Dolson finds Farley's softboiled sermonizing, his song and dance school of theology, and habit of making up con- venient lies to avoid unwanted engagements sacriligeous if not repulsive. Farley finds the hot tempered young idealist fueling tempers among his congregation, incen- sing the normally tame flock, endangering Farley's niche of complacency.. Despite the setting, there's little theological dissertation in Mass Appeal. To the heads of the church, it's a little more than an elitist corporation. To Farley, it's a smooth, almost self-running job and, more importantly, a source of attention and affection that he secretly, desperately thrives on. Even Dolson, for all his devotion, seems to be inspired by more secular sources - his altruism is essen- tially just good humanitarianism, and the rigors of priesthood - celibacy and selflessness - a desperate soul purging after too many years of debaucherous aban- donment. Bill Davis' screen adaptation of his own play flows smoothly, is insightful and honest in its soul probing, and literate toa fault of glibness. Farley and Dolson are nicely detailed characters, though are a bit too easily readable and the Freudian motivation at their hearts - both come from lousy family situations - all too tidily concocted. Lemmon and Ivanek flesh out their roles admirably and the chemistry between them, or the lack thereof, is a major part of the film's charm. Lemmon, something of a gamey performer throughout his career, seems to fit into the part as if it were tailored for him - perfect down to the smallest un- conscious details of gesture. Jack Lemon (left) and Zeljko Ivanek star in 'Mass Appeal.'