Stratford plots Broadway run for Blithe Spirit 1982
The Stratford Festival plans a late season Broadway aim with Blithe Spirit directed by Brian Bedford who may star. After Toronto and a brief tour the production could reach New York. Bedford eyes a leading lady with Maggie Smith, Tammy Grimes or Patricia Routledge as candidates.
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Jamie Portman
Southam News
Broadway
Noel Coward
Brian Bedford
Stratford
Toronto
Royal Alexandra Theatre
New York
Bedford
Maggie Smith
Tammy Grimes
Patricia Routledge
Guide sings praises of old opera house
Evelyn Furman keeps alive Leadville Colorado’s Tabor Opera House built by H A W Tabor in 1879. She runs tours, serves as bookkeeper and janitor, and charges a $2 admission to fund preservation amid neglect and rumor of demolition by the Elks Club in 1955.
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Leadville
Colo
Evelyn Furman
Tabor Opera House
Furman
U.S. West
Tabor
Silver King
H.A.W. Tabor
Mississippi River
Prince Albert
Opera House
Elks Club
Hutchison recalls boyhood in Uncle Percy’s Wonderful Town
Bruce Hutchison, at 80, discusses his new largely fictional memoir set in Emerald Vale a western town in the early 1900s. He notes roots in real people and events while recalling his journalism career and his fiction The Hollow Man and The Unknown Country. He praises Mackenzie King as a great prime minister and reflects on public reception of his works.
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Robin Phillips
John Murrell
Tom Cone
Chekhov
Goldoni
Murrell
Stratford
John Hirsch
Brian Friel
Ottawa
Bruce Hutchison
Hutchison
Canada
Uncle Percy
David
Emerald Vale
British Columbia
Chums
Tex
Ben Stott
Governor General
Saturday Evening Post
New York
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Michael Langham
Langham
Shaw Festival
GBS
Avon Theatre
Festival Theatre
Guy Spring
Brian Macdonald
England
Derek Goldby
Goldby
Heath Lamberts
Johnny Lee
Dallas
Charlene Tilton
Dick Clark
Los Angeles
Lee
Florence Hollister
St. SW
Hutchinson
Mackenzie King
Laurier
Sir John A. Macdonald
Royal Canadian Legion
Redcliff
The
Canadian Legion
Alta
Parkside School
Mino Ect
St. S
Jackie Chan
St. S.E
Medicine Hat College
Fine Arts Department
College Theatre
P.S
Keith Carradine
Powers Boothe
Fred Ward
T.K. Carter
Franklyn Seales
Andrew Laszlo
ASC
Fusion
Cooder
Wiliam J. Immetzman
Michael Kane
Walter Nun
David Gliertenuccan
David Glier
Walter Hii
Cnema Group
Century
Pace ii Filey
Teenburger
Asw
Medicine Hat
A&w
Rans
Redcliff Drive
S.W
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