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Tickets Still
Available For SMT
The 30th season of WIU's Summer Music Theatre is currently underway
with the Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music,"
which will be performed July 13-14. The second selection
of the SMT season, this Tony Award-winning Best Musical has been
described as "heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting"
by the New York Times. "A Little Night Music" waltzes
into a turn-of-the-century Sweden suffused with love. This lilting
adaptation of Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night" traces
the myriad forms of desire from the tender blossoming of inexperience
to the startled rekindling of long-forgotten passion.
Tickets are available through the Hainline
Theatre Box Office, which is open from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays,
telephone 298-2900.
The final SMT selection will be "Working,"
a musical adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso from the book
by Studs Terkel which will be performed July 20, 21, 26, 27
and 28. Based on Terkel's best-selling book of interviews
with American workers, "Working" explores the American
workday from the Monday morning blues to the second shift blahs
through the original words of some uncommon "common"
men and women. Twenty-six workers, including a parking lot attendant,
corporate executive, newsboy, schoolteacher, gasman, housewife,
fireman, waitress, millworker and sailor sing and talk about their
jobs, defining not only their daily routine, but their hopes and
aspirations as well.
Corporate sponsors for this year's season
are Citizens National Bank, The Magic Dragon and Watts Copy Systems,
Inc. All shows will be presented at 7:30 p.m in the Hainline
Theatre. Individual show tickets are available at $15 public,
$12 seniors and $8 children under 12.
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