The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 37

THURSDAY. MAY 8, 1980 Compiled by Jean Southworth The uttawa Little Theatre summer season opens tonight with Love From a Stranger, a play by Frank Vosper based on a whodunnit story by Agatha Christie. The production is directed by J. Michael Farrell, who took part in OLT plays in the mid-1960s before going to Queen's University. He obtained a master's degree in theatre arts from Michigan State University in 1971 and subsequently taught at Toronto's Seneca College and set up the drama program at Cambrian College in Sudbury.

Since returning to the Ottawa area in 1977 he has been on the staff of A. Y. Jackson Secondary School. A year ago he directed Alan Ayck-bourn's How The Other Half Loves for Kanata Theatre. Terrence Cormier, who will be studying at the Banff Centre's school or fine arts this summer, has the leading male role of Bruce Lovell.

The female lead, Cecily Harrington, is played by Sylvia Parent-McArdle. Others in, the cast are Susan Mon-aghan, Nancy McPherson, Kenneth Kelly, John Gravel, Jane Darragh and Rafe L'Amoureux. The OLT will be presenting The Man Who Came to Dinner June 5-21 and Charley's Aunt July 10-26. Japeppy and Me a fantasy-thriller by Tom L. Bonvie of New Glasgow, NS, was the winning play in a Canada-wide competition held by Ottawa's Tara Players.

It will have its premiere tomorrow night in St. Patrick's Hall. Larry Hrehoriak will play the role of Japeppy and Marie Giroux that Of Laura Lee, a 19-year-old girl who has the mind of a 10-year-old. Joan Sullivan Eady will appear as Laura Lee's Aunt Mandy and David Gamble as Dr. Bushman.

Today: Brian Law's Thirteen Strngsxperform MUSIC The final concert in the series ottered by Brian Law's Thirteen Strings will take place in St. Matthew Church al 8:30 p.m., with violist Steven Dann as guest artist. The program: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Bach; Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No.

4, Gorelli; Concerto tor Viola, Tele-mann; Fantasy, Hummel; Holberg Suite. Grieg. A concert will be held at McLeod-Stewarton United Church at 8 p.m. in honor of Education Week. Participants will include organist Stefan Anderson, a choir from Fielding Drive School directed by Jane Tannis.

the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble directed by James Richardson, and the church choir directed by Arnold Earl, with Fred Bradley and Paula Quick as soloists. THEATRE OThe National Arts Centre Theatre Company's production ot Loot, the wickedly witty farce by Joe Orton. continues in the NAC Studio at 8:30 p.m. Further performances May 9. 1 0, 1 2.

1 5. 1 6. 20. 21 24. 26, 29 and 30 and June 3.

4 and 7 at 8:30 Friday: NACO gives final Family Pops concert MUSIC UThe NAC Orchestra will give the final concert in its Family Pops series In the NAC Opera at 8:30 p.m. with Mario Bernard! conducting and pianist Lorin Hollander as soloist. The all-Tchaikovsky program will consist of the Waltz and Polonaise from Eugene Onegln Serenade for Strings, and Piano Concerto No. 1. There will be an open rehearsal at 1 1 1 5 a.m., to which admission is free.

THEATRE IJ The Tara Players production of Japeppy and Me the mystery thriller by Tom L. Bonvie. opens in St. Patrick Hall, 280 and May 10. 1 7 and 31 at 2:30 p.m.

Notre Petit Ville the French adaptation ot Thornton Wilders Our Town continues in the NAC Theatre at 8 p.m. Further performances Friday and Saturday. Love From a Stranger, the play by Frank Vosper based on a story by Agatha Christie, opens at the Ottawa Little Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Performances Tuesday to Saturday until May 24. The Kanata Theatre production of Two and Two Make Sex, the comedy by Richard Harris and Leslie Darbon, continues in Earl of March High School, Kanata, al 8 p.m.

Further performances Friday and Saturday. L) Moliere's Ecole des femmes continues at Le Theatre de I'lle. 1 Wellington Hull. Performances Wednesday to Friday at 8:30, Saturday at 7 and 10 p.m., and Sunday at 7:30 until May 31 From Saigon to Sudbury, the docu-drama about southeast Asian refugees in Canada staged by Toronto's Theatre Lifeline, will be presented at St. Luke Anglican Church at 7:30 p.m.

under auspices of 4000. Randall Dark's new cabaret show, Gloucester at 8 p.m. Further performances Saturday and May 1 6 and 1 7. L) A program entitled Theatre ot War will be presented at the Canadian War Museum at 8 p.m. Members of the NAC Theatre Company will be heard in readings and discussions relating to the company's current productions.

Admission to all National Museum events is free. MISCELLANEOUS Members of Tree, an Ottawa organization which includes writers and others concerned with the arts, will present a program in the Old Firehall on Sunnyside Avenue at 8 p.m. It will include songs by Is a River, Daniel Prothero; In Canso Strait, an. Keith Bissell; The Lost Chord, Sullivan; Old King Cole. arr.

Frederick Archer; Gtoriafrom Mozart's 2fh Mass; Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs, from Handel's Messiah; Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day, from The Mikado, Sullivan; Aff in the April Evening, Roberton; After the Storm. Daniel Jones; Linden Lea, Vaughan Williams; The Story ot Wales, Lindsay Morgan; and Climb Every Mountain, from The Sound of Music Rodgers. Bands from Spencer Van-Etten Central School in Spencer, NY, will perform in the shopping concourse at 240 Sparks St. at 10 a.m. DANCE A dance troupe composed of young women of Indian extraction will present a program of Indian classical dance in the Bharta-Natyam style and a dance drama.

Chandallka In Ridgemont High School at 7:30 p.m. under auspices of the Indo-Ca-nadian Women's Circle of Ottawa. Pro- Saturday: Ray Morris directs Welsh MUSIC Five members of the New Musicdance Orchestra, a Toronto organization which includes musicians, composers, dancers and choreographers, will perform at SAW Gallery, 55 Byward Market Square, at 8:30 p.m. The performers will be dancer Marie Chouinard and Instrumentalists Barbara Ackerman, Robert W. Stevenson, Andrew Timar and Wes R.

D. Wraggett. The program: Eight movements, tor flute and clarinet, John Hawkins; Volo, Cornelius Cardew; Domaines, for solo clarinet, Pierre Boulez; Certain Distilling Processes. Philip Corner: and Frog Bog, a work by Andrew Timar which includes recordings of sounds made by frogs. IJ The Ottawa Welsh Choral Society, directed by Roy Morris, will give a concert in La Salle Secondary School, 501 St.

Patrick al 8 p.m., assisted by the Earl of March Secondary School Stage Band. The choir program will include All Through the Night, an. Harry Evans; There Sunday: Douglas MUSIC (J The choir of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, directed by Karen Holmes, will perform Vivaldi's Gloria at the 1 1 a.m. service.

The soloists will be June and Diana Hartwick and Judy DeMone. The Johnson City High School Concert Choir from Johnson City. NY, will take part in the 1 0:30 a.m. service at SI. Matthias Anglican Church.

Canadian pianist Douglas Finch will appear In the last of the Premiere Concerts in the NAC Studio at 3 p.m. His program will Include Schumann's Toccata in Op. 7, Beethoven's Sonata 32 In minor. Op f.Scrlabin's Sonata No. 5, Op.

S3, i ms Finch plays Premiere Concert and pieces by Schubert, Debussy and Liszt. A program of English Renaissance music will be given in Knox Presbyterian Church at 4 p.m. by soprano Janet Marshall, counter-tenor David Barber and lu-tenist Ralph Eibner. The program will include songs by Morley, Dowland, Ford, Coprario and Bruce Pennycook. B.

B. King, the celebrated blues artist, will perform in the NAC Opera al 8:30 p.m. The Ottawa-Hull branch of CAMMAC will hold a final evening ot music-making in Glebe Community Centre at 7 p.m. Gerald Bales will conduct a reading of a cantata written for CAMMAC by Keith Bissell. Judith Froome is the director, and the sets and costumes were designed by Michael McLoughlin and Lynne Morin, Mario Bernard! will be on the podium for the final concert in the National Arts Centre Orchestra's Family Pops series tomorrow night.

Tickets are at a premium, but the public is invited to attend an open rehearsal running from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The soloist, American pianist Lorin Hollander, will be a principal speaker at the national conference being held in Ottawa this weekend by the Association of Canadian Orchestras and the Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras. May 11 is the registration deadline a summer folk dance camp which the International Dance Studio will be holding on the Ottawa River in the vicinity of Dunrobin. For information call 235978.

)98f: A Thirties Musical, continues at Fernando Restaurant, 332 Somerset St. W. Performances Wednesday to Saturday at 8:30 and Sundays at 7:30 p.m., until May 2,5. It's Nicer Inverness, a spoof on Macbeth by Ottawa writer Brian Doyle, will be presented In Glebe Collegiate at 8 p.m. Further performances Friday and Saturday.

The Merivale Drama Guild production of Flowers tor Algernon the play by David Rogers based on a novel by Daniel Keyes, continues at Merivale High School at 8 p.m. Further performances Friday and Saturday. FILMS The Ottawa Film Council's final program of the season will be presented' al the Ottawa Public Library at 8:15 p.m. The documentary films to be shown are Marmosets; Dusseldorfer; The Saml, Four tends, One People and Those Wild, Wild Mushrooms Admission free. The National Film Theatre's series of recent Hungarian films continues in the National Library auditorium.

On the Side-Line will be shown at 7:30 and Gyuri at 9:15 p.m. Nelson Oliver, mime by Peter Bergen, poetry by Jane Jordan, and two one-act plays Le Gros Jean by Marty Flomen and Rhapsody Blues by Jos Lacrolx. FILMS (J The Ottawa premiere of The Third Walker, a 1977 production directed by Teh McLuhan, will be presented in the National Library auditorium at 8 p.m. as part of the National Film Theatre's Recent Canadian Cinema series. A program of short films starring W.

C. Fields will be presented at the Merivale Road branch Of the Nepean Public Library at 7:30 p.m. Choral Society ceeds will aid a handloom weaving training centre for women in South India. A second performance of the Las Vegas Extravaganza staged by the Rod Scott Dancers and other Ottawa groups will be given in the High School of Commerce auditorium at 8 p.m. FILMS Angi Vera the award-winning Hungarian film directed by Pal Gabor, will have its Ottawa premiere in the NAC Opera at 8:30 p.m.

The Muppet Movie will be presented in the Family Movie Club series in W. E. Gowling Public School at 2:30 p.m. Behind the Mask a film about Nigeria from the BBC series The Tribal Eye, will be screened in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building at 1:30 p.m. A French program, Les Canadians sonf la will be presented al 2:30.

Wayne Rostad, Ross Johnson and other country singers will take part In a concert to be held at the ODAWA Native Centre, 800 Bank in aid of the National Native Centre Fund. THEATRE Le Petit Prince, the puppet production for children directed by Jean Herbiet, continues In the NAC Salon at 1 and 3 p.m. Further performances May 1 8. FILMS Le grand heron will be shown in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building at 10:30 a.m., and there will be slide shows at 1 and 3 p.m. In French and English respectively.

if -f iwovniaiy yvvii jicpiiGM jvn9 ing naiiaia iiivouq i wiuui I rru auu i nu memo OTTAWA JOURNAL PAGE 37 Ottawa Little Theatre opens summer season i i ff- its. ev IV lilt Jr'li ml, -v rmr Tara Players production of Japeppy and Me, opening Friday. Agent Maxwell Smart finally goes Hollywood The Nude Bomb (Odeon St. Laurent) Get Smart goes to the movies. Don Adams returns as Maxwell Smart to fight a KAOS weapon that Is capable of destroying al known fabrics.

Also stars Syvia Kristel and Rhonda Fleming. Opens tomorrow. Die Laughing (Elgin) Robbie Benson, served as co-producer, co-writer, musical collaborator and lead actor In this destructive comic romp. Opens tomorrow. Friday the 13th (Rideau) Horror-thriler In which a group of young people run into trouble at a summer camp that has been closed for years because of a series of unexplained murders.

Stars Betsy Palmer and Adrienne King. Opens tomorrow. Where the Buffalo Roam (Odeon St. Laurent) Comic BUI Murray of Meatbats and Saturday Night Uve fame impersonates Hunter S. Thompson, the Ug daddy of "gonzo" journalism.

Opens tomorrow. Slent Scream (Odeon Somerset) A horror flick. Kl or Be KMed (Place de Vie) A thnlter. Foxes (Capitol Square) Story of four teen-aged girts coping with the difficulties of coming ot age In Southern California. Stars Jodie Foster and SaJty KeKerman.

Norma Ra (Britannia) A third time out for this one on the strength of Sally Fields' Oscar-winning performance in the title role of a unionist in a factory town In the Southern U.S. Hide ki Plain Sight (Nelson) A trighten-Ingly reactionary Nm, bordering on the racist, which directs its hate at a host of targets from big government to Kalians. James Caan makes a etched directorial debut, as wel as stars In blast the ROCK ROLL Johnny and the G-Rays tonight through Sat. with The Gang of Four on Sat. night only; Matchbox perform Sunday night only in the Fyfe and Drum of the Beacon Arms Hotel, 88 Albert St.

The Nylons will be performing until May 31 in the Nostalgia Lounge of the Beacon Arms Hotel. Rock pevival: tomorrow and Sat. night at the San Antonio Ranch, Quyon. Milton Stash: tomorrow and Sat. night at Peaches, 182 Queen St.

L) Apostrophe: through to Sunday night at the British Hotel, 71 Prlnclpale, Aylmer, Que. Duke of Earl: tomorrow and Sat. evening in the Foxtail Lounge of the Richmond Inn, 5 Perth Richmond. La Presse: tomorrow and Sat. night at the Wakefield Inn.

LI The Backbeats: at Arnold's, 275 Ri- deau St. Metagenesis: tomorrow night only at the Algonquin College Pub, Woodrofte Campus. Jimmte Knox and Thee Group: at the Orleans Hotel, 2802 St. Joseph Or- Serge Alain Trio: at Hotel Val Des Monts, Perkins, Quebec. L) Papa John Creach performs tonight onty, Gregg Quill and Southern Cross (formerly Mainline) tomorrow and Sat.

night at Barrymore's, 323 Bank St. The Accidents: at the Rotter's Club, 419 Bank St. Slam Is performing ki the Rose Room and the Bureaucrats in the Green Door through to Sunday night at the Chaudtere on Aylmer Rd. Joe Had and the Continental Drift: al Hooper's Cafe, 321 Bank St. Axiom: at White House, Renfrew.

Tyme: at Mashimo, Masham, NEXT WEEK Dick and the Donuts: at Arnold's, 275 Rideau St. Carny: at Barrymore's, 323 Bank St. FOLK JAZZ Deve Kail and Steto Nesrallah: Down and Under at Bobby Rubino's, 1820 Cart ing Ave. isterorrage union: at Moiry cuuira dor nroeau ov Johnny MOVIES this dramatization of the story of a Buffalo stone mason who spent eight years looking tor his chadren after they were abducted by the U. S.

Justice department. Also stars Ji Eiken-berry, Robert Vfharo. Serial (Elgin) A disturbing, unfunny satire that sells a conservative middle-America sicker than the trendy California straw man It sets up to knock down. For what It's worth, stars Martin Mull, Sally Keflerman, Tuesday Weld and Tom Smothers. Closes tonight The Changeling (Britannia) Slick, wel-executed horror tale in which George C.

Scott portrays a composer who learns that the old mansion he Ives in is haunted and sets out to solve the house's mystery. Also stars Trtsh Van Devere, Metvyn Douglas. Helen Bums. Unie Darings (Race de Vie and Britannia) Sitcom style turkey starring Krisry McNfchol and Tatum O'Neal as teenagers at a summer camp, racing to see who loses her virginity first. As bad as I sounds.

Coal Miner's Daughter (Britannia) Sissy Spacek stars as Loretta Lynn in this thin, maudlin, biography of the country singer that is more a catalogue of movie trends than an Intelligent biography. Also stars Tommy Lea Jones and Levon Helm. Opens tomorrow. The Black Station (Britannia) A kids' Bm that is more for adults who remember what kids' Hms were Bte in their day than for the contemporary child. Technical txance res and the Fyfe and CLUB SCENE Steve Parker: at T.

Speakeasy, 91 Holland Ave. Regular weekly entertainment: Bran, Slump and Mary Monday night, Tony Gilchrist Tuesday evenings, guest talent Wednesdays and Dan 0 Neil Sunday night. Smith and Savage: at Patty's Downtown, 207 Rideau St. Freebird: at Faces, 1071 Bank St. Paul Christopher Lockyer: in the General Store at Mother Tucker's, 61 York St.

Rene Lavoie and Gary Elliott: at the Wiktflower Cafe, 215 Laurier Ave. East. Victor Nesrallah: at Patty's Place, 1070 Bank St. Dean Batstone: at the Crazy Horse Cafe. 171 Nicholas St.

The Prescott Brothers: at the Saucy Noodle, 409 Somerset St. West. Lynn Miles: at Yesterday's Restaurant, Sparks and O'Connor. Robin Molr and Dave Hltdlnger: at CW's. 352 Somerset St.

West. Capital City Jazz Band: every Friday evening at the Chez Lucienr Hotel, 59 Clarence St. The Bytown Jazz Band: every Sat. night at the Black Bottom, 1 88 Bank St. Jazz ot Ottawa: every Monday evening at CW's, 352 Somerset St.

W. For 24-hour Information on Jazz ki Ottawa caR 232-7755. Hootenanny: every Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m. at the Jack Pureed Community Centre, 320 Elgin St. Guest talent welcome.

Those wishing to perform must sign up by 8:10 p.m. For more Information, please call Mary Simpson at 237-2946. NEXT WEEK -h Serge ''Cote: at the Crazy Horse Cafe. 71 Nicholas 8t. Pat La Barbera and Gary Williamson: at CW's, 852 Somerset St.

West. COUNTRY John Henry and the Steel DrMn' Band: at the Golden Rail. Lafontatne Hotel, 336 Montreal Rd. Red Cedar at the Mississippi Hotel, Certeton Place, -t cues a predictable, unimaginative plot. Stars Kelly Reno and Mickey Rooney.

Being There (Elgin) Peter Sellers delivers a memorable performance as a simple-minded gardener whose only contact with the outside world tor most of his life has been television and who ts rudely tossed into that world with amusing results. Also stars Shirley MacLaineand Metvyn Douglas. Al That Jazz (Capitol Square) Darxxy-CTKXographer-rnovie director Bob Fosse's lavish, energetic film about his own love-hate affair with show-biz. Predictably the dance sequences are superb, though the spectacular finale does wear a bit thin. Roy Schekfer of Jaws and French Connection fame plays the Fosse character.

Chapter Two (Britannia) Predictable Neil Simon romantic comedy about a pair of 40ish singles, played by James Caan and Marsha Mason, who discover each other. Opens tomorrow. Kramer vs Kramer (Odeon FJmdale) The big Oscar-bagger, with five. Slick. Wei-executed but exploitative fantasy about an estranged couple's relationships with the six-year-old son they both love.

Good performances by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep are part of the glossy, superficial pack age. La Cage Aux Foltes (Capitol Square) A brilliant French-language comedy that uses a pair ot aging homosexual lovers to make a pleas for tolerance ot individuals. With English subtitles. Movies are rated out of five stars, except for those yet to be reviewed. Compiled by Duart Snow Rays Drum IJ Footloose: at the Hitching Post, 363 Bank St.

Terry Carisse: at the Commercial Tavern, 73 York St. The Boys in the Band with Byron Stever: at Sam's Place, Hotel Rideau, Smiths Falls. Wayne Rostad: at the Silver Dollar, 1 969 Merivale Road. Live entertainment: at the Aylmer Hotel, 1 1 5 Main Aylmer, Que. Howard Hayes and the Country Drifters: at the Luskville Inn, Luskville, Que.

Fred Dixon and Short Notice: at the Kemptviile Hotel, Kemptville. Just Us: at the Chez Lucien Hotel, 59 Clarence SI. Ginette Porter: al the Chateau Pearson, Waketield, Que. NEXT WEEK Nev Wells and Sweetwater: at the Silver Dollar, 1989 Merivale Road Diane Gentes and the Drug Store Cowboys: at the Hitching Post, 363 Bank St. SHOWBANDS DISCO Ram: at the Cock and Lion, Chateau Laurier.

Rufus: at the Beachcomber, Talisman Hotel, 1376 Carting Ave. Mama Coco: at Branscombe's Motor Inn, 3700 Richmond Rd. Chris Edwards Show: at the Blind Pig, Holiday kin, 100 Kent St. Martin Stevens: at Le Quadrille, Inn of the Provinces, 350 Sparks St. NEXT WEEK Manchester at the Blind Pig, Holiday Inn.

David Sebastian Bach: at Le Quadrille, Inn of the Provinces. LOUNGES J. C. Duo: at La Parislenne Supper Club, 196 Laurier Ave. W.

The Assembly: at the Continental Dining Lounge, Nepean Sportsplex. Robin Averfll: at Bogey's, Butler Hotel, 112 Montreal Rd. Aurete Lecompte and Lucienne Watson entertain ki the Rendezvous Lounge, Sky-line Hotel, 101 Lyon St. COMEDY oerry Anenr niccups, zur Hiaeau "jCompHsd by Meg Leonard.