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9 4 Section F7f Straw-Hat Schedules 2 The Pittsburgh Press Sunday, May 30, 1982 ((J Presstige Events Music -o 16 10 11 ra(WU STRAW- Oi ATS Ci i 1 I rW ill LAB THEATER SHERWOOD FOREST ihte I MO ROBERT MORRIS jAiL (Huujm) NifcUi (N. T.p.) VT METRO SrafcSir a I 7fyX.V SHAKESPEARE FEST lOMfMJ3J 7 J0HOT founder's vvx Anmr UflT ilAV1-- I (Robinson Twp.) LZ! (D10 lPllr SOUTH PARK WHITE BARN ITOVW HEATER (Irwio) BLUE ANGEL MVR SOUTH CAMPUSW CABARET MAlf A jfW A VL (West MiHlitt) (Adiaisbg) CREfeLaf W57 LITTLE LAKE fe MOUNTAIN ll Vfclfjli (CiMiibwiO t3r PLAYHOUSE mm cow out of the barn and get set for another UST OFF the cobwebs, light the lights, shoo the summer of greasepaint, bright costumes and a variety of plays to suit everybody's tastes. At least 26 troupes are offering a bit of magic from now through August, with a few continuing into fall. The area's straw-hats will be serving up everything from lavish musicals to serious drama. For a schedule of district straw-hat offerings, see PAGE E-2.

CLO Fields Lana Turner: Still All Glamour By ED BLANK, Press Drama Editor Solid Cast mm.rsii For Shows I 1 rpOR LANA TURNER, the I sweaters came first and then LT the suds of screen soaps, always with the discreet suggestion of sex. The suggestion. The glossy perfection. That's as it was in Holly wood's glamour days, when Miss Turner epitomized a lacquered platinum-blonde look that screamed of perfect tailoring and personal bearing and whispered of promiscuity. Seldom acclaimed a superior actress, Miss Turner was and is a star who efficiently showed what we needed to know about characters.

Usually she played women who knew a- conspires with her young lover to murder her husband. The question is who's to be trusted and by whom. When Bob Barry's play opened on Broadway in December 1975 with Janet Leigh and the late Jack Cas-sidy, it lasted only three weeks. But then it's not unusual for shows to have a rough reception in New York and a long life in stock. The play reached Miss Turner through Barry and director Ron Carnegie-Mellon University alumni.

"I told them I'd be interested if they could make the woman's part a little stronger and if Ron would direct it," she says. "I've done it five different times (some of those times constituting tours), starting at the Drury Lane Theater in Chicago 2 Mi years ago." Always before, Miss Turner has played the show in the round often dinner theaters. The current tour is for proscenium theaters. Miss Turner is reluctant at first to be interviewed. Someone close to her says she has declined all such requests for five years.

She agrees, finally, with the stipulation that Nash listen in. She answers almost all questions' herself, occasionally trimming an answer by saying details will be in an autobiography she completed less than two weeks ago. It will be published Sept. 1 by E. P.

Dutton. "It started out with Hollis Alpert writing it," she says. "The book will have some of Hollis's stuff, but mostly now it's my story. "When I met him, I liked him, but iitMiiiiiii bout things the girls next door didn't. The actress brings her durable good looks and style to.

Heinz Hall June 7-12 in a romantic mystery-comedy called "Murder Among Friends." Shows will be at 8 p.m. June 7-12, with matinees at 2 on June 9 and June 12. She plays a wealthy wo By CARL APONE Press Music Editor P3IOR MAUREEN McGOVERN, Pitts-I a burgh is the city of four-leaf clovers. uT She has never found any of the supposed good-luck greenery on the slopes of Mount Washington or the scenic paths of Point State Park, but good things keep happening here nevertheless. The Irish lass from Youngstown will return this summer to try to continue her good fortune.

She will play nurse Nellie Forbush in the Civic Light Opera's opening Broduction, "South Pacific," July 6-11 at leinz Hall. Also signed for the CLO season will be Tony-nominee Meg Bussert for three roles; Broadway's Richard Muenz and TV's Don Stewart for two roles each; Keith Rice, a star in three seasons here, and TV's Donna Pescow. Miss McGovern feels strongly about Pittsburgh she will work here while on vacation from her Broadway run in "Pirates of Penzance." "Everything good seems to happen to me in Pittsburgh," she notes. "I had recorded 'The Morning After' for a Cleveland producer, Carl Maduri, in 1972, and it was going nowhere. While in Pittsburgh performing, I learned that the song (from the movie 'The Poseidon Adventure') had won the Academy Award.

"After that, Midwest disc jockeys got so many requests for the song the Cleveland company had to re-release the record. I was (Continued on Page E-4.) man who I said I should be writing this book I was telling him so much. After lots of rewriting and revisions, it's now really my story." Alpert, contacted at his Shelter Island, N. residence, says 95 percent of the'structure is his, but that the focus had shifted. There will be (Continued on Page E-4.) Turner will star in the mystery-comedy "Murder Among Friends" June 7-12 at Heinz Hall.

Maureen McGovern will help open the Civic Light Opera's i season by playing nurse Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" July 6-1 1 at Heinz Hall. imn nun mm iTif nnum ir- mri hi I ill mi iimmmmmMimmmiwmmmmImm 4'.