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B4 The Pittsburgh Press Thursday, July 19.1990 ioutfi Park stages 'Mastergaie' Irish band films music video here Adrian McCoy For The Pittsburgh Press HAPPENINGS 'eople who feci some nostalgia the lighter moments of the Iran- ntra hearings may want to see the "Mastergate" Principal players: Frank Caffino, Claire Fraley, Tom Cervone. Director Nick Baich. Where: South Park Conservatory Theatre, Brownsville and Corrigan When: Thursdays through Sundays, 8:30 p.m. through Aug. 5.

Tickets: J6; $5 for senior citizens and students; 831-8552. Stsburgh premiere of "Master-e," which opens tomorrow at nth Park Conservatorv Theatre. Energy Orchard, a band from Belfast, Ireland, shot a video in several locations around Pittsburgh Monday and Tuesday. The video is for a song called "Sailortown." In keeping with the theme, director Neil Abramson shot footage Tuesday on the Braddock waterfront and at the abandoned Old Main Hotel on Braddock Avenue. The band flew to Pittsburgh from London, where they're now based, while the crew of Satellite Film came in from Los Angeles.

"They flew into Pittsburgh just because of the scenery," said Carol Boothby of Satellite. "They wanted to take advantage of the Three Rivers." "It's kind of out of the ordinary, because so many videos are shot in New York and LA," said Tom Cording, MCA director of publicity. "But apparently Abramson was familiar with the terrain and said, 'I really believe the script calls for this, let's do it Monday, band and film crew took over the Electric Banana, the Oakland punk and metal club owned by Johnny and Judy Zarra, for performance shots. Filming started at 6:30 a.m. and didn't end till 1 1 p.m., Zarra added.

"Thank God they were done. They ran out of film." The band, which reportedly plays melodic, Celtic-influenced rock, will be touring Canada and the United States starting in September as an opening He got the script and that decided it. "It was great rich in word play," he says. "I thought to myself, 'I could do some really outrageous things with "I wanted to bring out what I saw in the hearings themselves, as more or less of a media circus Oliver North being made a hero, Poindexter being made a sacrificial lamb. play definitely does make a political statement.

Gelbart was straight and to the point." Baich feels the Iran-Contra scandal is still fresh enough in people's minds to, give the satire sting. Oiie challenge for actor and director in delivering successful satire is in working with largely one-dimensional characters. But their lack of dimension is what makes the play funny, Baich says. "There's no depth to them. I cartoon them and try to make them more visual with some sight gags." The New York production uses TV monitors to make the action look like it's unfolding on network news.

Partly because of budget constraints, but also because he's not impressed by techno theater, Baich took a different route. "It's not really necessary," he says. "It cheats the audience. They're enthralled with what the technicians are able to do, instead of what the actors are able to do." act for country-rocker Steve Earle. Earle brought the band to MCA's attention.

Zarra said Energy Orchard told him they will try to squeeze in a club date at the Banana (minus Earle). Courtyard concert series T.C. Rogers and His Swing Band will perform from noon until 1 p.m. tomorrow in the courtyard of the Allegheny County Courthouse, Downtown. The 12-piece band will feature a vocalist and perform pieces from the big band era.

It's free. Summer fest A summer fest, featuring musician Jay Smar, is scheduled from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Meadow-croft Village, Avella. Activities for children throughout the afternoon will include magic and face painting with Rainbow the Clown. Visitors can also tour the 18 buildings containing antiques from America's rural past.

Home-cooked, family priced meals are available. Admission is $5 for adults, $4.50 for senior citizens, and $2.50 for children ages 6 to 16. Tlfe play is Larry Gelbart's satiric seid-up of the Contra-gate hearings. Most summer theaters are content to trot out the tried-and-true war horses. "Mastergate," on the ot Jer hand, is barely out of the shrink wnap.

It opened only last October at Criterion Center in New York, and before that at Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Mass. Pittsburgh is one of only a few places around the country where' the play is being produced. belbart is best known for his play "AJ Funny Thing Happened on the Wy to the Forum" and as producer of the TV series "MASH." In "Mastergate," he creates a cast of thitily disguised characters who lam-poen some very Teal government figures and turn televised hearings into a mockery. Does this sound familiar? There's Maj. Manley Battle, a patriot patterned after Oliver North, To(al News Network anchorwoman Merry Chase and CIA head Wylie Slaughter.

While the hearings were probably their own best satire, Gelbart recaptures the obfuscation and mutilation of the language, enriching his lexicon with words like "engobblement" and "emphatisize." "No one else was in a position not to know as much as the President didn't," one character says. Gelbart's mastery of verbal somersaults makes the play fun for actors. "They enjoy the lanpage and government-speak. They love the bantering," says director Nick Baich. Baich, of New Eagle, also is a sound designer and playwright.

He directed two one-acts at South Park last season. He was drawn to "Mastergate" after reading the reviews. GhLLERIh "RIOTOUSLY FUNNY!" Jxffrry Ltoni. SSt.Mi PKtMEWS ANDREW I CLAY IWaihinglon Rod Route 19 South) 531-5551 PRIVATE 0IIIN0IR PKOM. CDIUMBQ mum limine lAMAIN MAT.

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