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Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, April 2, 1972 THE LIVELY AKT5 iii'iiim I B-4 'Promises' corning from Broadway to Kellogg Auditorium Friday ml A MiWWiiiwwuiwj.y,V'in:'!pMWB U'im'W'rJ1 mmrmmmmmiu mint 111, iim nmrn inininmuiinjuniii.il .1 i ipii jmpjjw -I m. iiifiiw liisa 'J of the romantically troubled, ambitious young business executive. Mackenzie is the exuberant actor-singer-dancer who helped make "Hello Dolly" (another memorable Merrick production) an outstanding Broadway hit for two years he played the bashful clerk of the feed and grain merchant of that show with four of its series of Dollys. For the object of Mackenzie's heart-on heart-interest in "Promise," David Merrick has engaged as the costar a new discovery whom he is grooming for a Broadway appearance the season af-ler this. She is Sydnee Balaber, a young lyrical soprano whom Merrick discovered last summer singing the title role in "Gypsy" in a dinner theatre on Long Island.

Miss Balaber has appeared in some of New York's most fashionable nightclubs The Playboy Club. Upstairs at the Downstairs and Mr. Kelly's. It marked the first stage show with music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by his teammate Hal David, and based on a book by Neil Simon, the most successful writer of stage comedies in decades. New York theater buffs knew that a Broadway musical with the tricky lhythms that are the trademark of Bacharach, a prince of popular music after writing 192 song hits for eight years, had to be an event and it was.

"Promises" resulted in cidit new hits for Bacharach. including the show's highest success. "I'll Never l-'aU in Love Again." "Love" and "Our Lit lie Secret'" are distinguished by melodies that have underneath them a restrained rhythms, and beneath that another rhythm. A New York Times review of the show noted that "this is the first musical where you go out feeling rhythms rather than humming tunes." The cast coming to Battle Creek will have Will Mackenzie in its starring role W.K. Kellogg Auditorium will be the scene Friday of the road company show of the Broadway musical hit, "Promises, Promises." The spoof of executive morals in a big corporation, which won two Tony Awards during its first season on Broadway in 1968, will be presented at 8:15 p.m.

at the auditorium. The production is being sponsored by the Downtown Development Association and the Battle Creek Civic Theatre. Unlike many road company productions which star unknowns, the "Promises" cast coming to Battle Creek will include a majority of the members from the original cast which closed Jan. 31 after a successful three-year run in New-York. And this group is on tour by special arrangement with David Merrick, the show's original Broadway producer.

"Promises," which received rave reviews after its opening, was the most eagerly awaited show of the 196S season in New York. mm mm i.lMWl'ilillilllllillllg I i HI Ivif iQmmhmm 31 I ivrTTT i iij a 1 il 'li: -4 "i 1 IIP Nb -i wmwii Pianist Sharon Ensminger given feature role with WMU symphony There's the rampant Turkey Lurkey number in the ises," which will be presented Friday in W. K. Kel-office Christmas-party scene of "Promises, Prom- logg Auditorium. Voiceovers NEW YORK (AP) Of all the ways of getting into an acting career, Jeff David feels his was one of the weirdest.

"I got my first job because I ducked into a doorway to get out of a violent hailstorm in Philadelphia one day," the saturnine basso reports. "I was on my way home from a Roy Scout meeting and had never thought of acting. "But the doorway was the entrance to a neighborhood playhouse where they were casting a show. I ended up as leader of the robots in Ever since, David has been a busy thespian, with a knack for odd roles. He was the only white actor last year in a Negro Ensemble Company production.

He made his screen debut in "Some of My Best Friends Are the only straight character in a film about life among homosexuals. Despite multiple credits and a range of 50 ethnic dialects, most of his work has been far from Broadway. About a year ago his agent persuaded him to do voiCeovers for television commercials, and he's been running ever since. "I always pooh-poohed them," he says, "but they enable me to have time to write poetry and go to other auditions. "People previously never quite seemed to know how to use me be- Opera CINCINNATI (AP) This city is to become the third to see the New York City Opera's "Mefistofele," starring Treicle.

Throu'-li a gift of the Corbett Foundation of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Sum Kalamazoo A concert of mixed-media avante garde works will be presented at p.m. Friday in the James W. Miller Auditorium on the Western Michigan University campus. The works on the program will include "Threnody" bv R. Murray Schafer, the WMU rock group "Maybee Not," and the avante garde works.

Visages by Luciano Berio and Volumina by Gyorgy Ligcti. Sharon Ensminger. a pianist, will be oni of the four soloists at the annual Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra's Concerto Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 9, in James W. Miller Auditorium.

This annual concert features outstanding WMU senior music students as soloists. Miss Ensminger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ensminger of 28 W. Territorial Road, will perform the first movement from Mozart's Piano Concerto No.

14 in B-flat Major. The pianist, an applied piano major at WMU, recently was a soloist for the Ktlamazoo College Bach Festival's Young Artists Concert. In addition to appearing in solo recitals, Miss Ensminger presently sings with and serves as accompanist for the WMU Grand Chorus. She also has performed with and accompanied the University Choir, the Campus CI orale and the Women's Chorus and has served as rehearsal pianist for several WMU opera productions. Other works on the April 9 program will include Ernest Bloch's Two Last Poems for Flute Solo and Orchestra, Magda's Aria from Menotti's "The Consul." William Walton's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, the Russian and Ludmilla Overture by Michael Ivanovi-ch Glinka and the Hary Janos Suite by Zol- MSU art faculty sets Kresge show EAST LANSING An exhibit of works by 19 members of Michigan Slate University's art faculty has opened in the Kn-sn Art Center Gallery on campus.

The exhibit, which will continue through Sunday, April is composed of paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and works in other media. Included in the exhibit will be "Pylons." by sculptor Robert Weil, acrylic paintings such as Allen Lcepa's "Standing Figure," and Irving Taran's "Judy's Boy," and an etching by James Fagan, titled "King Zebra Isn't Surprised." Other MSU faculty artists whose works will be displayed include Clifton McChesney. Melvin Leiscrowitz, Robert A 1 a Roger Funk, William Gamble, Anthony DcBlasi. Owen Brai-nard. David G.

i.ogan. Rah' Ilenricksen. James Lawton. Plum. Siacv I' James McConnell.

Jens roffitt. Mrs. Nan Stack- house and Miss The exhibit Arlene Sheer, is to the public without charge. Refreshments will be served at the opening Friday evening. Festival slated NEW YORK (AP) Sixteen of the world's outstanding university choruses will come to the United States to participate in the third international Choral Festival at Lincoln Center, April 6.

Choruses are from Puerto Rico, Argentina. Brazil. Czechoslovakia. Den-nark. England.

France. West Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Uganda, India. Japan, Korea and New Zealand. ieCB -( mm BREMMER'S 'if "'it. litpiW i ii -f Om li: I mm: Bill il his paycheck 'I ii: ii II i -5- Jeff David actor does voiceovers cause I looked older than my years and projected a heavy aesthetic image." At the age of 13.

he asserts, his voice dropped into booming lower register. "At David declares. "I feel I'm just growing into that voice." leaves zoo mer Opera will celebrate its move from the Zoo to the Music Hall next June, with "Mefistofele." The cast will be from the New York City Opera, except for John Alexander () the Metropolitan Opera, who will sing Faust. LEAN PO SHOULOE Sliced Free! CUT UP FREE Sugar Cured and Hickory Smoked Tender, Cooked or Slicing ii i 'EZir Jiidr 111 id II Jpl2 1 II (0c if 1 11 Sharon Ensminger soloist with WMU Orchestra tan Kodaly. The concert is open to the public, free of charge.

WMU chorus concert Tuesday Kalamazoo Western Michigan University Women's Chorus will present a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Kanley Memorial Chapel. The first half of the concert will consist of Renaissance pieces by Giulio Caccini and Orlando di Lasso, Baroque pieces by J.S. Bach and classical works by Mozart and Handel. The second half of the concert will include 20th Century works by Joseph Clo-kev and Francis Poulenc.

i i Musical Company at MSU April 13 EAST LANSING The award-winning musical comedy, "Company," will star Allen Case as the perplexed bachelor when it is presented in the Michigan State University Auditorium at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, April 13. Part of MSU's Broadway Theatre Series, the musical comes to East Lansing under the auspices of Harold Prince who received a Tony Award for his direction of the musical hit during its 706 Broadway performances. Allen Case has starred in "Damn Yankees," played opposite Leslie Ug-game in "Hallelujah Baby," and co-starred with Henry Fonda in "The Deputy" TV Series. "Company," the tale of a young, attractive bachelor's personal tug-of-war between remaining single and committing himself to marriage, is, by turns, witty, urbane and touching.

International singing star, Julie Wilson, stars as the thrice-married sophisticate in "Company." Tickets are available in advance at the MSU Union Ticket Office. Peristyle series TOLEDO Toledo Museum of Art's Peristyle Concert scries for 1972-73 includes the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Sept. 15; The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Nov. the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Feb. 11; and The Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, March 1.

The Dance Series: Batsheva Dance Company of Israel, Nov. The Frula of Yugoslavia, Jan. 12; The National Ballet of Washington. March 23'; and the Pennsylvania Ballet April 18. consumers power company General Offices: Jackson, Mich.

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