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El Paso Times from El Paso, Texas • 20

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El Paso Timesi
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El Paso, Texas
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1 nini yni Page 8-B Axat ia stoat. 532-1971 THE Eli PASi WTES Paso's HOME Newspaper Dial 532-166 an day, August 29, 1971 Marquee Theatre Reveals Line-Up Of Plays The first season of the new Marquee Theatre, opening Sept. 7 with "Marriage-Go-Round," will feature four other productions to be presented by professional casts, according to Charles Chauvet, producing director. Also contracted are "Half Way Up the Tree," "The Only Each show will run approxi Round" will be Stewart Moss, Additional information on the shows will be announced r.ext week. Five of the seven memben of the New Mexico State Fair Commission are ranchers.

Game in Town," "Play it Again, Sam," and "You're a Good Man, Charley Brown." A leading member of the original Broadway cast of "Play it Again, Sam" will join other Equity actors in the El Paso production. mately five weeks and the theatre will be dark only Sundays and Mondays. A thrust stage has been created in the theatre and it is equipped with unusual equipment to provide for quick and easy scene changes. Starring in "Marriage Go- Marianne McAndrew and Liv Lindeland. Miss McAndrew, with many credits, played the hat shop owner in "Hello, Dolly." Miss Lindeland posed for the center spread of the January issue of Playboy magazine.

BE Announcing the opening jjrrj -TSy i i-r ill I I Of MKCMA 1 'faTT I tilt 0 .1 n.y, I also offer gourmet dining, snacks and a complete line of beverages. Chauvet said he and other stockholders are investing $350,000 in the Marquee, which will be El Paso's first Actor's Equity company. NEW THEATRE The Marquee Theatre, 6345 Alameda, will open Sept. 7 with the production, "Marriage-Go-Round." Charles Chauvet will direct the professional cast featuring Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew and Liv Lindeland. The Marquee will Professional Theatre To Offer Gourmet Dining, Entertainment (Formerly Fairview Toyota) Kfyp JP The Marquee Theatre, 6345 Alameda, will become EI Taso's first professional thea-Jre-restaurant when it opens Slept.

7 with "Marriage-Go-yRound," a comedy starring Stewart Moss, Marianne WcAndrev and Liv Lindeland. Charles Chauvet will be the producing director of a series sof professional productions, each scheduled for a five-week Chauvet, widely known in both drama and business circles of El Paso, is a graduate of the Lee Strasberg School of Theatrical Arts and a former student of Jeff Corey, famous acting and directing teacher in Hollywood. technical director of the Sioux City Theatre for seven years. During military service in Saigon, Wood was producer-director of special television shows for George Jessel, Richard Chamberland and Ann B. Davis U.S.O.

touring shows and directed the first live broadcast of the Bob Hope Armed Services Christmas Show. He came to Ft. Bliss with the broadcast section of the Public Information Office. In his off-duty time, he was a radio announcer and lighting director for Festival Theatre. He designed the lighting and assisted with set construction for "Royal Hunt of the Sun," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Generation." Toyota Corolla An inexpensive -car for people with expensive T0 is the home of QUELLE, Europe's largest mail YOU'LL LIKE DOING BUSINESS WITH EL PASO TOYOTA order house.

The Ger- man-lanruaee QUELLE shortly after Huston became interested in the project. The theatre will offer gourmet dining, a complete snackbar for those not wishing dinner and 450 regular theatre seats in addition to the dinner seats in the Director's Loge. "The Director's Loge is a raised area in the rear of the theatre which features a slanted floor with tables adjusted to the slant so that all diners will face the stage and each row of tables will be slightly higher than the one in front, this affording a perfect view of bars have also been installed. Mitchel J. Henderson, executive director: of the Marquee and -director' of all food facilities, had 15 years experience with one of the nation's largest restaurant firms, having most recently been its national division director He has a B.A: Degree in Economics from the University of Missouri, B.A.

Degree in Finance and an M.A., Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Michigan State University. He was also formerly associated with the Crown Room in the White House downtown. The Director's Loge will offer pre-show dining and a post-show dining and discotheque combination. The menu will include such specialties as charbroiled steak a Villa, curried chicken Charles, crepes maison, cafe au lait and beignets New Orleans, plus traditional dishes. "Our restaurant, snack center, bar and discotheque will be equal to any.

Dress will be optional because the accent will be on comfort and entertainment," Chauvet said. Lighting, sound and stage settings will be directed by Ed Wood, formerly with the Goodman Professional Theatre in Chicago. Although a native of Chicago, Wood was educated in Sioux City, Iowa, and has a degree in technical theatre with two years post graduate work in technical theatre, radio and television at the University of South Dakota. He began his career as an radio announcer and production director in Sioux City, becoming a television producer-director while serving as catalog (English translation covering chief Hems for mailing to the U.S. is FEED D.

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East. West E1IILY HURLBUTT Office Manager CHARLES CHAUVET I He has recently been Involved in the production of three motion picltures soon to ybe released and is currently preparing a shooting script for la film to be made in collaboration with Panco Kokner and French director Jean-Pierre. "During the 1970 production In Guatemala of the film, 'Bridge in the Jungle, soon to I be released by United Artists, writer-actor-director John 'Huston and I began to explore in depth the feasibility of a dinner theatre in El Paso. We believe that El Paso is totally ready for a really professional theatre and that is what we are presenting in the Marquee Theatre," Chauvet said. Chauvet had purchased the building, formerly the Valley Theatre, in 1969 and began extensive exterior and interior remodeling and the installation of technical equipment CPAS i "El Paso's Authorized Toyota Dealer" 1650 SIOUX (Back of Globe) PHONE 778-9266 New York, N.J.07C33 i Vj Vj GRAM) OPENING SEPMBEB if.

ACTOR'S EQUITY PROFESSIONAL USATReW 11 Jl 1 1 -r I rvr ir 1 MIMiEn (EdDffiflDTUKJIlD' SIEIPTIEMISIEIHl 7 thru OCTOBIEU 10 STTAMMMNG it Stewart Tw professor, and the Dean of Women express their views aaout marriage and produee a hllarlaus comed.v. llaving met a skinny, plgtalled Swedish professor's daughter, onr professors are hardly prepared for the voluptuous amazoaVho arrives as their housetfuest. This siren wit't brain Dower deeides that 1SS 1 1 for anthropological reasoas, she should mate with the husband. The ramifications are many, wilt v. and hilarious.

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