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B6 The Vancouver Sun, Monday, June 12, 1989 i. Playhouse honored DAM DAMNED: A who's who if '60s folk turned out Sunday jafternoon to help Ian Tyson stage a free concert to protest Against construction of a dam NAMES IN THE NEWS I 1 0' a '-it pn the Old-man River in Alberta river. Tyson and ex-wife 'Sylvia had a mini-reunion Maycroft-Crossing, and later teamed up with Gordon Lightfout and Murray McLauchlan to entertain about 8,000 people. A series of speakers and entertainers spoke out against the dam, which is half-completed and expected to begin operations in 1990.. IMELDA Imelda Marcos has released her first record album a collection of her ailing husband's favorite love songs and her producer says a music video will follow.

The former Philippine first lady sang for votes for 20, years in her homeland, but now she is hoping to reach another audience with her first stab at commercial success. "This is all so new to me, but it's nice to be recognized for something positive, something beautiful, like music," she said Sunday before a reception heralding the release of Imelda Papin Featuring Songs with Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos. Imelda Marcos, 59, said she agreed to join Papin, a Philli- TYSON ON STAGE: winners at the award for newcomer. The award for best supporting performance by an actor was won by Allan Zinyk for Touchstone Theatre's Lost Souls and Missing Persons, and for supporting actress by Tamsin Kelsey for Tamahnous Theatre's The Haunted House Hamlet.

Touchstone's other award was for soundscape (Jeff Corness Lost Souls and Missing Persons). The award for best new play went to The Wolf Within by Alex Brown, produced by the New Play Centre. Colleen Winton was chosen for Lillo shows score seven By LLOYD DYKK VANCOUVER Playhouse won the majority of awards in Sunday's seventh annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards night honoring excellence in local theatre. The seven awards given to the Playhouse represented a dramatic turn-around for the company which in recent years, up to Larry Lillo's appointment as artistic-director in 1988, had come very short at Jessies time. Four of those awards went to the Playhouse's striking season-opening production of Sam Shepard's Lie of the Mind, which in addition to winning best production, honored Lillo (best direction of a play), Pam Johnson and Geoffrey Dunbar (set and lighting design, respec- tively).

Playhouse Jessies also went to Norman Browning for best actor (Nothing Sacred), Health, the Musical by John Gray (best original musical) and Phillip Clarkson for costume design (Nothing Sacred). The only other show to sweep its categories was S.D.A. Productions' Peter Pan, which won in four: musical production, direction of a musical (Jeff Hyslop), choreography (Hyslop again) and musical direction (Lloyd Nicholson). The best actress award went to Annabel Kershaw in Aunt Dan and Lemon, produced by Pink Ink, a small alternative theatre company that was further recognized when its artistic-director Sandhano Schultze was given the Sam Payne Treat Her seventh annual Jessies display their trophies Right churns out LIVE THEATRE DANCE back -to-basics blues best performance in a musical (Little Shop of Horrors, produced by Theatre Under the Stars) and supporting performance in a musical was won by Lelani Marrell for Pump Boys and Dinettes the Arts Club Theatre's only award. 1 i The Mirror Game by Dennis Foon (Green Thumb Theatre) won best production of a play or musical for young audiences.

The special awards winners: Headlines Theatre for innovation, Joy Coghill for Lifetime Achieve- ment, Vancouver East Cultural -Centre staffer Sandy Knight (the music ad for a cocktail drum, whose quiet sound fit the band's less is more philosophy: He plays with brushes and augments it with a wood block, cowbells and tambourine rather than crashing cymbals. The band recorded its debut 'album in' 1986 for a mere $2,000: BMGRC A picked it up last year, and also.p;ut out the new Tied To The Tracks. The band will be showcasing songs from both albums when they play the Town Pump on Wednesday. Besides blues, Tied To The Tracks is tinged with courAry music, including the classic King Of Beers. Written by guitarist Mark Sandman, its inspiration was simple: "Mark couldn't believe nobody had written a country song with that Another great Sandman tune is Junkyard, which marries an ominous sound to lyrics about the clutter in his room.

"It's like the City of Troy," says Champagne. "It has different levels and layers he used to drive around rich neighborhoods on trash day." STEVE BOSCH Mary Phillips prize honoring "people behind the and Morris Panych (the theatre community recognition award for general achievement). Soviet wins Van Cliburn competition Associated Press FORT WORTH, Tex. Alek-sei Sultanov, a 19-year-old Soviet noted for his aggressive, erowd-pleasing performances, won the Eighth Van Cliburn Interna tional Piano Competition on Sun day. Sultanov was the youngest of the 38 competitors in the prestigious contest, which began May 27 and is known for launching musical careers.

He shook hands with Van Cliburn, the Fort Worth pianist for whom the contest is named, and host Dudley Moore. Jose Carlos Cocarelli, a 30-year-old Brazilian making his second appearance in the competition, won the silver medal. Benedetto Lupo, a 25-year-old who now teaches in the Italian city where he grew up, was awarded the bronze medal. A native of Tashkent, Sultanov has played concerts throughout the Soviet Union and Europe and attends Moscow State University. He studies under L.N.

Nau-mov, who taught two previous Cliburn medalists. Along with his gold medal, the winner of the competition receives the equivalent of $18,000 Cdn, a Carnegie Hall debut recital, concert tours and free air traveL si performiiiice is b) It looks beautiful. pine pop star who has 25 gold or platinum albums in her homeland, after recording some songs as a gift to her husband Ferdinand on their 35th wed- ding anniversary May 1. COMIC RELIEF: Oscar-win- ning actor Dustin Hoffman had an unlikely coach to help him prepare for his role as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice comedian Eddie Murphy. "Eddie Murphy sat down and read it through with me four-times," Hoffman said in this week's People magazine.

"If IV can do just half of what he did, I'm there." Hoffman said he was worried about his first Shakespearean role, performed in London's Phoenix Theatre. After opening night earlier this month, he said he had just one wish: "I'd like to make love to my wife tonight. I have been too nervous in the last few days. CRITICAL COMMENTS: Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. came to Ernest Hemingway country and criticized the legendary writer who committed suicide in Idaho in 1961 for being out of touch with America.

"He was in exile and he never explained the reason for his exile, but he hardly knew us," Vonnegut said at Boise State University's Hemingway In Idaho confer-, ence. MUSK UBC STAGE CAMPUS '89 PRESENTS MURDER ON THE NILE by Agatha Christie An Exotic Mystery' Directed by Tracy Hotmes JUNE 7-23, 8 2 FOR 1 SPECIAL 5 UanHnv at 8 dm. bat Mat. al 2 Frederic Wood Theatre RES. S26-267 DINNER THEATRE JEFF HYSLOP and ROTH MICH0L uttle OIKtlBt 6 8 PK SHOW 0:30 O.K.

S1000 TVCKP KSHMTIOKS 730-0400 8:00 p.m., June 15, 16. 17 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE Meets a all rkketnunter outlets, 280-4444 FLETCHER CHALLENGE CANADA ray I.L'WV I Ull ft aUtU Hamilton at (Dangerous Liaisons) by Christopher Hampton starring i Patricia Camille L- r- II Jt)hn Moffat directed by Larry Lillo NOW PLAYING TO JUNE 17! i.M ll 'VI Ml I A ft for the blues: the "shuffle kind of thing" took over from the scary stuff 'causd "you can dance to it," and eventually became "too boring for. the outset Treat Her Right was designed to get back that sim pie, emotional sound: "We wanted get below entertainment A rkey tactor was Heaving lots of space in the music, to "lay back and just do the bare essentials of what the song demands." They achieved this, partly by desien. Dartlv bv accident. Soon CHAMPAGNE after they formed, the band scored a house gig at a small Irish bar in their, hometown of Boston.

The owner wouldn't let them bring in drums, so drummer Billy Conway took to "playing a railing and stamping a trap door to the kitchen." Glancing through the classifieds, he found an-! 111 ByJOIINMACKIE NCE UPON A time, the blues were heavy stuff. Robert Johnson wailed about walking side by side the devil; Howlin- Wolf put out records with a sparse, scary, evil sound. Treat Her Right wants to take the blues back to the bad old days. The Boston quartet creates a powerful, menacing sound; a moody, spooky music in the grand tradition of Wolf or Muddy Waters. David Champagne is one of the architects of that sound.

"We wanted to get back to the basics," explains the singersongwriterguitarist over the phone from San Francisco. "Start with the same basic building materials as the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin, but come up with something of our own." Champagne is a man of few words, and he doesn't mince them. He figures since the heyday of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf in the '50s, things "pretty much went downhill" Datty 2 ou MftTS SatSurt-2 15 MATS 00 a Evt-iiintis 7 is i 45 20 9 tQ 0 No Passw For This Engagement i3i 3ET 4 FINAL WEEK WOMAN IN MlfiD A Provocative Comedy by Alan Ayckbourn 8:30, Sat 6.30 9:30. Mat. $30 (2 lor tl WARD-WINNING MUSICAL Hi 1 MO.

Sit. 6:30 a 30. Wed 5:30 12 lot 1) 1181 SEYMOUR HELD OVER TO JULY 1 7 STORIES 'vt1 Absurd Hilarious Comedy aft Written and Directed by Morris Panych trK i. Mon.rt 1:10. Sat 8:30 10:30 IAN- Wed.

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coarse Evenings 7 IS 9 15 Daily 1 0C Evenings lr Gene Richard ING Occasions) very coarse language Afl wilder Pryor swearirrg Daily 2 15 4 50 7 15 9 50 actors. ROBIN DEAD 00 'INDY'S BACK AND MORE FUN THAN -JuI Siegcl, ABC-TYGOOD MORNING AMERICA HARRISON FORD MIDLER No Passes For This Engagement 9 30 Evenmgs 7 10 9 35 A mats Sat'Su-2 10 BEACHES SEES0EVIUHE4RN0EHL and the LRST CRUSRDE iai7ijiwwwicgi- mam 1UAJII11 Oi Passes For This Engage-1 sz. I ment 1 Daily 1 15 400 7 00 9 40 Even-ngs 705 940 Evenings 7 00 9 40 MIS SafSun-t 15 4 00 MAIS SatSun-1 15400 Evenings 7 15 20 HATS Sat'Son-2 00 Evenings 7 30 MATS C. A TYING Occasional nudity suggestive scenes A very coarse This Summer, adventure and Imagination MEET AT The Final Frontier. WthM MAN fy C08re 1 auggectrve QMJVnj 9 -1 jmIT 1 EewngB 1 lM 9 40 I 15400 MATS Srt-Su 1 DL'STLN HOFFMAN heartfelt filni" CRUSE SNE4K PREVIEWS 1 Or RAIN BC WAR NING Some language, occasional 2A IV 30 7 00 rwtMy ft u9 U22J fcvemgs 10 9 30 3 55 MATS SefSvn-2 3P W'HiHi-KW'l WW CuAn.nna 1 (VI (VI Matinees x.

WARM NG Some very coarse irc Quage occasional nudity ft violence 25 MAlartur6 3 For This ARNfNG Occa.onal violence, coatae language ft swearing 30 MATS Sat'Su" 1 4 "0 My TS Sa Sun 1 3 50 Eve.nos i Al rrr II .11. flTfteat-p88 'tventngs 7.00 9 30 Evetirngs 7 00 Sufrnafc4 WATS Satiw-l EtC ARN'NG Occa- A touching, ft C03'S ClSiiiiV Midud MMxri. WABWNG FfMktMl miteric tr-iir. I r-ni VfHgi 1 15 -eirr95 7 MATS Sat Sun MATS 15 vats 5ar5un-s? 40 20 15 aHtL iWtOMTIeleX Everiings A. 9 4a MATS Sat'S'in-230 No Passes Engagement WARN- mG Some gory vn leK ft very coarw lartguao JlATS Sal tjlATS -7 EveftKW iXiii20 Ewenmos 7 001fl Fii iToi iiK iBf Daily? 00 2 Traume an is 1 30 00 40 Sw U0 2 IS nil ii i 73 JO TO ADVERTISE IN THIS DIRECTORY CALL THE SUN 732-2530.