News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 35

Airport Park Hotel Dinner theater enjoyable voice as she piays Polly making an interesting counterpoint to the perkiness she brings 10 tne role wot wanting to tread on Marge turf just say the dinner was most enjoyable The damsel I went with liked the enormous salad bar best If you feel like night clubbing after the theater simply take the elevator upstairs to the Finish Line Cabaret (the hotel is a throw from Hollywood Park which explains the motif) where an energetic group called Foolish sings "for your dancing and listening Boy dinner dessert and two drinks comes to $12 a head Buffet is at 7 and the show is at 8:30 pm Thursday through Sunday at 600 Avenue of Champions By Randy Stark Dinner theatre at the Airport Park Hotel in Inglewood is like watching a particularly good musical comedy production at Showcase Theatre in Hawthorne after enjoying a fine buffet dinner by chef Toby Bruno the limit The current attraction at the Starting Gate Theatre is Boy the poor little rich girl meets poor little rich boy saga that Ken Russell had such fun with in his movie We get the back-stage intrigue Russell showed just the straight scoop about Polly and Tony and everyone else hanging around Madame Finishing School still cute as a ear The songs are memorable Could Be Happy With You" Room in Little among others And the rhymes are quite dapper: our attic be or how about kick away every scrup-leI learned as a The cast ranges from adequate to excellent Ray Limon plays the title role He looks like Buster Brown has a toothy smile that would put Jimmy Carter to shame and dances to beat the band There is a sandpaper roughness to Diane Cham- Chambers and Limon work well as a team and the rest of the cast is supportive Elena Greenberg Pat Quinn Janet Kriegl and Gerrda Greiner are appropriately cooey and gooey as the other girls in the finishing school Miss Greenberg is especially fetching as Maisie and is part of a high-voltage dance sequence In one of her songs Miss Greenberg sings that if she had a boyfriend misbehave for not doing anything tomorrow night Eric Onstad has some nice moments as Maisie's partner There is something reminiscent of Bobby Van in delivery The entire production is under the direction of Jack Nicholson and it is impressively versatile given the space limitations in the dining room Jacquelyn choreography is imaginative and environmentally sound Charles Albertine the musical director plays the piano for the show Rodney Rozzelle plays the drums and blows whistles Set considerations were no doubt truncated by the lack of space but the design by Ron Howell and Gregg Mills filled the bill Mercedes Diaz was in charge of costumes Play gets I to heart of the matter By Polly Warfield If good actors in a good production can get past the critics to the audience got it made This is what has happened in the case of the current Group Repertory Theater hit To the in Hollywood Audience reaction has been so favorable that the run originally scheduled to end June 6 has been extended which proves people like this a fact that is in itself a critical statement of the most convincing kind A romantic comedy by Rick Edelstein in its world premiere To the offers most notably a couple of highly skilled and unusually appealing performers who make their amorous encounter credible interesting and significant As the play progresses we come gradually and steadily to accept and like Pablo and Lee and to care about their rather improbable but highly provocative romance John Dullaghan a fine actor is completely right as Pablo the New York writer suffering from a case of hopelessly curdled terminal connubial complications He is tortured by loneliness and the pain of separation from his children Dullaghan shows us all this plus Pablo sensitivity decency inner intensity and humor (About that name really Paul The fact that he chooses to be called Pablo tells us something too) Janee Michelle plays Lee a film company executive secretary who follows her guy JC from Los Angeles to Manhattan only to discover their love affair is over Michelle comes on light and easy crisp and cool and concludes like a shower of Roman candles Pablo is Jewish and John Dullaghan has key role in to the Heart' cutesy gimmicks by Kathleen Wilcox Dullaghan and Michelle both project intelligence decency sentience and humor Together they make us believe they make fireworks happen The play is well directed by its author and ingeniously staged on a clever smoothly adaptable multiunit set by Peter Clemens Performances are at 8:30 pm Thursday through Saturday and 7:30 pm Sundays at 11043 Magnolia Blvd North Hollywood Final performances of PM Dangerous Comer with Joyce Ponce are 8:30 tonight and Saturday For information on live theater in the South Bay telephone these box offices: ChaMl 17J-M34 Palos Verdes 375-754 Showcase S44-54O0 Torrance 371-4541 Westchester MS-5154 therefore Actually pinkish pale-beige Lee i Actually light cafe-au-lait with a tinge of saffron They meet inauspi-ciously she intruding at the end of a savage quarrel between Pablo and his wife It is suspenseful fun to watch the inevitable get around to happening Hazel Medina with an irresistable nonchalance and a mastery sense of comic timing turns in a memorable sparkling performance as effervescent girl friend Judy Jean Berne gives a solid sincere portrayal of estranged confused tormented wife Unfortunately Audrey the wife is no match for the all-together Lee Two other tangential roles are those of former lover JC a self-serving complacent dude who seems to have about as much heart as the computers he works with (as enacted by Ken Snell) and Pablo's pre-teen daughter played straightforwardly with no TORRANC YrfCA presents Exhibition viewing with wine tasting and cheeses from 7 pm $200 donation lithos original oils watercolors sculpture1 all provided by Collier Art Corporation 2900 Sepulveda Torrance Information: 325-5885 A community salute from tchabod Crane's Tarry Town Tavern.