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Television The Sacramento Bee Final Tuesday October 13 1987 B1 1 Roseville produces a pair of pleasers THEATER REVIEW By John Hurst Bee Reviewer AFTER YEARS of false and fitful starts aimed at establishing live theater in Roseville the Sacramento suburb sports not one but two such troupes this season And a weekend look at their current offerings indicates that while both have mounted productions of more than passing adequacy neither is in danger of losing its amateur standing The newer of the? two is the arena-style Magic Circle Theatre which bowed in Gold Rush Plaza last summer with a staging of James "The and which is currently doing a credible production of the big musical Not much older is Roseville Theatre Productions a ka Showstoppers now into its second full season with an entertaining production of Joseph durable offbeat comedy and Old Lace" Both productions suffer from such slings and arrows of amateur theater as uneven casting a consequence of the availability of volunteer acting talent and the fact that both productions require large casts 14 in the case of and 18 in Girl" (with six of them double- and even triple-cast in minor roles) And if there are other flaws as well the surprise is not that they exist but that in neither case are they enough to spoil things for the audience But to spec ifics Girl" is the musical based on Isobel Iennarts hook about Fanny Brae a kind of female Jerry lewis whose star burned brightest in the and Mi's has some marvelous songs by Jule Sty ne "People" and Rain on My Parade" among them with lyrics by Bob Merrill that sparkle with wit and humor The indefatigable Gwyneth Bruch plays Fanny comedy are as delicious as they are varied there are 13 bodies in the Teddy I tells the disbelieving policeman responded to a disturbing-the-peace complaint gle calls) "Who are asks the officer is an antic and very funny play that relies tor much of its comic effect on the tions of Mortimer Brewster the sane nephew as he learns of his innocent homicidal bent and tries frantically to cover up Stephen Well-! man puts a lot of energy into the role but coolness to his heat His Mortimer needs at once more looseness and better command of the stage Andrea Lazar is also perhaps too cool as Morti- girlfriend Elaine (a role to be filled by Kathleen Kelly the last two weekends) But there is an especially winning turn by Jerry Reese as Mr Witherspoon proprietor of the Happy Dale Sanitarium to which Teddy will eventually be con- signed And there are neat ones by Roy Conrad as Dr Einstein plastic surgeon sidekick and by Ken Nitschke as the play-writing Officer Ir O'Hara Michael solid set a suitably Victo-rian affair of brown ivory and dusty pink lacks only the carpeting expect to find in such a home on the stairway that serves for Teddy as San Juan Hill 1 Quibbles aside the extant evidence suggests that live theater is alive and well in Roseville ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is playing at 8 Fridays and 1 Saturdays through Oct 31 in the Roseville Theatre 241 Vernon St Roseville Advance tickets $6 adults $5 se- mors students $4 children available through BASS $8 50 geripral at door For information 782-4600 FUNNY GIRL is playing at 8 Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays through Oct 24 in the Magic Circle Theatre at 901 Sunrise Ave near Cirby Way in Roseville Gold Creek Plaza Tickets SI 0 general $9 students seniors For information 969-7775 (Sacramento) or 782-1 777 (Roseville) Brice in the Magic Circle production directed by Rosemarie and Robert Gerould and while her performance owes much to Barbra Streisand's interpretation in the film version not a bad role model Bruch makes no pretense of having a voice to match Still one can be grateful that she like the other singers in the cast manages to stay on pitch and on cue Bruch turns in an energetic entertaining and at-times-moving performance and there are deft andor winning turns as well by Betty Schoepf as the yente-ish Mrs Strakosh Mary Young as Mama Brice Gilmore Rizzo as pal Eddie Ryan John Chitambar as lover and husband Nick Arnstein and Michael Stoycoff as Florenz Zteg-feld The Geroulds have managed to get the cast through this total of 22 scenes in two acts with energy and dispatch The costumes by Charlotte French assembled with help from Michael Fitzpatrick and Bruch herself are marvelous And the music piano synthesizer and drums directed by Jennifer Vaughn suffers only because it lacks the bottom-end bounce a bass might supply A RSENIC and Old stars Kather-tne Loff and Geraldine Harrison as the dotty old aunts dedicated to providing eternal rest for elderly lonely gentlemen with draughts of poisoned elderberry wine The two are fine especially Leff as are Michael Mannion as Teddy Brewster the nephew who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and Kevin Toole as Jonathan the nephew' who looks like Boris Karloff and will kill anyone who says as much With a setup like this naturally the openings for shifting away from the young audience" Sorvino began the series with pounds pat ked on his H-foot-2 frame In his private life regular tennis keeps him fit 'Tnderneath this mhol of success" he said of his girth a well-conditioned man Bv the tune he has filmed the series' rm umtment of IT shows he expects to be 2D pounds lighter He also expel ts to be several weeks into the show's run before the senes' audience appeal becomes ilear Balings in Ihe how's firm two weeks varied from oK to poor on a night when another network was premiering new 1 1 lie ordh r-i ota about the rapport on ami off imerj he feels (or has vout sideku plav-al bv DU Moffett I a subtle ai tor and for 'he frst time I plavirg myself and mv sf a- of iag is bei oming the tv le of thf tow v01 Sorv ino I si if of ai tng doesn bit i in l'f a It will take sorne tinf it df I i liicwing SORV ISO'S OWN I If I has I a ri her of I He gte Up in One bite leads to another in By Joe Baltake Bet- Mm it- rilic OVU HAE always been a little behind television in Ihe area of so lal const ious-nrss i TV was Cuing mm tes-of the-week on letn im hai in 19701 and this is never more evident than in the media reution to the AIDS MOVIE REVIEW NEAR DARK Cast Adrian PasUur Jenny Wright Tm thorn-rson Mn Ler-ls Jenette Gold-sn-in Joshua fdii-r Lance Hnnksen and pill Purtrin D'rrs-ior d'hryn B'Ce-kaV prodriers Iwelb Fe jr-an and Chanr-s Mf-aitpr Scris-nj i Err Rer) and Jp1cv Ala-n G'ennt-g td''J' Hrrard bnsth MuS'C Tangerine D'eam su tsjtv De Laurent is Running Throe 95 minutes Capitol UA at the Movies Sacramento drive-in RjSng lor loodsutk tng sexuui re'er enri-s a role he relishes Sorvino appeals to older crowd By Michael Hill The Washington Post IT WAS A LAVISH party staged by CHS to help kick of the new television season and the mansion in Palos Verdes outside I os Angeles was jammed with celebrities good food and live music But as Paul Sorvino recalled the evening things began to drag around 11 were a lot of people standing around talking" he said "I said 'Let's make an Italian party out of it So Sorvino stepped up be-ide the pianist turned on a microphone and sang His is a rah lis-tenahle voice he's sung in regional operatic productions And while Pavarotti doesn't have to look ov er his shoulder Sorv mo definite!) put a cliatge into air not a drinker hut I guess I had one or two" said Sorvino Ih it all I eded I didn't put a lamp spade on tm he id hut I rust have done IS songs think the iris needed that di vou True But the more i ut ml 1 option Soi mo these dav is whether the puldit wdleiiihraie hao in ttie role of a ran po hi ermin undergoing a mid orxe i areer i I've the prt mse uf The ld t't poeVe" starring sorviro as in- Porter a pdn etr who las late 1 dr ldes to ide his lesg ir 1 s'reet beat and de It I 1 1 I ii I i ed tirsd a i nr 1 I Sorviru i' urges! a gtoup id noddle aged and older 'Cits ho landed lelev ismn se fits this season 'Adh Angela I a turv iv mg sfon voj don hive to tf voutlg to (arrv a sines and dh the i 1 1 pou' i 0(1 sk I rt 1 er all the iate t'-iev is is trk a on the me i thd it i an te i oi I rot to be id lhas s- isn dsfes (- return I s-r I s'iriirln sera's tele- i sion as I )r Ida la no's pale Robertson as I I Shirbuik ham otr id as the I jtman tlf ike and the I atl'Mll" (errs mb ii in 'I he la and orv Mitire' Bn hard kales heads the i r-en A Vir in tt I Hi I daa i i i pen lv gt pp-es wth the or deal of a ri as -S MaXAi II "There a stdtrg awiv from the aado-tne" said Suvi ho tm- kid in the gr'np 'Harr is a latte older than 1 ate the I atm in is nun older Bookie" attai ks the aging pro 1 ess id 0(1 takir the harn ter and the through to gh phv so 'iv 'v 1 si i universal apped in It a ihiroter" std Sorvino "Ttare ant a who love to o'! phvs) at age t' to have a'l other rai at it I an av oi tennis plav er and dl mv tennis friends sav if I on Iv started plav ing this game earn er I 1 be a lerrifu piaver now 'Mv ibaraiter had developed his mmd and smial skills and feels the harter adventurer side i oming to the surface Most (if us are seeking our own heroism and for men that means getting phvskal Ike has a ihance and tikes it and has different phvsi-i al i hallenges to ov ercome So does Sorvino who does many of the action sequences himself need that in the 8 o'clix time he said "lots of running and jumping About two davs a week I've got knee pads and sneakers on most big movies have It can be simply a vampire movie or a Freudian horrorfest on and the AIDS epidemic Either way what's frightening about it is that as these creatures of the night these agents of menace pass on their contaminated body fluids they go beyond death They're caught somewhere between living and dying and no matter how many victims they attack they're going to remain right there It is appropriate I guess that only a blood transfusion can save Caleb from this living death visual compositions are crisp and eerie wonderfully pictorial we see this night life through the eyes of its maniacs and she directs her actors as if they truly were performing in a garret production of a Shepard play The acting down the line is excellent Dark" obviously isn't a movie for ev ery one But ho cares about everyone9 ADVERTISEMENT Lance Henrtksen is a drifter with a thirst for blood everyone in the place satisfying themselves and reducing their victims to walking dead is remarkable obviously a small genre movie but one with more ideas political ideas than he lives onlv for the night and for more sucking Maes family two awful parenial figures (Lance Hen-a demonic young brother (Joshua Miller) welcome Caleb into the Ian and in the film's most brilliant set pie(e the familv takes over a riksen and lenette GttUMein a redneck older brother ilfal and roadhouse and systematically bites ADVERTISEMENT si are Uh'le even 1 sitcoms are tu k-hng the suhjn our mainstream niov ies 1 atal Attrai lion" "No Wav l'p Artist" have been operating in their own time frame Thev never heard of safe sex It as if these movies have onlv helatedlv discovered the sexual 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