The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky • 80

JT 80 Sunday HtnlJ-LeiJtr Lexington Ky October 1 1972 Taming Of TheShrew1 Is Guignol's Opener The Past On Local Stages: Ada Meade Saffarans for Editon Note: This is one of series on plays and players In Lexington in yean past The series is not in chronological order welcome and prolonged applause Did Ada Meade ever appear on the stage of the theater named the Ada Meade? both marry ultimately money not for love But above aU Taming of foe is a delightful wise never dull romp through the lives and loves of all men and women regardless of time or place Box-office opens Octa 4 from noon-4: 30 daily noon-9 pm days of performance Reservations may be made by calling 2680 Admission is $2 regular $1 students $1 each for groups over 10 Curtain Oct 11 12 13 and 14 is 8:30 pm Oct 15 7:30 pm Cast Is Announced For Shaw 'Candida' Director Mary Margaret What is your pleasure? Lib? Anti-feminism? The Generation Gap? Romantic Love? A titanic battle of the sexes? All are present in the University of Kentucl Department of Theatre forthcoming production of Taming of the Also present is the entire spectrum of comedy from the baudy slapstick of a dream to foe sophisticated wit of two beginning the process of nlove The play will open in the Guignol Theatre on Wednesday Oct 11 and will run for five performances through Sunday Oct 15 Directed by Wallace Briggs Taming of the Shrew" is the first of five productions scheduled by the department this falL What has kept "Taming of the alive and one of happiest comedies is its characters Here is Kate foe sharp-tongued shrew who is never more contemporary than in her insistence upon her own in-lependence of mind body spul ludgment and action the devil-may-care PetrucUo who is more than a match in wit humor and intelligence for the shrewish Kate Bianca the younger sister who is amiable and gentle her sister is bad tempered and violent Lucentio foe romantic lover who poses as a school master to win Bianca and old Baptista who demands that his daughter Kate marry before Bianca ani who tragically insists that they Bradley has announced foe cast for Canterbury EE Playhouse's- upcoming production of George Bernard By AMBROSE BOSTON In the past 100 years only two Lexington theatres have been named for persons and both were named during the same year 1913 The Ben Ali was named for James Ben Ali Haggin who bunt the theatre and who then owned Elmendorf Farm The Ada Meade waa named for Ada Meade Saffarans a Lexington girl who wu successful in comic opera musical comedy and comedy drama Both Craters have been demolished to make way for more automobiles the Ben All for a parking garage and the Ada Meade for a parking lot The theater which became the Ada Meade was built in 1907 by Bamsey and was known as the Hippodrome until 1913 when it was sold to a group of local men The new owners remodeled the theater and planned a grand reopening Samuel Wilson Lexington attorney and historian suggested that the name be dunged to honor Ada Meade Saffarans who then was scoring a success in musical comedy to New York So it became the Ada Meade and retained this name until it was torn down in 1954 Ada Meade was bom in Lexington in 1884 a daughter of Daniel and Ada Cowles Meade Saffarans she attended Dudley School Miss School Sayre College and Nasareth Academy As a school girl she was known for her beautiful voice About the time Bon Anlgur and Collette Gabrielle in Afraid of Virginia Continues through Saturday at 8:30 in the Bell Court Carriage Home Reservations 278-8882 Elizabeth French is Miu Adelaide in Beef Boards production of And Dolls" opening Wednesday The jflayers are Vicki James as Candida Dan Chapman as Morrell Doug Glover as March-banks Jay Pack as Burgess Debbie Stevens as Prossy am Rusty Williams as Lexy will be presenter at Canterbury House Nor 33 Uni! 10-12 There will be a general meeting of Canterbury Studio Players Seeking Company At Next Meeting Yu at least on two oc casions As older Lexingtonians know the Ada Meade primarily wu a vaudeville house during most of its history However during the 192323 season when the Open House was dosed the Ada Meade and Woodland Auditorium served as Lexingtons legitimate theaters On Jan 3 and 9 1923 Ada Meade appeared at the Ada Meade in a musical comedy in which she wu starred As usual on her local visits she wu wined and dined by her local friends and relatives and was given long applause in her appearances on the stage Earlier on April 9 1918 during World War I Ada Meade appeared on the Ada Meade stage at an afternoon Liberty Bond rally where ahe sang Star Spangled and My Old Kentucky She was in Lexington at the time for an engagement at the Opera House in Mrs Cecil Cantrill was in charge of the rally and Ada Meade was introduced by Stoll chairman of the Kentucky division of the Fourth Federal Reserve District Her mother Mrs Daniel Saffarans occur pied a box at the rally Bade stage that afternoon Ada Meade had to watch her atop The rally followed the afternoon vaudeville performance at foe Ada Meade where the attraction was foe indoor unit of foe Rhode Royal Circus The included two elephants a good number of harsu ani pomes a bucking mule ant performing dogs well as foe human circus performers At the Opera House in she was ap pearing with Julia Sanderson Joseph Cawthom and othere well known in musical comedy Among other things James Ross Leader dramatic critic had this to say about Ada Meade's performance: the popularity of Mr Cawthom and Miu Sanderson in Lexington the interest id the audience was centered in Ada Meade So Beefn' Boards Schedules Loesser's'Guys And Dolls' Playhouse today at 7:30 pm in foe lounge of Canterbury House 472 Rose Street Director for the remainder of the season will be elected Anyone interested in directing should be present All persons interested in community theatre are invited to attend frantic rendezvous with six weeks of time bears fruit we urge yon to Join us Join us at our next meeting Tuesday evening Oct 10 at 7:30 pm We guarantee you that you will see all the sights smell all foe smells and experience all the emotions that make bringing a play to life one of a creative persona most rewarding endeavors If you are one of those people that look at the pictures and the articles concerning Studio Players and aay to yourself like to see what one of those theatre groups is all your is here The play la currently in production and continuing Oct 5-7 and the play which is casting today at three and Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 pm are really a combination of a number of things What is a play? A play ta a book telephones nails lumber wires make-up tapes fiats sweat early suppers paint aspirin and coffee What ia a community theatre? It to composed of people and like every group it Hume Cronyn Miss Tandy Star In Forum's 'Godot' Oops! Frank memorable And bued on a tale by Damon Runyon and with book by Jo Swerung and Abe Burrows opens Wednesday at Beef Boards Dinner Theatre near Simpsonville Misa Sarah Brown is in charge of the Save-A-Soul Mission near Times Square and she holds street-comer meetings bn the same vicinity where Nathan Detroit and hto cronies (Nicely-Nlcely Johnson Benny Souths tree Rusty Charlie Harry the Horse Angle the Ox etc) hang out Nathan is foe operator of a floating crap game that at the moment is temporarily homeless because officer Brannigan is waging a campaign on crap games in this neighborhood Miu Adelaide a singer at the of her 17th birthday she gave which a performance' Hot Box la tired of her fourteen year engagement to Nathan and wants him to go legit and many her If Nathan can raise $100000 he can' get a place to hold Us game and the town is full of anxious crap shooters looking for action His hits upon an idea Sky Masterson is passing through town on his way Havanna end Nathan knows Sky will bet on almost anything Nathan tricks Sky into a bet whereby Nathan says that he can name a that will not go to Havana with Sky Sky is sure of himself not only in gambling but particularly with women and takes the bet Nathan names Miu Sarah! The plot thickens the crap game floats and a great time is had by everyone Reservations are necusary netted her about $300 which she used to go to New York to study opera Before she was 18 she wu singing in Victor in New York Then followed prominent roles in Modeste" Girl Behind the and others In several of these she appeared at the Lexington Opera House where she always received an enthusiastic Occasionally a gremlin Invades the brain and causea ridiculous errors and such was the case when in a Thursday Leader review of Afraid Of Virginia this reviewer referred to the lead female role as hiving been Virginia Woolf when it should have been Martha wife of George who is afraid The part to excellently played by Margaret Silbar We stand by the opinion that the play ia excellent correcting only our own error in identifying the character The play continue! this weekend by Studio Player at The Carriage House JA ha en te sc to it ia foe first one created hy American producers to have had its in London That was last fall when the backers made an air junket to the British capital to eee wha their money had bought The result obviously was encouraging The show ia scheduled to open Nov 18 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater The stars here as in London are Howard Keel veteran Broadway and Hollywood musicals and Danielle Darrieux whose first and only previous American stage appearance waa as a replacement for Katharine Hepburn in two yean ago The music is by Don Gohman the lyrics by Hal Hackady and the libretto by Don Ettlinger is totally diverse It' has workers and watchers it has love and hate it has exultation and despair but most of all it has a totality of commitment to make of what it has to work with as excellent an effort as possible If you would like to share In a sense of accomplishment which begins with a book room some bodies some minds some egos and a whole lot of effort and which In Movie Guide (CsaflMsS Oa Pis SI) TlmM Mr flu Mmln flUt am prinM Id TIm Lnr mimrti dmu i LaMar hi flw rami NOW ENDS TUES CIII A frnm Ivm It Wn fey Hm Malta PIcMra By JACK GAVER UPI Drama Editor NEW YORK Two of the moat prestigious stage atari will be involved in a of Samuel Beckett for plays at the experimental Forum Theater adjunct of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center They are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn wife and husband The Beckett program includes the world premiere of in which Misa Tandy will appear with Henderson Forsythe There will be four Beckett plays presented in two parts in alternating repertory The first bin Opening Nov 20 consists of a Beckett oldie and Without Words which will be getting its New York City premiere Miss Tandy featured in foe lint one Cronyn in the second and Last another old one and a so to Job for Cronyn are paired for a Nov 22 opening The Beckett program ends on Dec 17 Three additional Forum productions for the season will he announced later 1 WINNER OF 10 ACADEMY AWARDS! 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