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if Theatre Andre Entertainment Daily restaurant review3 Met Opera baNef on tour3 Vai Clery on the own5 I SID ADILMAN Music award nominees balk at paying for prize total to $20000 they (Stratford) going to ONT Patrick Watson: Veteran broadcaster has been missing from regular CBC duties cert Productions International said the high prices are justified by the extra coverage advertisers get on a nation wide stereo radio network his company is setting up to simulcast the show However that network does not include stations in1 Quebec and See JUNOpage 7 tional producers of this Junos for 30 second spots on the show They are reported to be nearly double those CBC charged last year Michael Cohl president of Con TORONTOSTAR Thursday November 15 1984 Local Cats: Kathy Michael McGlynn and Rudy Webb are among local headliners picked for Cats attend the auditions in Toronto Auditions were held in five Canadian cities last month and saw a lot of terrific peo Marlene Smith co producer of the $2 mil lion musical said yesterday are absolute ly delighted with the i Others confirmed so far are: Lloyd Adams Michael Arnold Alexandre Beaulieu Stellio Calagias Aggie Cekuta Elliot Timothy rench Susan Gattoni Donna Kelly David Malek Janet Martin Sonja Kathleen McGibb Gerard Mclsaac Claude Naubert Todd Noel Diana Platts Lyne Tremblay Colleen Winton Sandy Winsby and Barry Wood Direction of the show will be supervised by Briton Trevor Nunn who staged the original London and Broadway productions The latter is still playing in New York to full houses There is also a sentimental rea son why he want to drop the play set for next August: will be the final production that I will direct as artistic director and By Greg Quill Toronto Star Troubles are brewing behind the 1984 Juno expensive fa cade The jannual ceremony honors most successful musi cians singers songwriters record and video producers and is the most important bash on the coun pop music calendar The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) the governing body says the Dec 5 show at the CNE Automotive Building will be from previous years As usual it will be aired live onCBC TV Many of the 300 plus nominees are complaining about having to pay between $75 and $125 to attend the ceremonies And many winners will have to pay an 'extra $200 to take home their Juno statuettes The actual value of the statuette is about $40 The recording academy gives SECTION Pages 2 a number of actors are keen to do it with me for that reason No signed And he added produc tions would do substantial damage to each other and I feel not us who should drop it The chairman of my board Robert oster and several board members talked to Andre said he learned of Strat plans accidentally before they were reported in the press And he wrote a letter to festival artistic director John Hirsch asking him to recon sider Hirsch has declined to do so A festival official told The Star on Tuesday that a meeting be tween Theatre Plus and the festi val would take place this week But Andre said know nothing about a meeting this If Stratford backs out that will necessitate its fourth change in two months of next pro gram Ottawa uncorks bubbly for actor William Hutt William Hutt is a somebody in Ottawa Arriving on Sunday to headline the Nov 29 premiere of John New at the National Arts Centre Hutt was met at the air port by the deputy mayor who gave him the key to the city The inscription noted his dinary cultural contribution to He was then taken by limousine to the hotel for a cham pagne reception And he will re ceive a tour of the city by helicop ter Movie managers reeling over possible strike Confirm or Deny: That the a mous Players movie house chain concerned that a current strike of its projectionists in Vancouver might spread to Metro has en couraged (but not insisted) that its assistant managers take a projec tionist course And that course is held at 9 a near Lester Pear son International Airport so some 1 assistant managers must be up at I 6 a to be there on time only two free tickets and one Potential advertisers are also award per nominee per category horrified at the prices being asked regardless of the nomi by Concert Productions Interna nated groups That has always been the rule Juno publicist Richard lohil said yesterday annual awards show is the only fund raising event what keeps it rolling There are no free dupli cate Oscars and this academy afford free rides Many Juno winners in the past refused to pay been nominated for awards in the US where the whole shot is paid for tickets for the group limousines airfares and one dis gruntled Juno nominee said this week know the academy afford all that but this is supposed to be a celebration our honor What are nominated groups and individuals who have a big record company picking up the tab supposed to do ask the bank for a Watson to host CBC business show Patrick Watson has heen signed? as host for CBC new prime I time Business Show The Star has learned CBC current affairs Darce ardy says the premiere will be on Jan 7 at 730 and the new series will run Mondays the next 52 '4 Watson was already under con tract to CBC but wanted to do the show ardy says "because it is a The veteran broadcaster had been missing from regular CBC duties since his show Watson At Large was cancelled four years ago He has since hosted and co produced The Canadian Establish ment ardy describes Business Show as magazine show which will be slick In time it could be as popu lar as the fifth estate or Market The battle intensified yesterday between Theatre Plus and the Stratford estival over plans to stage competing produc tions of The Inspector General next summer? Theatre Plus founder Marion Andre is furious because Stratford scheduled the play last week two months after he announced his plans publicly the moment I have no intention of he said am surprised that Stratford did not know about it We not only sent out releases to the press but we send tnose releases to all the theatres 7 regret very much that Stratford of all organizations does not pay enough atten tion to the tribulations of nies like Marten Andre The debt ridden festival had to drop Othello because intended headliner Brian Bedford was no longer available So scheduled British director Ronald Eyre said he would come only to direct the version he is translating of Inspec tor General based on satire about bureauracy much as I respect Andre said seems to me that our work cannot be destroyed be cause they want to bring someone in from Andre detailed the financial opening problems Theatre Plus would face World it drops me pjay we have a corporate sponsor name 'it which chose to put between $6000 and $10000 in our production If we do it we would lose that money our season subscription renewals are coming in close to 3000 already and buying the season partly on Inspector General Our renewal subscription brochure is at the printers and to change it would cost another $5 000 We have already signed a designer Michael Egan He would have to be paid off And there are its doing better because of the uulct iuvuivcu wuiguig me Dora Awards it won" 'total to $20000 they (Stratford) going to Larry Dykun who produced pick up the tab for all this? We Pump Boys resigned from his post lose that wimrne dinner meatre on oct but he remains the oroduc are negotiating for new plays er His resignation had nothing to and trying to get on sound finan do with the financial problems cial Makovskis told The Star These are not your issue screaming teenagers nor are they quietunassuming types who rise to the occasion 2' me onspringviacareer sur dier who wanted boys (he city areJmed wtth expectant named them Reg ana sky watchers as the work! pre okav?) the g)rls a8re skilled in awther comet ln hand to hand combat guerrilla duced light shqw a spectacle warfare and the use of auto last witnessed bythe dinosaurs maticweapons A mere moments be or their ex ahjIs allows for some compe tent fand often bloodless) stunts Of course the next morning arjd effects But what makes C0mbin3 low'key acting and brie most Incidentally funny i hjanket ofred dust whichis 5 ever written for the just about all that fe left of hu 2enre pnty most' whimsicalwe'' girls Tlayedby Cana comeLittngOedd flesh eaters dian Catharine Mary ravenously pursuing the lucky stewart St9rfiahter) few who survived intact This and Kelli Maroney on not a happy town holocaust shopping spree to the Avoids trao tune of JustcWant To Have un" which becomes Now ifwe follow the time spirited shoot em up honorai precepts of junk mne interrupted by gang ma this is where the macho zombie stockboys male hero an? I hysterical fe They handle' the heroics ad male Mctim and all is left for hope for siffvJfaL defeat th he: equivalent ofa zombies and settle down to rtacho Hero Robert Beltran is eventual proliferation of the jan thankft race co star from director Thomriwrdt' (a Mary Wordnoy former Public Broadcasting is around1 briefly as a perviqe documentarlari) for of a survivalist avoiding this trap and substi groUD UJ IS pelievable female absolute hoot from beginning to' characters end effortless' comedy that ba! 0 The heroes of Night Of The ances perfectly with the action Comet are the Belmont sisters one hopes that if the visit of a pair of flighty yet independ Comet next yearhas aent valley girls who awake that after effect thesurvi fateful morning discover vors Will fee as successful in that not only'is there noachool maintaining their 'sense 1 7 0 i 4 Not your typhteii post holocaust shopping spree with her maettnegun'in 1 Nidht Mankind survives hysterical comedy 1 1 '1 vi hg ThMfids ak 'T harmless meteor shower blind Nioht Of TheOomet ed most Of hUmanitycThe day Starring Cathwtne Mary Stewart KeUr Maro after the Night Of The Living neyflotBrtrartweMaywawwrH Dead a similar freak of nature createdhordesof cannibal AijunAccompafwnert zombies A In Night Of The' Cmhei a light hearted and clever little thriller that opens tomorrow this classic movie premise is given energetic new life thinks Stratford should back down Dinner theatre bankrupt but the show must go on it I By Rita Zekas Toronto Star He said he know when Variety Dinner Theatre' financial problems start 2335 Yonge St home of the Dora ed we know is that It Award winning musical Pump'' doing eve been appointed Boys And Dinettes since October receiver by the person who has the 1983 has gone into receivership security and debentures and we have no financial interest in the But the show continues and business as usual Aldis Makovskis manager of Pannell Kerr orster Makovskis predicts that Pump tmefoae in hanirmnfpv intri Botis willrun into the New Year the btar yesterday 7 The firm was appointed receiv er and manager of Variety on Nov 6 While no payments will be made on outstanding accounts prior to that date Makovskis said Cabaret stars called up as top Gats ByRdbertCrew Toronto Star such as tiny Becky Robertson who just turned Twenty nine singers and dancers all oi 17 and came from Hamilton with her father to them Canadian nave received me cats can They have been chosen from more than 800 hopefuls to perform in1 the Toronto production of the Broadway hit musical which will open at the renovated Elgin Theatre on Yonge St March Cats is based on TS Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats with music by An drew Lloyd Webber The cast includes local: cabaret headliners Kathy Michael McGlynn Mary Trainor David Walden and Rudy Webb Many have appeared at the Charlottetown estival including Thea McNeil who starred as Anne in Anne Of Green Gables Greg Bond Lorena Cingolani Barbara ulton and Larry Herbert The cast also includes some 'unknowns 'WW Tia il i iO 'H A fl il Ik £1 jfiHESS Es Xtasl mw Ps 6s Eis vjlkB A p' "I a pt 1 v4 i a 1 I Wr Hl i I Rags Mr 1 ff fS mHHI ooling with love Brent Carver and Jennifer Dale co star in Sam ool or Love which opened last night at Toronto ree Theatre 26 Berkeley St The production runs through Dec 23 I 1 11 I HL dbll 1 Wi Igr 1 1 I fll i EMHmI Bflfl EPgMi ft 1 ff fS mHHI IT ooling with love Brent Carver and Jennifer Dale co star in Sam ool or Love which opened last night at Toronto ree Theatre 26 Berkeley St The production runs through Dec 23.