The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 21

Wednesday April 20 1988 ENTERTAINMENT CLASSIIED pages did Spotlights DICK LOCKZCMKrO STM at the Leah Posluns Theatre In the title idle of the musical Marne a A folkie for a changing world Pop notes CanLit classics to get new make up JIM BAWDEN Regular Programs CRAIG MacINNIS Double whammy: Pat Mastrolanni left and Stefan Brogren right star in first of two back to back episodes of Degrassi Jr High a special one hour telecast next Monday on CBC part of the show a tenden cy of some kids to become too actorish and we have to get them to act natural again tell the ones who are the leads that only two or three may wind up as adult actors We have tutors on the set and I insist they keep their grades up Because I was a teacher I emphasize the academic side of local critics were dazzled by the Prairie newcomer and dub bed her "the girl from the golden west" Theyshowered her with raves Her theatre colleagues even gave let a 1984 Dora Award Then those who could have made job offers turned their backs and forgot her Dnig charges dropped for actor Vincent LOS ANGELES Prosecutors will not file drug charges against actor Jan Michael Vincent a star of the Airwolf television series her cause pills in a car in which he was a i passenger contained only caf feine a prosecutor said on Mon day pills appeared to be am prosecutor Jay Lip man said looked like illegal drugs but they were Vincent 42 was arrested last Wednesday and released on bail of $1000 after the car was stopped during a routine traffic check at Agoura southern California police said credible success for us got a' lot of adults watching Schuyler recently returned from promoting the series in Miami one junior high I found the were following the story of pregnancy because there was a' pregnant girl in the school They mind the Canadian accents) one bit That was an initial prob dated relics irst off the presses in October will be five novels by Margaret Laurence The Prophet's Camel Beil (with an afterword by Audrey Thomas) The Slone Angel (afterword by Adele Wiseman) A Jest Of God (Margaret Atwood) The ire Dwellers (Sylvia raser) and The Diviners (Timothy indley) be followed in November by Brian Moore's The Lonely Pas sion Of Judith Hearne (Janette Turner Hospital) The Luck Of Ginger Coffey (Keath raser) and Sinclair short story collection The Lamp At Noon (using Margaret Laurence's origi nal introduction as the afterword) The New Canadian Library will be edited by Staines professor of English at the University of Otta wa with advice and recommenda tions from an advisory board con sisting of Alice Munro Saskatche wan novelist Guy Vanderhacghe and WI1 New professor of English at the University of British Colum bia Nick Harris managing director of the paperback division said he hopes to keep reissuing several titles a moftth as well as adding relatively recent books to the New Canadian Library list The books are slated for distribu tion in Canada only but won't rule out an eventual deal with the United States Harris said By Henry Mietkiewicz Toronto Star McClelland Stewart is wiping the dust off more than 200 poorly designed textbook ish classics of Canadian literature and repackag ing thorn with an eye on a new generation of readers Starting this fall will begin reissuing the novels stories essays and poetry in the New Cana dian Library with attractive new covers larger and more legible type and new afterwords by lead ing authors The aim editor David Staines said at a news conference yester day is to dispel the mistaken im pression that the books are stodgy with Dunlop itching to step back into the spotlight the only solu tion seemed to be a return to an English speaking theatre town where she knew her way around She quietly landed last Decem ber eager to plunge back into bustling cabaret scene until grim reality set in Theatre the Dell the scene of her award winning run was out of business So was Old Ange And the Cage And the Strand And the Variety Din ner Theatre feels as if the dropped out of musical theatre in Tqron to Lqta of talented people are willing to do the work but no prepared to take Ute risk of A Even so Dunlon isrlad to be 1 back in a city of old friends and shamelessly exploit it he walks a Toronto is only 45 minutes from his 80 acre farm in Ancaster but he admits he feel complete ly at home here got any in terms of where 1 play he says play there more than anywhere He averages more than 150 shows a year many along the US eastern seaboard and in Western Canada whege folk clubs still proliferate have that broad base of very loyal and very touching support" he says performing far more than Stan and 1 ever did not a matter of me being better or more popular just that given it time to develop" His work with Scottish songwrit er and friend Archie isher has been particularly rewarding Rogers produced new album Sunsets Galloped Into which also gets its release on Snow Goose next mohth In June the pair begin another North Ameri can lour together Still a lingering bitter ness as Rogers talks about the industry in which he remains a fringe player But the occasional bout of bitterness is the price he tress is determined to prove that cabaret musicals drama radio and TV in Edmonton Saskatoon Garnet Rogers got a lot have a manager I have a lawyer I have a publi cist I have a poster I have a video have any of the that goes with even being a borderline artist in Rogers 33 has only his songs a rich baritone voice and a flinty conviction that reminds the casual observer of his late brother Stan lonely line WgVlWj WHU UlRv IVlUCiUUj for the same causes death in a 1983 airplane fire at the Cincinnati airport ended a brilliant career and forced side man and younger brother Garnet into the spotlight a role to which he has adapted with Surprising ease His solo work including Speak ing Softly In The Dark due out on his own Snow Goose label next month has established Rogers as a purveyor of bold folk textures fil tered through modern technical sensibilities got a really big drum sound this says the multi in strumentalist who appears with folksinger Doug McArthur at Ba thurst Street Theat re 730 Bathurst St on Saturday The show was originally scheduled for Convoca tion Hall one 12 inute track that ends with all out screaming sort of like Meshing acoustic violin with gui tar synthesizers and the like Rogers is a folkie for a changing world Angered by purists wlio Would keep the music vaulted away in dusty archives and wary of industry shakers who would Paul Newman drops in on show Paul Newman showed up unex pectedly Monday night at the Royal Alexandra Theatre to watch his wife actress Joanne Woodward perform in a preview performance of Sweet Bird Of Youth which officially opens on riday night He dashed in five minutes be fore curtain time and was handed a ticket a theatre spokesman re ports Woodward did not know he was there until he appeared at her dressing room door after the show hate you I hate she jokingly shouted at him before they hugged She had not wanted him there until well after opening Newman left yesterday saying would come back but not when Theatre 1 were simply no offers of work1 she sighs recalling the dark dreary days that Mowed her triumph opposite Tom Knee bone In Noel And Gertie at Theatre in the Dell think that if an award winner you must beworking constantly so they bother to call Or they figure that since vouTe an award winner they possibly afford to hire jsh But there was no time for sharply since her last time you formal lessons because I around out for the kids of De grassi Junior High after double episode (starting at 8 on Channel 5) But unlike other stu dents enjoying holidays the De grassi students will be hard at work on the next 14 shows the year where the Toronto made series tackled everything from teen pregnancy to child abuse to lesbianism and the year it won an International Emmy Award and soared in the ratings But wait a minute! Junior high school only lasts two years and De two year term is up temporarily solved that co producer Linda Schuyler said yesterday The revealed in the last lem with PBS which wanted to de episode Pass Tense has the school fete each and every in the tacking on a Grade 9 to relieve script We only changed one word overcrowding nign scnoois it done in (the city of) Schuyler admits done in North York and other boards of education and also in the Best and worse episodes showcase the series at its best and worst The first looks at three teens including Joey Jeremiah sand Snake who hang out together and drive fathers car around town not unlike a standard half hour of Growing Pains with cute lines and an incredibly pat resolution But Pass Tense shows how ter rific the show can be The kids are jittery over final exams' desperate ly waiting to jump to high school and one of them must cope when told failed his year It the student expect and the revelation packs an emotional wal lop i Over the summer Schuyler and co producer Kit Hood plan to shoot "14 more episodes including two1 hour long episodes have a new deal with Bos PBS station WGBH which provides a third of our Schuyler said comes up with 40 per cent and the rest is from Telefilm ratings on CBC hover i pays for the kind of freedom he de mands from his career I do need someone to tell me to wear a black beret and act he says sarcastically even get me on the sub ject of (folkie caricatures) The Washington We we By the way concert is a benefit for the Daily Bread food bank Non perishable items only please Grace Notes: British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will play the CNE Grandstand on May 20 promoter Concert Productions International announced yester night dav Tickets at S2375 and 7 1 plus service charge go on sale at he would come back but not when most nAt outlets on riday Tickets for Ornette Coleman July 7 at the Diamond are on sale tomorrow at BASS Records On Wheels and Record Peddler for $18 And tickets for Michelle Shocked's show at the Rivoli May 10 are also on sale tomorrow for $10 at the same outlets The Diamond had advertised British band The Mission for a show May 15 but they jumped the gun The show has gone to rival promoter The Garys who worked with the group in the past and bring it to instead Same date Tickets are on sale tomorrow at the usual outlets for $15 Bruce first studio album in three years Big Circum stance should be out by October The Toronto songwriter is on vaca tion in Honduras at the moment and will head Into the studio when he gets back for them from teacher PBS remains high on the series but BBC is not amused' not picking us up next year They dropped four shows dealing with pregnancy lesbianism and discovery he was adopted They dropped the one that won the International Emmy about Spike Jr fearing she was pregnant BBC T' shows lis as part of a package at 5 pm and the early time period may be the jy Growing problems any series about Tads problem of the actors growing up a look at the Schuyler says look at the kids in the actual episode changed so much in two years 'I we go on after next yean have to take them on to high Degrassi High? only thinking about next season at the moment but going on to high jschoolt is a probability There are only so many stories you can do set in junior high" That would make Degrassi the first show on North American TV to begin in public school as did the earlier show The core remains the around 12 million a wepk one of repertory company of 52 kids the brightest spots on Canadian are only seen in the back TV It was CBC programmer Ivan ground We have workshops every gamble to take the series spring before we start filming and from a Sunday dinnertime slot to 'we want kids to know all a Mondays at 83U and run it be tween two popular American situation comedies Kate And Allie at 8 and Newhart at 9 1 argued against Schuyler said was afraid people would expect another sitcom and we that kind of show Ivan said not to worry that we would easily get 800000 and could always be moved later But been an in the St Lawrence Centre 24 The comedy which star? Wood anil Stephen Ouimette has been playing to 93 per cent paid attend ance at the 890 seat Bluma AppelTheatre been extended to May 14 Darcy or those forgotten Darcy Dunlop is a triple threat actress singer and comic who What could Darcy Dunlop do hit Toronto like a bolt from the but pack her bags in sadness and blue in 1983 quietly swat away: Now after three busy years in Copenhagen the 35 year old ac Ssi stnk twtw The key she hopes will be her and Regina her home town she title role in the classic musical pulled up stakes and decided to Mcmte' Which opens tomorrow try Toronto night at the Leah Postuns Toronto welcomed her with open arms for a while any 'way But a romantic of the heart" opened the door to Den mark where she found profes sional refuge founded her own theatre company (Bedlam Theatre) and taught drama and voice technique al the Copenha pen Dance rneatre JTtWft kind of frightening to new opportunities especially in arrive there and not speak Dan the movies where activity is up xppnai wessons peca use amn i aiuunu Pop goes China 'PEKING (Reuter) radio listeners whose regular fare is Peking opera and political lec tures will get their first regular taste of western pop music this week The Central Broadcast ing Station will begin a weekly pro gram called the American Music Hour 60 minutes of Western pop music from the Beach Boys to Bing Crosby Western music is increasingly popular in China and this is the first regular radio show prepared for the national broadcasting sta tion' in co operation with an American firm The first show which airs Thurs day mixes John Denver and Lionel Richie with a message from Presi dent Ronald Reagan who praises the project as important cul tural exchange between two great Chinese officials said there are 400 million radios in China and estimated that two people listen to each set everyone may like Ameri can pop said Zhang Dongx ing deputy director of the Central Broadcasting Station wfe are eager to co Chinjimerica a company based in Santa Monica Calif is the American partner in the project and hopes to 'sell advertising time to foreign firm's at $5000 a minute Soqgs will be screened by China before they are broadcast submitted 484 songs and the Chinese rejected 13 of said Donald Altfield Chinamerica president and the songwriter who penned the pop hit Little Old Lady from One tune the Chinese rejected wasChuck rock and roll hit Over said it was disrespectful to Altfield said Mqvie scoring big at local box office If More than 26400 people have seen Movie: YThe Play Tom spoof of icond rate films since it opened at on March kids solve problem of junior high is definitely back in town there yoii by want topassup joboffersofor your peers that the best four months 1 lived In a kind of but no one gives you the time of fishbowl and kept picking up jurt 1 day so ou ask enough1 to get by Npw Daniah Is: yourself am (forced to live practically asecondlanguags" on a diet of macaroni and Good enough fbr teacMnf tor One minute hot casual conversation perhaps but stuff and the next not for the rigors of acting And mm JSi? III 1 i 1 ft 'XT I 'tzz' i IL iftik IX toe HOWTO STM Darcy Dunlop: Drought followed her triumph opposite Tom Kneebone in Nod And Gertie and she left Canada for three years But now the triple threat actresssingercorriic is back starring at the Leah Posluns Theatre in the title rote of musical Mame Dora award winner Darcy is definitely back in town By Heury Mietkiewicz there yoii ere' by want to pass up job offers TorontoStar your peers that the best four months lived In a kind of Local critics were dazzled by but no one gives you the time of fishbowl and kept PjWng up jurt the Prairie newcomer and dub day so ask enough1 to get by Npw Damah Is bed her girl from the golden yourself why am I forced to live practically a sw ondlanguags" They lowered her with on a diet of madaisni and Good enough ftteteMnghBr raves Her theatre colleagues One minute hot casual conversation perhaps but even gave Tier a 1984 Dora stuff and the next IVa not for the rigors of acting And Award? Darcy with Dunlop itching to step buck Then those who could have or those forgotten into the spotlight the only solu made job offers turned their Darcy Dunlop is a triple threat tion seemed to be a return to an backs andf or got her actress singer ond comic who English speaking theatre town What could Darcy Dunlop do hit Toronto like a bolt from the where she knew her way around but pack her bags fa sadness and blue in 1983 quietly landed last Decern quietly steal away? 22 AL ber eager toplunge back mta: Now after three busy years in ACCjauneu vy peers bustling cabaret scene Copenhagen' the 35 year old ac 1 Raving run the gauntlet of" untilgrimreailtysetfa tress is determined to prove that cabaret musicals drama radio Theatre the Dell the scene lightning can strike twice and TV in Edmonton Saskatoon of her award winning run was The key she hopes will be her and Regina her home town she out of business So was Old Ange title role in the classic musical pulled up stakes and decided to And the Cage And Mcmte Which opens tomorrow try Toronto the Strand And the Variety Dm nlghtatthe Leah Postuns Toronto welcomed her with ner Theatre Theatre open arms for a while any really thought all be were simply no offers way going she sighs it of she sighs recalling the But a romantic of the feels as if the dropped dark dreary days that followed heart" opened the door to Den out of musical theatre in Toron her triumph opposite Tom Knee mark where she found profes to Lots of talented people are bone In Noel And Gertie at Sonai refuge founded her own willing to do the work but no Theatre in the Dell theatre company (Bedlam prepared to take the risk think that if an Theatre) and 'taught drama and of award winner you must be voice technique al the Copenha Even so Dunlop is glad to be working constantly so they gen Dance Theatre back in city of old friends and bother to call Or they figure that was kind of frightening to new opportunities especially in since you're an award winner arrive there and not speak Dan the movies where activity is up they possibly afford to hire jsh But there was no time fof sharply since her last time formal lessons because I around 7f 7 7.