PAGE SIX Curtain Up Playing 'Stock' Is Long, Hot Summer Many people are surprised that top stars in the theatre are willing to endure the gruelling routine of moving from town to town each week playing the summer circuit. It seems like the utmost in dedication for these big names to trapse About the country doing the same show. Yet, few, of these people are aware of. the rigors of a summer stock season where the perform ers stay in the same place for ten weeks. First of all, the big name star has to memorize only one role, playing it night after night, town after town. The leadMg mem bers of the Maim . Playhouse staff, for example, have it far tougher. Eight plays mean eight roles. Played week after week this means learning and rehearsing one script in the afternoon and performing a different one at night. Many of the Mateer staff return to their rooms on campus after the evening performance only to stay up till 3 or 4 a.m. learning the lines for the next week. Then it's up for rehearsals from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. IA bus trip to the playhouse and a repeat of the routine. It's almost enough to make the stage-struck starlet think twice about a career in the theatre. In New York it is almost im possible to get seats for an open ing night performance. But, not at Standing Stone, Monday night audiences have been sparse. The production of "The Gazebo' . as a comedy-mystery at the play house last week points up the lack of good mysteries in today's theatre. Few mysteries are being written for the stage these days - -- a „..-- 5-- 44 1- -- - -(1/-„..:t5:1*- _ti i ~.„........._ . •_ PI ER 53 3CI VOIll 4P get/crag IP c : ." ' -,4„,,;,.. -„ •:. %,$.:, x They all love our delicious chicken! Our fried chicken Is a favorite. Generous por tions, all the fixin's. Dock today at Pier 53 on Route 53 Bellefonte JAY RAKE Collegian Reviewer and those that are just aren't very good. Once you get past "Witness for the Prosecution" and "The Desperate Hours" there isn't much worth presenting. Amaz ing the movies and television haven't run out of mysteries— then again, many of them wouldn't do very well on the stage. Speaking of movies and the stage; the first four presentations this season have been made into movies. Regardless what this re viewer thought of the current productions, he enjoyed them more than the movies. Even a personal favorite, Jerry Lewis, was ruined by the movie makers in the film version of "Visit to a Small Planet." The hamming he did, plus the added stunts in the movie (flying cars, etc.) ruined the Gore Vidal satire on modern life and morals. The cinema version of "The Gazebo" needed a pigeon to make it useable in the eyes of the producer. Even then, that becomes a matter of personal (Continued on Page Eight) $l4O 1 lb. box the finest, freshest candies you can buy . . . exclusively ours Stover Candies shipped in dry ice. 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