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| Touring King and I opens to charm Seattle, Buster Keaton Silent Festival ends Monday night, Ballet opens with 4-part Di | |
| By Milton W. Hamlin
- SGN A&E Writer
New shows are opening in nearly ever major Seattle entertainment venue as fall officially arrives. Stefanie Powers headlines the touring production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's beloved The King and I at the 5th Avenue Musical Theatre, the gripping Frozen, a Tony Award winner from two seasons ago, opens the season for the Empty Space Theatre in Fremont. Pacific Northwest Ballet-celebrating its new artistic director, starts its season with a four-part Director's Choice program running for two weeks. A charming new cabaret at Thumper's makes Sunday nights something special for two more weeks, and the Buster Keaton Silent Film Festival at the Paramount ends its five-week run with a double bill Monday night. It's another great week for Emerald City entertainment fans-and for Bits & Bytes. TOURING KING AND I OPENS Television's Stefanie Powers returns to Seattle as Mrs.. Anna in Rodger's & Hammerstein's perpetual favorite, The King and I. Powers charmed Seattle theater fans many years back when she appeared in a touring edition of Love Letters. Now, she's back in a new touring production of one of the most popular, most charming musical from the Rodgers & Hammerstein legacy. The new edition of The King and I just opened at the 5th Avenue Theatre in downtown Seattle. "Hello, Young Lovers," "We Kiss In A Shadow," "Getting To Know You," "Shall We Dance?" and another dozen classic Broadway favorites dominate the show. Performances continue through Oct. 9. Ticket details at 621-PLAY. Remember that tickets purchased in person at the theater's 5th Avenue box office have no added service fees-which can be a considerable savings. Check it out. Look for a detailed review in next week's SGN. DIRECTOR'S CHOICE SHOWCASES PNB'S NEW DIRECTION, COMPANY Pacific Northwest Ballet, celebrating the first season of Peter Boal, its new artistic director, continues its opening fall repertoire program, Director's Choice, with performances though Oct. 2 at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center. Four major works showcase PNB's talented company-and the new direction Boal has promised to take the company. Three PNB premieres highlight the just-opened program-Jerome Robbins' "In The Night," danced to Chopin nocturnes, and two works by George Balanchine, "Duo Concertant" and "Symphony In Three Movements," both set to music by Stravinsky. William Forsythe's "Artifact II," danced to Bach, is the only work from PNB's repertoire returning to the McCaw Hall stage. Ticket information on all PNB programs is available at 441-2424. BROADWAY'S FROZEN OPENS AT EMPTY SPACE IN FREMONT It's a long way from Broadway to Seattle's Fremont district, but Bryony Lavery's Tony Award winning Frozen makes that trip for the opening of the season for the Empty Space Theatre. Seattle's talented Peter Cook takes the creepy role that won a Tony for the New York actor-and Seattle favorite Lori Larsen tackles one of the two female leads. The just-opened production, directed by Chay Yew, who staged the Gay-themed The Laramie Project for the group several seasons back, has "hit" written all over it. The staging continues through Oct. 22 and will, hopefully, revive Empty Space's status for cutting-edge productions. Details at 547-7500. JIMMY HOARD RETURNS TO SUNDAY NIGHT CABARET Vocalist Jimmy Hoard returns to the Sunday night cabaret series at Thumper's with a low-keyed outing, simply titled JIMMY HOARD, (ital!!). The charming wisp of a show continues this Sunday, Sept. 25 and Oct. 2. Murl Allen Sanders, with a whirl of "mad musician" hair, provides solid keyboard support. Hoard is a Southern boy who doesn't take his cabaret career too seriously. He projects an "ah, shucks" demeanor that immediately charms the Sunday crowd. He's at his best with songs from the Great American Songbook-the Gershwins' "'S Wonderful" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me," Jerome Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight," Jones & Schmidt's "Soon It's Gonna Rain." Jukebox favorites from yesteryear-the 1930s through the 1970s-add to the programming mix: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Stardust," some Joni Mitchell, "Somebody, Somewhere (Wants Me and Needs Me)," "Try A Little Tenderness." Hoard, openly Gay-and charmingly so-is "at his very best" with Rodgers and Hart's "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" from Broadway's Pal Joey. Singing the song as a man-to-man love tale, Hoard delights as he introduces the classic song. "Men are not a new sensation/I've done very well I think" opens the verse, and Hoard sings it with a wee smile on his face and in his voice. The song continues with this observation: "Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best." It ends with the classic (and often censored), "I'm vexed again, perplexed again, thank God I can be oversexed again." And throughout his delivery, Hoard is a charming imp-and, like Joey, "at his very best." Ticket reservations for Jimmy Hoard's Sunday night cabaret are available at 328-3800. Thumper's Cabaret on the Hill musical series also features Friday and Saturday night performances of All Girl Band, a new showcase for Bodacious Ladyhood, one of "Bits&Bytes'" favorite female groups in Seattle. Band continues weekends through Oct. 1. BUSTER KEATON SERIES ENDS WITH STEAMBOAT BILL The Paramount Theatre's Silent Movie Mondays series' salute to the comic genius of Buster Keaton ends its five-week run with Sept. 26's double bill of 1927's Steamboat Bill, Jr. and 1920'S One Week. The series has been incredibly popular, and several screenings have set attendance records. The two 2005-2006 programs include January's three Sunday-afternoon tribute to Cecil B. DeMille, including his epic 1923 The Ten Commandments, and the August Adventure Series which includes The Prisoner of Zeda and The Iron Mask. A special "Black History Month" tribute features a rare showing of 1926's The Scar of Shame on Feb. 6. TIFFANY GLASS ALERT- 'PLAN AHEAD' NOTICE Art fans should make note of the upcoming exhibit of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany opening at the Seattle Art Museum in October. Best known for his glass creations-windows, vases, decorative and utilitarian glass designs-Tiffany was also a master of metal works, ceramics, oil and watercolors, fabric and book designs. The exhibit-which includes his work in all mediums-runs Oct. 15-Jan. 4, 2006, at the downtown Seattle Art Museum. It's a "must" for art fans of all disciplines. Details at 654-3100. "Bits&Bytes" advises "plan ahead now" and get ready for out-of-town visitors. Louis Comfort Tiffany, as his name suggests, was a son of the founder of Tiffany & Co., which sponsors the exhibit through its Foundation trust. Louis Comfort took his inheritance and opened his own design firm in the 1880s. His brother continued with New York's Tiffany & Co. where LCT's glass and metal works were predominately displayed-and sold and sold and sold. |
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