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'Candide' Opens-Friday, June 25 From News Releases Candide's misfortunes for adults, $1.50 for youth

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charleston town crier

THE TOTAL

SATURATION MEDIUM.

saturday, june 19, 1976 page two

, THE TOWN CRIER.

Mary Anne Barlow, Terry Kelly and Deborah Timblin have been cast in Eastern Illinois University Theatre's mid-west premiere production of "Candle" which opens in the University Theatre Playroom Friday, June 25,at8 p.m.

18th century and Leonard Bernstein's lilting musical score of the 20th century and is one of the most successful Broadway­musical hits of the mid-' 70's.

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"Candle" is the classic tale of monumental in­nocence and catastrophes so numerous and over­whelming that they become farcical. It com­bines Voltaire's sulphurous satire on fooli&h optimism from the

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Mary Anne will protray Paquette, another exiled along with Candide from his adolescent Eden in West ph alia, who ac- ­companies him in his wan­derings with almost in­curable optimism.

Terry Kelly will fill the title role of the beaming young sap (a sort of 18th century Boy Scout l who is flung from one disaster to another-abduction, war, shipwreck, capture by pirates, flogging, torture by the Spanish Inquisition, and the Lisbon earthquake-and still continues to believe the ridiculous precept of ­his schoolmaster, Dr. Pangloss, that "this is the best of all possible worlds."

Deborah Timblin will be seen as his sweetheart, Cunegonde, who has also been misled into Panglossian optimism, and clings to it senselessly despite havi?g_._!o sha~;e

. J~net (ox, Jim Pierson,­J. Sa in and Carol Stitt, all from the Charleston area, are among others in the cast who will each double; triple or quadruple into various of the show's 82 roles of soldiers, sailors, priests, inquisitors, pirates, strumpets, dan-

. cing girls and aristocrats. ·

"Candide" is being directed by E.G. Gabbard with musical direction by Del Simon, choreography by Alice Stoughton, costumes by Nancy Paule and setting by C. P. Blan­chette.

Other perfo~ances at 8 p.m. are scheduled for June 26, July 2 & 3 and one Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on June 27 in the Fine Arts playroom.

Tickets will be available -Monday, June 21 at the

. Fine Arts ticket office, open from 1-5 p.m. daily, Monday-Friday.

There are no reserved -seats, but reservations c_an be made by phoning 581-3ll0. Tickets are $2.50

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