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PAGE 14 â€"â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. 1983 Sumwat style lives on with Waterfall Victor Stanton Chronicle Special The tradition of summer theatre, created and presented by local writers and performers, is being reâ€"established this week with the debut production of Waterfall at the University of Waâ€" terloo. Waterfall, which encompasses both the orgaâ€" nization and the production of three original oneâ€"act plays, is a successor to, or perhaps more appropriately a descendant of, Sumwat Theatre which operated at this time of year annually from 1978 to 1981. Bernie Roehl, a staff member in UW‘s electrical engineering department and a memâ€" ber of the new Waterfall‘s fourâ€"member foundâ€" ing committee as well as its producer, explains that Sumwat took a hiatus last summer because "many of the people who had been involved with it were too busy with other projects." _ "Since this year‘s survival of summer theatre involved a lot of new personnel, it was decided to change the name from Sumwat to Waterfall." The operation remains similar, however. Sumwat originally had been funded by a loan from the UW Federation of Students. If in any given, year, the operation lost money with its production, the federation absorbed that loss. When the operation was financially profitable, the federation received the profits, and the following year would extend Sumwat organizers with additional credit up to the amount of the prior year‘s profit. aol un n we e a , hobdadnth Antvddbin®. sonaiiil ‘"This is the same way that Waterfall is being handled,"‘ says Roeh!. "And, in the productions themseives, despite all the new faces, much of the Sumwat style will endure. The mix of light comedy with touching drama was the trademark of Sumwat, and is still very much a part of Waterfall. "Many of the new people that have come into Waterfall have, of course, had experience in other types of shows, and their talent, enthusiâ€" asm and fresh approaches are expected to enhance the flavour of this year‘s three plays." The plays, which open tonight (July 6) and are being performed nightly through Saturday (July 9), include two comedies and a oneâ€"woman show. For Art‘s Sake, written by Roehi and Steve Hutton, is described by Roeh! as "a wild comedy about an aging art collector who‘s planning to give away his entire collection to some deservâ€" ing couple." â€" "Two of his former students decide they should be the ones to get the collection, and they start planning and scheming to beg, berrow or steal it before anyone else can get it." The play is being directed by Andrew Weich and features a cast of six, including former Miss Kâ€"W Cindy Belliveau, Stewart Easun, Karen Fowler, Donald Heath, Andrew Rukavina and Richard Veenstra. _ _ _ Roekh! describes the second play, The Collaâ€" borators, as "a comedy about mysteries." _ "This aspiring writer finds himself confronted by a thief in his living room, and soon the writer and the thief are collaborating in the creation of a mystery that will have everybody guessing right up to the end." Linda Carson is directing The Collaborators which coâ€"stars Jim Gardner and John McMulâ€" len. Gardner, a Sumwat veteran, wrote the play. l e s °Oe â€" _ Carson also is directing Reflections, a show written and being performed by Lily Ann This is the second oneâ€"woman creation by Green this year. In the spring she wrote and starred in a fullâ€"length production, The Duchess of Drury, recreating the life and times of Restorationâ€"era English actress and royal paramour Nell Gwynn. _ _ "Reflections,‘"‘ says Roehl, ‘"is about a woman and a mirror, and the different images she sees reflected there. "It gives a new perspective through a looking-gl::s‘ a reflection of the many people she has ome." p.m., take place in the UW Theatre of the Arts. Waterfall performances, which begin at 8 One of Canada‘s most celebrated ‘"new music‘ groups, Martha and the Muffins will appear Thursday July 14 at 3 p.m. in UW‘s annual Free Open Air concert on the Village Green. + Last year‘s Open Air Concert brought more than 2,000 people from the university community out to see Carolyne Mas and "this year with Martha and the Muffins it‘s going to be one crazy afternoon", says Board of Entertainment chairman, Chuck Williams. g'?f'o.f‘viCLO Spoc.%l Since their inception six years ago, Martha and the Muffins, led by Mark Gane and Martha Johnson, have recorded three successful albums; toured North America and Europe extensively and boast three Juno Award nominations. . Amidst the too rosy cheeks, trafislucent glossed lips, mounds of tinseled sequins, and the modest moments of uncertainty, tomorâ€" row‘s striving talent lies. recently signed with the Toronto based Current Records which enâ€" Margo Hartiey Smith of Bojanâ€" gles Dance Studio wants to teach her students the meaning of the word entertain. Lesson wellâ€" learned, if their yearâ€"end dance production ‘"The Dancing Advenâ€" tures of Annie‘", and "ET. and Friends‘‘, held recently at the UW Humanities Theatre, is any indicaâ€" Legs of all ages scurrying in a costumed flurry of activity. Backâ€" stage, Rockettes, moonchildren, orphans, Martians, and comâ€" puters, not to mention a menagerie of others. Rushed, in preparation for the big night. Bojangles is a buddy system where the ‘big kids‘ constantly watch out for the ‘Tap shoe tykes‘, in the manner of an enormous artistic family. The attitude is strictly professional be it dance or dramatization, a stolid belief of Hartiey Smith‘s. She‘s a modernâ€" day Isadora Duncan, with her heavyâ€"set ways; the spirit of Boâ€" jangles. "I started dancing at 18 months. Now I won‘t say this of all the studios, but there are some teachâ€" ers that only seem to be into it for the money. These kids go to dance and at age 10 or 11, they‘re bored. I move the ones with potential ahead. I think sometimes teachers hold students back, because there is not enough inspiration."‘ Bojangles started with 15 stuâ€" dents. Now three years old the club has acquired 218 students @nd Margo cares about every single one. She instills in her students a feeling of imagination and deterâ€" mination. In the Dancing Adventures of Annie, Annie was played with a shy but delightful flair by redâ€" headed Suzie Cowan. The evil Miss Hannigan provided by Shirley Fowley was a riot to watch. Fowley is a born comedienne and unquestionably stole the show, which at times was up to scratch with the New York cast. Sets were quaint and suitable. Sadly one opening night scenario with the seniors incurred technical Martha and Muffins at Open Air Concert have difficulties, but Margo cheerfully took it in stride. *‘We goofed, and we‘re lotu to do this scene again, so hang in there,"" she said. The gesture was reciprocated with warm applause, and by Wednesday night the kinks were gone and the show went on‘ Kevin Parker, as Daddy Warâ€" bucks proved he‘s just as talented without his iceâ€"skating blades. The boid young pro has dance in his bones. Scott: Kufske, as Rooster Hannigan, is another set of feet to be reckoned with. The dance choreography was strong, from the cliective effort of Warbuck‘s maids to the solos of Tammy Hutchinson as his dutiful secretary. Hutchinson has good {acial expression and a knack for timing, possibly good future stage talent. f HartleySmith is to be comâ€" mended on her imaginative cosâ€" tume direction. Act II moved like a modernâ€"dance rainbow, and the highlight was the twoâ€"year ensemâ€" bie‘s Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, so endearingly flat, these stariets stole everyone‘s heart. The reaction to E.T. was much the same, and Bojangles‘ musical version achieved the same sweet sentimentality by using the soundâ€" track and staying basically with the plot. Nadine Muelier, as E.T. looked ‘gooood‘, in her authentic guise, as she flipâ€"flopped with friend ‘Elliot‘ played well by Steven Voss. From the Martians, computers and Moonchildren, the music and the routines were innovative, sometimes mystical. Dance of the Felines had sensual essence as the seniors took over the Lightwars featuring fluoreâ€" scent light wands and combined black lighting created an eerie efâ€" fect. Sue Gascho and her amazing Fire Baton gave everyone a moâ€" mentary thrill, and finale Flashâ€" dance with Margo, Kevin, Parker, Scott Kufske, Lois Blair, and Tammy Hutchinson finished this colorful spectacle in fine form. No worn out shoes for this Boâ€" jangles. | 000000 _0 _ c Margo Hartleyâ€"Smith and her 218 students should take a bow for superlative effort. The standing ovation was merely their wellâ€"deâ€" served award. sures them worldwide distribution with RCA, and have come out with a hot new album Danseparc. In 1979, Martha and the Muffins released their first album, Metro Music that yielded a top 10 single "Echo Beach" and led to the first of several headlining tours of the U.K. and parts of Europe. Subsequent release of the album and single in North America garâ€" nered enthusiastic response and favorable attention from the media. In less than a year both Metro Music and ‘"Echo Beach" had attained gold status in Canada. The Free Open Air Concert is part of a day of activity that will begin with a Kite Flying Contest and includes a Red Cross Blood Donor