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an - wn moo cummcu -V‘edrle'sday', August 5. zoos DOiIl’ it her way 0 , Q Q 0 Laverne & Shirley 3 Cindy Williams takes on role at St. Jacobs Playhouse [3vame laughing too. Our goal was to make people ForlheChmnide laugh out loud â€" not just sit there and smile.” In 1976. the beloved TV show Laverne & 1 And laugh out loud they did. The iconic Shirleywas the No. i sitcom inAmerica television series ran for eight seasons. help~ liven now, decades later. countless fans ing to define the ‘70s and tapping into a can still recite the iconic theme song from huge viewing demographic with a taste for memory: “We‘re gonna do it! Give us any blue-collar esthetics and working class chance. we'll take it. Give us any mle. we'll themes. . break it. We're gonna make our dreams 1 ‘ “The TV shows back then would be built come true. Doin' it our way.” ‘ around real life situations. where the gas bill Cindy Williams, who played the role of . hasn‘t been paid and you’re going down to *‘ Shirley Feeney. is still “doin' it her way.” car- , ~ _ . ‘ - the gas company to duke it out with them rying her humour from TV to stage. per- 1 ”a“ .1_ “cause they’re going to shut yourgas or elec forming the lead role of Charlotte Hay in m ' g“? 1 tricity off," Mlliams said of the title charac~ Drayton Entertainment's backstage comedy ‘ ‘ i '- K "H s- ’ ters of laveme & Shirley, who were a pair Moon Over Buffalo. 5 . t ‘ , . of Milwaukee brewery employees. Following an engagement at the King's ’ ‘_ z r ' - f “We'd have shows where (Laverne and Wharf'l‘heatre in Penetangulshene. the pro- , s. ‘ . Shirley) didn't have the money to pay for duction opens this week at the St. Jacobs a, “1 1 ” . something â€"â€" that would be the whole Country Playhouse. ‘ a” .. ' , fl theme â€" and then the humour would come “We've had huge audiences so far, and t 3: : j - out of the characters. it's been so fun," said Williams over the fi ' ~ . '_ » x‘ "The situations they would get into was phone this past week from Penetan- -’§":3'..." 1}; "4 sort of‘everybody could relate to.’ i think guishene. 1 .$‘~_ \ Kw ~ -' (sitcoms) are going to always reflect the "It's such an honour to be able to play ' ~, $33 . \ » ' ’ tone and social consciousness ofthetime." this role. 1 play an actress who can suppos- -» i _.-'_. ‘ “- » w 1-- 15 Along with staying in touch with fellow edly play any Part in the theatre, and is a lit- g .__,.. L a .1 1. . " é ' ' ' cast members of laveme 8: Shirley. Williams thlong in the tooth now to play certain - ,' ' , 0 a g , A said she’s always happy to see fellow sitcom parts, but still insists on playing them. 3 ' «- ' 0 I l actors from that era. “it's a farce and the fun really ensues It“ ’ . a, ' 0 "I run into people like Joyce DeWitt, ‘ when there's acase ofmistaken identity and t. . p 0 ' ' Suzanne Somers and Priscilla Barnes (of everything that can go wrong goes wrong. , . 0 o . ‘ ‘ Three's Company fame). “It's a pretty physical Show. and l'm getâ€"- 0 . ' a . “There really is a brotherhood of the ‘703 - tin' a little long in the tooth for it, but next . 0 , ' 0 , . sitcoms â€"‘ Threefis Company, Laverne Gr time I do it I'll be playing my own mother â€" 0 . 0 . . Shirley. Happy Days." the role of Ethel,” laughed Williams, who 0 ' it was on Happy Days where the charac- turns62this month. 1 O a ‘ ters of Laverne Gt Shirley were first intro- Mlliams explained the transition from _. duced. as friends of Fonzie. television and film to stage was. for her, not . ' t “it Was such a fabulous time to work in that big of a leap. ’ . ' , '“ television." "When we did laveme & Shirley, it was ' . I ' i », " .l \ And, like the characters in Moon Over filmed in front ofa live audience of400peo- ' I ' ' ‘ . ¢ . Buffalo. (laverne and Shirley) were relat- ple.” said Williams. .. ° ’ . , ’ ’ , able. and what makes a comedy fun is when "It was like a little stage Play We'd have ‘ ° ° 0 - 0 ‘ .' 1 the audience can relate and could find four-day rehearsals and on the fifth day. we , ° ‘ :' J . a” g r themselves in a similar situation -â€" saying performed it (live). So we'd go off and some- ‘. . . ‘ 1 to themselves, ‘1 would have tripped over times say,‘You know, thatjust sucked.’ ' ‘_ , ’ ° ' . 0 . ~ that too!" . ”And then sometimes we'd say to each .- ' ' ' " 0 0 ‘ ' Moon Over Buffalo will be performed at other. ‘You know. if there was an Olympics ' , o o o o . ' . ’ ' ,- St. lambs Country Playhouse from Aug. 6 to in comedy. we might have taken a bronze.’ - . . - _ . ’ _‘ _ 22. It was such an honour and a bless‘ from , , . , For more information or to purchase God, getting to do that show. with "$me Laverne and Shirley: Cindy Williams stars with Michael umpon in Moon Over Buffalo at St tickets, visit www.drayton “And we'd always say, if it made us laud: . Jacobs ”am in Waterloo. mw’m" entertainmentcom. 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