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Wounds from dance dissension have healed says young soloist has the oxamlner Saturday Oct 13 107911 Rehearsing for countywide concert Students from Stayner Collegiate rehearse for the countywide choral and band concert to be held at Barrie Central Collegiate Oct 20 Left to right are Brenda Murray Debbie Johnston Jim Henderson Principal dancer Bonnie Wyckott returns to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in the Canadian premiere of Without Words next week Wyckolf who spent year in New York City says all traces of dissen sion in the Winnipeg company have disappeared New film musical dream come true By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD AP Larry Gordon and Joel Silver had this dream they wanted to make movie that would be like the great musicals of the 1940s Impossible they were told Except for freak like Grease musicals were losers in the marketplace Recent history has been littered with failures At Long Last Love Lost Hori zon New York New York and The Wiz Still Gordon and Silver per sisted And now Xanadu is being filmed in and around Los Angeles with cast headed by Olivia Newtonalohii Gene Kelly and Michael Beck The score is by Jeff Lynne of the rock superstars Electric Light Orchestra and by Jeff Farrar composer of hits for Ms NewtonJoint The other day the Xanadu company was working in the Beverly Hills heartland at Fio iuccis onetime movie house convert into boutique It was dance number in which Gene Kelly danced among the clothes racks with the girls ho might have stepped right out of Singiii in the Rain The lead dancer looked hauntingly like in tliarisse Which is why Kelly chose her lroducer Larry Gordon watched the scene with obvious delieht taii you imagine what thrill it is to be working with Gene Kelly said Gordon And to see him dance after he warned us after we had al ready signed him that he would not touch toe Gradu ally he agreed to do little dancing then more Not that hes easy When we iiict with him he said an want this and end this He kllty exactly the way things should he done one is more aware of that than the director of Xandau Robert Greenwald young veteran of theatre and television this is his feature film debut ltetween shots lreenwald re marked oi Kelly This man is not Just an actor and dancer hes also producer director choreographer and writer its not oiin challenge to direct him on my first picture CORBETT MONTGOMERY Er ASSOCIATES BARRISTERS SOLICITORS cart on General Practice of Law in BARRIE BRADFORD NEWMARKET AURORA BARRIE OFFICE JOHN HERLIHY BA LLB ANGUS BEETON KESWICK STOUFFVILLE MICHAEL SHOEMAKER BComm MBA LLB THE DOWNTOWN CENTRE iio DUNLOP 51 sun 32 73701 Mitch Curran and Brian Baker Guest conductors from Toronto and London will direct rehearsals and lead the 80member band and IOOmember choir in concert WINNIPEG CP Pnn cipal dancer Bonnie Wyckoff is back with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet after years absence during which both she and the company went through changes Miss Wyckoff 24 spent the year working with New Yorks Joffrey Ballet Meanwhile the Royal Winni peg Ballet went through tur moil hitting low point last spring when 11 of the com panys 25 dancers quit But the Bostonborn Wyckoff says wounds inflicted by the de partures and by bitter debate over the role of artistic director Arnold Spohr have healed Spohr has elevated several dancers to positions as princi pals and soloists and has in troduced some new dancers from the Royal Winnipeg Bal lets dance school The new dancers are beau tiful Wyckoff said as the com pany prepared to kick off its 197980 season this week Theres no question of their competence KEPT IN CONTACT She was touring with the Jof lrey on the US West Coast when the Royal Winnipeg went through its upheaval last May out she kept in contact by tele hone with many old friends in he Winnipeg troupe Ive been an intimate part of this company for six years she said had to go through it with them She said couple of people questioned her decision to re turn to Winnipeg but she was convinced it was the right move walked in here and there were no ghosts no pain no signs of negativity The people who remained are the ones who just wanted to get on with it She said that since rehearsals began in August there has been SPECIAL WEEKEND RATES Free Pickup and Delivery All 79 Cid 1980 models and mites of cars Barrie DriveaCar 43 Essa Rd Barrie 7266474 as GJixexx4w4swdwwfaWsuvvvwahr¢swmgt vW£Fl tk x1131 ¢lt 487 7212 3381 IMPERIAL CINEMAS 7283440 it BARRIE DRIVEIN rating wo It 8s make you tingle and 9s make you gasp Imagine what will happen when you meet 10 WONDROUS ANIMATION SPECTACLE ABLAZE WITH ADgJNIURE sn sun MAIINEES PM WALT DISNEYS LEEPING IIELD OVER SECOND WEEK BLAKE EDWARDS temptineg tasteful comedy for adults who can count DUDLEY MOORE JULIE ANDREWS BO DEREK IMPERIAL Show Times 700 Show Times 700 only BURT REYNOLDS JILL CANDIOE CLAYDURGII BERGEN no time for problems and everyone is working together and just reeling with in spiration The wyearold companys repertoire has been broadened to include works by Dutch Na tional Ballet choreographers Rudi van Dantzig and Hans van Manen Wyckoff calls the new material the Holland Con nection DANCED FOR CARTER Wyckoff said her year in New York was step forward She danced the key role of the Cow girl in the Agnes de Mille clas sic Rodeo when it was pre sented last February before US President Carter and Chinas deputy premier Deng Ziaoping De Mille picked her for the role when the ballet was first danced in Winnipeg in 1973 It was at de Milles insistence that she was chosen for the gala performance at the Kennedy Centre in Washington where the entourage included Dick Cavett John Denver and Shir ley Maclaine It was just awesome said Wyckoff It sent chills up my spine to see these two world fig ures standing there together surrounded by artists SIR LEW GRADE Presents CHARLES BRONSON JILL ROD IRELAND STEEGER We way or the other IMPERIAL Show Times 700 900 LOUIS LAWLOR CLASSICAL OUITARIST ORILLIA OPERA HOUSE SAL ocr 2119 HELD OVER pm 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