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College theatre is first stop for touring truckers musical 18 Wheels the country and western musical thats been staged across Canada opens mity tour Tuesday with onenight stop at the Georgian College Theatre When 18 Wheels first opened at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto the Globe and Mails drama critic summed it up this way The titles 18 wheels refer to the flatnosed giants that barrel along our highways and the show is about trucks truckers CB radios country music and nearly every related area But if that sounds little out of your line just forget it is about trucks After the first five minutes you wont care much why you came The play owes its beginnings to Booth Savage Toronto actor who suggested that show about truckers would be interesting Theatre Passe Muraille sent Savage on the road to research the project he crossed the country with truckers and picked up valuable stories about the trucking scene The musical came together when composermusician John Gray became involved thought was nice idea says Gray It was unique subject Gray who later went on to write another hit musical Billy Bishop Goes to War took control of the project and began shaping the show and writing the songs soaked up trucker lore says Gray read magazine articles and tried to get an understanding of what its like to be trucker Of course some aspects of the job are very bor ing and left those things out of the show Gray wrote 16 songs to accompany 18 Wheels The show covers many aspects of longdistance trucking the greasy spoons the camaraderie of the road CB radio chatter the stretches of endless highway and the horror of big snowstorm The touring version of 18 Wheels that the Barrie audience wrll see is the same as the Tarragon Theatre production that played in Toronto last fall Director Tim Bond has worked at many of Canadas top theatres including Manitoba Theatre Centre Toronto Arts Productions Theatre New Brunswick and Young Peoples Theatre He traces his interest in theatre back to his school days had wonderful teacher who started me acting at the high school drama club and then started me directing says Bond Before left high school was determined to be professional director for life loved the theatre and by the time entered university was running my own summer festival and directing half dozen productions each year Bond says hes pleased with 18 Wheels has drawn such Ergtt audiences including people who rarely go to the ea re Featured in the case of 18 Wheels are Jessie Thomson Terry Harford and Ian Gillespie Miss Thomson plays Sadie the waitress in Kenora truck stop and all the other female characters in 18 Wheels She studied theatre at McGill and has played in such musicals as Godspell Dames at Sea the Rocky Horror Snow and Youre Good Man Charlie Brown She says shes looking forward to eight Vi eeks on the road performing in different town nearly evey night know every place will be different and so will tne audience she says look forward to getting their response to the show know that all sorts of people can relate to it Im not big country and western fan says Miss Thom son but really like this music its toetapping and upbeat and audiences will go for it in big way The Gryphon Theatre Foundation is sponsoring the Barrie performance of 18 Wheels Tickets are $7 and $8 and are available at the theatre office 103 Dunlop St or by call ing 7284613 Tickets will also be available at the door Cur By JOHN FISHER How does New York woman who writes regularly for the so phisticated The New Yorker magazine become an expert on Canadas Eskimos and their co operative societies More as tounding was her ability to con vince editors of The New Yorker that she should be sent to the Canadian Arctic to write articles about Eskimo stone carvers Edith Iglauer in Inuit Journey Douglas and McIn tyre Ltd Vancouver 240 pages tells why and how she became interested It is an absorbing story of her ad ventures throughout the Canadian Arctic and her astute 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