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Love Becomes Electric Hazy Shade of Winter Just Like Paradise Moonbeam

Never Gonna Give

You Up Y

She’s Having a Baby Devil Inside

Heaven Knows

I Saw Him Standing There

I Get Weak

The Language of Love . Hysteria

Dancing in a Dance Club

Body. Next To Body One Day In Your Life So Careful

Man in the Mirror What Have I Done to Deserve This? Out of the Blue Lake of Fire

Face to Face Hometown Hero Magic (In Your Eyes)

I Wasn’t the One Say You Will

Strange Advance Bangles

David Lee Roth Men Without Hats Rick Astley

Dave Wakeling INXS

Robert Plant Tiffany

Belinda Carlisle Tu

Def Leppard The Northern Pikes

Falco Meets Brigette Neilson 54-40

The Spell (Images in Vogue) Michael Jackson

Pet Shop Dusty Springfield Debbie Gibson Jato

Michael Breen Loverboy

FM

Boys and

Agnetha and Peter Cetera

Foreigner

Who was

Will the Count ever re- member who he is?

Will Elsa and Hahn ever find the missing public pros- ecuter? 5

Why was the murderer pardoned?

Why was the murderer unlucky?

that lady?

Why does Hilde look so much like Inge?

Who #€oco?

DuesN adame Maria re- ally have all the answers?

Finally, and at long last, these questions and many more that have been burn- ing in your dreams can be

Second City comedy troupe plays Charlottetown

By Dawnne Chappelle Maybe [’m just getting old, but I remember a time

”

when “diamonds” used to be

a girls best friend. How- ever, the Toronto-based Sec- ond City Touring Company that anpeared at the Cofed- of the Arts 12 seems to have Their

“Condoms are a Girl’s Best

eration Centre on March another idea. song Friend” rates right up there with the best of them, along with the wackiest rendition of “Anne of Green Gables” that has ever, and probably will ever, hit the stage of the Confederation Center. Second City is com- posed of some of the zani- est people one is likely to that

Saturday night

meet. The six per-

formed last Garry

are Jackie Brown,

Campbell, Neil Crone, Den-

nis Cutts, Colin

and Alana Shields.

Mochrie, This par- ticular group has only been together for a short while, but they are all extremely

talented in the art of comedy.

The hours of

show was three

straight comedy,

composed of some vintage Second City material, short skits, and a short improvi- The

show was

sational rnamber. sec- ond part of .he an “excruciutingly serump- version of Anne of

Gables,

tious” Green which was of our little

Island darling and Stephen

a combination King’s Firestarter, and an- a The third

scene was entirely improv.

other improv.

Although the rehearsed material was absolutely hi- the improvisations the because there was a lot of au-

larious,

were still best, mainly

dience input. The audience gave a first line (Oh no! The hamster died!) and a scene (an explosion), and Second City took it from there. The second improv was on a sim- ilar basis (Here we are in the middle of the Northum- berland Strait...), with the only problem being that the didn’t

or what the Northumberland

group know where

Strait was- they flew in! But lack of Island geography, the

despite the crew’s

show was really worth it.

The jokes were funny. and mostly in good taste, espe- cially the spontaneous ones. And while they weren’t Rick Moranis and John The City

Company managed to pull off

Candy, Second Touring some of the best comedy Dve heard in a long time. n

answered as director, Lau- rel Smyth; producer, Terry Pratt; and the cast and crew iI Theatre Society

Pepresent our produc-

tion of Count Oederland. Af- ter eight weeks of rehearsals, building, planning, schedul- ing, and scrounging about, we are ready to go. Tonight,

tomorrow night, and Satur- day night you will be able to view this piece of theatrical history.

of the @ctors, techni- md designers on this projeet are eager for an au- dience and pleased with the efforts put forth by all. We

know we have a fine show

on our hands and now all we need is you to share it with us. So come to the MacKen- zie th@@tre at 8:00 p.m. and see the one and “only Count Oederland. questions answered...

Have all your

UPEI students rehearsing. this year's major production, Count Oederland

theatre

March 17th 1988

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