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in the best soliloquy con-

test we have the King of
Denmark doing a striptease
to a well known Shakespear-
ean soliloquy, with appropri-
ate piano music in the back-
-ground, adding entirely new
meaning to both striptease
and the soliloquy.

In an imaginary bar scene,
Hamlet asks the question,
‘“Tubourg or not Tobourg?”’
Later on in the play, two
bizarre acting coaches coach
the audience for an acting
audition for a Chinese movie
director who is looking for a
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lead role in a Shakespearean
tragedy.

“To be or not to be’
screams one half of the
audience, while the other
half orates with a pronoun-
ced accent, ‘‘To be or not to
be.’’ Both sides get the part,
but the crown of Denmark is
held in balance as both
teams tie.

City Stages’s production of
Hamlet will be running at the
City Stage Playhouse at 751
Thurlow st. until November
14.

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The Movies We Choose! —

by Darrow Lee

Over the last few years,
the major movie studios have
released a good number of
fantasies and horror flicks to
appeal to today’s paying
audiences. The major movie
studios realize demand for
such movies has grown, and
is at one of its highest peaks
in history.

Presently, the majority of
the younger paying audien-
ces choose to see movies
containing fantastic me-
chanics of technology, and
violent, gory scenes which
leave you on the edge of your
seat. Movies made in a
warm, enchanting fashion
still attract the older paying
audiences, but to a lesser
degree, as there has not
been too many made in the
same fashion as ‘‘Gone With
The Wind.’ As a result,
older paying audiences are
finding that the best enter-
tainment bets in town are the
clubs and plays. However,
the older audiences are also
finding that they must
change their attitudes about
movies, and start complying
to the present movie trend.

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have proven,their ability to
draw in both younger and
older audiences. Movies
such as ‘Star Wars; Friday
the 13th; Raiders of the Lost
Ark; Halloween; Star Trek;
Poltergeist and E.T.’ have
reached and surpassed box
office records set in the past,
and there has to be a good
mixture of younger and older
audiences for box office re-
cords to be broken.
Undoubtedly, today’s mo-
vie audiences are finding
that only those movies that
stimulate a desire for adven-
ture and a sense of fear are

worth the full $5.00.

Andre Gagnon

(soes Great!
by Graham Hunter

Andre Gagnon was better
than great last Thursday
night at the Orpheum The-
atre. Dressed in a white silk
shirt, black pants and red
running shoes, he played
piano and danced for three
hours of fast paced pop-jazz.

His back-up band, with
players on flute, guitar,
bass, moog synthesizer,

drum set and tympany, start-
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bounced Andre. The first
song was fast with superb
playing which the audience
appreciated. But not all of
Andre’s songs were fast. He
next introduced a beautiful,
slow ballad titled ‘Two Days
in the Country’, about a
house in the Quebec country-
side where he goes for quiet
reflection and music compo-
sition. However Andre, a
man of extremes, next start-
ed a live ‘stomp’, and en-
couraged the audience to
clap in time with the music,
or to dance if they wished.. I
didn’t see any dancing but
the whole Orpheum re-
sounded with the clapping of
hands and stomping of feet.

His most difficult chal-
lenge was trying to end the
concert. It took two encores
and one standing ovation
before the concert finished.

In his second encore, per-
formed solo, he premiered a
short waltz which was simple
and pure. It was a sad,
somber song, perhaps calcu-
lated to prevent the audience
from standing up and shout-
ing for more. The audience
stood up anyway, and will
always cheer for more Andre

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