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- Come winter, Canada’s ’ regional theatres: will be . showcasing’ more touring |

musical shows and plays

- from other’ Canadian citles.”

By the same token, there will be fewer American imports.

It’s not that impresarios and theatre programmers .

have a: sudden surge of ; interest ‘in the high quality

of Canadian shows. It’s just - that the shows cast less than .

- ‘ones from the U.S.

.’ The drop in the dollar 5 vexchange value has added -

20 to 25 per cent to the cost

' pf American imports of all

kinds, © including : touring

. theatrical, music and’ dance.

companies, “ “The National Arts Centre

in Ottawa, which regularly’

-Tuns a: winter series of . musicals, is not only finding there are fewer good shows from Broadway available, but ‘those: that are -being offered. for

- the

Canadian .

showing singly, cost {oo much.

American touring com- panies have always wanted

to be paid in U.S. dollars or

the Canadian equivalent, They. were hit a few years ago by the federal govern- ment’s imposition of income ‘tax. deductions on their . earnings in Canada, . .

The arts centre cis

‘reported. to be. dickering’ . ' with the Stratford Festival © _ to get Brian. Macdonald’s ‘stellar production of The © - Mikado ‘for the musical comedy series next winter.

The Stratford. Festival -has already let it be known

that the production of Noel .

Coward’s Bilthe Spirit, which doesn’t. open until mid-September, will go ta Royal Alexandra

comedy, The, Desert Song, - ‘has been booked for a fall tour of smaller Ontario

cities with the help of the -

Ontario Arts Council. The

~ show has become such a hit |

-early in the season “that

- larger theatres, some of

them. outside Ontario, are

considering [t' for their ~ members -of the. board

winter programs.

Ed (Honest Ed) Mirvish |

.of the Royal Alex, who just

bought the historle Old Vic:

in, London, ‘England, is dickering — with. Singin’ “and - Tonight,

Dancin’

It's anew musical'review of ~

Canada’s many ‘con-

tributions to Broadway —

such things as. Galt Mac-

dermot's music for Hair and | some old Carmen. Lom- _

Theatre in Toronto this fall ardo ballads,

: The Shaw Festival's pocket-sized version of the .

old Broadway. musical

Gossip Column

_ DYEING TO TELL: The old election time debate .as to whether

President Reagan dyes.

his hair or. not has sur- faced again among _ Washington gossips. The ' latest story goes like this: It, seems that, while the _president

hospitalized after. the

‘assassination attempt in”

_ March 1981, some gray roots started to” show. |

. Nancy <reportedly - brought some liquid hair

dye‘to the hospital for

him. As he was using it, ;

~ the bottle fell to the floor | "and splattered, A nurse:

rushed in to hélp: clean

up and shortly after:she - -

old a few people of the incident . Was convinced it-was bet- tet to keep quiet. Since

the nurse supposedly had |

refused to confirm the: “story, © one. . magazine: which iad this’

'Q. Nave Eunice and: | #aid” . anything. publicly. about: -

e709

| Sargent ~ Shriver: -

was:

But~ then she.

news.

item Gecided Rot. fo run...

their daughter's romance’ with body builder and actor -Arnold Sch- warzenegger?- W.0, :

A, The Shrivers have said mary a-word to ... anyone about 25 year old

‘daughter. Maria's —in- volvement’ with Sch-. ’ warzenegger. But friends -Temember that years ago ‘the Shrivers were openly ’ aghast, when actor Peter - Lawford,’ ex-husband of ". Ewnice’s sister Patricia, .

‘introduced .:Jack “and _.

Bobby © Kennedy ° to . Marilyn ‘Monroe, Angie Dickinson’. and — other Hollywood lovlies. Not

that their. concem ‘ ap- ‘inhibited: the»

parently - 1 .. playful brothers: -

Q. Has. Christopher .

Walken ever talked to

‘the -press ‘about . Natalie:

"Wood's ‘death? ‘L can’t “recall having ever read’ anything ; quoting -.him about the tragedy on the - Wagnerst boat: - J.F.

A. Walken :has.con-. - sistently. ducked the news . media :

aeths

~~ time . Sutherland Boggs, . ‘former . director of the , National Gallery, would °

. A second Charlottetown , Festival show, My Many Husbands, . stars Juno

award. -winner Catherine —

McKinnon arid her husband, Don Harron, the : mar: of many parts including Charlie Farquharson. It is

_ almost certain to go Into the: coming winter's cabaret-.

show elrcult.

&

The new Crown: cor- | poration’ that is to select. sites, design-and builda new ° - ‘National Gallery and a new . National:Museum of Man in Ottawa is beginning to take - shape. It looks like an en- °

tirely new breed of federal agency,

It. was announced some ago that —

‘return to Ottawa from the Y Philadelphia Museum of Art. to head the new corporation.

She will be chairman of the corporation’s. board - of

‘directors with six members —

= four top clvil servants and two from outside the government. ©

The four government-— . Service representatives on | _the . board . are "the... chief..:-

executive officer of the ’ Natlonal. Museums, -

Capital Commission, the

deputy minister of public | works and the deputy ' minigster’-”

of ‘munications.

The: ‘interesting thing is" —that these are the depart-

mepis and agencies which “were not able in the past. to agree on a National Gallery

_ plan. acceptable: to the - _. government.. The ‘National

‘Capltal Commisdion, which

* Jocks after: Ottawa-area: _|

‘and parks, hias not been able ,to a with the museums corporation and public works on how to proceed.

Now these four agencies

will be directly represented von the board of the new Canada Museums Con-

struction Corp. Boggs and _

the two non-government

probably will have busy and troublesome ‘days ahead of

| Prince: Rupert: Smithers Terrace

‘the . Charlottetown: Festival ‘for .

Jean. - the. .

the - . chairman of the: National

com- .

them trying to sort out‘the ~ |

another show : which hasn't yet’ operied..

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