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Lush set designs and scenery arr in the crafty hands of Runs Vrooman. Earl Sticker and a hard-working Mage crew who are working diligently to By Coral Andrews? Gilbert and Sulli, van's Pirates of Pen- zance with all its light- hearted wit. bufroom Pry, romance and fim ery is the "very model of a modern major G and S comic operetta". and it is dropping its sails and anchoring in the Humanities Thea tre from June l6 to l9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday. June 20 at 2 p.m. Pirates is brought to you by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. a feisty group of individ. uals who believe in the preservation of fine W eratic performance. G 3nd S scholar John Kerr is once again the' impresario responsible for stage direction. With Kerr's lntrlcate knowledge of Mocking, set design. and charac terizatlon Pirates promises to be a top- notch effort, UW Humanities Theatre PAGE " - WATERLOO CNRONlCLE, 1rgptLe1LDfrY, AUNr, g, to}; In the early '60s, he lived in Ottawa and for several years was host of CBC's children's show Jack in the Box, leading a studio audience of 150 young- sters in the same kind of songs and games that are part of his camp pro- gram. "Camp singing really took off at the same time that the folk era in music took off," explains Pearse in describing A native of Toronto, Pearse moved to Waterloo in 1966 when he joined the faculty of recreation at the University of Waterloo. He has maintained his residence here since leaving UW and beginning to operate Camp Tawingo year round. its the camp song leader." with the vigorous waving of his arms, he exhort- ed the boys to sing. "One day, Pop stood on his chair and. pointing to an empty chair beside him, he announced Uack is going to help me lead songs today.' Wow, did we have fun! And we have been having fun singing songs ever since." In his Camp Tawingo publication, Sing With Jack Pearse, he recalls that childhood experience at Midland's Camp Kitchikewana. "Every day after the noon meal, my father would stand on a chair near the piano at the from of the dining hall and. Although the Boys Camp Band only started playing and singing together eight years ago, Pearse himself has been a "song leader" since he was six years old. "We're not there to put ,ourselves across as entertainers. What we're trying to do is to get the audience to enjoy group singing," says Pearse, the owner and director of Camp Tawingo in Huntsville. Yet, Pearse and members of the band say they are not "entertainers." By VICTOR STANTON Thousands of youngsters. and a lot of adults as well. have been entertained by Waterloo's Jack Pearse and his Boys Camp Band. Sing along with Jack tbiiiiii/iiii' and the Boys Camp Band Set sail with the Pirates of Penzance Twenty-eight K-W Symphony members, directed by Mark McDowell. will be pm viding the splendid music, and with the fine acoustics of the Humanities Theatre. audiences are definite iy in for adreat with a lot of laughs. . ' You can be sure ey, eryone in the so, member cast will be adequately attired. from the spiffy Major General's motif to the elegant gowns of his fair and delicate daughters. Warren Hughes, pro- prietor of the Costume House in Toronto. who has worked on past Gilbert and Sullivan productions is in charge of costumlng again this year, John Kerr believes in little adaptation and from the set design to the script and princi pals in the story, ev- erything must be exact for creative authentici- ty. capture every dramat- ic detail. Pirates" of Penance At present, Mark Baldwin is enrolled in graduate studies in psychology At the University of Waterloo, where Peter Rasberry also is completing his bache, lor of environmental studies. Jim Knowlton is completing a master's of public administration at Queen‘s Uni- versity in .Kingston, and his brother Tom is a full-time program co-ordimr tor at Camp Tawingo. Says Pearse: “They started singing together and started lead singing and The members of the Boys Camp Band met there as counsellors. t He started Camp Tawingo in 1961, "as a private summer camp for boys and girls between the ages of eight and In 1967, Pearse Conducted group singing for Queen Elizabeth. Prince Philip and 15,000 children celebrating Canada's Centennial. He also has led some 24,000 Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Cubs and Brownies in song at a huge scouting rally. Pearse has published two books, Sing With Jack Pearse and Sing One More Time With Jack Pearse/containing the music and lyrics of more than I30 such songs, including such familiar sing- along pieces as Alouette, She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain, This Old Man, Beans In Your Ears and Momma Don't Allow. l6." "We feel what constitutes a camp song is one that can be taught right away.- It doesn't have a whole lat of verses and it doesn't have any compli- cations in the music." . "But then Pete Seegerfrhe Weavers. The Limelighters and The Travellers in Canada, they found songs and they made them up and all of them were good camp songs. "rt used to be that than I was a youngster, before the Volk song' time, a camp would have maybe 10 or a dozen songs that they would have been singing for 40 years. They were their songs, and each camp had their own. "captp songs." The 'lovelies' are the daughters of stolld Major General Stanley, who certainly is the 'very model of a mod- ern major-genernl'. is the only woman he has ever known. But he soon turns the other rosy cheek when he spies a gathering of 'iovelies' out for picnic promenade and en. counters the delectable Mabel. the most bew- tifui girl he's ever seen, It'g love at first sight for both. Frederic, now at the tender age of 2i, has had enough of his swash-buckling exis- tence and seeks a new way of life, Frederic plans to whisk Ruth away with him, for she is the story of young Frederic. a lad who was supposed to an Prentice to be a pilot. But. due to a mix-up with his absent-mind- ed, hard-of-hearing nursemaid Ruth. Fre- deric apprentices to become a pirate; typi- cal of a G and S plot. But this beginning! is just the Who gets whom? Come and see the fun and frolic for yourself. Pirates of Penzance is an evening of com- plicated hilarity. ex- citement and superb music in the best of the G and S tradition. The soprano show- stopper ls 'Poor Wan, The Pirates want the women. The Police want the Pirates, Ruth wants Frederic. Fre- deric wants Mabel. Mabel wants Frederic. and the Maior-Generdt wants peace. l Meanwhile. Frederic decides to lead the local police against the Pirates. much to the dismay of the men in blue. They go into hal- tie beating their lily- white chests and chant- ing Tarantara! The pirates who want to capture the ladies and marry them, end up capturing the Major-General instead. but the cunning old codger manages to "trick" them into let- ting him go. with his constant comic military fussiness. At the urging of Sharon and Joe Laurence Hampson 1she's the Sharon of the Sharon. Lois and Bram performing and recording group and he's a member of The Travellers), Jack Pearse and The Boys Camp Band recorded an album a little over a year ago called Clap Your Hands. It was recorded at the Waterloo Collegiate Institute audi. torium by technicians of Kitchener's Cedartree Recording Studio. "It's only in the last four years that we have taken it (the group) intema- tionally. In that time. we've been down to many states and attended many camp co1tttrrenc1s,,where we've given song-leading conferences." Left to right: Jim Knowlton (bass guitarist), Tom Knowlton (banjo), Jack Pear“, Mark Baldwin (guitarist) and Peter Rasherry (guitarist with board). really enjoyed it and were awfully good 'there and sang somewhere in excess of at it. So we threw together some stuff 20 songs, and out of it we got the 12 that for local camping conferences, and all are on the album." of a sudden the whole thing just took The title song was written by Mark off. Baldwin and Tam Knnwltnrr thorn am "We had MO young people and adults . And the cast is ' smooth this year, , That's the beauty of G and S. Everyone wants ' to get into the operatic V act year after year, ' because it's such fun. l Skllled soprano. Ali- ', son Watson of Wood- _ Yet: returns to G and ' S circles this year as Mabel. The heroic Free I derlc is played by Wayne Berwick, a man of many music talents, ) who Is currently the l lead singer In the band called Tangent. Ills versatile vocals know no bounds. Alex Musta- dering One', provided by the irresistible Mabel. The Pirates Chorus, has in modern tines become "Hail. Hail, the Gang's all Here", but its origin stems trom this operet- ta. The lightning-fast, furious and funny “i am the very model of a modern Malor-Gener al", leaves you speech- less and infinitely curious how a rendition such as this can be sung with speed and timed smoothness. Choreography is in the capable hands and feet of U of W's Dance Faculty member Jill Officer, and this ele- gant. fully staged pro auction is being mm aged by 'big' Brant Smith. who director Kerr says. is becoming quite a muster at G and S himself. Opening night is a U of W Am Complete Treat package. which includes dinner tickets at Chances R and choice theatre sens. plus I tete-a-tete with Major-General Stan- ley is none other than Brian Sexsmnh. MNV soned' comic connois» sent. who plays the memorable Stanley to the hilarious hilt. kas, no stranger to _casl members back at area audiences is the Chances R after the Pirate King. Paul show,att2t.50each or Nowak, a local actor, 343.008 couple. {If}; f,','(',a,2,g, JT,: Tickets tor the show Sergeant of Police, and are 'tt.00 1Stu/Sen, veleranG andSfanatic $6.50) and special Jean Shantz returns group rates tor over 20 this year In the colorful people “invaluable at role of Ruth the Maid. “m a tic et. The group recently ted close to 200 young people and adults in these and other songs at the Kitchener Public Library, and Pearse says they are discussing a similar appearance at the Waterloo Library "to open the new auditorium there sometime in the fall." The title song was written by Mark Baldwin and Tom Knowlton; there are traditional folk songs and spirituals like Peter's Fountain and I've Been A 'Listenin'; there are standard camp songs like Little Peter Rabbit and a humorous adaptation of Alouette called Alouettsky; Woody Guthrie's classic This Land is featured and the album is given a rousing finish with a medley of such familiar songs as The Saints Go Marching and Good Night, Ladies. All tickets can be purchased at the U of w Arts Centre box of. tice, Humanities Them tre box office. or by purchase of ticket vouchers at George Kadwell Records. Wm terloo Square. Stanley Park Mall. Centre in the Square box office. or the Fairview Park Mall Information Cem tre. So you have the in, formation. Let the G and S Society entertain you. If you‘ve never seen a Gilbert and Sul- llvan production. and want ditterent, dar xling experience for all ages. TARANTARA! The Humanities Thea. tre is the place to be June 1649. The hm begins at tr. M. Tickets tor the show are 88.00 (Stu/Sen, $8.50) and special group rates tor over 20 people are available at 95.00 a ticket.