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Ebony Tower delves into the kind of jazz sound typified in the 60's by such as Thelonius Monk and the Modern Jazz Quartet. All welcome: tickets are Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner return as adventurer Jack Colton and romance novelist Joan Wilder in The Jewel of the Nile. Chronicle Special Again, as in Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile possesses the same winning elements ro- mance. comedy, and adventure in exotic locales. The Ebony Tower Quartet will perform tonight at R p.m. at the Music Room as the first of two offerings this week from the K-W Chamber Music Society. But Joan Wilder is actually beginning to take all her life and death dilemmas for granted. She thinks nothing of falling through a roof and The annual KAN Chamber Music Society Jazz Concert features the Ebony Tower Quartet, whose members are Glenn Buhr of the Faculty of Music, WLU, with Dave Wiffen. saxophone, Anthony Bender. drums and Mike Budding, bass. "I don't want to sail around the world in one week. Exotic ports and spectacular sunsets are not enough. Romance just doesn't seem real anymore, Besides how much romance can one woman take," complains Wilder bronzed and bitchy on the An- gelina. Well, of course the two head for trouble in the deepest darkest deserts of North Africa. Wilder meets a intriguing caliph who wishes her to write his life story, and Joan leaves Jack 'for a higher purpose'. In Jewel of the Nile Douglas and Turner are teamed again. and it's not so happily ever after. The couple have been ravaging the sun. fun and all the beer on the Riviera for six months on the Angelina, but Joan Wilder who cannot finish her present romance novel is bored. To add to this, the obnoxious puny hustler Ralph, played with great slimy stamina by Taxi's Danny DeVito, is hot on the couple's trail, having a score to settle with Colton, anxious to give him that 'one way ticket to harpland'. Coral Andrews Chronicle Special Romancing The Stone was a funny movie, one of the funniest of 1984 in the adventure/comedy genre, featuring sultry romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner - Prizzi's Honour) and fearless rogue adventurer Jack Colton (Michael Douglas - who also produced this box office smash). If you saw Stone you'll remember the two heroes sailed off on a luxury boat, the Angelina, into the Manhattan sunset happily ever after. PAGE 12 - WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1985 TEn’tocrtainmnt; Ebony Tower leads off Chamber Music slate Jewel of the Nile follows a tough act Movie review Goulart is one of Canada's outstanding younger talents. A student of Tibor Puskas at Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Music, from which Goulart graduated last spring. John has now gone on to the Manhattan School of Music in New York. This is a benefit concert to support his schooling. Admission is by donation and amounts of $10 or more will get charitable donation receipts from the Chamber Music Society. Phone 8864673. Sunday, Dec. 22 at ti p.m., classical guitarist John Goulart presents a concert of classics for the guitar in the Music Room. available at the door (SH); students & seniors, $7). Turner and Douglas are a good pair, abound with a flippant likable chemistry, but it's DeVito with his mangy slapstick antics that earns a majority of Jewel's laughs, because the script doesn't provide many so it's up to Turner, Douglas and DeVito to use their screen libido, Parts of Jewel are simply silly, with desert rats on camels sporting ghetto-blasters, with music to match. creating havoc in a landbound F 16 and scrambling across cliffs in her designer wardrobe, so matter- of-fact about death. It's almost as if she yearns for danger. but in Jewel Joan Wilder gets her share of it, as she commits to escorting a certain holy man to the city of Cadir, with or without Jack Colton. In one sequence where the caliph is serenading his peoples in the Holy land of Cadir, Pink Floyd's movie The Wall comes into play, featuring the sheik with a gigantic neon symbol, and rock concert political platform similiar to Bob Geldof‘s depressing anarchy personna Pink. The only thing missing were the blood-curdling cries and multi- tudes of hammers as the caliph brings the mob to heights of hysterical frenzy. She actually tells Jack that she was doing fine before he comes (not to help her but to find the 'jewel') all by herself!!! Written by Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner. based on popular characters created by Diane Thomas, Jewel of the Nile is a credible sequel but a touch lacklustre compared to the original charm of Romancing the Stone with its initial innovative and slick sophisticated plot threads and laugh-a-minute Columbian crises. But the audiences love Jack and Joan as they bicker amidst the barrages of bullets, and discuss their future plans while hanging above a bottom- less pit. Chronicle Special Jerilyn Dana and David La Hay's Grand pas de deux as the crystalline Sugar Plum Fairy and her debonnaire cavalier, was the Nutcracker‘s piece de resistance, both performers displaying fine-honed finesse to this renowned but difficult strand pas. The Dance of the Orientals. one of the most difficult of the divertisements. was also performed by local children. and proved a dainty but delectable success. with soloist Betsyann Baron darting in and out of an enormous turquoise silk tent that the children learned to effectively control, after weeks and weeks of tedious rehearsals. Highlights included Maurice Lemay as Trepak Ivan, the fiery Russian with Nicholas Minns as the Marzipan Shepherd, whose leaps and pirouettes seemed effortless in execution. Minn's taut movements interspersed with bright facial reactions m)de a Jovial interlude as he playfully tossed the sheep over his head one by one, with black sheep Nathalie Huot bold and sassy. Though the first half of the show was fast-paced and funny with the kids and adults in festive glory around the tree, it was the second portion of the program which ignited this Christmas classic. Tom Lingwood's set design for the land of snow, glistened with feather snowflakes and complimentary ice blue-white color schemes reminiscent of a Hallmark Christmas greeting card. This was especially notable when the angels alighted with Clara, the prince and four graceful prancing reindeer. The mixtures of golds, silvers. and the pastel or shimmering costumes, mingled with Nicholas Cemovitch's brilliant lighting designs, set the sugary scene for this cherished standard and Nault's additional divertisements, as if by technical magic. John Stanzel as Doctor Drosselmeyer provided authentic magic tricks, his facial expressions bigger-than-life as he swept Clara orf her feet with his wondrous mystery. and carried her off to fantasyland. Area children created great comic timing as wee mice and rats scattering and skittering about during the fateful midnight war with the Nutcracker and his platoon of tin sol- diers. Dueto Nault's extrd sequences, the second segment of the Nutcracker flows with joyful essence and elaborate dance concepts. - . - The result is Nault's parsonalized Nutcracker, a package brimming with the creme de la creme of Christmas spirit, as golden-winged angels. delicate dew drops, jovial candy caricatures, and snow soft sheep flounce around the land of Clara's Christmas dreams, from the land of snow to the kingdom of sweets. To the heavenly strains of Tchaikowsky's world famous composition under the accomplished instinctiveness of director Vladimir Jelinek and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony at Centre in the Square, Les Grands Ballets did once again prove why they top other companies in a magnificant display of dance and joie de vivre. It was the same show. but how do you improve on the best? Marthe Leonard as Clara and David Lauzon as her magic prince seemed like brother and sister in their pas de deux whirling and twirling in the land of snow, with Lauzon an artistic asset due to his boundless energy. Jacques Demers as the loyal Nutcracker delivered another strong characterization. stiff and statuesque in his portrayal. wooden in toy form limber in his technique. Nault has taken the story of Clara and her beloved Nutcracker, the Land of Snow, the Kingdom of Sweets and like a cunning modern-age Santa, has added a whimsical variety of treasured toys and characters to Clara's Christmas fantasy. Nault even added a black sheep as a clever racial comment when the company performed the show in Phila- delphia. Coral Andrews Chronicle Special Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite still remains the verit- able holiday classic. Over the years local audiences have seen six interpretations of this divine traditional festive ballet, from the abstract form of the National Ballet to amateur companies like last year's Pittsburgh Theatre Bal, let. But no performance seems to surpass the magical frivolity of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. This particular troupe is deemed the best due to choreographer Monsieur Fernand Nault's knack for adventurous dance spiced with majesty and imaginative skill. Nault, heralded for his 1970's hit Tommy, based on The Who's timely rock opera, made a name for Les Grand Ballets in New York and London. eventually spreading the troupe's talent world-wide. Nutcracker Suite best of the best