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formula works for Cakeâ€"Walk Homespun Coral Andrews Chronicle Special The Blyth Festival is receiving "just desserts‘‘ this season with another hit. Cakeâ€"Walk is Colleen Curran‘s scrumptious comedy filled with laughter, and delicious sliceâ€"ofâ€" life comment. It showed last week at UW Humanities. The play deals with five women and one man who enter the town fair‘s local ‘cakeâ€"walk‘ parading down the street with their own cakes, hoping to win first prize of a trip for two to Lourdes, Paris. The cakeâ€"walk is an old, and charming rural custom, and all entries are perâ€" sonifications of Colleen Curran‘s humorous characters. Sister "Vivian" Leigh Cleary (Marlane O‘Brien) (who has a brother named Ashley Wilkes Cleary) is a nun, ‘moralistic for a living‘ who bakes a decadent chocolate cheesecake with a leâ€" prachaun on top for good luck. _ Cleary finds good luck and ingredients for love, with entrant Taylor Abbott (Ric Reid) a bumbling but sensitive archeoloâ€" gist, who finds garbage in his digs, and usually ‘needs a smaller shovel‘. Abbott also cooks ‘to survive.‘. As archeological evidence, he constructs a ‘King Tut Coconut‘ cake, garnished with a golden sphinx for appearance points. Ric Reid is endearing as a sweet guy who can‘t remember anything but can‘t forget his growing infatuation for this ‘very Catholic‘ girl. Martha Britch, as Cleary‘s best friend played by Heather Esdon, is a likeable newâ€"age hippie, owner of the Heaven On Earth cafe and a perfect examâ€" ple for Curran satire on the ‘organic‘ life with her Heaven on Earth carrot cake. <Augusta Connors Secord is the immaculately groomed highâ€"soâ€" ciety snob who enters this ‘tacky little competition‘, using her daughter Tiffany‘s wedding cake to assert herself in her family‘s eyes. Her ‘lifestyle‘ wedding cake comes complete with polar bear and a guilded CN Tower sprouting out the top! a ‘busy‘ tribute to Canada. Claire Crawford (Augusta) and Paulina Gillis are amusing as a ‘dizzy but wellâ€"meaning mother and dimâ€"wit daughter. Curran serves tasty wit ribbing menopause, showers, weddings, ‘mummys‘ and the matrimonial But it‘s den mother Ruby Abel (Lorna Wilson) who‘s a ‘mother‘ of a character. Curran takes her best shots at Canadian foibles through this former baton twirler. It‘s Wilson‘s show as she rants about commonâ€"law relationâ€" ships, children, decency, Macâ€" Donald‘s and health food. But she harbors an ambition to have the best cake in town, even if she has to cheat, as the ‘dough‘ thickens. Ruby Abels are everywhere. That‘s the beauty of Blyth proâ€" ductions. Characters you see on stage are often characters you see next door. Directed by Layne Coleman, Cakeâ€"Walk is fastâ€"paced and funâ€" filled, the skilled cast and crew merely the icing on top. Ron Gabriel is another comic asset as the fair emcee, whose voice is heard through the loudâ€" speaker as contestants listen for their cue in the old basement kitchen. Blyth plays are often set in public places, with Garrison‘s (Continued on page 20) NORTH AMERICA‘S LARGEST PIANO & ORGA N MANUFACTURER "50% OFF LOOK FOR THE WED., OCTOBER 1st â€" SAT., OCTOBER 4th FACTORY WAREHOUSE Pianos SALE Organs Over * million dollars worth of new Baldwin Pianos and Organs plus sample, floor models and reconditioned instruments. FREDERICK ST. Baldwin VICTORIA ST. ON THE SPOT FINANCING ENTIRE STOCK Baldwin â€" 4 DAYS ONLY 907 FREDERICK ST 744â€"1486 (at Victoria) KITCHENER SALE HOURS 10 a.m.â€"10 p.m. SAT. 10 a.m.â€"6 p.m. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1986 â€" PAGE 17 TRACTOR TRALLER KST. Baldwin The choice of world famous artists since 1862