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‘"‘Bettyâ€"Jo, Billyâ€"Jo and Bobbyâ€"Jo" are satinâ€" gown hucksters Lulu (Kathe Huras), Belle (Chloe Budd), and delightfully raucous Mitzi (Nancy Slater), who occasionally add visual flair and naughtyâ€"girl atmosphere, with some semblance of dance, in a floundering first act. John Gibson as Waiter Daile has his acting moments but tends to drag out some of his key passages with a lacklustre result. Carol Williams Shirley LeBlanc, in her KWLT debut as bump and grind brothel owner Nellie Hogan, is unfortunâ€" ately bland in script and song, making Nellie‘s Brothel a French Provincial Petticoat Juncâ€" tion!!! Set to songs provided by budding music composâ€" er/lyricist Lisa Hagen (Maximilian Beetle), this *"rollicking mellerdramer‘ rambles with continual lack of focus and chronic character imbalance. Through some stylish slapstick, comedic corn, sexual innuendos and sap romance that would make any Harlequin novel freak gag, the players languish in a setting of wacko scenarios, riddled with laâ€"diâ€"da. Theatre owner Walter Dale (John Gibson) and daughters Millicent (Carol Williams) and Rose (Tina Sweeny), and their good friends at Nellie‘s Brothel, must devise a plan to keep the theatre. Their only hope is Chief T. Shaking Spear (Bob Minty). End of plot. At best, Chief Shaking Spear is "fun," an early 1900‘s yarn about the mortgage foreciosure of the Old Korn Exchange Theatre, the Oid Cultural Identity Preservation Clause, and "legalized extortionist‘"‘ Cramden Twinge. Twinge is played too nicely by Gary Siebert, almost like Carol Burnett sidekick Harvey Korman. Lastâ€"minute scrambles always fuel the challenge of amateur theatre, and KWLT has fufilled its ‘show must go on‘ requisite, in terms of its latest production Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again, or The Taming the Sioux. Just by their scalps. Directed by Don Endicott (Here Comes the Bride), the cast needs another good solid intense rehearsal week to tighten the focus and punch up the cues, which should make this sagging social comedy the raunchy, lively song and dance revue KWLT originally envisioned. PAGE 20 â€" Chief raise his hand not to say how but . . . when? Music not ready for play until two days before opening night! Coral Andrews Chronicle Special Chief Shaking Spear say Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Little Theatre in heap big load of trouble. Chief Shaking Spear i needs sharpening up KWLT‘s dinner theatre presentation, Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again, continues Friday and Saturday at Victoria Park Pavilion. Diane Warriner‘s dinner theatre fixin‘s proved the real hit of the evening, with many audience members going back for a first course encore, in a impressive menu of beef stroganoff, salad and Irish trifle. Here was the real meat of the matter, though Warriner said she‘ll include a meatless alternative for a growing number of vegetarian theatreâ€"goers. This idea works if the actors can sing, but none of the players are professionally trained and do their best with Hagen‘s ‘stickâ€"outâ€"likeâ€"aâ€"soreâ€"teepee‘ lyrics. The orchestra is an nice touch with Allison Feureewerker, piano, Linda Axman, mandolin, Jim Dietrich, guitar, Clarence Kubushsheskie, banjo, which gives the play authenticity in a musical vein. But Hagen‘s songs don‘t really fit play context, poorly placed, taking away from what little pace this production has. Soloists have a tendency not to transcend script plot to song plot, leaving an inclement, disjointed effect. But what a rough go when the supporting cast outdoes the principals. The problem does not just involve acting insight. The acting is passable. The singing is not. The singing was meshed into this script because Graves‘ play was too short. Chuck Peeren is topâ€"notch as Millicent‘s syrupy love interest Eddy ‘The Mountie‘ Nelson. Peter LeBianc Corn Exchange stage manager Daft William, "who ties the fly (rope) to his braces," steals scenes beautifully. Cameron Reid as English fop Kennethâ€"Haigâ€"Fortesque is another good gu{â€" faw, eh what. as Millicent is pleasing, in character only. Tina Sweeny as Rose makes a wonderful turnâ€"ofâ€"theâ€" century suffering ravenâ€"haired Sarah Bernhardt, though it aimost looks like she‘s overacting in comparison to her coâ€"players. KWLT mainstay, actor/director Bob Minty, saves the play in the second act, this spry septuagenarian hilarious with continual rape and pillage of the Bard. Minty‘s joyous banter is a play highlight, as he yammers about the plays he‘s written (A Midsummer‘s Night Sweat Lodge, Two Gentlemen from Kelowna), plying Graves‘® playâ€" withinâ€"aâ€"play context "written by an idiot signifyâ€" ing nothing." 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