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There's something about the Broadway hit The Boy Friend that director Joel Greenberg just couldn‘t resist - something about it he felt was just right tor the University of Waterloo's Drama Department. Hence. The Boy Friend is the department's next undertaking. "lt's so youthful and it's completely unpretentious." says Green- berg, the musicel's director/choreographer and chair ot UW's drama department. "From the minute the overture starts, there's just a freshness about it. There's nothing slapstick about it - it's very The Boy Friend is Sandy Wilson's light-hearted send up to 1920s musical comedies. It's the story of (the storyline being intentionally thin) a rich young man who masquerades as a poor delivery boy and meets a rich young woman, who pretends that she's not rich so as not to intimidate him. Eventually they discover the truth about each other, which makes them very happy because now they can be rich and spend all their money togther. and live happily ever after, the end. The musical was originally produced in 1954 in London, Eng., where it ran for five years at the West End theatre. In 1955, The Boy Friend opened on Broadway, featuring a young, aspiring soprano named Julie Andrews. By Deborah Crandall There's a movie version too, featuring British fashion model Twiggy. but Greenberg doean't want to talk about that, except to say that it was grotesque - it was very '30s and not at all representative of the innocent, light-hearted '20s as the play was intended to be. No resisting The Boyfriend (Continued on page IN "This is a transitional year for the K-W Symphony," Ar. menian says. "This season will basically be used to audi. tion my successor. The prog- ramming (of the season), ine. vitably has that in mind as well, so you will find there are a lot of guest conductors who will te doing many different things. Because this organiza- tion is so multi-iaoeted in the types of programs it gives the public, my successor has to be also flexible and knowledgable in many aspects of classical The second factor is a spin. off of the first. Because Arme- nian is leaving after this sea- son, a suwessor must soon be appointed, and the 1992/93 season will serve as an audi- tioning forum for those vying for the position. Therefore. the planning of the upcoming season was spe- Ciel in that regard - it's fitting that Armtmian's final season. in some way, reflects the years of dedication and hard work he has generously devoted to the symphony. Most important, after a 21. year tenure as KWS's music dimmer. Armenian mus farewell to the orchestra he has helped establish as one of Canada's fintntt. "Some conductors are 90- ing to do a main (Masterpiece) series concert and a Chamber series concert. or a main se- ries concert and a (Sunday) Serenade concert. or if they just to a Serenade then they'll have some rehersals with the (Chamber) Ensemble," Arme- nian says. "It's basically for us to find out what range of capabilities the new person will have. It you look at the list at the works each guest conduc- tor is doing, you will notice that we have asked each one to do works ot very contrasting styles so we can get a very good picture of the capabilities of the new person Ft Out of more than 150 candi- dates world-wide who applied for the position of KWS musoc director, a list of approximately 15 finalists has been as- sembled. Many of those final. ists will appear on the 1991/93 season program music Armenian has handpicked Raffi Armenian "I'm very Concerned be. cause lie put 20 years or my life Into this, and I really want the organizahon to nounsh Armenian says " want " to be In good. said hands I hope rt continues to grow muscally and maintains the very very mph number of subscribers n has Ttus symphony has the hrghest number of subscnbers per caprta In the country That tti something whrch has to be maintained Armenian will conduct two concerts m the Masterpiece Senes, the first to be panormed m January and recorded for release by CBC Records the pieces for the upcormng season with the audvtoon aspect In mind, and says It was an undertaking of great com plexity, And though he wont actually be mvovted In select. ung his successor, he s 00an all he can to asscst the process out of concern for the future of (Common on page 12)