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(94 eg 44 37 $690.9 $39.99 88 Drayton Festival "It will be a different experience than the one in Drayton," Mustakas says. "But we‘re getting some of the best performers to be in it and the production values will be there. it‘s very important to me that, because it is a different experience, it has to be a good one." Run For Your Wife, the hilarious British farce by Ray Cooney, opens at the Drayton Festival June 26 and runs through July 26 The hit comedy follows a London taxi driver as he tries to keep The festival‘s second production, Forever Plaid, opens June 14 and runs eight shows a week for a whopping seven months at the Schoolhouse Theatre. it will be presented in a cabaret setâ€" ting, with seating for 100 at 25 tables for four. sidy, in a sense, comes from our 2 ets to see the shows, but they conâ€" tribute to the theatre and they consider it their own. Ab "But that puts a lot of pressure on us. We really have to provide the best possible entertainment and at reasonable prices, as well." Drayton Festival has risen to that challenge yet again, offering a veritable feast of laughter and music. The season opens May 14 with Neil Simon‘s popular comedy, The Sunshine Boys, the film version of which starred Walter Matthau and George Burns. it‘s the story of a former vaudeville team, with a natural aversion for one another, who are invited to perform on network televiâ€" sion after an 11â€"year absence from the stage. w The pair reunites for the performance, only to remember why they split up in the first place. body in Canada knows about us (" and it‘s just wonderful. It‘s a tribâ€" ute to this community. "We‘re very audience driven â€" we have over 3,000 members that i support the theatre and we receive a biggest thing going in summer est summer theatre success stories. During its first season in 1991, Drmnfefivdwldll,mfid(momflpedm.m year, the theatre company sold more than 60,000 tickets over 168 performances. And it just keeps getting better. Last week, artistic and managing director, Alex Mustakas, announced Drayton Festival‘s upcoming season â€" an ambitious season that will see Drayton proâ€" s ductions staged at not one, but A two venues, the second being the Schoolhouse Theatre in St. Jacobs. 4 As a result, it‘s expected that $6,000 tickets will be sold over 400 j "We definitely have become, next to Stratford and Shaw, the Bigger, bolder, and better than ever The Drayton Festival is unquestionably one of Canada‘s great By Deborah Crandall "So our subâ€" in the Square. "Hits of the Drayton Festival" will feature memorable moments from Drayton‘s first six seasons, including selections from Swing, Vaudevilie, Hurray For Hollywood, Pirates of Penâ€" zance, Me and My Girl, You‘ll Get Used To It, and The War Show. The show, conducted by Howard Cable, will feature the talâ€" ents of performers such as Terry Doyle, Anne Louise Bannon, the Martini Sisters, and Neil Aitchison, who have all starred in Drayâ€" ton productions throughout the past six seasons. "It‘s kind of a ‘best of â€" some of the great musical numbers, comedy sketches, and dance routines," Mustakas says. "The really exciting thing for us is that normally we‘ve done shows here with no more than a four or fiveâ€"piece band. And all of a sudden, we‘re going to have a 54â€"piece orchestra. | think it‘s going to be a thrill for all of us." Tickets for "Hits of the Drayton Festival" range in price from $23 to $36, and are available at The Centre in the Square box office, 578â€"1570. wepeoeee ..................._ 3@ . really a tribute to all our memâ€" M bers and the people who attend ustakas here â€" they have been so generâ€" ous and they realize that all the money is going back into the theatre, not into our operations." If you can‘t wait until May to get your Drayton Festival fix, the theatre company is teaming up with the Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Symphony March 6 through March 8 for concerts at The Centre his complicated double life from blowing up in his face . The festival‘s musical offering this year is RomancelRomancé, MmmmnMWMrwWM 23. The production is actually two musicals rolled into one. The first, The Little Comedy, is a turnâ€"of theâ€"certury tale which incorâ€" porates disguises and "urrloreseen complications"® . The second, Summer Share, is the story of a contemporary couple and their trials and temptations. The 1997 season wraps up with A Flea in Her Ear, which opers Aug. 27 and continues through Sept. 27. This dassic tarce by Georges Feydeau, is the story of a Mlz] . wife who tests her husband‘s loyâ€" alty by sending him a letter from a fictitious admirer, inviting him to a hotel rendezvous. When theatre goers return to Drayton Festival this season, k . they‘ll return to a refurbished P ze * ol auditorium, the first stage of a e PA W MR | fourstage renovation project. The u f#) _1 project will include redecorating w 3 of the theatre, the installation of o+ is 4 new "comfortable" seats, mew air . l conditioning, and an elevator to y » B M make the theatre accessible to wpithnnscndvaisii sns arrinidinienhneinczaie "It‘s a $1.5â€"million capital camâ€" ign, and I‘m really happy to say mrfidmm already since April of last year, "And that‘s