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AW SB THE April 17 ll Entertainment Classy Broadway fitting title Herald Special There are two Americas America as an actual country and America as a state of mind The first like all countries in the world since we rarely net on what we short of Its own propaganda but the second is an extremely potent myth that keeps the hopes of the persecuted for a better day alive in every corner of our poor planet The power of American popular art rests in that myth and the universal appeal of American popular art is based on its ability to express the longing of the poor and powerless for the good and just life This was brought home to me last week at the John Elliott Theatre The occasion was Classy Broadway a wonderful evening of American popular music the brainchild of A Dale Wood the director of the Georgetown Choral Society and Jane MaltonMcGinnls a classy night club singer from south of the border The evening started with piano renditions and songs from West Side Story the towering Berns tein and Sondbeim musical about two rival gants the Jets and the Sharks whose members are as far from sharing the American Dream as you can aglne Songs by and Rogers and Cole porter George Gershwin and others followed and almost two hours later after Jane McGinnis had added several riveting encores from The Phantom of the Opera the au dience was on its feet thanking the two artists with long and en A classy and vivacious performer Jane MaltonMcGinnls teamed up with pianist A Dale Wood to present Classy Broadway a review of Broadway tones down through the years last Friday and Saturday evenings to appreciative audiences at the John Elliott Theatre located In the Hallon Hills Cultural Centre on Church St in Georgetown Herald photos by Colin Gibson thuslastic applause No matter how good the pianist and A Dale Wood was a most sensitive and reliable per former this kind of evening depends on the singer After some initial problems with the sound system Miss Malton McGinnls did wonderful ly well To begin with the lady has great looks and a fabulous war drobe She went through eight changes all of them spec tacular creations Did she design them herself These outfits were so striking and they helped so much to establish the right mood that I would have liked to know the name of the designer A few times the singer changed her custume in full view of everybody and while this gave the viewer the sensation of ching a chrysalis changing into a butterfly for instance I would have liked it better had she changed behind the screen that stood conveniently to the right of the stage This would have made the quick changes appear magical and less distracting The program alternated from slow and serious songs to others a funny or frivolous mood which gave the evening a plea sant and varied pace But I felt that Jane Malton McGinnis forte are the slow songs of longing and heartbreak A song like My Heart Belongs to Daddy seems to put a strain on her personality but grand songs like Begin the Beguine Somewhere Over The Rain bow It Aint Necessarily So allow her voice and her whole be ing to blossom so strongly that she becomes an artist of the first order I will never forget her in of It Aint Necessarily So She is very much a fineboned white lady with an aristocratic face surrounded by blonde hair but with this song standing very still in the middle of the stage and wailing her compressed pain into the ears of an unfeeling world she became a woman of the South a true heroine and victim of our rapacious culture Great art offers catharsis Entertainment by comparison is far too often designed to mere ly divert us and keep us content Classy Broadway in its best moments purged the emotions When the lights came on I sens ed that a little had hap pened in our town Two remarkable musicians bad taught us that art is the finest and the most noble of all human ac complishments Little Theatre production benefits Georgetown Drug Abuse Centre ByLOISFRASER Herald Special Most of the residents of Hills have never heard of the Georgetown Drug Abuse Centre Thats good news since people are in deep trouble by the time they need its services For clients its a lifeline a place of solace a place where a caring counsellor can literally save your life and pull you back from the depths of and dependency The Drug Abuse Centre is run by a volunteer board of in dividuals While some have had drug abuse strike personally most are just concerned in dividuals who know that Kristin Buhner can make a difference As executive director she is the only paid employee Kris is en thuslastic about her job in a way few of us can rival Thats she knows counselling Kris started her career as a registered nurse then expanded into substance abuse counselling She also teaches at the Toronto Centre for Psychotherapy For the past years she has worked in Georgetown With a typical caseload of people who receive individual counselling and a parents support group of she has her hands full The parent support group teaches families how to cope without enabling the user or making it easy Kristin is particularly that the parents group are building support for themselves and helping each other during crises The Georgetown Drug Abuse Centre is surrounded by misconceptions such as these services are available elsewhere wrong this is the only service of its type in the GeorgetownAc ton area the clients are all young reckless teenagers many adults are also clients they only help people who abuse drugs wrong alcohol abuse is targetted too they must be government funded wrong this is a nonprofit organization with many supporters Kristin is pleased that substance abuse 15 one the few areas that has received increased government spending federally Kristins main frustration with her job is the amount of time she spends rather than counselling he Georgetown Drug Abuse Centre offers free counselling to all its clients Generous support from The Op timist Club Lions Club Peter Pomeroys Golf 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