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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Howl’s Moving Castle (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, August 26<BR>
7:00 & 9:45 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, August 27 & 28<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adults, $2/children under 13<BR>
<B>(see REVIEW below)<BR>
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<H2>Auditions<BR>
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Moscow Community Theatre will be holding auditions to complete the cast of their production of the original musical “Noodlehead!”<BR>
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<B>Saturday, August 27th at 10:00 a.m.<BR>
</B>At the <B>Retro Fit Gallery</B> on Main Street between 2nd and 3rd. <BR>
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Be prepared to read from the script and sing! <BR>
The cast will be announced at 1:00 p.m. followed by introductions of the production crew and a full read through of the script.<BR>
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This production has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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<H2>Batman Begins (PG13)<BR>
</H2><B>Friday, September 2<BR>
7:00 & 10:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, September 3 & 4<BR>
4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adults, $2/children under 13<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5">Purchase your KFS (<I>Kenworthy Film Society</I>) pass this weekend.</FONT><B> <BR>
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</B><U>Purchase a new KFS punch card at the Moscow Farmers’ Market this Saturday.</U> <BR>
Available at the <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> ironing board, where you can also purchase tickets for the first play of SIT’s 2005-06 season.<BR>
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KFS passes also available at BookPeople of Moscow or the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre box office. <BR>
10 films for $30 or 30 films for $75. Passes accepted for all Sunday night films.<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
</I></H2></FONT>by Martin McDonagh<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#993300"><FONT SIZE="4">"The most wickedly, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist</FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#993300"><FONT SIZE="4">on either side of the Irish Sea..." The New York Times<BR>
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</FONT><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> received four Tony Awards in 1998.<BR>
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Directed by Forrest Sears<BR>
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<B>September 8-10 & 15-17 at 7:30 pm<BR>
September 10 & 17 at 2:00 pm<BR>
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</B>Performances at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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</B>Tickets available at Moscow Farmers’ Market every Saturday<B> </B>and at <I>BookPeople of Moscow<BR>
</I><B>$15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students<BR>
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Written by Martin McDonagh in eight days and winner of four Tony awards, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> premiered in 1996 in Galway, Ireland. Set in Leenane, a small town in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as extraordinarily funny as it is horrific. <BR>
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<U>Cast<BR>
</U>Maureen Folan – Pam Palmer<BR>
Mag Folan – Valerie McIlroy<BR>
Pato Dooley – Peter Aylward<BR>
Ray Dooley – Michael Carpenter<BR>
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For more information about the play, group ticket sales or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I>, <BR>
contact John Dickinson at 208-301-4361 or <johnd@moscow.com> <BR>
or visit the web site of <B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre </I></B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/<BR>
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Fall 2005 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
<B>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
By Martin McDonagh<BR>
</B>Sept 8 - 10, 15 - 17 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Sept 10 & 17 at 2:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $15/adult, $10/senior, $5/student<BR>
Advance tickets at <I>BookPeople of Moscow </I>and the Moscow Farmers’ Market<BR>
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<B>American Values: American Wilderness<BR>
</B>A documentary film with Christopher Reeve<BR>
Sept 18 at 5:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>Rock School<BR>
</B>A documentary film<BR>
Sept 23 - 25<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>m-pact in concert<BR>
</B>Sept 30 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets $12/adult, $6/student<BR>
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<B>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<BR>
</B>Oct 7 - 9<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert<BR>
</B>October 27 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student<BR>
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Moscow Community Theatre presents<BR>
<B>Noodlehead<BR>
</B>November 3 - 5, 10 - 12 at 7:30 PM<BR>
November 6 & 12 at 2:00 PM<BR>
$11/adult, $9/student or senior<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child under 13 <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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Coming attractions: My Summer of Love, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Mad<BR>
Hot Ballroom, March of the Penguins. Check web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT><B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><H2>Howl’s Moving Castle<BR>
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Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (the original Japanese version) and Pete Docter and Rick Dempsey (the English-language version); written by Mr. Miyazaki, based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones. With The Voices of: Jean Simmons (Grandma Sophie), Christian Bale (Howl), Lauren Bacall (Witch of the Waste), Blythe Danner (Madame Suliman), Emily Mortimer (Young Sophie), Josh Hutcherson (Markl) and Billy Crystal (Calcifer). <BR>
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This film is rated PG: It has some scenes that could frighten younger children. <BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 58 minutes <BR>
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<B><U>As reviewed by A. O. Scott writing for the New York Times<BR>
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''Howl's Moving Castle,'' freely adapted from a children's fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, is the latest animated tour de force from Hayao Miyazaki, the director of, among other masterpieces, ''Princess Mononoke,'' ''My Neighbor Totoro'' and ''Spirited Away.'' <BR>
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Admirers of his work, which is wildly imaginative, emotionally intense and surpassingly gentle, will find much to appreciate in this film because it demonstrates, once again, his visual ingenuity and his sensitivity as a storyteller. <BR>
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For newcomers to his world, ''Howl's Moving Castle'' is a fitting introduction to one of modern cinema's great enchanters. Mr. Miyazaki's heroines tend to be plucky young women who combine guileless decency with tough-mindedness. During their journeys, they often encounter wise older women who sometimes serve as foils, sometimes as mother figures. Ms. Wynne Jones's novel, which Mr. Miyazaki encountered in Japanese translation a few years ago, allows him to combine these two types into a single character. His heroine, Sophie, starts out as a shy 18-year-old hat maker, but then a witch's curse transforms her into a stooped, gray-haired 90-year-old. At first horrified by the change, she comes to embrace it as a liberation from anxiety, fear and self-consciousness, and discovers in herself a new zest for adventure. <BR>
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There is certainly plenty of adventure in store. Mr. Miyazaki's capacity for narrative invention has yet to find its limit, and this movie is filled with strange and marvelous creatures and incidents, some inspired by the book, others entirely of his own devising. His images have a richness and delicacy that is almost too much to take in at one viewing, as the mood shifts from pastoral quiet to operatic spectacle. Rolling hills and tidy city streets give way to whirling celestial battlefields, and moments of exquisite tenderness alternate with scenes of violence and destruction. <BR>
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About that castle: It is surely one of the most extraordinary contraptions to appear on screen recently, more ingenious in its way than the intergalactic armada in ''Revenge of the Sith.'' Ambling through fields and mountains on chicken legs, its architectural details suggesting human faces, the castle is a perfect emblem for Mr. Miyazaki's filmmaking methods. It is clearly handmade, oddly proportioned, funny, sometimes creepy and unaccountably sublime. It ranges freely from place to place and is also, somehow, in several places at once, its magical front door opening onto different landscapes with the flip of a knob. It is not exactly haunted, but it is nonetheless infused with whimsical and sometimes somber spirits. <BR>
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Children are not the only viewers likely to be haunted and beguiled by ''Howl's Moving Castle'' -- all that any viewer needs are open eyes and an open heart. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<BR>
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In a "steampunk" 19th-century past of magic and mechanical wonders, shy British shop girl Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer) lives a timid life of self-pity. Then the handsome, notoriously mysterious wizard Howl (Christian Bale) sweeps her off her feet (they quite literally walk on air) and the decadent and jealous Witch of the Waste (Lauren Bacall) blows through her like a ghostly wind and leaves with her stolen youth.<BR>
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Bent and creaky (and now voiced by Jean Simmons), Sophie staggers out of the city, where steam engines roll down cobblestone streets and English gentlemen buzz about in air cars lifted by fluttering wings, and off into the wastelands where she stumbles upon Howl's clanking, steam- driven castle. A marriage of the organic and the mechanical, the massive, beetle-like contraption skitters across the countryside on spindly legs, powered by a cranky fire demon, Calcifer (Billy Crystal), who enters into a pact with Sophie to cure their respective curses. <BR>
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These and other wonders (a pogoing scarecrow, a wheezy old palace dog, giant blobule spies that look like giant drops of crude oil squeezed into vaguely humanoid shape) are designed and executed with the delicate textures of hand-drawn animation, a disappearing art in the age of smooth, shiny computer-animated movies.<BR>
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The original Japanese version, with English subtitles, played the Seattle International Film Festival for one special showing, on the same day the dubbed version opened in theaters across the country.<BR>
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<B><I><U>Marc Salvo writing for the Austin (TX) Chronicle<BR>
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The films of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki have often paired adult themes with the sort of whimsical lightness that Walt Disney, once upon a time, so effortlessly conjured, and this newest, the third-highest grossing film in Japanese history, is no exception. <BR>
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>From <I>Princess Mononoke</I>’s bounding ecological storyline to <I>Spirited Away</I>’s story of greed and redemption, Miyazaki constructs the most adult children’s films around, and ones that are firmly rooted in a heady sort of Japanese mysticism that echoes and multiplies the films’ pleasantly intoxicating surrealism.<BR>
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While it may not be Miyazaki’s very best work, it is leagues beyond any traditional 2-D animation out of 3-D-mad Hollywood lately, and more beguiling than anything Disney’s done in ages. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart<BR>
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</I>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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