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Show ALL WORK AND NO PLAY (but lots of fun) was the ruling factor in making successful the Summer Festival productions of the Kate" and Saint-Saens' opera "Samson and Delilah" . . . from costuming to rehearsing, from staging to conducting - musical "Kiss Me, they became hits. SUMMER FESTIVAL directors were dramatist C. Lowell Lees, music maestro Maurice Abravanel, and ballet master and choreographer Bill Christensen. Patricia Morrison left her Broadway show and came . . . Jon Geyans dropped his musical comedy tour and came . . . Clar-amae Turner and Lloyd Thomas Leech left concerts and music teaching and came . . students, fresh into summer, came from the towns and communities of Utah ... it was Summer Festival time . . . Utah Symphony conductor Maurice Abravanel, University dramatist C. Lowell Lees and U ballet master Bill Christensen produced a summer show like Broadway has yet to see . . . and renowned Pat Morrison will long be remembered for her shrew role in Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate," as will Claramae Turner and Lloyd Leech for their superb roles as "Samson and Delilah." 43 |