ARTIST RICK WORTH may have outdone himself this time. From 6-9 p.m. this evening, Friday,
Jan. 26, Worth will premiere his "Cyclorama"— a sight and sound work of art that that you literally walk
into. The presentation takes observers (participants?) through a day at Fort Zachary Taylor Park. The
exhibit continues through Feb. 11. Info: 294-3535.
Tickets are now on sale for the Key West Players, Inc. upcoming production of The Night of the Iguana at the Waterfront Playhouse. This Tennessee Williams' classic is the Players' most ambitious production this season. Fourteen actors were cast by director Joan McGillis, including Kelly McGillis, Nancy Robinette, Scott Gilmore, and Dale Kittle. The play opens February 1, and tickets are already selling fast.
First produced on Broadway in 1961, The Night of the Iguana is a demanding production.
"This drama poses challenges for everyone—director, actors, and productions staff," says director Joan McGillis, who directed Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at the Waterfront Playhouse last season.
One of the country's finest playwrights, Williams is known for his complex characters, including some of the most memorable on the American stage.
In The Night of the Iguana, set in a shabby Mexican hotel, Williams enmeshes characters that personify varying aspects of the human condition: The rough, sex-starved widow who runs the dive; the neurotic defrocked minister; and the aging New England poet and his unwed, middle-aged grand-daughter.
Joan McGillis says good casting was essential, and she pursued the best. She approached
film/stage actress Kelly McGillis, who is also her daughter, about portraying Hannah. Ms. McGillis accepted the
role. The Players' artistic director Scott Gilmore plays Shannon, the distraught minister with whom
Hannah develops a nurturing relationship. Gilmore, who was last seen as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
played opposite Ms. McGillis in the Players' sellout
The "Keys Kids" musical production of "Tom Sawyer" opens tonight, Friday Jan. 26, at the San Carlos Institute for three days only. This is the second "Keys Kids" production of the season, following "The Wizard of Oz" last October. "Tom Sawyer" features 75 students in grades 1-5 from Lower Keys schools. Curtain time tonight is at 7:30. There will be two shows on Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m., and a final 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $8.00 for adults and $6.00 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at MacArthur Music, Gerald Adams School or one hour before curtain.