European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In the wings compiled by Anita Gosch tops in Blue the premiere performance of the european tour of Ops in Blue an entertainment revue featuring top Vir Force top performers will be held at Ramstein a West Germany aug. 12 at 7 30 . At the Louth Side sports Complex. Admission is free. The our continues at air Force bases throughout Europe through the end of october. Check the on stage Ages for tour dates. For More information Call Jam Stein ets 480-7187. Theater West Germany Frankfurt s dinner theater presents Noel Loward s comedy private lives aug. 5 and 6 at the candlelight dinner theater on Drake Cavern cocktails will be served at 6 30 ., dinner at 7 Showtime is 8. Tickets Are $12.95. Call ets 320-5835 r civilian 069-151 -5835 weekday afternoons. Kaiserslautern entertainment presents Tennessee Williams a Streetcar named desire. Regular shows ire aug. 5 at 8 . And aug. 7 and 14 at 7 . Tickets Are $6. A wine and cheese evening is set for us. 6 at 7 15 . Tickets Are $9. Dinner theater performances Are aug. 11 -13 at 7 . Tickets Are 14. All performances Are at the performing arts Lenter Mannheimer Strasse b-37across from Danner Cavern. For details Call ets 483-8139/7543 r civilian 0631-411 -81 39/7543. Wiessen s Keller theater presents George Orwell s Nimal farm aug. 5-6 and 11 -13 at 7 30 . The Heater is in the Miller Hall gymnasium Grunberger Tasse 143. Tickets Are $4 for adults $3 for students ind $2 for children Ages 6-12. Children under 6 years old will not be admitted. Call ets 343-6515/6400 or civilian 0641-402-6515. Heidelberg s Roadside theater on autobahn Lasern presents a special Silver anniversary show fhe Roadside review revue aug. 12 at 7 30 . He production is presented by former Roadside Heater participants and will feature singers performers and music from Roadside productions of up to 25 years ago. Tickets Are $3. Call ets 370-7515. Bamberg entertainment presents a one act play festival aug. 25-27 at 7 . In the entertainment enter on Warner Barracks. Tickets Are $3 for adults and $2 for children and students. Call ets 469-8647. Auditions West Germany Bamberg entertainment announces auditions for the mystery thriller Deathtrap aug. 5 and 6 at the entertainment Center on Warner Barracks. The play will be presented around halloween. For information Call ets 469-8647. Kaiserslautern entertainment is holding auditions for Ernest Thompson s on Golden Pond aug. 8 and 9 at 7 . At the performing arts Center Mannheimer Strasse b-37across from Danner Cavern. The production is Kaiserslautern s entry in the Usa eur 1988 tournament of plays. Call ets 483-8139/7543 or civilian 0631-411 -8139. Hanau s five pfennig playhouse on old Argonne Cavern announces auditions for the musical comedy nonsense aug. 8-11 at 7 . Needed Are five women who can sing and dance As Well As musicians and backstage help. Auditioning actresses should take a prepared musical number. Performances Are scheduled for october. For information Call ets 322 8031 or civilian 06181-88-8031. Schweinfurt theater announces auditions for Beth Henley s crimes of the heart aug. 16 and 17 at 7 . At the Ledward Barracks entertainment Center building 242, above the Bunde Spost. Needed Are four women and two men As Well As a technical Crew. Production dates Are set for Early october and will include participation in the Usa eur 1988 tournament of plays. A phone number to Call for More information was not available. Darmstadt s performing arts Center on Cambrai Fritsch Cavern announces auditions for Noel Coward s comedy Blithe spirit aug. 22 and 23 at 7 . Call ets 348-6401 or civilian 06151-69-6401. Stuttgart entertainment is holding auditions for Tennessee Williams cat on a hot tin roof aug. 28 30 at 7 . At the Stuttgart theater Center 5lh general Hospital bad Carm Statt. Roles Are available for eight men five women and four children. Call its 420-6148 or civilian 0711 -819-6148. Giessen s Keller theater announces auditions for Tartuffe aug. 29-31 at 7 . Roles Are available for five men and five women. The theater is in the Miller Hall gymnasium Grunberger sir nose 143. Call ets 343-6515/6400 or civilian 0641-402-651 5. Darmstadt a invites All youth Ages 6-19 to participate in the Darmstadt Mil com youth activities entertainment showcase sept. 3. Youngsters can showcase their talents in such categories As singing dancing comedy rapping lip sync and More. The top performers will move on to the v corps contest in Baum older sept. 1 7. Participants should co Lac t the Darmstadt a no later than aug. 24 at ets 348 6242 or civilian 061 51 -64104, or the Babenhausen a at ets 348-3745 or civilian 06073-2080. Frankfurt s dinner theater will hold auditions for the musical comedy 3 Guys naked from the wait Down sept. 6 and 7 at 7 . At the Frankfurt playhouse 150 Hans Allee. Call ets 320-5835 or civilian 069-151 -5835 weekdays 3-6 30 . Music West Germany Stuttgart entertainment presents the variety show starry nights aug. 12 and 1 3 at 8 . At the Stuttgart theater Center 5th general Hospital bad Cannstatt. The show features country and jazz bands singers dancers comedians and variety acts. Tickets Are $4 for adults $3 for teen agers and $2 for children Ages 5-12. Call ets 420-6148 or civilian 0711 -819-6148. Heidelberg entertainment presents a summer supper band concert by the Usa eur and 7th army concert band aug. 24 at 6 . Behind the Library in Patrick Henry Village. Take a picnic supper Blanket or chair. Cold beverages will be available for Purchase. Call ets 370-7515. All military communities and English language Heaters in Europe May submit information on upcoming theater and music activities for publication in this column in the first stripes Magazine of each month. Information for the september column must be received by aug. 26. Items must include the performance dates and times location of the performance site Cost of tickets and phone numbers to Call for reservations and or More information. Items that do not include this Complete information can be run on a space available basis Only. Please Send the information to stars and stripes entertainment Apo 09211, or to the International address stars and stripes entertainment Postrach 11 14 37,6100 Darmstadt 11, West Germany. Cliff hanging drama offered at Minjack theater by Gregory Jensen United press International if you walk so far onto England s Southwest tip that one More step would plunge you Over vertical Cliffs into the Atlantic Ocean you be probably found the world s most improbable theater. I Don t believe this exclaimed a recent play goer at the Minjack theater an open air playhouse near Porthcurno clawed from a straight up and Down Cliff by the muscle and determination of one remarkable woman. You probably noticed the sign on the Gate saying patrons proceed at their own risk said artistic director Michael Dyer. The warning is no joke. The Minjack is so Steep that its stairs must Zig Zag. Part of the hand rail is a rope bolted to native Rock. The theater perches so precipitously that the Atlantic pounds into a chasm beneath its irregular stage. The backdrop to every play is the open wide sea. This year the Minjack has a new Clifftop exhibition Center explaining the unlikely Way that As a simple Granite plaque says Rowena Cade created this  it took us 50 years to do it said Tom Angove 74, leaning on a wartime Pillbox which Cade typically converted into the Box office. Like the Center the 800-seat theater can be visited outside its monday Friday performances 16 weeks a year. Seeing it is hardly believing it and attending a performance is simply unique. This is England in the open air so audiences clamber to Concrete or grass seats Laden with rugs blankets and cushions. Even in late july they Wear stocking Caps and thick sweaters. Then the Cliff becomes a picnic ground. Champagne corks pop Coffee pours into China cups from thermos flasks and Silver cutlery appears from Wicker hampers. We do Shakespeare opera Ballet musicals every kind of serious play said Dyer artistic director since 1981. Most productions Are staged by visiting Amateur companies. And no matter what the play the setting is breathtaking. Huge rocks loom left and right. Ships and sailboats Glide past. Cormorants skim the Ocean surface. On rare nights a Moon rises from the sea As the stage lighting takes Over from summer Twilight. Angove regaling daytime visitors with tales of Cade s exploits said he is the last one left of the quartet that made the Minjack. He his Uncle and Gardner Billy Rawlings worked wonders but Cade put them All to shame. Every Grain of Sand to make All this Concrete she hauled it up herself from that Beach Angove said gesturing Down to Porthcurno Cove 90 backbreaking Steps below. Cade built the Steps too. Photographs in the exhibition show her As a Small seemingly frail woman of typical victorian elegance. But her feats seem superhuman. Once she found some big Square timbers 15 feet Long on the Beach there Angove said. She carried every single one of them up Here on her  Cade and her Mother moved to Porthcurno a tiny Village and Beautiful Cove on England s most southwestern tip in 1921. They built a Small House on the Headland and Rowena became involved in Amateur theatricals. A 1929 Shakespeare performance in a nearby Wood gave her the idea of a permanent open air theater. Ready and waiting was her Garden if you can Call it a Garden. Cade once called it a huge pile of boulders a veritable Rabbit  but she and Rawlings laboriously hollowed out what now looks like a natural Amphitheater. By 1932 they had carved a Small stage and a Terrace of grass seats for a local performance of Shakespeare s the tempest. A London times reviewer happened to attend and his report helped make the Minjack permanent. Only world War ii put it out of action when the Cliffs were festooned with barbed wire and the Clifftop Pillbox was built. Miss Cade used to crawl under the barbed wire with her Lawn Mower to keep the grass Cut Angove recalled with obvious fondness. She never let anything Stop  she kept working Well into her 80s," Angove said. Cade died in 1983, just before her 90th birthday. Shy and self effacing Cade liked to watch Minjack plays from her favorite seat an upended wheelbarrow Angove said. We get about 50,000 people a year Dyer said. Tickets Are 3 pounds about $5and the theater survives without Grants or subsidies. It is now run As a Charity. This year s adventurous season everything from Moliere s Tartuffe and Mozart s the marriage of Figaro to Gilbert and Sullivan and Stephen Sondheim s a Little night music runs through sept. 17. August 4, 1988 stripes Magazine