Arts & EntertainmentJanuary 26, 1996

PULLMAN Washington State University's University Theatre opens its spring semester performance series with Serge Prokofieff's "Peter and the Wolf" next Friday on the Pullman campus.

The 1936 composition, "Peter and the Wolf: A Symphonic Tale for Children with Narrator and Orchestra," was written for the Moscow (USSR) Children's Theatre. It was the 67th piece by the Russian composer, his first expressly written for children. The entire piece was composed and orchestrated in just two weeks.

According to director Robert Allen, a WSU theater graduate student, the WSU production focuses on the story by using an original combination of movements and masks to enhance the music. The production is not presented in the ballet style, but as a symphony. Each movement in the production is carefully orchestrated with the music. Prokofieff's musical themes have been mirrored throughout the movements with characters created for the themes through masks.

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Performances for "Peter and the Wolf" are planned for 8 p.m. next Friday and at 11 a.m. and 2 and 4 p.m. Feb. 3. The production next Friday will be narrated in original Russian. Performances are set for Daggy Hall's Wadleigh Little Theatre.

All tickets are $2.50 and are available at the door. Questions can be directed to the theater box office, (509) 335-7236.

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