THEATER AND SUCH

   Lucky or unlucky, Barbara Hawkins, depending on how you look at it, is the new LLT president with an all-male board.
   The General Meeting was poorly attended this year and had to be adjourned and reconvened by outgoing president, Barbara Keener. Richard Vath spoke for some time against the proposal to add 28 more seats. Keener finally put the measure to a vote and the majority agreed to leave the seating arrangement as is.
   Again, as happened last year, the only paper to be recognized publicly as a good friend to the theater was the weekly Colony Reporter. The Ojo del Lago and the Chapala Review, both local read monthlies, have been very supportive of LLT, but were not mentioned in Keener's prepared speech.
   Norma Jean Lyerly held auditions for an all-women cast to be presented to an audience, script in hand, such as they do in San Miguel. The play must be a great one, for the title, "Vagina Monologues" is certainly a turn-off. One has to wonder what kind of cold seat the playwright might have been set upon as a child.
   The plays for next season seem to be jelling, although a January performance is a stickler. Actors are hard to find during the month of December and most directors don't want the headaches that accompany juggling holiday season rehearsals.
   Barbara Keener's dance classes at LLT got off to a good start. Nothing like a jiggle, jiggle here and a pointed toe there to limber up and shock the blood stream into circulating. The fees are reasonable and you move to music.