Tuesday, January 9, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Eight new living groups in this year's Rock Chalk
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Rock Chalk Revue will not have a campus theme this year but that's not all that will be new in the 18-year tradition. Six of the eight participating living groups have never before appeared in the production.
Director Allen Purvis, Topica senior, has planned more innovations which he hopes will be conducive to better performances and $1,000 more profit" than last year's satire-variety show made for its sponsor, the KU-Y.
Of the scripts submitted before Christmas vacation by the finalists- Pi Beta Phi and Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Delta Pi and Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Chi Omega and Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Alpha Gamma Delta and Delta Chi—one script will be judged best and be named outstanding in the final awards presentation.
He has cut the previous number of six judges to four—"trying to find a good way" to judge campus humor. He said judges in recent years haven't understood some puns involved, and all six have judged humor.
This year, two judges will rate humor, overall effect, good taste, staging and direction, dialogue, and continuity for a possible total of 60 points. Forty more points may be awarded each skit for choreography, music, and technical effects by two other judges,
who will be qualified theatrical experts.
The three preliminary judges who selected finalists during Christmas vacation may be among the four rating them during each show Feb. 29-Mar. 3. They will choose outstanding male and female performers, music, choreography, costumes, and scenery, as well as the winning skit.
"We're trying to spread things around so there might not be a concentration of awards to one house," Purvis said.
Last year's winners, Alpha Chi Omega and Alpha Kappa Lambda, were criticized for using three dimensional sets, and technical "props."
Purvis said because Hoch Auditorium has such limited storage space, such props can be used this year—only if they are collapsible or if the groups can store them elsewhere.
Another problem Purvis anticipated this year was the "desire for secrecy" among finalists. Last week he met with several representatives from each group to read the scripts.
"They all have quite a bit of spirit and will be pretty 'friendly' competitors," he said, recalling the meeting's double effects of entertainment and impetus for hard work.
Work has already begun in Los Angeles, Calif., on musical arrangements—three instead of four per skit, to allow more dialogue. Gary Foster, KU alumni and Revue veteran now a professional musician, is using groups' taped directions to prepare music for a local professional band to play during performances.
Most scripts were over the 20 minute limit when timed for final judging, and will have to be cut during rehearsals, beginning this week after casting is complete.
In-between acts chorus and dancers will be selected tomorrow and Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union. They will decide a theme—"to tie the production together"—in cooperation with a committee of inbetween acts writers.
'Flu not serious'
A relapse of the pre-Christmas vacation flu epedemic at KU does not seem evident at the moment, according to Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of student health service.
"We have had a few respiratory illnesses, but not any more than is usual for January," Schwegler said.
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