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Friday, March 28, 1980
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN the arts
'Jazz's' Broadway works on big screen
By TIM DOOLITTLE Contributing Reviewer
What can you say about a movie that nine Academy award nominations, including Best Picture, don't already say? Do you seek out new ways of saying "terrific," "excellent" or "great" Well, no, you just want to watch "Jazz," the movie that celebrates life and business on Broadway, will be running quite a while.
AS THE TITLE suggests, "All That Jazz" is about improvisation, not especially with regard to music. The imminent release of the "beautiful day-to-day performance of Joe (Roy Scheider), a successful Broadway writer" will adapts every aspect of his life to perform.
His creed, he states every morning as he looks into the mirror, is simply, "Showtime! He's alive, he's on. From that moment he knows he belongs to the roles he plays during his busy days—choreographer, comedian, lover and father-at a moment's notice. He creates, putting in as much time as possible, and his body feels, though satisfying, wears him down.
Scheier has come a long way since "Jaws," and his outstanding portrait of Joe has earned him a nomination for Best Director. He is also one of the most excellent supporting actors, as well.
THOUGH THE MUSIC and dance highlight "All That Jazz," the script and characters are refreshing, unpredictable and wonderfully contemporary. Those who do not take a kiting to musicals should also be able to watch them on screen into the music and dance, and Joe's
choreography often expresses the story of his feelings.
Unlike other musicals, there is little here that does not reflect the major theme in the script, which is death and its opposition to Joe's life on the stage.
Joe's subconscious awareness of death is mimicked by intermittent film cuts of a comedian making jokes about the five dead women in his life, in scene which Joe talks objectively to Lady Death about his life, is often revisited, in Death, in the form of an attractive woman, whose death he sees. Joe gives Joe consultation and therapy for his problems. Nevertheless death is backstage, and Joe wants to be alive, out front where she lives, in life is more admirable in the face of death.
RESIDES OFFERING music, dance, a good script and insights into death, "All That Jazzy" features some imaginative and innovative film techniques. Quick scene shifts provide a contrasting mixture of dark and light that mirrors Joe's conception of his life.
And in the opening scene—in which the stage is crowded with sweaty auditioning actors, a group of them gathers at Benson's "On Broadway" contracts with the struggle going on to make the production happen.
Sometimes, but not often, the contrasts between background music and action seem too strange. It is a credit to the filming that it takes up enough space to be astonishingly successful on the screen.
Whether or not you can think of anything more favorable to say about "All That Jazzy!" is hard. And it doesn't mind for quite a while. Not because it sentimental, but because it is, well, great.
spare time
Recital Hall
THEATRE: 'O Santo Inquento' 8 o m i. Tree Theatre
MUSIC: John Mayall with Used Parts, 8 p.m. Lawrence Opera House, 7th and Massachusetts Spring Concert, University Singers, 8 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall.
SATURDAY
FRIDAY
THEATRE : O Santo Inquero; 8 p.m. Inge Theatre
MUSIC : 0000 and The Rockets; 10 a.m.
MUSIC: 999 and the Dickies, 8 p.m. Lawrence Opera House, 79th and Massachusetts, Ubopia, featuring Todd Rundgren, 8 p.m. Hoch Audi- The Anuze Assembly, Chamber Music, 8 p.m.
torium
Ensemble, Ensemble, Chamber Music, 8 p.m. Swartouth
Recital Hall.
HALI Hall
THEATRE: "Santo Inigo Hito" 8 p.m. Imano Theatre
SUNDAY
MUSIC: The Aulos Ensemble, Chamber Music, 3:30 p.m.
Swarathout Realtal Hall.
Swarthorf Recital Hall
Carnation Recital, Albert Aiken, 3-6 m. Memorial Cairn
Carnation Recital, Albert Aiken, Exhibit West Gallery, Laerence Arts Center, 3rd and Vermont.
Photography by Lionell Off; East Gallery, Lawrence Arts
holography by Lionell Orff, East Gallery, Lawrence Arts
8th and Vermont.
MONDAY MUSIC: Student Recital, Mary Allor, percussion, and Jonathan Lewis, trumpet, 8 p.m. Swathrout Recital Hall TUESDAY MUSIC: Faculty Recital, Anne Miller, oboe, and Alan Hawkins, bassoon, 8 p.m. Swathrout Recital Hall
WEDNESDAY MUSIC: Lecture on Musicoiology, Harold Brown. 2.30 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall
HURSDAY
MUSIC: Spring Concert, KU. Concert Band, band.
Michael Thornton, tuba. 8:30 m Kansas Union Ballroom
DAVE KRAUS Kansan staff
Pop Possessed
Iggy rocks wild fans
eggy Pop, godfather of punk, during a relatively normal moment in his show at Lawrence Opera House Wednesday night.
When James Osterberg steps out onto the stage and becomes Iggy Pop, he becomes a man possessed, hellbent on delivering an hour of blistering rock the way only he can deliver it.
Kansan Reviewer
By RICK HELLMAN
The show open lamentally enough with a set by the new Janet Jameson band. Jameson is, of course, the former vocalist of Cole Tuckey who now pursuits from a rock band. Her new material does not show off her voice to its best advantage and her stage moves were painfully contrived. There no doubt that Jameson is a strong fronter from a rock band, but this attempt at rocking out on a rock band, and the crowd let her know. They came to see Iggy.
Iggy might have turned out to be another Sid Vicious, but he's too smart for that. After a period of drug abuse and inactivity in the mid-70s, Iggy has got his act together once again, and just might be better than ever.
Iggy, the man behind imbibes like 'Raw Power' and "Last for Life" open his show by reciting the Lord's Prayer to recorded symphonic backing. With that the baton of the rogue of the roughest rock'n'roll this side of the Sex Sipstis.
WHAT HIS FOUR-AM back up band lacked in finesse, they made up for in spirit and volume. Ivan Kral, on leave from the Patti Smith group, added some new material to his boards, but the star of the show was Iggy and no one else.
The set started with a song from lggy's most recent album "Soldiers." The new material came off well in
concert with leaping in the stage, crashing into the drum kit and generally exciting the crowd.
He also incited the crowd, insulting members of the audience, who laced it up.
A nice version of "Sister Midnight" slowed things down and put the back right pick up back with it on the Bide Side. Dock Food
By this time, Iggy had stripped off his shirt and really got down to business. He is a master showman. The crowd was in the palm of his hand from the word "Go" and worked them up like a musician plays his instrument.
But today's lggs is under control, directing the band a decade later at Lawrence Wheeler to their muscle they have learned from him. They brought with him lived up to the spirit of the original Stoopes, bashing away their instruments for all the time.
His stage moves are certainly unique. They seem most awkward at times, but our characters (the narrator and the other, teering along the edge as if he were ready to leap out into the audience) which he has been known to do.
WHITE-HOT VERSIONS of "Five foot one" and "Lust for Life" closed the all set too.
Iggy is a true original. The entire punk/wake school might never have occurred with the glue to blaze the trail. And now he's back on top, taking his rightful place among the few innovators in the rock genre.
A short encore brought the total length of the show to just over an hour, but what an hour!
Gomes play denounces oppression
600 fans went away happy. Why weren't you there?
Staff Renorter
Bv KEVIN MILLS
Cross Purposes
After viewing "O Santo Inguero, the Inge Theatre Series 'latest production, some theatre-goers may feel they have witnessed an anti-Goldic ploy.
But they won't have, director Iron J. Reed Jr., who graduated student, said yesterday. Actually, playwright Alfredo Dias Gomes wrote the play as a metaphorat denouncing universal racism.
A scene from the play, "O Santo Inquertio," which is showing at the Inge Theatre through March 31. The play is directed by
"O Santo Inquere (The Holy Office),"
"opens at 8 tonight in the William Ike
Theatre in Murphy Hall. It will play nightly
 until March 29.
Gomes' 1966 play is based on a true incident that happened in Brazil in 1750. A young girl, Branca Dias, saws a Jesuit priest from drowning by giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The priest falls in love with her and then accuses her of being a Christian. The Jesuit is frieed, convised and burned at the stake at the hands of the Holy Roman emperor.
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
"It is a very simple plot," Rodríguez said. "The author is criticizing the lack of individual freedom in a coercive society, the freedom to think and to act."
Irion Nolasco Rodrigues, Porto Alegre, Brazil, graduate student.
"Some people may think this is something against the Catholic church, but it isn't really. It can be related to any oppression. I consider this a political blaw."
RODRIQUES SAID the play had been banned at various times in Brazil, along with other plays, popular music and books. He also wrote a science fiction actor since the revolution in 1984, he said.
"Since then, it has been difficult to talk openly," he said, "so the author found a metaphor to express his thoughts.
"All of Gomes' plays are about social problems. He never writes something just for entertainment."
"It took three months," he said. "I was
This is the first staging of "O Santo Inquero" in the United States. Rodríguez said he received the playwright's permission to translate the play into English.
TRANSLATION WAS difficult because of the subtleties of both languages, he said. Proper names in the play remain in PORTE, because there were no English equivalents.
translating the second version of the play when the author sent me a third. I could almost have killed him.
"I'm using English as a tool to help me achieve other goals. I had a native speaker help me to make the English proper."
RODRIGUES STAGED the play with the rituals of the Catholic church in mind. Much of the blocking is based on scenes in religious paintings, he said.
"The actors are very important," he said.
"I'm not approaching this play realistically."
The actors are on stage at all times, he said, and change roles during the play. The stage is barren and no props are used.
Percussion instruments are played by the actors, and the music is patterned after Catholic hymns, he said.
Rodríguez should the message of individual freedom should be accessible to anyone, despite the play's 18th century setting.
"You can relate this to the time of McCarthy in your own country," she said. "This play is about a time of fear and suspicion spread in all countries at one time another."
Rodríguez said the Brazilian ruler recently claimed that he would restore democratic rights to Brazilians.
"But the people don't think it will happen," he said. "It's hard to live in a place where a sudden someone can come into your home and be under suspicion, and then take you away."
"The 1964 revolution in Brazil was supported by the CIA, just like the situation with Allende in Chile. I don't think the American people know this, but they should."
"I don't want to sound too hard. I'm a person, not a pamphlet. But I see a contradiction: the American people on one side, and the government on the other."
ROODRIGUES SAID that freedom in America was abridged by a lack of complete information from other nations.
If a "revolution occurs somewhere, you do not really know about it unless some person says so." When someone selects the information you receive, it is a subtle way to keep things the truth.
Rodriguez has been in America for one and a half years. He has a degree in theater from the University of California, Grande de Sal. He directed several plays in Brazil, including Tennessee Williams"s "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
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