University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 6, 1973
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By DAVID HEALY
Kansan Staff Writer
Mary-Pat Green Returns to Area to Promote 'Godspell'
Former KU Star Tours in 'Godspell'
A former University of Kansas theatre student, who two years ago decided to go to New York to tackle the theatre world, began a weekend in the roadshow of "Godspell."
The former KU student praises KU's theatre program . . .
The former student, Mary-Pat Green, is in back in the Kansas City-Topeka area this week to do promotion for "Gospodell." It will be performed at 8 p. Friday and at 2 p. and 8 p. Saturday in the Music Hall of Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., and at 3 p. Sunday in the Topeka Municipal Auditorium.
Green, who was born in Kansas City and received her first theatrical experience in productions at Shawnee Mission East High School, did about performing at the Music Hall.
BRESIDES HER high school experience, green also worked in the Loose Park Theatre under the Stars, one summer in "The B" and another summer in "South Pacific."
1989-70 as a freakman, Green made her KU stage debut in a children's theatre production of the "Snow Queen." Later that year, she played the gym teacher in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and the female lead in "The Three-Penny Opera."
so been so involved in theatre as a resman.
"I was a female-character type which they did not have at KU and which got me in my freshman year," she said.
Green said that she was lucky to have been so involved in theatre as a freshman
THE NEXT SEASON, Green performed in five KU production, "Marshall Shaw," and "Mancha," The "Unknown Soldier and His Wife," "SunSon" and "Ilyssatruta."
In "Lystistrata," which was the last performance she gave at KU, Green filled in for a coed who came down with appendicitis three days before opening night.
Green said that she came to KU with the intention of staying only a couple of years before going to an acting school. She said she took nearly every theatre class offered.
She said the regular KU season gave performers the chance to be in an experimental play one month and in a musical comedy the next. If the season's schedule does not allow enough variety, she said, the team should do something else. "We formerly do any kind of scene they want."
"This is a good beat school," she said. "You cannot beat it for shows."
SHE PAIRED such style classes as Restoration acting and said KU had helped her immensely with acting, dancing and costuming.
The only dissatisfaction she expressed was with the department of voice. She said there was nobody at KU who worked with musical comedy people. Musical comedy is a big field, she said, even for people who want to do nightclub work.
Green said she went to New York in September 1971. Although New York is difficult and expensive, she said, one must go to New York to be in musical theatre.
“WHEN I WENT to New York, I expected that the students in the professional schools would be very good and very ambitious,” she said.
She said she found that some students were as lackadaisical as students she had known elsewhere and that others were as ambitious as she was.
Green started auditioning in January 1972 and said she got many callbacks. In June 1973 she auditioned for the series.
spell." She said she was offered a part in
him, but had already taken the one in
"Goddam."
She had five auditions for "Godspell" spread out over a month, she said. For the first audition she had to sing a number and do a three-minute monologue. She said that during her performance, the audience was streamlined to three bars of the song and a minute of the monologue.
AFTER THE final audition, all that was said was "We'll be in touch with you."
Their company started towing Sept. 21. So far, its last bookING is May 38. Green said she had received an email that said she heard that the director of "Gresse" had wanted her as a first choice replacement for the Broadway show. If she were offered the chance she said she would
Green said that besides the New York production of "Goddess," which has run for 2% years, there were companies in seven major U.S. cities. She said that there were two touring companies, one that played major cities and stayed for two-week stands in New York or college and smaller cities usually for one or two-night stands.
HOWEVER, GREEN has nothing but praise for "Goddess." She said that he was one of the best better than the New York company. Steve Schwartz, who wrote the music and selects
Green said that all 10 cast members were on stage for the entire two-hour and 15-minute performance. There is a song and line for every 10 lines of dialogue, she said.
the casts, said theirs was the best vocal cast to perform it, she said.
Green said that her part in "Goddess" was an excellent start. The play's character gives her a chance to do a solo, which she would have been impossible in other plays.
The show requires so much energy the Green has lost 20 pounds since starting the tour. She said this was a considerable improvement to her tour is fed restaurant food.
"This is a better start than anyone could ever hope for," she said.
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'Rock'Dulls Monkeys; Effect on Man Implied
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If rock music does to humans what it does to monkeys, rock fans all over the country could become sedate or even lethargic, according to a recent study made at the
By ERIC MEYER Kansan Staff Writer
Handicapped persons from Cottonwood Inc., a training center for the physically and mentally disabled, took over janitorial duties at Douglas County Courthouse
The County Commission has hired the Cottontown trainees on an 30-day trial basis.
Gary Conda, director of Cottonwood, had he the idea in mind for over of year.
When he heard that former junior Richard L. Christie was leaving Cappuccino administration, the team
"We hope to use maybe four or six a night things get settled down," Conndra added.
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all of the workers will stay on the same floor and will be supervised by Cottonwood employee Jack Whitaker and All Skeet, county maintenance supervisor.
"I was going to talk to them about it sometime this summer," he said, "but when I heard about the opening, I decided I would as ready as we'd ever be, so i went down."
THE CREW WILL work five nights a week doing basic cleaning, dumping trash, stripping and waxing floors, sweeping, mopping and dusting.
Cottonwood will receive $500 a month for the services. The training center will keep payroll records and divide the money among the workers.
Conda said the first few nights would be experimental to discover who were the best workers and exactly how many would be needed each night. A crew of nine was used
"I anticipate all of the money will go to the clients and the supervisors," Condra said.
COTTONWOOD "CLENTS" as Condra calls them, are currently employed part- or
"We're trying to train them for employment while giving them part-time jobs," said Aimir. "This isn't the first such situation, but attempted, but it is the largest so far."
full-time in private homes and businesses.
suffer from either mild mental retardation or mild emotional disturbances, he said.
or mild emotional disturbances, he said. "Most of them can function well as long as they do not have a history of abuse."
COTTONWOOD CURRENTLY has 30 clients and plans to admit five more in the near future. All of them are from Lawrence or Douglas County, but Condra says some people from outside the county will probably be admitted.
No physically handicapped persons are working at the courthouse, although Cottonwood has several clients with physical disabilities.
Education School to Have 'Educators in Residence'
Four of Cottonwood's clients, all of them older than 18, are also students in the Lawrence schools. They spend a half-day in Cottonwood and half in vocational training at Cottonwood.
"FOR EXAMPLE," Conda said, "we'll teach people how to move lawns out here at Cottonwood and then have mow lawns in the community."
Food prepared in Cottonwood's instructional kitchens will be used in the Lawrence Meals on Wheels program starting Monday.
Training sessions in arts, crafts, food, lawn work, shop and cleaning are conducted at Cottonwood's new facilities southeast of Lawrence on 31st M. The center then tries to place its clients in on-the-job training and employment in Lawrence.
"Our goal is for them to go as far as they can. Some of the more capable can be here for three to six months of training and then be ready to go out on their own. Others may still be here 10 years from now. They will earn an income, but they will never be ready to go out on their own. It just depends on the case." he said.
"Of our 30 clients, we have placed two in full-time jobs and another two in part-time jobs, not including those who will work at the courthouse." Conda said.
Students in the school of Education will share the insights of experienced Kansas educators this spring in a new "Educators in Residence" program planned by their
COTTONWOOD HAS been at its new location for six months. Before moving, it was located at 245 Ohio St. and was known by the locals as The Cornwall. The center opened in the summer of 1982.
Daile Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said recently that the new program would bring educators to the campus who are considered outstanding by college and university standards and had deliberately limited the nominees to Kansas educators so that students, most of whom will teach in Kansas, would benefit from the experience of the Kansas educators in residence. The educators will have their students take faculty both informally and in classrooms.
Cottonwood is funded both by the
Scannell called the program an outgrowth of the school's continuing effort to blend theory and practice in preparing young men and women to teach in Kansas schools.
This spring, Scannell said, he hopes to have an outstanding superintendent, a secondary school principal and a classroom teacher. The graduate he had sought nominees for the program from the Kansas Association of School Administrators, the Kansas Association of School Principals and the Kansas chapter of the National Education Association.
"WE BELIEVE that professional training is a co-operative venture between the university and practitioners, and that program reflects that conviction," he said.
"It doesn't matter whether they like us or not," Scannell said. "We want people who will tell it to our students the way it is, not necessarily sing our song."
He said that the educators in residence
would be chosen by their peers, not by the faculty of the school.
government and by private gifts and contributions. A portion of an authorized half-mill levy in Douglas County and "tutition" money furnished by the State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation are its other major sources of revenue.
Conda has been director since July 1971. Prior to that he was an administrator in the Lawrence and Eudora school systems. He served in vocational and special education.
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University of Wisconsin.
The study showed that factory noise and
monkeys by making
deer dull and quiet.
Whether this means factory workers and rock music devotees will undergo serious physiological changes has yet to be determined, however.
But several such noise studies in different parts of the country have indicated those results, according to John F. Brandt, associate professor of speech and drama at the University of Kansas, who is considered an authority on psycho-acoustics.
"When the animal cannot escape the noise, hearing is temporarily impaired, and there may be a disruption of other body functions," Brandt said. "It's the same in a factory, press room or a session of loud rock music—for a while, the hearing is dulled."
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Parking Regulations Scrutinized by SenEx
The University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) discussed Monday the report of a subcommittee appointed to study parking regulations and enforcement, said Henry Snyder, associate dean of research administration and member of SenEx.
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SenEx also report a report on the progress of revisions being made in the parking area.
Revision of the parking system has been under consideration recently. More than 35,000 parking tickets were issued last semester. A system devised last year, the result is more reliable than by letters, has not been fully implemented and is causing confusion.
Proposals have been made for changes in
the graduated fine system, methods of anpeals and in towing regulations.
SenEx recommended two students for positions on the ROTC curriculum Committee, Snyder said. The committee, and the team who are now being revived. The committee has been assigned to study the entire curriculum and to consider having ROTC courses listed jointly with other departments in the university and taught by teams with other departments.
snyder said the Chancellor had accepted a SenEx recommendation to circulate the report of the Chancellor's all-unit committee and the committee was appointed in the summer.
Glover Proposes New Bill Offering Kansas Vets Tuition
Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, introduced a bill Monday in the Kansas House of Representatives that would grant Kansas veterans free tuition for higher education.
Glover announced the tuition bill with two others and said the House Federal and State Affairs Committee would start hearings on the bill at 3:18 p.m. Thursday in the Statehouse.
Glover's bill for veterans would grant free tuition at the state's post-high school institutions, which include vocational technical schools, junior colleges, Washburn University and schools under the Board of Regents.
A second bill introduced would require any candidates and political organizations to file a public statement of income and employment in the week before a primary or general election.
Glover told the Kansan that the only requirement was that the veterans had to be enrolled in school.
He said that Kansas veterans paid a total of $162 million to the University of Kansas in the fall of 1972.
The existing Kansas law requires such a disclosure 30 days after each election. A Shawnee County District Court judge last month unconstitutional on grounds of vagueness.
The third bill would prohibit any disciplinary action against members of the Army or Air National Guards because of length of hair or beards, muscars or other
Marzolff said he had special praise for Delta Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Upsilon.
facial hair.
"It appears that their efforts are going to produce 40 per cent of the total," he said. "I think the communities these men went out in really accepted them."
The 1973 March of Dimes Campaign in the Lawrence area will reach its goal of $2,500, in part because of canvassing done by volunteers from five University of Kansas fraternities, Frank Marzolo, local campaign chairman, said Monday.
Glover said that this bill would help prevent a manpower shortage in the units. He said there was no national emergency at the present time and, if one should develop, the governor would be authorized to state standards for hair length and facial hair.
Fraternity Men Aided Campaign Chairman Says
Approximately 120 fraternity volunteers worked in the campaign, Marzolf said.
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