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Friday, February 8, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Bob Dylan Concert
Dylan Could Do No Wrong
By GARY BORG Kansas Reviewer
He was up there like a hammer, wide stance behind the microphone delivering a powerful voice and performance that shook the entire area.
Bob Dylan and the Band appeared in the Missouri Arena, St. Louis, Mo., for two shows on the night of Feb. 4. The celebrated poet performer, from his early "Ballad of Hollis Brown" to "Forever Young" and "Wedding Song" from his newest album. Dylan fans in St. Louis were mostly college-age people who enjoyed the older and younger varieties, including two nurses.
A thick cannabis foj filled the arena by 10 o'clock, blocking the massive ceiling from view. At 10.30 Dylan and the Band took the stage together and performed a few 1964-68 vintage songs in a sinuous rock. Dylan did no wrong, could do none. The crowd ex-
plied in applause after each number,
punctuated by ecstatic howls and cries of
Perhaps having read reports of earlier shows in the tour, the St. Louis crowd was more tolerant when the Band worked alone. "Hag Manna Rug," "Up on Cripple Creek," "Dance With the Night Thou Dove Old Diasse Down" were all effective, despite Dylan's absence.
The last part of the show, with Dylan and
Dylan with acoustic guitar and harmonica began his solo spot with "The Times They are a Changing" cren 1963. This was popular, too, at the time of our show. The audience was ready with a short but thunderous response when Dylan sang the line, "but even the President of the United States sometimes must have to Mr. It’s Alright Ma (14)今生 Bleeding!"
National Ballet Troupe Delight in Hoch Show
By LINDA HALES
Kansan Reviewer
The performance by National Ballet of Washington Wednesday night at Hoch Auditorium was a delight to both eye and ear.
Lee Delhiels set a light-hearted tone for the ballet, "Coppellia," a story of love and sacrifice.
Franz and Swaindon, lovers about to marry, be involved with a sinister toymaker. Dr. Coppelius, when Franz suddenly falls in love with a life-size dog, opposes
The ballet, called by Nicholas Sergveje and Arthur Saint-Léon and restaged by
Kirk Peterson as Franz was good. He danced competently and drew applause for his performance.
Deidre Grohgan (Dawn) and Charlene Gehm (Prayer) performed well. Gehm's particularly graceful arm movements set her apart from the other dancers.
The corps de ballet danced a lively Mazurkaz and a Cardas, peasant folk dances, with much typically-European boot stamping and clapping. Marrying the corps' performance, however, was the lack of space on the Hoch stage. The dancers at times looked cramped and their promenades blurred into confusion.
the Band, featured a high and mighty version of "Highway 61 Revisited." This was most typical of the concert, done in a way that would be appropriate to that of "Highway 61" album.
A spark also surged through the audience when Leon Russell, in blue denim and a cowboy hat, bounced gently on the stage to pay his respects. Toward the end of the show, Russell placed the hat on Dylan who was in the middle of "like a Rollin' Sorte," so it was too big for him, sliding almost over his eyes, and Dylann promptly returned the favor.
The show ended with the arena full lit, the crowd standing, clapping, screaming, sometimes singing to "Like a Rolling Stone," driven by the Band and the surly little surrealistic prophet from the iron ranges of Hibbing, Minn.
"was Dylan, full bore. The crowd, as a whole, was totally enslugged by the music. It was a tremendous performance. Dylan, however, hardly addressed the audience. His only words were "Thank you, you've been more than kind," "Thank you, you're more than kind," and they were missed by many people.
One man said, "I wish he'd say something to us," and this was a common sentiment. But Dylan once said of himself, "I stand confidently in his 'true', then nothing more can be asked."
"The Venetian Twins" will be shown at 8 p.m. feb. 15 and 2:30 p.m. feb. 19 to 10 noon on Friday, Feb. 27.
Do you know what a slapstick is? I don't mean as a classification of comedy, I mean a slapstick. It's a paddle with a board hinged to it that pops when you hit someone with the paddle, and that's funny. It is. There's no reason, it just is.
By DON CREACH
Kaman Reviewer
Actually careful examination shows that it takes a lot of thoughtful, hard work to make a slapstick funny. For example, the people who are hit have to know how to react without anticipating or overreacting. Such effort is exactly what has gone into making "Venetian Twining" Twing. And have people about it: the performance is funny.
It's important that I didn't say the play is tremendously funny. The script is mostly tresome and exposition explanation. I don't know how much of the actor's business was written into the script, how much was told to the actor and how much came from the players.
Farce Carries 'Twins'
But it is such business that provides most of the laughs. There is no witty repartee, little clever punning, generally little verbal humor.
The play is a combination of a comedy of manners and a farce, learing very heavily toward the farcical end. Rufus Cadigan is very successful in showing both of these elements as he portrays both Venetian Twins: a clever aristocrat and a loveick
simpleplen. As soon as he appears on stage, he conveys that twain he is portraying
But more important than the use of these two types of comedy is the success of the farce. The comedy of manners is adequate, but the farce carries the show.
And what a force it is! There are too many outrageous comic bits going on, rapid fire, to give the audience a chance to sit back and get bored, except when the situation of the situation have to be explained clearly, with no fan to distract the audience.
It is at such times that the play wears on the ears. It is a shame that the imagination of the company had to be stifled at such moments, and obviously put many ideas into the show.
As ever, the problem with the Experimental Theatre is that so few people get to see the plays. If the rest of the performances are already soldout, find someone who has a ticket. Swipe it from him and hit him with a slapstick. If you know how to do it, it will be funny.
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Fredric Franklin, director of the National Ballet, is well-suited to an audience of both frequent and infrequent balletgears. It was a pleasure for him to applaise and laughter by the KU audience.
"Coppelia" demands as much pantomine as ballet from the dancers, and the National Ballet does.
The old Doctor Copellius, danced by Fredric Strobel, was the archtypal sir sister sorcerer, complete with cape and dusty magician's book.
His workshop, a dusty, cobwebbed stage,
was a good backdrop for his mechanical
design.
Knoblauch's performance was excellent on all counts. She was light and graceful, her movements effortless. And she persevered with builda with just enough petulance and humor.
Dean Badolato, as the Chinese Doll, gave the most spectacular performance of the evening. He leaped as if from a springboard and demonstrated a superbly elastic takeoff. His brief performance as a mechanical doll was matched only by Christine Knoblauch (Swainla) as the come-to-life Copella.
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