Page 6 University Daily Kansan, February 20.1981 Gay dances attract variety of people By PENNICRARTREE Staff Reporter Miss Piggy hoofed her way across the dance floor, accidently knocking down a laughing bystander. Before the bystander could pick herself up off the floor, fellow dancers swurk her up and bounced her, still laughing, above their heads. "The Gay and Lesbian Service dances are always the best dances on campus." Monica Markiewicz, Lawrence senior, said, chuckling at the memory. "The Halloween dance, when Miss Piggy got me, was my favorite. But this year's Valentine's dance should be just as good." The belated Gay and Lesbian Services annual Women's Day will be this Saturday. Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. we want to get the barnway for Valentine's Day back in November, but it was already booked," Tom Frants, acting director for the gay services, said. "The important thing is that we got the ballroom for a Saturday, when everyone can come." ADMISSION TO THE dance is $3 and beer and wine are free. The music will be at $10, and will continue until until the end of the day. The GLS sponsored dances are held every year as fund raising and social events for the gay community, Franz said, but a number of straights attend the dances as well. "I think people come, gay and straight, because our dances have an open, uninhibited atmosphere," Frants said. "People are free to do what they want." "I'm straight, but I go to a lot of the gay canes," Markiewka says. "I give one care what I think." MUSIC FOR THIS year's Valentine's dance will be a "high energy" mixture of new wave and disco. Franzi said, two sorts of music that provide a good dancing atmosphere. "We try to provide a variety of music, mostly stuff with a strong dance beat," Frans said. "I'd say that at least 95 percent of the crowd is satisfied with the music." THOUGH STRAIGHTS as well as gays will attend the dance, Franis said, it is designed specifically. "These dances help gays who are just coming out to know that they're not alone." Franz said. "It's very supportive to walk into a room where they are dancing, and you're gay, and who are mostly gay themselves." THE DANCES also are beneficial to gays already out, another GLS dance goer said. "I go to see old friends, to see people I'm comfortable with," Tony Perman, a Lawrence resident, said. "That's basically the function of any dance." According to Frants, the Valentine's Day dance and other GLS sponsored dances also provide an opportunity for gays to dance without harassment. "THERE AREN'T really any places in Lawrence where gays can go to dance," Franz said. "Sometimes the atmosphere at the Kansas Union dances seems a little artificial, because outside of the ballroom, we know that gays are still being persecuted." "This has been one of our best advertised dances," Frantz said. "Everyone has worked hard to make it a success. So far, everything is running smoothly." AT LEAF? 700 people are expected to come to a 'dance line'节课, Franz aid; many them 'music' classes. Another GLS dance is scheduled for April, Franz said, and would have a tropical theme. GLS will give most of the money raised by the destination to the Gay and Lebian Peer Counseling group. "We expect the Tropical Lel Dance to be as big or bigger than the Valentine dance," Frantz said. "We'll be giving a free lel to the first 200 guests, and the music will have a regae beat. The purpose of the dance is the same though, to have fun." TODAY THE HPER DANCE FILM SERIES will present "Ethnic Dance: Roundtrip to Trinidad," the Shakers" and "Out of Chaos: Jean Erard Kruger" at Bailey Hall and at 2:30 pm, in Jalppincott Hall. On Campus AN ART FILM, "CARNIVAL IN FLANDER- ING," 2 p.m. in the Spencer Dugout of Art Quiltarium THE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM will host Willard Boulton's presentation of "No Wings, Just Strings" (Lift-Prayches) at 3:30 p.m. in 3140 Warehouse Hall. CLASSICS TENNEY FRANK MEMORIAL FUND PANEL will present "Poetry and Ideology in Archaeic Megara" at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kangas Union. THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE'S PRODUCTION OF "THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON" will be at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre at Murphy Hall. BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union. TOMORROW THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY will host the "Light, Lasers and Holograms" workshop with Torn Collison from 9 a.m.-noon. Call 864-4173. THE BLACK AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION will present "Minorities and the Law Day" from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Green Hall. SUNDAY OPENING GALLERY TOUR OF "GAVARNI CARNIVAL LITHOGRAPHS" at 2 p.m. in the White Gallery of the Spencer Museum of Art. The gallery is hosted by Jeanne Stump and Robert Anderson. THE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY WINTER CONCERT conducted by George Lawner will be at 3:30 p.m. in the University Theatre at Murphy Hall. THE RENAISSANCE DANCE CLASS will meet at 1 p.m. in 207 Robinson. STUDENT RECITAL by St Ain St. Pierre, voice, at 8 p.m. in the Swarthout Hall Rocky Hall in Brownsville. THE KU-NDIAN CLUB will present the movie "Zan Zin," (English subtitled), at 2 p.m. in Dyche Audition. Admission is $2. Weekend THE MOFFET BEERS BAND will play at the Clubhouse from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. THE SECRETS will appear at the LIVE THEATER in Shreveport, Missouri at chuckwetts St., at s.t. amphitheater doors open at 8 p.m. HERB ELLIS, JAZZ GUARITSE, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Jazz Place, 926 TODAY Massachusetts St. The Chuck Berg Band will open the show. Tickets are $5. TOMORROW THE ANNUAL BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL THE ANNUAL BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL Lodge from p. 8 to m. 3, for $75. Elks Club Lodge from p. 10 to m. 4, for $75. Aristocrat Lodge are $8. THE SECRETS will perform at 9 p.m. at the Lawrence Opera House. HERB ELLIES, JAZZ GUITARIST, will perform at 10 p.m at the Jazz Place. A guitar and bass ensemble will perform. Barrie's play reborn on KU stage Staff Reporter By CINDY CAMPBELL Staff Reporter "The Admirable Crichton," James Barrie's four-act satirical fantasy, which was last produced at KU in 1923, will be the season opener for KU's University Theatre. Barrie's comical, yet thought-provoking play will be staged at 8 p.m. Feb. 20, 21, 27, and 28. A special matinee performance for area high school students will be at 1 p.m. Feb. 25. Ronald Willis, professor of theatre and director of "The Admirable Critchion," said that while it was not as well known as some known of Barrie's other plays (he also wrote "Peter the Eagle") but characterized all of the playwrights as charmer, fantastic, sentimental and whimsical. The play opens in upper class London around the turn of the century in the beautiful home of Lord Loom. Somewhat given to radical ideas, Lord Loom invites his servants into the parlor once a month for tea. The servants, unaware of their duties, enter with the family, Lord Loom's daughters and the butler, Crichton, feel the whole affair is a violation of "the natural order of things." WHEN THE FAMILY, and their servants are stranded on a tropical island in Act II, the tables are reversed and Crichton becomes the natural leader. The others accept his authority since he is the only one to demonstrate an ability to survive and prosper, Willis said. "When the shipwreck victims are rescued, each is confronted with the transformation back into freedom. The trappings of stiff collars and long skirts, William made the family long for their life as castaways. The real question, however, is how Crichton will behave. Throughout the adventure, the butler is "admirable," but with the return to English society, the family wonders whether he will insist on an elevated status. WILLIS SAID that while the play was a satire on English class society, it also explored the inevitable existence of classes in any society. And, while the play is humorous throughout, it also brings up social issues as relevant today as when the play was first published in 1914. LeWan Alexander, the KU junior who plays Crichton, said "the play says a lot about the natural order of things and class distinctions. The play shows that the way things mutually are in one situation can be completely turned around in another." Tickets for the five performances of "The Admirable Crichton" are on sale at the Murphy box office. Reserved seats are available for $4 students. Of the students with valid $4 cards are admitted free. LOCAL ARTIST Tom Jacobs singing: Personal Compositions and Familiar Songs Lewis Hall Cafeteria 8:00 pm Sunday, February 22nd Donations Optional CINEMA 2 9301 AND OWN TELFLEOHER 8 The 2nd Annual SUA Theater Series You're a good man, Charlie Brown by Clark Geissner Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Lawrence Miller Center for Environmental Studies march 1 at 3:00pm march 1 at 2:30pm MOONCHILDREN by Michael Weller Lawrence Arts Center feb.26, 27, march 1st 09:00 Hall Mall Auditorium Hall Mall Auditorium 15:20, 30:00-6:00 pm FED. 21 at 30:00-6:00 pm Children under 13 $19.95 With KUID, tickets are one show. $2.50 (two shows. $4.50(1.50 discount)) three shows. $6.00($1.50 discount) General Public are one show. $3.50 (two shows. $6.50(1.50 discount) three shows. $9.00($1.50 discount) Tickets available at the SUA Box Office in the Kansas Union. 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WITTLFF Production by FRED ROOS and TOM STEWART Production by COLLORBALL BALLAND From ZOETROPE STUDIO5 Technology® GOVERNIAL ADVERTISING United Artists A Renaissance Company 3:30 7:30 Friday and Saturday $1.50 Woodruff Auditorium the who * jefferson airplane crosby, stills, nash & young joe cocker * joan baez * arlo guthrie country joe & the fish * and jimi hendrix Special time - 10:00 p.m. only $1.50 Woodruff Auditorium — No refreshments allowed — R RESTRICTED Lose 17 to 26pound or more in just six weeks "It's a Natural" 935 Iowa Hillcrest Medical Center Center Friday, Feb. 20 The Black Stallion (1979) Carroll Ballard's directorial debut is an extraordinary adaptation of Walter Farley's novel about a boy and a home, which will grow to trust and love each other; when rescued, the boy and an old trainee learn that he was a real race, and ... the rare film that can completely capture an audience, a stuntman who is also a star. Kelly Reno, Mickey Roooney, Terei Garr, and Clineence Music. Plus: "Gerald Moebing Boone" (1187 min) Color: 3:30. Saturday, Feb. 21 The Black Stallion Color: 3:30, 7:00 Woodstock 10:00 Sunday, Feb. 22 Movie Movie (1978) A nostalgic recital recreation of a Saturday matinee. First it's Dynamite Hands, with Harry Mann as the boxer himself; then its Rampage the mob; then, in glorious Technicolor, Baxter's Beauties of 1933, with Rebecca Ripley and Bar Berry Stickle (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as the songwriter she was. With George C. Scott, Art Carney, and David E. Young, the choreographed by the team of Stanley Donen and Michael Kidd (Seven Brides for seven Brothers); plus: Halsey & Batchman, Bill C. Zinn and Carl C. Zinn (10/8/1984 B/W Color; 2:00). Unless otherwise noted: all tickets will be available on Friday. Kansas Union, Weekday fees are $1.00; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday fees are $1.50; Midnight tickets are $2.00. Tickets for other events at Kansas Union, 4th level, Information 664-8000, No smoking or refresher accommodations.