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University Daily Kansan/Friday, April 17, 1992
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
HAPPENINGS
BARS
Benchwarms, 1601 W.23rd St
Friday: Badgah Jones
Saturday: LA Ramblers
both shows 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Bogart's of Lawrence. 611 Vermont
Saturday: The Rhythm Kings
9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; cover charge: $3
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire
Friday: Lonesome Hounddogs
Saturday: Caribe
both shows$4, 10 p.m - 2 a.m.
Tuesday: KJHK benefit concert with
Homeestead Grays, Nic Cosmos,
Kill White and Zoom. 9:30 p.m - 2 a.m.
$$donation
Wednesday: Chickasaw Mudd Pup
pies with Bad Liver and Bodier Rover
10 p.m.- 2 a.m.; cover charge:$6
Thursday: Kilbilly, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
cover charge:$4
International Club 21, 106 N. Park St.
Friday; Dance Party; cover $3
Saturday; "DNA Live Reggae
cover charge"; $3
Sunday; Reggae with Ras Mike; free
Monday; Movies and Bear; "Cry
Freedom, 'no cover charge"
Wednesday; Blues and Jazz
The Jazzhaus. 926 1/2 Massachusetts
Friday/Saturday: New Ridim Band
10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. covercharge; $3
Wednesday/Thursday: The Blues
Brother Matt 'Guitar' Murphy
10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. covercharge; $3
Johnny'sTavern, 410N. 2nd St.
Friday/Saturday. The Barn Burners
9:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. cover charge $1
HashingH Hall, 1632 Engel Road
Friday. New Music Get Down
featuring Second Chance. Keely Zoo
Easy Reader and Where's Gomez
8 p.m.-midnight
$1 for HashingH residents
$2 for non residents
Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St.
Friday. Beach Party
Saturday. International Dance Party
Sunday. Alternative Music Night
MUSIC
Friday Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival; Sawthout Reach Hall; all day Jayhawk Invitational Jazz concert; Crafton-Preever Theater. 7:20 p.m. admission. $5 for students
Saturday Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival Crafton-Preyer Theater all day free
Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival concert featuring Jerry Borgny/Joey Calderazzo Quartet and KU Jazz Ensemble I with Brian Caldwell Crafton-Preyer Theater, 7:30 p.m. admission: $5 for students
Monday-Wednesday: The 1992 Symposium of Contemporary Music 10.a.m. Murphy Hall
Sunday: concert to benefit the damaged musical institutions in Croatia Swaroutout Recital Hall, 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Spring Concert performed by KU bands; Liberty Hall 7:30 p.m.; free
ART EXHIBITIONS
Spencer Museum of Art
"Cameras as Weapon: German Worker Photography Between the Wars"
Kress Gallery until May 10
Albert Bloch, South Balcony Gallery until May 24
Ceramics by J. Boulden Carey
North Balcony Gallery until August 2
Learning to fly
Actors, audience hold adulthood at bay with games, staging of 'Peter Pan'
A Lost Boy, played by Miranda Holsted. Leavenworth freshman. stands over the dead body of Wendy played by Angela Snead. Buckner. Mo., junior.
By Svala Jonsdottir
Kansan staff writer
While yelling, playing children's games and wrestling on the floor, 16 KU students ran barefoot around the living room of a residence hall Wednesday night.
As more people entered the room, they were included in the game of Simon Says, sometimes dragged away from the comfort of their seats by the more enthusiastic participants.
It was not the stress of the final weeks of school that caused this group of students to regress to childhood. They were the cast and audience of the play "Peter Pan" which is being performed at Oliver Hall this week.
"This is how we warm up and get into character," said Amy Emrich, who plays the part of Captain Hook. "We run around and scream at each other."
The audience sits on the floor, surrounding the actors, who play the part of children gathered in a basement playing their favorite game, "Peter Pan."
"I try to make Captain Hook as big and as scary as a 10-year-old would make him." she said.
Emrich, Augusta freshman,
said the biggest challenge of
her role was to imagine herself
as a 10-year-old girl.
Peter Pan is played by Jennifer Welch, Lawrence sopho-
"I have to feel
what it is to be a kid again."
Jennifer Welch Peter Pan actor
more.
"We are adults playing ourselves as children playing the game of Peter Pan," she said. "I am trying to be believable as an 11-year-old boy, and at the same time trying to bring out all the sides of the character the author intended."
Welch said the role of the boy who never wanted to grow up usually was played by a woman.
"The idea is that he is an asexual, pre-pubescent person," she said. "Also, not many adult men look like a little boy. Unfortunately, I do."
The author of the play, J.M. Barrie, wanted the actors to have the outlook of a child, Welch said.
play I ever saw as a small child, and it is partly the reason why I spent my working life in theater," Grossman, Chicago graduate student, said. "I am partly paying a debt to this play for exciting me about the possibilities of theater and the life of the imagination."
"That is what I am trying to do," she said. "I have to feel what it is to be a kid again."
Steve Grossman, the director of "Peter Pan," said the play had an magical attraction for both children and adults, himself included.
"Peter Pan' was the first
Although some people think of "Peter Pan" as mainly for children, it has many adult themes, he said.
"It deals with the fear of growing up, the fear of growing old, the fear of dying, the long-held wish to fly and the passage of time," Grosman said. "There is a reason why the symbol of death in the play is a crocodile who has swallowed a clock."
The fear of growing up perhaps is especially familiar to college students, he said.
"College students are
"College students are poised on the brink of adulthood, and often have ambivalence toward the future." Grossman said. "If we could go and live in Neverland, maybe we would, but we can't Only Peter Pancan."
Victor Bogado, one of the production's two assistant directors, said the play was staged in the tradition of the Polish "poor theater."
"We use only what is stricty necessary," said Bogado, Asunción, Paraguay, graduate stu.
den.
"The lighting is mini- mum, there is almost no make-up, the actors provide all the sound effects, and there are only minimal costumes."
The choice of Oliver Hall for the production also reflected this approach to staging, he said.
"The idea is to present the plays in nonconventional places," Bogado said. "You can stage a play in a church, or outside in the park, or like this."
Audience participation is encouraged during the games before the play starts, he said.
"The audience is also a part of the play because the play is presented on an arena stage." Bogado said.
"Peter Pan "will be shown at 8
tonight and at 2 and 8 p.m.
tomorrow. The play is free and
open to all.
KU group ends season at 'Final Four' of band world
Nobuko Asano, Tokyo graduate student (left), plays the xylophone as Lisa Almon, Lawrence senior, plays the bell.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
By Kristy Dorsey Special to the Kansan
Thousands looked on as the players, poised for action, tensed with anticipation as they waited for their signal.
This was the moment they had worked toward all season — the Final Four of the band world.
"In this area, this is as important for these kids as making the Final Four is for kids who play basketball," said Robert Foster, KU symphonic band conductor. "There is no higher honor."
On April 9, the KU symphonic band performed at the annual convention of the Music Educators National Conference in New Orleans. The KU band was one of five college bands in the United States chosen to perform after submitting an audition tape, and was the only group asked to perform twice.
"I think it's a great credit that we were asked to come," said Elizabeth Skeet, senior clarinet player. "It shows that we have a strong program and a strong director.
"I think it was a good trip because it gave other music educators around the country the chance to see the KU band. It can really make or break an ensemble. If you give a great performance, everyone's going to remember that, and if you're not so hot, they'll remember that too."
Foster said that the audience the band played for was particularly scruztinizing because they were all music educators who could detect a mediocre performance. He said the band handled the pressure of the difficult music and the 2,000-plus audience very well.
"The music was really hard because you don't go to a national convention and play a lot of really easy pieces that everyone has heard at home," he said. "It's for knowledgeable consumers of music.
"I think the group overall played as good as they possibly could have. If we had practiced for 100 years, we couldn't have played better. They were certainly one of the better performances, if not the best, at that conference."
Three of the eight pieces performed by the KU band were written specifically for the group; two were commissioned pieces and one was written by Foster. The remaining five, which included a piece rewritten by Foster, a work written specifically about Kansas, and a work on loan from the United States Air Force, were all坠dom or never before heard pieces. Foster said it took him about a year and a half to organize the program.
"It's like a balanced meal," he said.
"You want all the things to compliment one another. You don't have six entrees, nor do you have six appetizers. All the pieces have a role and a function."
Sinifiona 9 was one of the commissioned pieces the band performed. The piece was written by New York composer Walter Hartley, who heard it performed for an audience for the first time by the KU band in New Orleans.
"I enjoyed it very much," Hartley said Wednesday from his home in Fredonia, New York. "I thought they did a good job indeed."
Percussionist Kerri Jo Roberts said that performing at conventions was important to KU because it gave the program national exposure and encouraged young musicians to come to KU.
"There are a lot of high school educators out there, and if we do well, they'll send their kids to us," she said. "That could be the only exposure they'll ever get to our program."
poster said that the event contributed to KU's ongoing history of great performances at major conventions. During the past 16 years, KU has been asked to perform at the Music Educators National Convention more often than any other collegiate band under the same conductor.
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