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The art of scene designing has evolved from muslin stretched across flats to computerized light boards, KU set designers say.
Scenic projector creates image of play's setting
By JOHNNIE BETH FISCUS Staff Reporter
One example of new technology is imagery projection, said Greg Hill, KU assistant professor of theatre and scene designer for the University Theatre.
University Theatre.
"Projection is new to stage. It allows you to create an image that appears to move even though it is stationary." Hill said.
Hill is designing the set for "The Magic Flute," which opens April 1. He plans to project polarized images on the stage instead of going with a monochrome job of building sets for the play's 12 scenes.
But a makeshift machine is in use for this production. Hill said that a good standard theatre scene projector would cost about $1,300, but theatre productions have a budget of $800 to $1200.
This money pays for materials only, but that includes everything from paint and lumber to hardware.
The KU School of Fine Arts has five students enrolled in its three-year master of fine arts
Students learn about scene design, lighting design and costume design through practical experience.
The students receive credit in their program's production seminar class, said David
This year Keith Harris, Des Moines, Iowa,
graduate student, and Deanna Chrislip, Oklahoma City, Okla., graduate student, are the technical directors for the Iuge Theatre.
Cherliss said she spent about 75 hours working with pre-production details, beginning in Octo-
"You try to be as accurate as you can because there is always going to be someone out there who can tell if you make a mistake." Chrisip said
"Once you design a set, you can't go home. No matter how well you draw it, there will always be problems. You have to make yourself available," he said.
For class, Chrislip was assigned to design the set for "Much Ado About Nothing," which opens Feb. 18. McGreey is in charge of lighting design.
McGreevy said that even though the 90 to 100 lighting cues were programmed into the computerized lighting board, he would still attend every performance in case something
McGreeye and the others said they were at Murphy Hall about 12 hours a day, including a week of work.
KU students to find out if it is or isn't art
"I will never, in the professional world, get this kind of opportunity. This is heaven for the designer. I'm working 24 hours a day with design."
But McGreevy said he wouldn't want it any other way.
By LADONNA LONGSTREET
McGreevy, a Wichita graduate student enrolled in the program.
KU student artists will have a chance to learn this weekend from constructive criticism and praise in the third annual Juried Undergraduate Art Show.
Julie Freeman, Kansas City. Mo., senior, said students organized the show to plan for the real world after graduation, she said.
"It's an opportunity of students to enter a 'juris competition,' she said. "You're exposing
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A wide variety of their work will be on display in the public show, which will open at 4 p.m. Sunday in the main gallery of the Visual Art and Design building. The exhibit will end Feb. 18.
yourself. People will come up and say they don't like your work. You have to accent criticism.
"IT'S KIND OF exciting and it's kind of embarrassing."
Part of the criticizing began before the opening day. Any student may enter their work, Freeman said, but a juror decided what pieces would be accepted.
Robert Wright, assistant professor of art, said, "I think the criteria for this show makes it more compelling."
would be accepted.
Jim Sajovic, a painter who teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute, judged the show yesterday and today.
"This show encompasses a lot of different mediums. The juror would have to be a lawyer."
The show is the students' idea and they must
find the juror. Freeman said she and another student, Bob Odell, Mission senior, chose the juror with recommendations from the faculty
"WE VE TREED TO pick people out who have a good eye," she said, "but who are under attack."
Students may submit up to three entries in the mediums of painting, drawing, prints, clay, sculpture, metal, glass, textiles and photography.
"It must be hard to judge a show that diverse," she said, which is one reason why she and Odell were glad to get an art instructor. He in accustomed to students' work.
Freeman said that the juror would probably judge on evidence of thought and whether the defendant was in control.
Sajovic said he would look for technical
Freeman said she hoped there would be a wide range of entries this year. Last year there were not many sculptures, but there were a lot of pieces in the exhibition. There is last year's show, only 40 pieces were displayed.
competency, personal expression and originality in the work
Artists must realize that not everyone is going to take their work, she said. A judge's decision is important.
Mindy Spirz, Wilmette, Ill., senior, a printmaker who plans to enter an eight print series and a series of two prints, said. "It's just a great job. I have people see your work and to see others."
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Weekend Review
"Tootsie," with Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange and Bill Murray.
"Tooise" has every element of a good comedy except humor.
Jokes are telegraphed or are clichés, but when the jokes stop, the movie has something to say. Hoffman discovers sex prejudice and decides to love and decide he is a better man as a woman.
Despite his gravely voice, Hoffman gets an acting job as a woman in a soap opera. He spends his time worrying about new clothes, and he often goes to the dressing room, unpeek a neck at Lange in the dressing room.
The bright spot is Murray, who has a small role and every really funny line in the movie.
--strength comes from the performances of Nelligan, Hirsch and David Dukes as Nelligan's estranged husband.
"Gandhi," with Ben Kingsley.
"Gandhi!" has a message as important as those found in any movie of the last few years.
It is the story of this century's greatest leader of non-violent resistance, a little man who beat the British Empire by refusing to eat.
Director Richard Attenborough sends intriguing characters flitting in and out of the movie, leaving the viewer wondering where they came from and why they left so soon. With the exception of Gandhi, his characters are left undeveloped.
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"Gandhi," a three and one-half movie that doesn't drag, is the best picture that can happen to an action film.
The only weakness is Newman's inability to shed his likable image for that of a boorish man.
"The Verdict," with Paul Newman.
Though some legal points may be a bit shaky, the movie builds toward a gripping climax with the help of a strong supporting cast and twisting plot. James Mason, a high-priced lawyer who is the epitome of evil, and Jack Warden, who plays Gavin's friend, both turn in to professional performances. Galina Lover Charlotte Rumplim, indeed makes the most of a small role.
Paul Newman will finally win an Oscar for his portrayal of drunken shyster Frank Galvin, who is the subject of the movie.
"Savannah Smiles," with Bridgette Anderson.
"Savannah Smiles" is a once-in-a-great-will film
The first thirty minutes, you laugh. The thirty minutes, you are charmed out of your pants. The thirty minutes, you cry, sometimes out of joy, sometimes out of pain.
This movie will not get a lot of attention, but,
for the people who see it, it will be memorable.
A small, neglected, adorable rich girl runs away from home and is found by two convicts on the run. Taking a break from their skildups, she meets an old man to play, dance and picnic with Savannah.
"Savannah Smiles" was intended to be a movie for the whole family. Anyone who loves her music will love it.
"Without a Trace" begins slowly and is sometimes weakened by overdramatization and overproduction, especially at the end. But Judd Hirsch is good as the police detective in charge of the case. Kate Nelligan gives variety to her role as the missing child's mother.
--strength comes from the performances of Nelligan, Hirsch and David Dukes as Nelligan's estranged husband.
This kind of film must be a temptation to directors. Its subject, the mysterious disappearance of a child, lends itself to easy plot twists and wails, predictable characterizations.
The suspense of the film flows from not knowing how, or if, the child will be found, but its
"Without a Trace," with Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch.
Director Stanley Jaffe gives in to temptation a bit, but he should be credited with turning out a lot of good work.
A decent film with some very good moments.
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"The Entity"
If the subject of the movie, a woman getting repeatedly raped by demons, is not enough to keep audiences away, then the bad acting, (the invisible demons do the best job), ludicrous plot and idiotic lines should send people reeling once they get to the theater.
In "The Entity," the popular movie theme of violence against women goes occult. As the demons step up their attacks on Barbara Hershey, the female lead, she begins to tempt them so that her rape can be filmed by parapsychologists.
In the middle of her ordeal Hersay exclaims, "I can't stand it anymore. It's like a
And that sums up this picture nicely
Spare Time
Friday
The play, "Philomena," by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, will be at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theater.
The KU Jazz Ensemble I will give a student recital at 8 p.m. in the Swarthout Hault Hall in New York.
Sunday
Saturday
"Philippe" will be
at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre.
The Juried Under-
graduate Art Show
will open at 4 p.m.
in the Visual Art and
Design building. The
exhibit will close Feb.
A Master's recital
on clairmet by William Davis, Lawrence
graduate student, will be at 8 p.m. in the
"Phlemon" will be at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre.
Audrey
A student recital by Virginia Dowling,
Lawrence senior and soprano, and Michele
Pinet, Lawrence junior, harp, will be at 8 p.m. in
Swarthout.
Wednesday
Wednesday
A senior recital by Robin Thornton, Prairie Village soprano, will be at 8 p.m. in Saworth.
A faculty recital by Susan Hicks, assistant professor of oboe and music history, on oboe, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthowt.
A student recital by Connie Haverkamp, Wetmore senior, on piano, and Susan
Wise, junior and soprano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
On campus
TODAY
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
KU professor has the best of both worlds
SUNROVER BEEH or the Rabah Beeh
HARAMBEEH will have a Bible study at 7 p.m.
HARAMBEE will have a bible study at 7 p.m. in the Lewis Hall fireplace room.
A MINI-RETREAT, "Understanding the
dews in the Delta."
By LAUREN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
While a lot of university instructors live their career fantasies through the accomplishments of their students, one KU professor doesn't have to dream.
Season of Lent," will be at 7 p.m. at the St Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
Stephens, 35, came to KU in the fall of 1981 with his wife and child from New York City. He said it is not unusual for a voice professor to perform as an actress or travel more than many because he is young.
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will meet at 7 p.m. in the Fine Room of
the Union of
While Stephens and his wife lived in New York City, he said, he studied voice at the Jullillard School of Music, one of the most prestigious schools of its kind in the United States.
"This is an ideal set-up," he said in a deep voice as he put his feet up on his black studio piano in Murphy Hall. "I'm really combining two careers."
John Stephens, assistant professor of voice and music, has the best of both worlds. He teaches voice lessons to KU music students and performs bass singing roles several months out of the year in various opera productions around the United States.
STEPHENS SAID he was performing in an opera in Kansas City, Mo., when he heard about the teaching position at KU and decided to apply for the job.
"I was doing well enough that I was constantly traveling. I was a migrant worker," he said.
His typical weekday begins at 9:30 or 10 a.m. he said. He practices for the various performances for a few hours and then teaches student
voice lessons from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL will meet at noon in the Ordnat Room of the Union.
Stephens said that practicing for his performances coordinated well with his teaching.
He said New York City was a grapevine for connections that helped him to get singing parts with several well-known opera companies throughout the United States.
"IWAS WORKING with a famous conductor in Boston," he said. "I was on stage with five or six other people. The conductor was supposed to give this other person and me a cue so we knew when to sing the words 'We are in trouble,' but she fell asleep.
Stephens said that the most humorous experience that he could remember was when he played a part in Rossini's "Barber of Seville" in Boston.
"So we looked at each other and sang 'We are in trouble!' "
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He also said he works with a KU opera workshop, which deals with developing the opera
"GOOD STUDENTS keep the teacher thinking." be said, smiling.
Stephens said that he performed in about 15 to 20 operas and recitales last year and had a heavy schedule ahead of him during the holidays and weekends this year.
He said his agent in New York City contacts him when there are opera performance openings around the United States.
Stephens said it was an option at any moment to go back to the East coast to perform full-time, but he said he had no plans of doing so in the future.
This spring he will play the part of Sir Joseph Porter in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "HMS Pinafore" in Dayton, Ohio, as well as a part in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" an opera based on the Don Juan legend, in St. Louis.
"I'm very happy here. I really enjoy teaching.
My voice has even improved because when you can explain something, you can understand it yourself better."
John Stephens, assistant professor of voice and music, is an opera singer who travels across the country to perform on many stages, then returns to KU to give private voice lessons and lead opera workshops.
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