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Rusty Laushman, with cane, and Andy Schell, left, put the finishing touches on their characters during Wednesday night's rehearsal of "Dracula: A Symphony of Horror." Laushman has the lead and Schell plays Hasker in the production to be performed at midnight tomorrow.
on campus
TODAY
THE CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will sponsor Jair Bjordahl speaking on "Effective Bible Study Methods" at 7:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
TOMORROW
Recreation Services will sponsor an IN-TRAMURAL FREE THROW CONTEST at 10 a.m. at the Robinson Gym basketball courts.
in at the rostral end There will be a SIMULATIONS GAMING
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP will be at 10 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
GROUP MEETING at 10 a.m. in the Cork Room on the third level of the Kansas Union.
A SUNDAY EVENING SUPPER will be sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center at 5:30 p.m. a discussion, "What is Worship" will feature Rev. Homer Henderson.
Weekend
TODAY
The opening event for the multimedia environmental installation "Toto, You Don't Think We're in Kansas anymore" will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. outside the Kansas Union Gallery. The performance will show Entrtainment will include a folk band and dance dancing. Refreshments will be served.
the Kellas Gallery, Seven East Seventh St. will sponsor an opening reception for artists Philip Hersherb and Lu Vaccaro from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the gallery's East Room.
The KU Folk Dance Club will meet to dance and socialize at 7:30 p.m. at the St. John Grade School Gym, 12th and Kentucky Streets. The group invites all interested to attend
TOMORROW
A special midnight performance of "Dracula:
A Symphony of Horror" will be presented in the University Theatre. Tickets for the showing are $35. For more information, see are general admission, priced at $3. Reservations for the performance can be made by calling 864-3982.
CURRENT EXHIBITS
The Kassebaum Ceramics Collection is on display at the KU Spencer Museum of Art. The collection includes lead and tin glazed pieces from Persia, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, England and the Netherlands. Most of the pieces date from the 18th century. The Art is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays.
An exhibit featuring more than 100 photos published during the 1960s in ESQUIRE magazine is on display in White Gallery at the Spencer Museum of Art. The exhibit includes photos of Mae West, Richard Nixon and Andy Warhol.
The Kansas welcomes items for inclusion in Weekend Arts. Information concerning area events should be submitted to the Entertainment office after than Wednesday afternoon of each week.
Midnight staging gives 'Dracula' cast last chance to perfect performance
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
Dracula in Lawrence. And he will strike at midnight tomorrow.
"Dracula: A Symphony of Horror," a play selected for regional competition in the 1982 American College Theatre Festival, will be performed at Harrow in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"We felt it was even more appropriate to stage the play at midnight. The mystery surrounding the midnight hours adds to the mysterious mood of the play," said Ronald A. Willis, director of the University Theatre and national ACTF chairman.
The special performance will give the eight-member cast a chance to perform in front of an audience once more prior to the competition, Gregory Hill, assistant professor of theatre, scenic designer for the University Theatre and designer of "Dracula," said Tuesday.
Hill said he rewrote the script for this year's performance from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" novel, using the novel's diary format and Victorian horror-story quality.
His adapition is "close" to the novel for the first two-thirds of the play, but the ending is compressed to lend a more mysterious air, he said.
"Our production is a theatrical event not to be emotional," but to be experienced emotionally, he said.
Grant Richey, Shawnee senior who plays Renfield, said the production had a "chilling effect."
"It's something that's there for being absorbed." he said.
sarried, he said.
The eerie, spoooky quality of the play is stressed, Hill said, and the midnight production should be especially eerie.
"I wanted the play to be unlike any other people had seen," Hill said. "The story of 'Dracula' is one of the most haunting in Western literature due to its combination of truth, legend and nightmare—the real, unreal and dark world in between."
Some changes have been made for tomorrow night's production, John Anderson, Overland Park freshman who plays a cab driver, said. The advanceance will be easier to understand, he said.
There have been some script changes to cut out repetition and the "physical picture," the blocking, has been changed, Anderson said.
The interior of Dracula's castle is the set for all of the production's scenes. Props such as the graveyard are moved for different scenes, but characters in the background throughout the production.
The entire play is performed behind a scrim, or transparent screen. The diary narration will be projected on the scrim, explained Charla and her institutions director for the University Theatre.
"It gives it a moody, almost foggy effect. It's eerie," she said.
"Dracula" will compete in the Midwest regional ACTF competition Jan. 27-30 at the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls, where a total of four productions will compete for the privilege of performing at the Midwest ACTF competition in Washington, D.C. in April, Hill said.
A five-member panel judged twenty-one plays to select the four that will perform at the regional ACTF competition, according to Jenkins.
Authentic dances recreated by club
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
A group of KU students spent their Friday nights in the Old World, recreating the dances enjoyed centuries ago by their ancestors.
"At first I came for the girls, but I stayed because I enjoy the dances and the people," said Craig Paul of his 10-year association with the KU Folk Dance Club.
Paul, who earned his degree in computer science at KU, said he became interested in the club as a junior at Lawrence High School and met with him on a session to please a girl he was interested in.
Now, 10 years later, Paul is one of 10
performing group, the core of the Folk Dan-
sport.
The group meets to dance and socialize at 7:30 on Friday night at the St. John Grade School Gym at Twelfth and Kentucky streets.
the types of dances taught each week. Some include steps that originated in many of the Old World countries.
Club members learn new dances to teach the group by attending nationwide clinics.
Theodacia Millil, president of the club,
said that 20 to 30 dancers participate each
Friday night, but that there were 10
regulars.
"Our dances don't require partners. Anybody can folk dance; it does not take much."
"The dances date from the 18th to 18th centuries, a time when villages were constrained by natural boundaries, and the cultures were weld-defined." Mullish said.
Balkan line dances have been the most popular, Millich said. Millich and Paul agreed that the Balkan line dances are more contemporary than others and complete with stomping, clapping and yellining.
"A lot of people, when they hear the words dance," said one of the dancers dancing. "Milton said, 'That's not a thing.'"
Though the Balkan dances are the favorites, Millich said, the group changes
At the core of the club are the performers, who upon request, dance at special events. They have performed at tolk art festivals, and in other cultural settings, opening, and at other international gatherings.
Dancers in traditional garb form the line of a Balkan dance, a KU Folk Dance Club favorite.