Friday, October 11, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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(Kansan photo by Mike Gunther)
"KISS ME YOU GYPSY SAVAGE"
Onnalee Zimmerman, Ford junior, portraying Lalume, the Wazir's "wife of wives," and Mike Rapport, Pasadena, Calif., senior, as the poet, rehearse for the production of Kismet beginning Oct. 31.
Fall musical cast rehearses for 'Kismet' opening Oct. 31
By CANDACE OSBORNE Kansan Staff Reporter
Passing Murphy Hall late these nights one may see its lights ablaze and its parking lot filled. A 77-member cast is busily working on the 214 roles of "Kismet," the University Theatre's fall musical.
Under the direction of Jed Davis, head of the University Theatre, the musical will run Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 3 (including a matinee), 7, 8 and 9.
Since the construction of Murphy in 1957, the Theatre has presented a musical each fall. Part of the concept of the building, Davis said, is to accommodate the School of Fine
Arts which cooperates in producing these major productions. Each spring an opera is also staged.
This season's offering is set in the days of the legendary Arabian Nights. It concerns the "miraculous change of a poet in one day," explained Mike Rapport, Pasadena, Calif., senior, who portrays the Poet.
The play evolves about the fate- or Kismet-of the Poet, and how "his win turns things around," Rapport said.
He called the musical a large-scale spectacle, yet very beautiful. Particularly so, he feels, since much of the music is adapted from the works of the
Key to men's room lost poses serious problem
The KUOK staff has progressed half-way up the winding staircase to the solution of their dilemma.
The staff has been without a key to the men's room in Hoch Auditorium since last March when the Buildings and Grounds men changed the lock.
"We finally got a key," said Bob "Fig" Newton, operations manager for KUOK, "but it only leads up the winding staircase under the stage."
At the top of the staircase is another door-with a different lock on it, said Newton. We still need a key to get on to the stage and into the men's room.
"The staff wrote a letter to the Chancellor," he said, "but so far there has been no answer. Now our adviser is going to write to the B and G men to see if we can get some action there."
In the meantime the big tree east of the studio continues to grow.
composer Alexander Borodin— "Stranger In Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" are two.
These songs are sung by the lead characters accompanied by several choruses and series of dancers. Many are costumed in the exotic and ornate dress of the setting of colorful and elaborate old Bagdad.
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