Entertainment
Page 6 University Daily Kansan, November 16 1982
Play looks at father-son relationship
By SUSAN O'CONNELL
Staff Reporter
David Schuster, Death Valley, Calif., graduate student and director of the play, said Sunday that the author, Thomas Babe, was an existence who played urgled to find humans in death.
The play opens at p.m. Thursday and will run nightly through Nov. 22.
To create the setting of the Number Ten Saloon, where the play takes place, the theatre will be covered with sawdust. Schuster said, "Once from a barn in Emporia was used to build the set."
"This is different from other plays because the audience is also in the saloon," Schuster said.
"The members of the audience are actually characters in the play and are encouraged to take part in the play. They definitely are not ignored."
TO FURTHER SET the mood of the old West,
Country and Western music will be played.
The band will sing in a choral mode.
Ten members of the cast have formed a country band. The Honky Tonk Heroes, he said. The band will play on stage beginning at 7:15 p.m. each night of the play.
The action of the play is set in the town of Deadwood in the South Dakota Territory, Schuster shews "Fathers and Sons" shows the legendary Wild Bill Hickox as a dying victim of
Hickok, played by William Kuhlke, professor of theatre, is surrounded by his former gang members and his long-time friend, Calamity Hawk. A graduate student and lecturer in English.
Jack McCall, Hickow's illegitimate son, bursts in on his father. McCall is played by Todd Sites,
Hickok had run away from his wife and child when Jack was quite young. Jack grew up to be a milk-drinking homosexual who desperately needed a father.
AS HICKOK AND MCCALL talk to each other, one of the themes of the play emerges: the conflict between fathers and sons.
in the play, one of Hickok's close friends,
Colorado Charlie Uter, gives a speech about
relationships between fathers and sons. Frank
Mack, Overland P sophomore, plays Charlie
"I never got to talk with him or get drunk with him," Charlie says about his father.
In keeping with Babe's theories of existentialism, one message of the play is to devote itself to the character.
"You've got a life, here — live it, don't waste it." Schuster said.
Students rock to music video channel, MTV
By DAN PARELMAN
Staff Reporter
As soon as the last soap opera watcher disappears behind a partition in the Oliver Hall television room, Dan Cavannaugh, Overland Park freshman, strides to a wide-screen television and
On the television, a blue-eyed, sad-looking rock star hangs the final chords of his song.
"I like this song," says Sue Schaeffer, St. Louis freshman.
She does not recognize Pete Townsend or "Ski Skirts," but Schaefner, a country music fan, can identify Bow Wow Wow and the Clash — bands she watches on MTV.
Some KU students said, as did Schaefter, that the station has altered their musical tastes. They said that they were now buying records they would not have listened to before seeing the flashy videos that accompanied the songs on television.
Sunflower Cablevision, 644 New Hampshire, began transmitting MTV in September to begin broadcasting.
"Iused to always listen to mainly country rock at home — Marshall Tucker, Pure Prairie League, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band," Schaeffer said.
She said she now listened to more rock and new wave
AREA RECORD STORE owners and radio station program directors agree that video is changing listening habits.
Bob Wilson, owner of Better Days - A Record
Store, 724 Massachusetts St., said that bands such as Flock of Seagulls, Haircut 100; Duran, Duran; and Adam and the Ants have sold well since MTV came to Lawrence. He said that these performers all have one thing in common — good-looking video on MTV.
But Southern boogie bands, such as 38 Special; and heavy metal bands, such as Triumph and Jimi Hendrix.
And he said he thought that many of the people who were buying these records had not based their record purchases on musical quality.
"I believe if you'll make an interesting video, people will watch it and like it anyway." Wilson
Roger Bain, director of marketing for Sunflower Cablevision, also said that good-looking bands have an advantage over other bands.
"So a group that may be five ugly guys playing well may not do as well as David Bowie, who's a nice guy."
WILSON CRUTICIZED MTV for being "fairly one-dimensional." For instance, MTV does not show any reqae or soul groups, he said.
"The only black face you'll see is J.J. the disc jockey." Wilson said.
Monica Lacey, St. Louis junior, said she only listened to MTV about once a week at the Kansas Union. Her favorite musical forms are soul, pop and rock, but she said she wished MTV would play more of.
Brain said racial prejudice was not the reason the New York-based creators of MTV did not decide to show black groups. He said that they did not show black music because of the
Bain said that in the future, cable stations would probably add more music channels with different formats.
audience they were targeting—those who are 12 to 34 and are interested in album-oriented rock and new music.
Dave Strout, program director for KLZR, said that because radio was a flexible medium, MTV had not taken listeners away from his station.
"You can't watch MTV when you're driving your car," he said. "Radio is a medium that
He said that MTV helped reinforce the music his station played.
MOST OF THE STUDENTS said that they still listened to the radio as often as before MTV came to Lawrence. Students watch MTV in residence halls, fraternities, sororities, bars and clubs.
Janie Roufa, St. Louis senior, said her favorite MTV shows were Squeeze; Duran, Burak and Dee Dee.
She said she hated the Clash's song "Rock the Casahb" until she saw it on MTV.
"The video helped me like the song," she said. At the Union an MTV videos fades out. In this one, women dressed in tight, shiny leather outfits strut around motorcycles.
The faces in the Union watch as J. J. the D.J. says he will be right back with more great video. A voice on the television speaks over synthesizer sounds:
"MTV — music television. Video music 24 hours a day, all day — all night in "sterne."
Julie Parks/KANSAN
Gretenen toden, 10, learned how to improvise through painting Saturday at a children's workshop sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art.
On campus
TODAY
LECTURE. "The Music of Carl Preeyer," will be at 1:30 o.m. in 400 Murphy Hall.
be at 1:30 p.m. in 400 Murphy Hall.
PUBLIC RELATIONS Student Society of America will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Campus Unit will meet at noon in the Satellite Union.
study and fellowship will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room in the Kansas City
KU GUN CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in
Campus Church 308 of the Sahara at 11
CAMPUS CHURCH 308 OF THE SAHARA BIBLE
ROBERT SHAW, Music Director and Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will give a lecture, "The Conservative Arts," at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium.
TOMORROW
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER session will be held at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR, "New Evidence for Early Agriculture near Chaco Canyon, N.M.," will be at 4 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
Which Group has contributed more to your Student Government?
Consensus
Vote on Nov. 17 & 18
CONSENSUS
- 11 Past & Present Student Senators
- Chairman — Student Senate Executive Committee
- Chairman — Student Senate Committee on Rights and Responsibilities
- Chairman — Student Senate Communication Committee
the opposition
- Co-Chairman — Finance and Auditing Committee
- 2 Members — University Senate Executive Committee
None
- 4 Members — University Council
- 25 Members serving on Student Senate Committ
- Student Senate Committees
- 6 Members — Associated Students of Kansas
Experience Will Make A Difference
Federal cuts in financial aid, State budget cuts in education, tuition increases: These issues and others like them will be facing students in the year to come. Are you willing to trust the important decisions that must be made in the next year to beginners? Too much is at stake.
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