Page 14 University Daily Kansan, August 19, 1982
'Rock Chalk Revue' may yield to new, different variety show
BY GRETCHEN HADEN Staff Reporter
"Rock Chalk Revue 1982" brought stories of caves men, stockbrokers, love-sick molecules and even a fictional renegade. A. Budg came to KU's chancellor.
"Rock Chalk," a KU tradition since 1940, is a variety show produced each spring by KU-Y, featuring campus living groups.
KU-Y is an umbrella organization that helps to finance such groups as Latin American Solidarity, the KU HIV/AIDS Foundation and Anti-Draft Organization and others.
But that tradition may well be coming to an end this year. The Board of Class Officer plans to sponsor a new show. According to David Adkins, student body president, the traditionally named "Rock Chalk" may not take place.
The new BCOC-sponsored show, although unnamed as yet, would have a wide variety of changes that would not only encourage more participation from on- and off-campus groups but would also donate to charity groups and provide a financial return to those groups that participated, Adkins said.
When the "Rock Chalk Revue" beamed, the show was sponsored by KU-Y, although recently it has evolved so that the series has become more collaborative pays its coordinator, Adkins said.
According to Adkins, of the $10,000 to $12,000 that "Rock Chalk" made last year, $8,000 to $8,000 would be worth more than the costs of lighting Hoch Auditorium and advertising.
The reasons that the new show will be sponsored by the Board of Class Officers are varied.
"BCOC, in the past, has felt like they dealt in a void, with no active part in the University," said Adkins.
"I was a class officer, and we were mainly a party planning organization."
The producer of the BOCO show would be Beauford K. Woods, who has been involved in many aspects of the Chalk" for the past several years.
According to Woods, although KU-Y has no production staff yet, no dates reserved in Hoch and nothing organized, KU-Y tentatively still plans to have "Rock Chalk." But, if the new show draws all the interest, "Rock Chalk" may not be produced this year, he said.
"There will be a loss of nostalgia if 'Book Crink', dies," Adams said.
He said that the stress would be placed upon a better show for charitable purposes.
Every fall, each campus living group is invited to prepare a "Rock Chalk" notebook, revolving around a predetermined theme that includes original scripts, music, costume and set designs and character descriptions.
A panel of six judges bases its decisions on creativity, audience appeal, originality and the continuity of the show. After the four chosen groups, each composed of two living groups, are announced, the work begins all over again, and the production is adapted to be performed in Hoch Auditorium.
Although the idea of "Rock Chalk" would underlie the BOCO show, there would be changes.
To begin with, Adkins said, there would be a difference in where the profits of the show would go. BOO would return $1,000 of the ticket sale money to each participating group to help defray the cost of putting on a production.
Because groups that participate must pay for the expenses of sets,套 and music equipment from their own budgets, BOCO thought that the returned money can encourage other groups to participate. Adkins said.
After that money is given back to the living groups, all but about 10 percent would go to an as yet undetermined charity. The other 10 percent would go to such costs as advertising, lighting and other general expenditures.
"We're going to make a big, gigantic effort to get the residence halls to go up," OCO said.
Aldkins said the rebated money would be the added incentives needed so non-bankers could participate.
"Scholarship halls and residence halls just don't have the funds to start off with like the Greek houses do," Adkins added.
The BOCO show would also have in-Between Animals that differ from "Rock Chalk." According to Woods, there would be one student from each group that turned in final notebooks who would be allowed to be in the IBAs.
"That way, each group that tried will have the chance to still be repre-
*nate* with their ideas.
Another difference in the BOCO show from "Rock Chalk" would be the addition of small groups of IBA players. These groups must have prepared acts and be of "performance quality" at the time of the fall audition, Woods said.
The last IBA change would be the addition of a select choir from Lawrence High School that would encounter some of the whole community, Woods said.
"We want to involve more of the University and the community." Woods said.
Woods said another change that would be made, one that might create controversy for the BCOC show, was that he and his teams to use "specialize" in their shows.
two performers, or "specials," who are not involved in the living group, may be brought in if desired. These patients could be children or older adults, said
"By allowing these 'specials' into the show, we can not only include members of the community, but we can improve the quality of the show and get away from those stories that have become so stale in recent years," Woods said.
Both Woods and Adkins expressed concern that "Rock Chalk" had become a more formula and, that once a group had it figured out, they could get into "Rock Chalk" year after year by simply changing the story line.
This fall, groups wanting to enter the POOC show will have the opportunity to attend seminars, conducted by Woods, to aid them in putting together their notebooks. These seminars will be offered for the first time and encourage those groups who do not autorun submit "Rock Chalk" scripts to do so.
Also this fall, one member of each group will have the opportunity to present orally the group notebook. Some sections of the notebook are almost impossible to explain on paper, and the judges interpretations may be wrong, Woods said. With the help of a group member presenting the material, the confines of the written notebook will not be so severe.
Hoping that more teams will enter the proposed BCOC show, Woods has made the promise that if 13 or more groups turn in final notebooks, the shows will be shortened to 15 minutes and an extra show will be added. A total of ten living groups would then be represented.
Both Woods and Martin Pryor, senior class president, have been working on a name for the new show. If they do not come up with something they both like, BCOO will sponsor a contest in the fall to name it.
Wood's optimism about the new show remains high.
"I love doing stuff like this," Woods said, "and this show will succeed if people give it a chance."
Special to the Kansan
From the 1931 performers in the top photo to the 1981 song and dance team in the bottom photo the Rock Chalk Revue has been a show case for KCU students' musical talents since the show's conception in 1949.
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