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Friday, October 29, 1976
Hashinger musical is pleasing
By CHUCK SACK
The Hashinger Theatre production of "The Apple Tree" alters Coleridge's famous rule, because it cries out not for a willing suspension of disbelief so much as a willing suspension of professional standards.
In the first place, the residence hall's budget doesn't allow them to compete with Broadway for material. "The Apple Tree," a trio of tales about men and women, is a half-hour long show by Sheldon Harrick, who are justly more famous for "Fiddler on the Roof."
In Act L, "The Diary of Adam and Eve," which is based on Mark Twain's "Letters from the Earth," Eve musically ponds her attachment to Adam thus:
What makes me love him?
What makes me love him?
It's not his singing
I've heard his singing
It sours the milk
Fly the couple who makes that "their
souls"
Given little support from the material, the
Given little support from the material, the
cast injects the play with its infectious spank and vitality. The result is several cuts above the average high school production, and safely below the standard of Off Broadway. However, once the show is under way there is no time for such comparisons.
Adam and Eve awaken and begin naming the creatures. When Eve suggests that "cow" is preferable nomenclature to Adam's "dour-pronged wolf squirter" the
quickly establishes the tone for the entire show.
This is especially important because the humor is often so thin that an actor with a heavy hand rips the fabric and is left exposed. The sole example is Jim Stringer's bammy interpretation of the Devil, who unfortunately appears in every act. But then it was all downhill once the snake entered Eden in the original version. too.
battle of the sexes is joined Act II's variation on this theme is a comic version of Frank Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger," which was adapted by Jeffery based on Feiffer's cartoon of the same title.
Review
THE FIRST ACT is the longest, and the script badly needs trimming, but in Kevin Williams's work he manages a crucial and delightful performance. Blessed with good timing and a strong voice, he
ON THE PLUS side, director Anne Abrams has cleverly cast actors who have distinctly comic physiognomy and this allows her to subtly countertone tachyflush flavor. Among the other notables are Kate Rogers as Ella, the chinwey rowhen she desire to be a "Moo-Vee Shirr." Judy Dennes as the Princess who wore a skirt more wed than dead," and Sue Blaire's Eve.
Of course, it is the welcome enthusiasm of the chorus that really makes the show take off, and there is a wonderful "make do" spirit to the proceedings that makes "The Saga of Elaine" come despite the amateurish qualities. Professional, it isn't. Entertaining, it is.
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Ritter also said that a person residing in Lawrence less than 30 days could apply for the presidential absentee ballot in his former state. The ballot must reach the county clerk's office in the person's former hometown by 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Mary Ritter, a spokesman for the Kansas secretary of state office, said yesterday that a person who had resided in Lawrence longer than 30 days could obtain an absentee ballot in the county clerk's office to vote for president and vice president.
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The law for presidential absentee ballots was enacted mainly for people who were transferred from one state to another because of their job, Ritter said. She said that many people were interested in only the presidential election.
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Delbert Mathia, Douglas county clerk,
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I. J. Stoneback, age 59, married, 3 children, farmer, stockman, Commissioner, Democratic Precinct Committeeeman, past Chairman of the Lawrence Committee for Peace in Vietnam, President Douglas County ECKAN (Organization to help low-income people), member of Drug Abuse Council, and member of the University Student Housing Association.
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- I. J. knew the war in Vietnam was wrong long before others and did something about it. I.J. helped to form anti-war groups, marched in streets and spoke out against Nixon and the war at student protest meetings.
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