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Monday, February 21, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Rock Chalk Revue a traditional stab at amateur professionalism
By SHERI BALDWIN
Entertainment Edito
For 27 years, Rock Chalk Revue has been both a tradition and a mystery to me.
Rock Chalk is more than a red-light sign in front of Hoch Auditorium.
It is hundreds of people, mostly nondrama talents from Greek houses. Each fall, they slave to prepare scripts the size of Sears and Roebuck catalogues. Each select four groups conjure 20-minute musical comedy productions from those companies.
Much of past Rock Chalk and in-between act (IBA) fillers would have been worthy of television variety show fame—once removed from the acoustic and technical encumbrances of Hoch. Those unworthy of such exposure might have qualified with polish and the deletion of campus-humor gag lines.
DESPITE CRITICISM for familiar problems such as length of the show and judging time, a hint of professionalism
survives in Rock Chalk—a hint that has grown as competition has increased.
arranger, Waugh had Jim Barnes, KU Marching Band arranger, do the music. Conductor Roger Kendell, Leawood takes the place of a faculty conductor.
This weekend's a Saturday show is sold out.
Tickets still remain for Friday's 8 p.m.
As each Rock Chalk剪 has done, producer Karyah Hannah Wang, Toppikha
Makar and Dhruva Sharma.
There will be no master of ceremonies,
used since 1967. The IBA players will do
The skits will be presented in the same order each night to alleviate technical problems. In the past, the order was varied each night to cancel judges' prejudices.
Seven trophies will again be awarded
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short song and dance introductions for the groups' skits, following the skits' themes. No outside student acts have been brought in to fill gaps between the skirts. The hand-selected group of 21 IBA players will take the place of what is usually provided by other organizations, songsisters and worse. And IBA work began last summer, not this spring, as has been tradition.
INSTEAD OF using a professional music
Wonder wins 4 Grammys
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Stevie Wonder won four Grammy Awards Saturday for his album, "Songs in the Key of Life," he won award for best male vocalist. For "I Wish," he won an award for best vocal rhythm and blues performance.
George Benson won awards for best record of the year for "This Masquerade," best pop instrumental performance for "Breezin'" and best instrumental rhythm and blues performance for "Theme From Good King Bad."
BRITTEN AND BLUES--music song. "Twinkle" by
Melanie Lynskey. You can listen to it on
Markdown or as a PDF file. - You Have to Go
to Markdown or as a PDF file.
AJZZ- a solo performance, "Baile & Zoiz" (Count Bale), group performance, "The Agriegas," theatrical work, Duke Ellington, vocal performance, Eliza Fläggar ("Flägern & Paas & ... Aaddn"), instrumental compassional
after Saturday night's performance. The added scores from five judges at Friday's performance and five at Saturday's will decide best actor, actress, costumes, set, original song, production number and overall production.
CLASSICAL—vocal solos; "Music of Victor Herbert" (Acoustic), "The Five Piano Concertos" (Acoustic), "The Five Piano Concertos" (Acoustic), "Gorgerian, Forges and Losses Massed"; Gorgerian, Forges and Losses Massed); "Harbor Concerts 75-79" (Dialhar Minor Music).
POP—song of the year. "I Write the Songs" (Bruce
Haden Down the Wind's Drain) and "O group social
voting" (Henson, 2014).
Each group received $300 from ticket sales to help defray production costs.
THIS YEAR's over-all theme is "A New Beginning. A Second Chance."
Alpha Chi Omega-Alpha Tau Omega will present "Sparsarilla: A Hard Drink to Swallow", in which Cinderella gets a second chance. The Omega-bound girl is brave, but to learn that life isn't always a fairy tale.
Other awards included:
"Evil Medieval," presented by Kappa Alpha Theta-Delta Upsilon, transforms a kingdom of evil, complete with king, queen and princess, to a happy one.
Pi Beta Phi-Gamma Delta takes the devil to heaven to capture a soul in "Heavens to Betsy." The devil is eventually converted.
"Mother Goose Lets Loose or Gooise Takes a Gamble" is by Gamma Phi Beta-Alpha Kappa Lambda. The group shows Mother Goose venturing from her storybook land with a spider to an evil land in which she can't fit in.
Tickets are $3 and $3.25 at the SUA office.
Theater
This Week's Highlights
"LOOT," p. 8. Thursday and Friday,
University Theatre.
Concerts
KI PAPKA LAMBDA CONCERTO
P II p.m. Tuesday, University
Duke!
SEQUEIRA COSTA, professor of performance, benefit performance for the Music Scholarship Fund; 8:30 tonight, University Theatre.
HOYT ROBINSON, student. Student Recital Series, b.p.m. thursday, Swarthwout.
INFORMAL RECITAIS by students and faculty of the School of Fine Arts at noon every weekday through Mar. 4, Strong Hall John
RICHARD ANGELETT, piano; DON SCHEID, clarinet; and KAREL BLAAS, viola; Faculty Recital Series, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Saworth Intercall Hall.
Recitals
Nightclubs
OZ, rock group, and folk singer BETH Nixon, a graduate of midnight. Wednesday, the Ora House.
Lectures
"WHAT IS A CURATOR?" Ross Taggart,
senior curator of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins
Museum, 3:30 p.m. today, Kansas Union's
Regionalist Room.
"The UNDERGROUND SOVIET SONG," Vaidimir Frunikin, musicologist from Oberlin College, department of music at the University of Wisconsin. Lecture series: 2, tuesday, Swarthout.
COLETTE BANGERT discusses her
work at Union's Gallion.
Tuesday, Union's Gallion.
JOHN KESSEL, fiction writer, SUA
Contemporary author, Series 4,
2005-2013. Vanity Press.
'THE NON-ARTIST IN THE ART WORLD,' Donald Hoffman, Neen Jumpst. Douglas Drake and Ellen Gohen. 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Union's Forum Room.
There will be an informational meeting at 7:00 Thursday the 24th of February in the Oread room of the Union. Trip cost will be the $100-$110 range. Include everything! For information about the meeting, contact the SUA office at 864-3477.
APPALACHIAN TRAIL BACKPACK TRIP
NOW MATH TEACHERS ARE WANTED FOR OVERSEAS PROJECTS
Following finals in May (21-31)
- Art Supplies available at low prices
high probability of good experience as a math teacher in a country of Africa, Asia,
Latin America, or the S. Pacific as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Free trav. ; health-
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Greenhouse Sale Continues
"A PROGRAM OF VICTORIAN TASTE; SOALS OF ENGLISH TANGUE," Jim Scally and Max Sutton, 4 p.m. Thursday, a. 491 Wescock Hall.
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Films
Good thru Fri., Feb. 25
1516 W. 23rd St.
Lawrence, Ks.
Includes dinner salad plus your choice of coffee, tea or soft drink. Limit 2 dinners per coupon.
Blooming Plants
Everything, that's right.
Everything In the Greenhouse
Everything in the Greenhouse
Cash & Carry
Last fall, the Lawrence Community Theater began organizing. Prospects looked promising because the theater would finally be able to host a major Art Center's renovated performance hall.
Hanging Plants
Now the theater will have tryouts for its first play, Paul Zindel's "The Secret Affairs of Midhurd Wild" at 7 onight at the Art Center. The play is scheduled for April 15, 16 and 17.
ABEL GANCE; THE CHARM OF DYNAMITE - In-depth portrait, directed by Kevin Brownlow, of the brilliant French director Adel Gance. Incident are scenes of Gance filming "Bonaparte and the Revenge" who took him more than 40 years to complete.
1/2 Price House Plants
Hanailung Plants
The
COUSIN COUSINE—Two unhappily-
married distant cousins, played by Marie-
Christine Barrault and Victor Lanoux,
become friends, then lovers. (R)
Every plant in the Greenhouse
Starts Fri. 2/18 End Set. 2/26 $1/2 Price
About 35 years ago, Lawrence saw its last community theater production. Since then several attempts at such a theater have had little success.
Garden Center
A season of play productions is the group's goal.
and Greenhouse
4 blocks East of Mass. on 15th 843-2004
Two ground beef platters $3.29
Theater group plans 1st play
ROCKY - Passionate tale of struggle,
suffering and fortune. Sylvester Stallone is a true knockout in one of the year's best.
(PG)
NETWORK-Satiric look at television is that silly with a swag, savage, wagging grin; it doesn't matter formances by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden and Nate Daly gloss over
SILVER STREAK—Mild comedy-suspense film set abroad a transcontinental luxury line. It is partially redeemed by Richard Prorv's performance.
Daily recitals in the lobby of Strong Hall
— Noon —
Basketball Officials
NEEDED FOR
TOURNAMENT GAMES
MONDAY, February 21
Concert Choral, Burt Allen, director
March 4 and 5
TUESDAY, February 22
Bryan Bell and Anderson, Cydi Brown, Sandy Densford, Barbara Beaulichsheim, Barbara Else
FRIDAY, February 25
Linda Shankel, soprano
Joe Hulce, violin
David Spence, piano
WEDNESDAY, February 23
John Boulton, flute
Soprano, soprano
Linda Amermian, soprano
David Spence, piano
Sign up at 208 Robinson
THURSDAY, February 24
Lynn Culmer, soprano; Augustus Pearson, piano;
Sharon Barron, piano; Jerome Dabney, tenor
The 9th Street Baptist Church Gospel Choir
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"Cousin Cousine is fetchingly loony and great fun."
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SPEED READING CLASS TO BE TAUGHT IN LAWRENCE
The United States Reading Lab Mid-West Division is offering their famous speed reading course to a limited number of qualified people here in the Lawrence area. The average person who completes this course can read 10 times faster, and with substantially improved comprehension and better concentration.
This famous course has taught many thousands of people to read over 1000 words per minute with the ability to understand and retain what they have read much more effectively. Average graduates can read most novels in less than one hour.
These meetings will be held on campus at the Lutheran Student Center, 15th and Iowa, on Wed., Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Saf., Feb. 19 at 10:30 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m., Mon., Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and TWO FINAL MEETINGS, Tues., Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Classes are limited and class places will be filled on first come-first serve basis only, so the sure to attend a meeting possible to insure a class place. Group meetings upon request may be arranged.