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Monday, February 14, 1977
University Daily Kansan
'Dames at Sea' sets sail Thursday
By JULIE WILLIAMS Staff Reporter
New York comes to Lawrence this week but in the form of the "dessert theater" production of "Dames at Sea," a nostalgic spoof of the musicals of the Thirteens.
The show will be presented by SUA in cooperation with the University residence halls at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and at 2:30 and 7 p.m. on Sunday in the Big Eight Room of the Kauai Theater. Chris Kauli, Sauer's associate, and the show manager will entertain York theater theater
Chris Kahlier, SUA adviser, said the show is taking them to the greatest creative theater to it to the students.
"We're trying to offer a theater where the audience will be sitting at tables instead of just rows, and the cast will serve desserts during intermission."
DESSERT IS appropriate, she said,
because it fits in with the light and funny
atmosphere of the 1930s spoof.
The song and dance format, directed and choreographed by KU graduate students, chronicles the life of a small-town actress who sets off for New York to become a star.
"It's a spoil of the way things were in the Thirties, we're not really poking fun but just
nostalgically remembering the 'era,'*
Kahler said.
During the show's intermission, the audience may feast on apple pie and ice cream, a cherry turnover or a banana split, and so forth. There are songs of the period that "Darned" sperm,
THE ORIGINAL show premiered off Broadway in 1968 and was presented only in theaters in 1972.
"This is why we chose the Big Eight Room; the show never went before more than 125 people and we're trying to retain the intimacy of the original show," she said.
Everyone in the seven-member cast, including the directors, is affiliated with the University Theatre, Kahler said, but this production allows the performers to branch
"The University Theatre provides excellent facilities but unfortunately is able to present only about four performances a year," she said.
"DAMES' IS one way to show students that there are other places and other ways musicals can be presented and I hope we can see this idea in other places in lawrence."
Arts & Leisure
Eastman Quartet displays talent
ny SHERI BALDWIN
Editor
"Thank you for waiting."
"And thank you for coming."
Such was the initial exchange between Eastman Quartet violinist Milton Taylor and an outspoken member of a large University Theatre audience yesterday. Before the concert was over, the exchange was the same, but much broader than one-
Delayed for one half hour by flight difficulty, the Eastman Quartet began playing after a pause to tune instruments, and with little or no warmup.
Such poise belongs only to the most seasoned of artists. The quartet, the only group to have won a Grammy Award.
United States, quickly displayed its ability to use talent against disadvantages.
Pianist Frank Glazer was able to use the brightness of a Murphy Hall piano to the quartet's advantage just seconds after touching it. And projection problems, normal when in a chamber music group is placed in a larger heater, were never noticeable.
Gentlemanly in appearance, the quartet's members came far from performing in a stody, businesslike manner. They played a program of Mozart, Faure and Brahms quartets displaying dramatics and improvisation in a style that seemed innmutable.
Their musical interpretation thrived on
The show, produced as part of the SUA
Accent of the Arts program, is directed by
Amy Abrams, Brooklyn, N.Y., graduate
from Cornell University, Hedge, Brooklyn,
N.Y., graduate student.
contrast. Dramatic crescendos were squeezed into dramatic pauses. And even piano passages combined with driving cello notes for a balanced sound.
"if anything, our music has gotten a little more serious," Taylor said. "Audences are up."
General admission is $3, $2 for KU residence hall students and tickets are $4.
Originally a string trio, the quartet was formed in 1965 because each member had wanted to play a concert of all three Brahms quartets. All are full-time teachers in performance, Glazer, Taylor and viola players Francis Tursi at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.: cellist Alan Harris at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio. Concerts are either spot dates or short tours.
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"Faces of the American Eve," a onewoman show that incorporates poetry, drama and song, will play at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union's Jayhawk Room.
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