The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 01, 1977, Page Page 27, Image 29
Jazz band is
well receive
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BY MARY HELEN YAR- f
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Gamecock Staff Writer tne wee*
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Every Monday night four guys Mondav
get together to play at the local dimeAf
Capital Coal Company lounge. howars
With Bassist John Mclver, snowersguitarist
Jim Mings, drummer Jammi;
Chuck Adams and trumpet player- ??rake tli
vocalist Dick Goodman, blend Ellington
together a unique style of en- vouthfull
tertainment. Jazz, although favo
growing ever more popular, is not
I often heard in this area. But a spanis
anyone who has ever been to a appl^ude
coffee shop in New York can relate 0f go,
10 mis reiresning music.
The band is informally known as The ba
the Jim Furgeson Jazz Quartet. Adams, ^
Theater.
The Longstreet Theatre uses a "theatre in
the round" type stage. The actors and
actresses enter through four side entrances.
f This creates unique problems for the
directors, actors and actresses.
The Drayton Hall Theatre uses the
arrangement with which theatre-goers are
familiar. Entrance is made from each side
and from the rear with this type of stage.
This arrangement allows most backstage
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, the band really excites a
louse of college students.
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ng relatively conserve
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activity to take place very near the stage.
"We want the theatre student to learn both
stages," Gillespie said about the reason for
the two different concepts in play presentation.
The combination of the two different
forms throughout the season should prove
interesting.
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Theatre and Speech will direct two plays,
both of which will be performed at
tains crowd at Capital C(
and seem to be Uoodm
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r enjoyed Ming's was not
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play of the season, "Birds
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direct, and the fourth of
contemporary comedy, "Vf
just finishing its run on i
stage.
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charming them with his band.
trumpet. Although it For a cl
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, this jazz percussionist well worth
11 direct the first direct the famous T
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the season is a The Department
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