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Chairmei beach ! By Loroy Williams Gamecock Staff Writer The setting for Beach Party 80 seemed to conjure up the image of free-flowing sand, a rolling surf, a vigorous volleyball game and some beautiful bikini-clad girls. Instead, there was popcorn, colored lights, and empty beer cans, leaving the Ballroom in wreckage Thursday night. The vast crowd, of more than one thousand rowdy and intoxicated people, was entertained by Chairmen of the Board has performance. >r i _ lviuiiipie By Janet Gibson Making choices is what life is all, maKe mese cnoices responsiDiy ( difference in the world. This was the message a group speech students demonstrated in J most imaginative production Longstreet Theatre Saturday morn BOTH HUMOROUS and serio eluded in the production which too SAT session with USC theater i Oil WW O Ull ^LlUl t\ ill! L/IU1CI OC1 V The "test in five parts" inclu ferences, religion, sex ("the lon^ ficult section of all"), death, and ol The group of hard-working stud production, which was aimed at for most of the semester. Their hi an excellent show. Beth Meado ws, Wendell Glen Scott Myerson on stage /', Btn H?O^1 1 jflnl iflilnT flOTwi 11 DinHl! ri of the Bo session in I Chairmen of the Board, a Detroitrooted group, for five solid hours with some good old beach music with a smattering of rhythm and blues. THROUGHOUT THE evening the "Board," consisting of lead singers "General" Johnson and Danny Woods ? along with their four piece backup band, put on a highly energetic performance. The crowd was jumping enthusiastically as the band played B I .v^Cf^'. fif|jli|& -rn; <*'*#s*r ' rHP^:-.,, * J^*r ......-.-Amk '' "? '\.J&*^ K" ,- % " ;v;:? ,, ^ y. Barry Newman ? GAMECOCK rs/sf */ac Myers during Ballroom Choice' r Strangely eno the audience wc about. Learning to show's depictioi ^an mane an me tentive audience "simpler." The people laughing of 20 theatre and Multiple Choice, a A CHORUS L performed in that everyone is ing. with refreshing Aun as rejected us skits were in- other was hilai k the format of an throughout the s nstructor and the ing as moderator. A number c ded physical dif- commercials v ?est and most dif- Kelly Leonard Dsessions. Pat and Debby (whatelse?) m ents worked on the 14- to 18-year olds, McGarrigle ird work paid off in her singing anc Candy Blades, best to encoura BftaffiSHOSSSfli to pray to "The , B 'lifp Hohort .In began urging ' the Vegetable scoundrel-like scenes. ONE OF Til Choice dealt1 pregnancy. In Meadows were Arti w.l. ,.T ? , ITl UV-I 1 */I l-I I^ tuart Frontfoth - GAMECOCK ITUiritcll SeX, . ? _ Actually, the si n, Sylvia Powers, final exam in T n 'Multiple Choice.' They should fai ard hold ballroom such old hits from the early seventies such as Stevie Wonder's "If You Really Love Me," and Clarence Carter's "Patches." AS THE BAND played on, the crowd continued to roll in. There were even people oeing lurnea away at the door, but those who did enter the Ballroom consumed more than 100 cases of beer. It became Evident that the Board used this 'happy' audience to their advantage. They played for the crowd, and even let some of the audience dance on the stage. Chairmen of the Board got its start in 1969, and enjoyed great popularity in the early seventies with such chart hangers as "Gimme Just a Little More Time," "Everything Is Tuesday," "Page of the Piper," and "Dangling on a String." The group has experienced numerous personnel changes over the years, according to lead singer Johnson. The present" band members include Warren Moise on keyboards, Jimmy Johnson on drums, lead guitarist James Hogan, and bassist Jackie Myers. JOHNSON HAS seen his share of success in the early years of the first decade. His greatest achievement came when Clarence Carter recorded the song "Patches," written by Johnson which oarnoH him a nrammu aivarrl frvr VUIIIVU 111111 M VJI U1I1111J UTTU1 U IVI the best written song of 1970. It was one of many chart records Johnson and his groups had performed during that time. As the seventies plodded on, the Chairmen of the Board faced mounting contractual problems and stayed out of the recording nade east jgh, however, not many persons in re teen-agers. It didn't matter. The of painful adolescence took an atback to the days when life was much acting and music certainly kept luring much of the show. ;NE of hormones with the message physically different arrived on stage energy. Bill Juraschek and Teresa high school students who find each ;?..n T ? A r luus. iii loci, A\uii a pcnui uidiicci) low were nothing short of excellent. f spoofs on well-known televisior ere effective additions to the show and Suzanne McCarrigle portrayec Boone in a commercial for an acn< sdication. ater emerged as Sister Souffle wit! dancing Ome-lettes (Melina Herring and Beth Meadows), who tried thei ge a group of somewhat gullible teen Egg" and be converted to the fertil mson then arrived as a preacher. H the kids" to come with him and ente tiii^uuuii UUIIUOUII JJC1 ICClt'U 111 laugh and mannerisms in severa E most effective scenes in Multipl /ith the emotional trauma of teen-ag this scene, Scott Myerson and Betl outstanding. how's success can be attributed to tin I never-ending experimentation by th nd director. Special credit is due t ho wrote all the show's mnsip nnrl t. Matthew Marholin. "The show wa through improvisation," Drehersakl keep the subject matter frank, but th Finitely explored the many facets o vith everything from loneliness, pre and masturbation given attention ow served another purpose. It was th l/Sp 526, the Children's Theatre class e well on their final grades. ; * ^mm Danny Woods, lead vocalist clowns around with the crow formance Thursday night. studio for five years. Today the group expects to begin recording in . the near future, bringing with them a new sound. "WE WORK a lot of pop-oriented music," Johnson said. "Some of it is rhythm and blues, with just a different flavor. It is not your modern-day funk R&B." Johnson's group plays what he I calls modern-day-beach music, i and adds, "We play it with ! energy." L-i ^ j t ."""-^r'-'~'~? ^---iv^^rtr'^5^^^^H5^>>:->:::::-:-:^:-:-:-:-:^:-:^:^:-i^.:^<;::^r:S:^:^H^^B $ ?$& ' ??ra? r '^ s ^ ' ~-T-" ' . ^ pfpV \ jyt'li. < | I ,y-vv'-^r,^ v~ v-^y v.r?.:;'" >' ~i. " - -^^^^^fe::;:;:;:;::^;::H^S:-::;*-::>:^:^:;::I-?;:^;:;:;:::;::::S:.::::;:' '1 K*Jjfcgri?^&r H^^HH^MHB^e9h8PPS^P I Chapin tc I World Hu r s Singer, songwriter and storytellei 1 World Hunger benefit concerts i Tuesday night at 7:30 and 10. Although he is better known for h e and Tails album in 1972 and "Cats a e and Balderdash album in 1974, his h important. HUNGER HAS been Harry Chap e since 1973. Chapin and a friend, Fa e from Long Island, saw the hunger [1 I pharitoKln * * 1 /^11 1" V.1UII ivuu**; UUllCl 1UI Llliipin, o Through the winter of 1973-74 Ayr s problem and how to combat it effe I. they needed an organization; a sei e 1974 which resulted in the format Hunger Year ? WHY. (The answei year.) C1IAIMN HAS not only received ( from fellow workers as well. "1'v e entertainer who dedicated so muc says Kalph Nader, summing up I insiders. !^HHi >Jli' '^":1 yH K K/ ?:" ' 'v .V P^c \\ Barry Newman - GAMECOCK for Chairmen of the Board, d during their Ballroom perAlthough some people in the large crowd got somewhat 'unruly' (to say the least) during the show, this should have been expected since there was free admission to the event. However, the performance given by Chairmen of the Board far outshined any undesirable antics that went on the Ballroom floor. The Beach Party 80 was sponsored by Contemporary Sounds. Special Programs Committee and Greek Week. IP I ^9K&SmmXSSSSS3nSBSB^m r Jm / * - | H. ^-^^IIIB^^hhB^ K~^ sp\'.-^.v^-' l"--; 1 j t < Mk>'< %II^^MBWBM|KW||||HBMBB^|j $ - ; mm&mBKKmsrnm ) continue nger plight \ Harry Chapin will perform two n tHe Russell House Ballroom lis first hits4,Taxi" off his Heads ind the Cradle" from his Verities ? work off stage has been more in's prime extramusical concern ther Bill Ayres, a Catholic priest issue as a natural political and es and Chapin studied the hunger ctively. The conclusion was that *ies of meetings be&tin in Marrh ion one year later of the World r to the obvious question is every acclaim from his audiences; but e never seen an example of an :h imagination to a civic cause, :he feeling of many Washington