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Between univeristy and local community
theaters, Columbia audiences were treated
to about 30 plays during 1980-81.
USC presented its annual repertory
theater this past summer, featuring four
plays performed by professional actors
from Columbia and the Eastern U.S. George
Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". led the
season, followed by the Arthur Miller
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Preston Jones' Texas trilogy, "Lu Ann
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presented third. The three plays then
rotated with "Dr. Vanilla and the Short-Tall
Tales," a children's show by Winthrop
College professor Christopher Reynolds,
until the season concludes in early August.
USC's 1980-81 theater season began with
"The Tooth of Crime," a three-day
Showcase production about a rock-n-roll
power struggle. The Mainstage season
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opened with "The Robber Bridegroom," a
country-western musical featuring over
twenty singers, dancers and actors.
"IN THE BOOM Boom Room," David
Rabe's Tony award-winning drama, was
presented for six days in December as the
second Mainstage production.
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Norwegian folk comedy "Peer Gynt,"
a January Showcase production. It was
followed in February by "The Twins," a
Mainstage adaptation of Plautus' Roman
comedy.
April included two shows from university
theater: "Holy Ghosts" Showcase Romulus
Linney's story of a Southern snake-handling
congregation, and "She Stoops to Conquer,"
(Mainstage) Oliver Goldsmith's eighteenth
century comedy classic.
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Columbia was lucky to
have a splendid array of bigname
concert stars. From
country to rock, jazz to soul,
Carolina concert-goers had
their share of fine talent.
Starting the summer was
the soothing, glittery
showmanship of the Isley
Brothers, followed by the
unmistakable funk of Chic.
Pop-folk singer John Denver
left his Aspen confines to
appear for a three-hour show
at the Carolina Coliseum.
Beginning in September,
Carolyne Mas started things
off at the annual USC allnighter.
Then, perhaps the
biggest act to ever grace the
stage of the coliseum, Elton
John, came to Columbia as
oart of a world-wide tour At
the Quarter Moon soon
thereafter, ragtime folk
singer Leon Redbone sang
his brand of bluesy music
while homecoming week
featured the Amazing
Rhythm Aces. The Quarter
Moon had an appearance by
Delbert McClinton, almost
ten months before he
returned Sunday night with
Willie Nelson.
FOGHAT AND the
Outlaws teamed up for a
super concert while the
Charlie Daniels band
followed the next week for
their style of country rock.
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the past two semesters was a
managed to be great.
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the school year were Kobe
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Roman Polanski's "Tess,"
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"Altered sates," Sidney P(
Higgins' "Nine to Five," Kobe
Van Horn's "Any Which Wa;
degree, Jonh Boorman's "Exc;
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Speaking of country, it was
the Statler Brothers who
maae country come alive in
Columbia.
Jazz was well represented
with Jazz Fest headliner
Maynard Ferguson blowing
the tunes. The Doobie
Brothers made their concert
a highlight of the music
season while Teddy Pendergrass
pleased the soul
fans and his hordes of lady
friends at the coliseum. The
Allman Brothers made a late
year appearance to close out
the fall semester of concerts.
In between those big stars,
Glenn Phillips' band and the
Allstars provided the local
area with some rare talent.
The spring semester
started with a fireworks,
musical extravaganza by
Styx and at Green Street's,
Joan Jett and the
Blackhearts rocked a
packed house. Taj Mahal
played the blues while the
Killer Whales were performing
new and nlH
favorites. For the mellower
crowds, Roger Whittaker
appeared to give the
audience a whistling
seminar. The year ended
with the spring concert's
Mitch Ryder and Willie
Nelson played possibly the
last big conert of the school
year at the coliseum.
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otion pictures. Ten years from
ill find it difficult to recall the
luring the period.
every movie released during
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mind-blowing "Altered States.
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Joel Olianski's "The Corn's
My Turn," Howard Zieff's
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ies were released during the
the worst was Micael Cimino's
n, "Heaven's Gate."
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ed during the 1980-81 school
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jitter's "Stir Crazy," Colin
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