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'Private Lives'
By Deb bie Conrad
In the USC Summer Repertory's opening
night performance of "Private Lives," the
lead character Amanda slipped.
i couicin t tell if the slip was planned or
not. When it happened again, I became
preoccupied with watching the actress,
afraid that another slip might disturb her
cor centra tion and the stage action.
Apparently the actor playing Elyot was
concerned, too. After Amanda slipped a
third time, even after removing her shoes,
Elyot crossed the room, spoke into the
phone, and ad-libbed to Amanda, "DO call
someone about the Simoniz (floor wax)."
Both actors handled the set problems with
the ease of professional actors, and a slick
floor was not enough to keep "Private
Lives" from entertaining its audience. The
opening night performance finished with
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Maggie Murphy, who played Elyot and
Squeeze's lates
By Marc Fink
Squeeze's fifth and latest album is destined
international chart success; "Sweets from ,
chock-full of clever tunes as their earlier
tained. But will this LP reach mass acceptanc
Their fourth album, "East Side Story,"
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keyboardist Paul Carrack. But despite the ba
sound and numerous British hits since
Yours," from Squeeze's 1978 debut album, Ann
unreceptive to Squeeze.
"Sweets from a Stranger" can break the
United States, providing an extensive Squ
companies record label A and M's promotion,
not be Squeeze's best album, but it's far from ti
the dozen songs on this release will bring tl
talents of Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford f
kudos.
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musicians who approach songwriting as a cr
songs on "Sweets" concern drunkenness
relationships, or both; but Squeeze is anythi
choly.
"Out of Touch" recalls "Take Me, I'm Your
in Stevie Wonder-ish vocals; Tilbrook gives an e
to his vocals lacking on previous Squeeze alt
with a variation on Van Morrison's "Gloria"
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! two USC students to perform in tho Carolina
Classic July 2 at Irmo High School Stadium.
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Amanda.
The Noel Coward comedy tells the story of
Elyot and Amanda, a couple who divorced
each other five years ago but who meet
again in a French hotel.
Naylor and Murphy, as the French
playboy and the woman-of-the-world, bring
hilarity to their physical, extreme love/hate
relationship. Both are enviably professional
and exceptionally impressive.
As their spouses, Suzanne and Allen
McCalla are truly good as the naive
newcomers: Sibyl, a spoiled and
disgustingly feminine child of 23, and
Victor, an incessantly chivalrous wimp.
Both McCallas are convincing and quite
good.
Directed by USC theater professor James
Patterson, "Private Lives" will return in
the rolling repertory format July 7. The
southern drama" Tobacco Road " opens
tonight at 8 in Longstreet Theatre.
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for British and clIblllTl
a Stranger" is
releases con- Sincero Don Snow, and is boui
e in America? along at Squeeze concerts,
produced the "Points of View" features
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nd's accessible closing cut on side one, "W
rake Me, I'm "Hangover" is suitable for T<
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"Labeled With Love," a cou
; group in the bottle off Squeeze's past LP,
leeze tour ac- Nashville to Vegas, too.
"Sweets" may Between "Points" and "Har
heir worst, and Stranger on the Shore" an
le songwriting revealing new aural facets fo
urther critical the 1961 world-wide smash
clarinetist Acker Bilk, and fea
e new Lennon- chorus, a perky synthesizer, c
Difford are the first use of the word "litmu
aft. Almost all "Onto the Dance Floor" r
, failed love pitting Gang of Four vs. The (
ng but melan- that "the bells are ringing foi
landmark cuts for Saueeze anri
s," and blends "Black Coffee in Bed" lead'
ixpressiveness and M, it will be trimmed fror
>ums. Starting to suitable length for an Ameri
' riff, "I Can't straight from Wilson Pickett a
jyboardist, ex- line echoing Steve Cropper's
orps to compete
Seven of America's top
drum and bugle corps will
l ? J f** compete in the third annual
Jl**" /... Carolina Drum Corps
Classic July 2.
WW 'i'n? competition will be
j| jr held at Irmo High School
ib? Stadium because of the
jLjlft- construction at WilliamsBrice
Stadium, where the
iSpL classic is usually held.
HR& t Featured in the show will
be the 27th Lancers of
Revere, Mass.; the
t Bridgemen of Bayonne^
N.J.; the Grossmen of
Wf Philadelphia; the Spirit of
K* Atlanta; the North Star of
ggy^ Boston; the Defenders of
fl| Rockland, Mass.; and the
8^^B| Avant Garde of Saratoga
f Two USC students will
play in corps. Lee Beatty of
West Columbia is a soprano
MgHffl horn lead with the Spirit of
Atlanta, and Bill Pouncey of
nBg| Columbia, son of Associate
Director of USC Bands Ken!
l|M Pouncey, is a soprano horn
lead with the 27th Lancers.
Tickets are $3 for children,
MBi ana ior aauits at the gate
iA jt orm 0f or $5 in advance at Carolina
nr..m Coliseum Box Office. For
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George Naylor (Elyot) and Maggie Murphy (Amanda) rehearse a fight scene for "Private
Lives."
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tic/Stax/Volt classics; its length is all that prevents it from
FPVIPU/ being one of the three best songs Squeeze has ever released.
Elvis Costello sings backup vocals on "Coffee," repaying
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id to become an audience sing- The Muppets are mentioned in the next cut, "I've Returned,"
a typical Squeeze romance from the "Piccadilly" and
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slow-paced and portends the an empress in "Tongue like a Knife," but their passion is
rhen the Hangover Strikes." muted by the string arrangement.
)ny Bennett in concert at Las "His House Her Home "describes extra-marital hazards in
if the British public loved voice recalling Colin Blunstone, formerly a Zombie, now solo
ntry-style ballad-of-the-liquor- artist with a lead vocal on the latest Alan Parsons Project
they may love the move from album. A breathy cut/This Will Be Our Year," reminds one
of The Zombies' "Odyssey and Oracle" album from 1968.
igover" are "Stranger than the In contrast, "The Very First Dance" is the weakest cut on
d "Onto the Dance Floor," the album, sounding like David Bowie-meets-Laurie Anr
Squeeze. "Stranger" recalls derson in a Waring blender behind a discotheque bar.
"Stranger on the Shore" by The sleeper of "Sweets from a Stranger" is the last track,
tures a typical Broadway-style "The Elephant Ride," which features a unique group vocal
Irum rolls galore and possibly and minor key chords, perhaps betraying further Zombies'
s ' in a rock song. influence.
ecalls a blanched attempt at Squeeze has turned in its best vocal performance yet with
[?ure with a young man's hope punchier backing vocals, Tilbrook-Difford duets as the old
me and my girl." These are Squeeze had, and Tilbrook finding new tones to convey
I some positive new directions. emotion. Don Snow has proven better than former
> side two, and according to A keyboardist Paul Carrack.
i its six-minute album version With lyrics thoughtfully provided on the inner sleeve,
can single. "Coffee" is copped Squeeze has turned in another fine album with "Sweets f rom
nd Otis Redding with a guitar a Stranger." Few pop bands are their match, but this album
jangles on all those Atlan- still isn't main Squeeze.
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ETV special
South Carolina native Dizzy Gillospio is one of the entertainers in "Mayport and All That
Jazz." an SCETV special tonight at 8 p.m. Other jazz entertainers on the show include the
Phil Woods Quartet
Also tonight is "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," a look at prominent figures of the civil
rights movement in the 1950s and '60s.
Thursday at 8 p.m. "Summer Music" features a performance of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony by the Brevard Festival Orchestra, conducted by Henry Janiac.
At 10:30 "Inside Business Today" premieres. Each week this series will focus on a
different business issue.