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Lead guitarist Bill Wood of The Collective sings on
Russell House Patio Monday. The local group appeared
as part of a WUSC-sponsored music series.
Series invites bands
to perform on patio
By Becky Burnette
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in a WUSC-FM-sponsored music series, performed on
Russell House Patio Monday.
The band was the third this semester to appear on the
patio and played before a small but attentive audience.
Tim Poates, the group's stage manager, said it was
hard to draw a crowd near Russell House, but the band
enjoyed playing, anyway. "We're funky good. We're nice
folks and we play good music," he said.
The Collective features lead guitarist Bill Wood, rhythm
guitarist Stuart Massey, keyboardist Forrest Halford,
bass guitarist Chris Paul and drummer David Skeen.
Monday's performance demonstrated a rock'n'roll sound
with jazz and Grateful Dead influences.
The Columbia-based band often performs at the GROW
Cafe at 18 Bluff Road and will be appearing there Friday
and Saturday.
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patio Mondays between 5 and 7 p.m. The concerts are not
scheduled for every week, however.
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By John Vaughan
Tickets for Town Theatre's season-opening production of
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public, just more than 24 hours before the show opens Friday
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The 8 p.m. curtain time is a change from the theater's
traditional 8:30 p.m. opening. The show will run through Oct.
16, with all performances at 8 p.m. except for a Sunday
matinee, Sept. 26 at 3 p.m.
"The Sound of Music" is the famous musical by Richard
Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which made a successful
transition from Broadway to film (with Julie Andrews)
more than a decade atzo. The original nroduction was
the fourth longest-running musical in Broadway history and
one of the most successful shows of the reknowned Rodgers
and Hammerstein duo.
THE MUSICAL is the true story of the Trapp Family
Singers, an Austrian family performing group who struggled
against the Nazi reign in the early stages of World War II.
The show features a variety of musical numbers in one of the
authors' most successful scores, including "Edelweiss,"
"Maria," "16 Going on 17," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "I
Have Confidence," "My Favorite Things," "Do Re Mi" and
the title song.
In Town Theatre's production, Dorri Herring will star as
Maria Rainer and Jon Blouin will play Captain Georg von
Trapp.
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Readers who expect to cringe a little while WmJrA
reading Stephen King's "Different Seasons" firJig
will not be disappointed, but those who
expect a pure horror tale will be.
In "Different Seasons," Stephen King 8
proves he is a versatile writer by presenting ^
four mainstream novellas. The fourth has a B
touch of the supernatural, but that touch
does not dominate or detract from the story.
It came as no surprise that King could "
write enjoyable mainstream fiction. His |Hf
best tale in "Night Shift" was devoid of
THE SAME holds true for the four stories
in "Different Seasons"; they are tragic and [ ,
scary without depending on spirits to make
King has not changed his penchant for
downbeat endings. Only one of the four tales JjPli|SB
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The first story, "Rita Hayworth and
Shawshank Redemption," concerns a man ,
imprisoned tor a crime ne aian t commit.
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stories, perhaps because I invariably Jft ' ^
compare any story that deals with prison to %
Norman Mailer's book "The Executioner's \
Song." The comparison always falls short. . *
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The wrongly imprisoned Andy Dufrense is
believable as he grudgingly exists in the
prison, and the narrator tells the tale the u-..
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Blouin's wife, Sue, will portray Elsa Schraeder and three of
the Blouin children will be seen as three of the von Trapp
children.
Elizabeth Briggs will play the Mother Abbess, and her son
Lawton Buckner will portray another von Trapp offspring,
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ALL OF THE von Trapp children have been double-or
triple-cast. Joining Buckner as Friedrich will be Hob Kincaid
and Greg Borom. Amy Harrington and Beverly Blouin will
play Louisa; Bryan Smith, Noel Swicegood and Joey Hodge
will play Kurt; Nichole Griffin and Becky Blouin will play
Brigitta; Kristin Ness and Ashley Renee Turkett will play
Marta; Leah Lane Lowe and Elizabeth Borom will play
Gretl. Beth Blouin will play Liesl, the oldest offspring.
Other members of the cast will include Jeffrey Wyatt as
Rolf. Nancv Derrick as Sister Marearetta. Tracv Grano as
Sister Sophia, and Jolee Pearson as Sister Berthe.
Town Theatre's decision to open with the musical is interesting
in the light of Workshop Theatre's staging of
"Cyrano de Bergerac," which opened last week. Both area
amateur theaters selected shows on a rather grand scale to
begin the 1982-83 theater season.
Town theatre's Emmalee Elizabeth Robbins will direct
"The Sound of Music."
Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and children.
For more information, call the Town Theatre box office at
799-2510.
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a soap opera parody and the latter is a campus comedy.
But in many senses, the two are companion pieces. Both
are about students, and thus carry some indirect implications
concerning discipline and authority; both cater
and condescend to the youthful mind and market; both
achieve their aims ; both aim very low.
In "Young Doctors," a group of young interns is apprenticed
to a graying surgeon (Dabney Coleman) with the
kind of disastrous results meant to be lively and hilarious. J
Much of the cast come from daytime TV soap operas, which
are the subject of the film's parody.
"YOUNG DOCTORS" obviously was inspired by "Airplane,"
a popular parody that works for several reasons: 1) it
develops with a disciplined fidelity to its source, the airportdisaster
series; 2) the gags, both visual and verbal, are
original and sometimes detailed; 3) its stars (Lloyd Bridges,
Robert Stack, Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen) playfully
exploit their tough-guy images. Occasionally the humor in
'A "Airplane" gets a bit sick and there are definitely weak
a? spots, but I can't think of a comedy since "Airplane" that has
brought me as much laughter.
"Young Doctors" arouses in me only boredom and mild
- disgust. It doesn't satisfy the rules as set down by its model;
the parody is indistinct ; the jokes are flat, soggy and old; and
the cast is not memorable.
Poor old Dabney Coleman. You would think that this actor,
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