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-entertainer (JSC prepares A iL Hrea in By John Vaughan Three area theaters, including have prepared diverse stage offeri the holiday season. USC's second mainstage productio season is "The Amorous Flea," < Tuesday and playing through Satin Drayton Hall. Town Theatre's ver Neil Simon's comedy, "I Ought tc Pictures" raises its curtain tonight f< through Dec. 18, and Workshop Thea held over its recently-opened "The S Man in Town" until Dec. 19. USC is offering half-price tickets opening night performance to peop donate a new children's book, or one condition, to the Longstreet Theat oitice. me dooks will be donated to ti "Toys for Tots" organization by the villain character at a later date. T office will accept books from noon tc Monday - Saturday. Books cam brought to the performance. "THE AMOROUS FLEA" is a i comedy based on Moliere's "Schc Wives." It concerns an aging mi nolphe, who is trying to raise a beautiful girl named Agnes as the wife. Conflicts arise when a young 1 named Horace woos the girl awa; Ar nolphe. The three lead roles feature USC s Richard Berg (Arnolphe), Laura (Agnes) and Henry Cabaniss (Horac show is Hirpr<t<v1 hv Prinnio Rlanlroncl Other cast members are L Hamrick as Georgette, George Nar as Alain, Bill Bowden as Chrysalde,r Sprott as Oronte and Susan Es Enriqua. Because the play is not set in ai 'Class of '8 By Doug Bell Start with a cupful of the relentlej Warrior," stir in a spoonful of th< Wall," add the conventional plot of Special," throw in a pinch of the p Jungle," barely blend and half bak "Class of '84." Perry King plays a young, Nebrz ufhrtCP npw nr?ct ic ot q xrininnc Phii ?* cavrKiV ??V*? J^/vrub iu v* V U TIVIVUO VHH first day, he is befriended by a i (Roddy McDowall), who offers t around. The school itself is a madhous< punkers, switchblade swingers, d haired nymphomaniacs. The princi video monitors. Students are friske< bv a full-time oolice souad THE LEADER of the school's mo is played by Timothy Van Patten, w properly initiate the new, bewildere< When King proves to be no pi telligent, concerned, courageous an turns more viciously against him. N path to a violent conclusion. The element that carries this fi excitement. The device that create* _ rraiermiy w&sBaa We m WBSB mimmam} JUftffllH?CT : < fl ?s ':-M aaaglB H &HB v gs mm The Fabulous Knobs, from Raleigh, in tonight's "Last Fling '82" benefit > t j lent final play of sen eaters sta ticulnr time period, it posed ch scenery uesignerausainjrraicn< USC s, designer Allen Smith. ngs for SMITH SAID he had a lot of fi n of the the costumes; director Blanken jpening a medieval fairy-tale look, so Si rday at let his imagination go. Th sion of described as "spectacular," n Be in and satin fabric of royal purp] )rarun with glittery patterns a itre has backgrounds. tingiest "The Amorous Flea" p Broadway in 1964. Theater c for its Crist described it as "a delic >le who musical nonsense." in good The USC theater season ii re box more mainstage productions, w le local five shows or more, and tw j play's presentations, which usually rui 'he box periods. "The Amorous Flea" > 5 p.m. show of this semester. not be Tickets for individual sho^ available for two weeks prior night. Mainstage show ticket nusical "The Amorous Flea," are $4 for >ol For general public; $3 for USC facul m, Ar- staff, senior citizens and militar young, and $2 for students. Individual si perfect tickets are 50 cents less for each othario y from ALL PERFORMANCES of "T Flea" will begin at 8 p.m. F< tudents formation, call the box office at' Johns "I Ought to Be in Pictures" wj e).The scheduled to play at Town Thes up. 23, out a tneater spoKeswomj .ucinda production had to be postponed inarello Sound of Music," the theate rommy opener, was held over. 1 ml n* i _ trie as ine iNen aimon comeay Broadway in April 1980, and wai ny par- See"! 4': a half-bakf ?s nihilism of "The Road j cult madness of "The any "ABC After-school l(Dlnn|,Unn.J ""j"*"-"."' as cinema itsell e. The cinematic result: patten slits her iska-bom music teacher The polemica :ago high school. On his prologue and ej cynical biology teacher public schools a ;o show the newcomer legal red tape ir ; infested with insolent TIME AND lope pushers and pink- sufficient evidei ic a mnia r?f Rnrp if'c a ?qI JT-~ W M CA VU1 i as they enter the doors help the film on It's like the "Public Enemj st savage student faction and incite the ho goes out of his way to doesn't respond i teacher. those films, he ishover, but instead in- heroes and thei] d aggressive, Van Patten "Class of 484 umerous bodies litter the those films (Kii personalities), lm is its shfif*r visppral narrative i the excitement is as old One scene, he presents rod imP , N.C., and the Killer Whales, from Charlestc concert for the Columbia City Ballet. tester ge diverse I iallenges for and costume an designing 1 11111' % 1 ritic Judith 'he Amorous i or more in- It &* ^^KlkijL 777-2551. ! 1 Q.,opened on i ' s later made 1 Allen Smith, USC faculty costi rheater," page 9 costumes for "The Amorous Flei 3d mix of stale film review t - will King find and save his wife before Van throat? 1 intention of the film, plainly stated in the )ilogue, is to persuade the viewer that urban re succumbing to devastating chaos because ihibits the administration of iustire. AGAIN a guilty student is released on innce, only to go out and commit another crime, id (although stale) argument, but it doesn't e way or the other. old 1930s gangster flicks. "Scarface" and r" were ostensibly made to enrage the public police into action against gangsterism. One I to the pious, dated, stiff-necked assertions of wever, but to their zesty, snarling outlawr quick-paced narratives. " doesn't have the interesting characters of rig and Van Patten are not especially exciting nor is there any brilliance or ingenuity in the )wever, does deserve mention : McDowell, as i concert bene iS^HI ^ w ~ W": """ . ' " * "wMm m ?* in, are two of the bands performing holiday I I * 4N| /Ril| L_ _jl ime designer, displays the artist'i i." cinematic the frustrated biology teacher, g pulls out a pistol and quietly student who can't give him a con serious final exam pressure. nr ONE OF THE most unique an few years, "My Dinner Wi Nickelodeon, 937 Main St., this w Essentially, the film is a co; friends, one a pudgy, compl Shawn), the other a mystical (Andre Gregory). It is amazii virtually no set-up - a restaurant stimulating and satisfying. In the first half of the conven strange discoveries and outran search for life's meaning. His d is nothing less than sublime. ' versation is a delicate argu Gregory about the way we liv arnunrl 11c Directed by Louis Malle ("A With Andre" blends humor, sadi and friendship. The product is most human films of recent time fit for Cit From Staff Reports "Last Fling '82," a rock conc Columbia Ballet, will be held tc on the State Fairgrounds. Presented by Sigma Alpl cooperation with WNOK radio, Killer Whales, the Fabulous Knc The Charleston-based KilW nftrformerl in thp flnlrfon Snnp I ? "i"41? and at USC. The Fabulous Knc recently appeared at USC, in coi Russell House Ballroom. The City, Tenn., are no strangers tc frequently at Columbia nightclu All of the bands have a mc Killer Whales are often a pop performances. The show has involved peoph Alpha Epsilon and other organ The Cantey Building doors w on sale for $4.50 at School Kid Peaches Records and Tapes, Music Festival Association at available from Sigma Alpha E be sold at the door for $5. shows 'Hgk:, <S - - -T^- ~ " - "tfOlT" v i renderings he mode off the I |unK oes berserk in his classroom, threatens to gun down any rect answer in an example of 71 d charming films of the past th Andre" is playing at eekend. nversation between two old acent playwright (Wallace P i-- 4 i 1 , irusiraiea stage director ig how a film restricted to table - could be so engaging, sation, Gregory recounts the ?eous reveries of his recent elivery of these bizarre tales rhe second half of the conment between Shawn and e and experience the world L 1 A! Luanuc ^uy ;, "lviy uinner less, madness, laughter, love one of the wisest, funniest, ;s. V Ballet ert and dance benefiting the might at the Cantey Building la Gpsilon Fraternity in the concert will feature the ?bs and the Pedestrians. ir Whales, having recently are well-known in Columbia ibs, from Raleigh, N.C., also ticert with the Red Rockers in Pedestrians, from Johnson ) the area either, performing Kc uo nutu cis uiceiisuctji s. dern, danceable sound; the ular choice for such benefit 3 from the City Ballet, Sigma izations. ill open at 7 p.m. Tickets are s Records, Sounds Familiar, Flipside, and the Columbia 1132 Bull St. Tickets are also psilon members. Tickets will