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From Staff Reports
"The Nutcracker," an aucuence tavorue
for nearly a century, will be performed
twice this weekend at The Township by the
Columbia City Ballet, with the annual show
accompanied for the first time by a live
111 orchestra.
I*? The City Ballet's seventh production of
the holiday classic will begin at 8 p.m.
Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday. The
Columbia Lyric Opera Orchestra, under the
direction of William Moody, will accompany
both performances.
||J| Ballet troupes across the country have
made Tchaikovsky's musical fairy tale of
the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Nutcracker
jj^ Prince an annual production^^^?
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By John Vaughan
A popular gimmick today in the rock 'n'
Iron world is tne iriDuie uanu, pruuuciug
almost everything, from the Blushing
Brides' Rolling Stones imitation to Thunder
Road's Bruce Springsteen covers.
Some of these groups have genuine talent,
and some are fairly convincing imitators
But there are just as many would-b
tributes that fall short of expectations.
This is not the advance word on The Bach
Doors, a Maryland-based group with a show
it calls a "reincarnation of The Doors," th?
popular band of the late 1960s and earl}
1970s.
The group is following its growing
reputation to USC Friday, where it wil
perform at 9:30 p.m. in Russell Hous<
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ITha Sender (Zeljko Ivanek) is tested in a
after his sucide attempt in "The Sender."
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acker' ballet
THE CITY BALLET, under the direction
of Ann Brodie, this year will feature
Mnriolflrft Miranda as the Sugar Plum
Fairy and guest artist William Starrett as
the Nutcracker Prince. Miranda danced the
role with the company in 1980; Starrett has
performed with the American Ballet
Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet.
Also in the cast are Lou Martin as the
Snow Queen, Larry Hall as the Snow
Cavalier, Melanie Caughman and Anne
Richardson as alternates in the Dew Drop
Fairy role, Donald Gray as Drosselmeyer,
Marty Fort as Fritz and Elizabeth Walker in
the popular young role of Clara.
The show has been structured with
several new features. A specially chosen
boys' chorus will sing in the lyrical "snow
scene"; the angels will be outfitted in
costumes designed by Annick Conolly, who
has worked with a Paris design shop; and a
Christmas tree will "grow" on stage from
nine to 18 feet tall.
Two special performances of "The
Nutcracker" will be staged Friday for about
6,000 area fifth graders from Richland and
Lexington counties. All performances are
funded largely by individual donations and
are partially underwritten by Bankers'
- Trust, the S.C. Arts Commission and the
Musical Arts Drive.
Tickets are on sale at the Columbia Music
Festival Association at 1132 Bull St. Tickets
are $8.25 for adults and $4.25 for students.
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mitted free. For more information, call the
CMFA office at 771-6303.
comes to USC
Ballroom, sponsored by the Carolina
Program Union's Contemporary Sounds
and Special Programs committees.
; The Back Doors feature a lead singer
named Jim Hakim, who has won enthusiastic
responses from across the United
States and Canada as a remarkable
representative of the style and emotion of
The Doors' dead leader, Jim Morrison.
Besides Hakim, a big part of the
: program's appeal should be the preseni
tation of "the original liquid video light
i show used in the Doors' 1969-70 tour,"
j sponsored by the CPU's Video Tape and
Visual Arts committees.
* Tickets are $5 for the general public and
1 $3 for USC students with an ID. For more
2 information, call the CPU office at 777-7130.
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By Doug Bell
Ife* "The Sender" is a psychol
ticular interest, save for a geni
Shirley Knight in the role of the
Written by Thomas Baum
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young man (Zeljko Ivanek)
mental hospital after a suieid
befriended by his pretty yoi
(Kathryn Harrold), who dev
But soon strange events beg
grotesque hallucinations that,
enactment of her patient's dre
Example: Dr. Farmer is in 1
turns on a faucet, it pours bloo
emitting streams of blood. SI
and finds her patient cutting h
in which "the sender" sendb
others whom he loves or trust*
JUST WHEN Dr. Farmer b
with him, the Sender's motl
Knight's performance is the
character, always dressed in i
ELike Mrs.uanvers in mien
seen walking or moving, bu
close shots, giving the impre
insists, in a plaintive, subdue
believes is Jesus Christ, as
explained) be returned to her
Everything about her ? h
bland whisper of a voice ? si
gone awry, an apple pie turne
The remainder of the film
ween the mother and the psy
. . sulking, insolent Sender. Thei
psychiatric clinic other mmaies of the mental
"Cuckoo's Nest," offering ^
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John Entwistle, Kenney Jones, Pete Townshen
upper left) will broadcast their final performance
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From Staff Reports
The Who, one of the most popular,
influential and controversial rock groups
in history, will broadcast its final
concert live, via satellite, to 100 markets
? including USC ? through the Campus
Entertainment Network.
The Dec. 17 concert at Toronto's
famous Maple Leaf Gardens will begin at
10 p.m. CEN, established earlier this
year, began its programming with a live,
3-D telecast of a performance by the rock
group Devo. USC was among the original
15 network markets for the "3-Devo"
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chilling performance by
i title character's mother. ?????
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he Sender" concerns a sullen lot, and a man si
who is committed to a state Prev!^? ??IS
e attempt. An amnesiac, he is tended to elicit.
mg psychiatrist, Dr. Farmer
elops an almost motherly af;in
to befall her. She has weird, .
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as it turns out, are simply the Wonderful Li(e .
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d; the walls and mirrors crack, musical with she
he runs to the other bathroom miracle that m
is wrist. It is a kind of telepathy routine.
3 his thoughts and dreams to James Stewar
who has sacrifit
and friends. W1
elieves she is making progress Christmas Eve
ler (Shirley Knight) appears. Travers) descei
film's heart. She is a ghostly is.
a shapeless black dress, with an The film, per
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he had no father - this is not more that are al
care.
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ier unhealthy appearance her successfully in\
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is in many ways a rivalry bet- intense emotior
chiatrist over who will keep the sick or dangero
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hospital, which is a poor man's Wonderful Life
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as The Who.
ho telecast
show, presented Oct. 30 at The Townsnip
by the Carolina Program Union's Contemporary
Sounds Committee.
The committee has booked The
Township again for The Who concert/he
third CEN event. The show will include
new songs not performed during other
concerts on the group's 32-city North
American tour, according to Who
members.
Tickets are $ >.25 for the general public
and $4.25 for USC students with ID. All
seating at The Township will be reserved.
For more information, call the CPU
office at 777-7130.
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film rpvipiA/
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e obligatory amount of gore; rats turn up a
head is chopped off. The ending is cheap and
ising by a long shot the shock effect it inn
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ring trouble feeling the Christmas spirit, one
o miss Frank Capra's 1946 classic, "It's a
' playing tonight at Russell House Theater,
late Christmas movie, surpassing every
Christmas Carol" and every Bing Crosby
*er magic and good cjieer. It's a movie-made
akes what happened on 34th Street seem
t plays George Bailey, a small-town idealist
red all his dreams and plans for his family
len he runs into a streak 3f bad luck one
his guardian angel Clarence (Henry
ids to prove to him just how worthwhile life
haps Capra's finest, is brimming with inns
detail and engaging characters: Donna
olesome sweetheart and wife; Thomas Mitovable,
blustery, forgetful uncle; Lionel
; personification of Scrooge himself; H.B.
nfortunate druggist ; and at least a half-dozen
>solutely unforgettable.
NO movie in the history of Hollywood so
ites us to indulge the sentimental side of our
lply irresistable. Personally, I think that any
child who can resist being caught up in the
tal euphoria of the movie's last 10 minutes is
us or both.
ma wasn't around in Scrooge's day ; "It's a
i" could have cured him quicker and more
i any trio of ghosts.