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By John Vaughan
"Everybody needs to have a
dieted to," Wanda Hite said bet
last week.
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"It's a necessity," she proclai
HITE WAS seated with the fo
gearing up for South Carolina's
staged in a restaurant.
Entitled "The Lunch of
melodrama opens Feb. 3 at Scarl
' Center on Assembly Street.
Hite, Glenn Rawls, Beth Me
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presenting the soap.
"The Lunch of Our Lives" w
series, performed on stage in
February at noon. If Columbia i
concept, the show likely will coi
said.
NOTICING THE obvious hun
and the name of the show, the p<
mon question they're asked the
about?"
"It's all about fun," said Rawl
Hite. "It's a real cockeyed look
Kawis, a writer tor south Cari
and stand-up comic who has p
Charlotte, N.C., said he and the
perience to concoct the producti<
"It's one of those shows where
tors in line with what they do best
we've been writing for all along,
RAWLS HAS blended his ba
comedic flair with Hite's exp
melodrama, troupe members sai<
Hite, a graduate student in
plays. One of her shows was rece
by the North Carolina Stage Coi
The partnership has resulted ii
ventional soap opera ingredients
trigue ? viewed with an eye for
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Lunch of Our Lives."
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Carrington of television's "Dynasty") is s
triangles involving a popular on-air psycho
countant, a seductress and a shady, high-n
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son Taylor, with Meadows as the talk-sl
s Miriam McMaster.
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while Hooker appears as the high-living ]
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stereotypical soap opera characters played
stressed that the show will avoid much slaj
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sight gags," he said. "This' is no Carol Bu
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i similar to Alexis cept at Harvard Univetsit;
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ilogist, a meek ac- one-act plays and melodra
Dlling young man. "My understanding is t
country have tried similar
ner, Cecily Ander- said.
flow psychologist, He credited Meadows \
Columbia. Meadows, whi
usband, Addison, magazine, is producing the
Barnabas Stetson. day Inn.
5, Lily LaLewd. Meadows said she got t
njoy seeing some Potesta, while both were p<
for laughs, but he production of "On Goldei
istick.
re merely walk-on "EVERYBODY I had ti
rnett sketch." but nobody was willing to
mmed from a conliar
band's per
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n you do when your band is play- blend of <
hat's full ot energy, but the crowd end of th
s to dance? uproar. E
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e like Kevin Gray of the White citing is t
the Nashville-based band that man Tim
a large Golden Spur crowd clean, ant
y night, you pull a chair onto the Ray Crab
relax, just like the audience. Coats a lc
n't pulled out the chair in a year
Gray said as he mingled with the "TIM
>etween sets. drums wh
Coats als(
ly hidden
iYED and sang from a chair at the truly, the
of the band's second set in an ef
the subdued crowd motivated. Gray oj
l the show, the band played "I'm nouncing
Steppin," a Squeeze-type song was 12:3(
White Animals' last LP, "Last playing fc
" dcmonstri
played th
musician's worst fear was realized "Wild Tl
ddle of "Ecstasy," the title track and Fortl
rthcoming LP, a fuse blew and all
? vocals, guitars, drums ? died. The bai
down on the stage in complete of "Hard
n. Flash" ?
ine niffht.
t point, all the humor drained out
; even had thoughts of starting the The mc
w over again. We just didn't know Animals'
iow was going so slow," Gray said. complete
band com
a.m., the
THAT frustrating first set, the more,
ned to catch fire. By the middle of
J set, the audience was no longer AFTEi
as the dance floor was packed with the White
;weaty bodies. This scene was what N.C. Fro
Animals had been hoping for from to do son
Sour performance. are lookii
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band broke into "Brown-Eyed
)ther cover with a harder edge than
al, the back room filled with peo- If "?c
those who sat and watched were energy of
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things, but nothing has stuck," he
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show in cooperation with the Holio
know Scarlett's manager, Larry
crforming in Town Theatre's recent
n Pond."
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take it on until Larry," she said.
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liite Animals played an infectious
classics and originals that, by the
te night, had the audience in an
ven the bar manager was dancing.
son the White Animals were so ex- $
he work of road manager/soundCoats.
The sound was tight and ^
1 the rhythm section of drummer ?
tree and bassist Steve Boyd gave
>t to work with.
REALLY loves to play up the
en he does the mixing," Gray said.
) plays a keyboard, which is cleverwith
the sound equipment. He is, l
fifth band member. ||
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"Welcome to the late show." It
) a.m., and the band didn't stop
>r another 45 minutes. The third set ^
ated the group's versatility, as they ^ f
rough a guitar-packed version of
ling" into Devo's "Jerkin' Back
i."
id finished the night with an encore
Day's Night" and "Jumpin' Jack
fitting party songs to end a partyicf
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performance Wednesday was the
turn-around from a mellow bar
:ert to a wild dance party. Even at 1
? audience was still cheering for
t WEDNESDAY'S performance,
Animals moved on to Chapel Hill,
m there, the group is off to France
le touring and recording, and they
rig forward to the release later this
'Ecstasy," a seven-song album that
; is "our best album yet."
oiaay can capture even nan tne
' iheir show at the Spur, the White
are in for a successful album.
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