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Features 1 Wednesday, June 22, 1988 THE GAMECOCK 3 g Comedy expi rli iWfinr + a UHI It Ig ?*riu Y\ By ANNA GARDNER ps 0 Staff writer Although William Inge's Bus Stop is set in a roadside diner during a biting snowstorm, Thursday night's f|| audience warmed up quickly to the t excellent eight member USC summer L? repertory cast. The three act romantic comedy directed by Russell Green explores t the meaning of love through 1 equivalent characters which interact with each other during a five hour delay. Elena Martinez-Vidal, as Grace the restaurant owner, is warmly maternal to the naive waitress, Elma, played I by Sharyn Greene. Greene was excellently cast as the ^ young girl who did not understand the intentions of Dr. Lyman, a professor, played by Gene Jones. Jones convincingly plays an intoxicated man, a feat that many actors find difficult to do. Ralph Vosburgh is Will, the selfassured sheriff who keeps an eye on the troubled couple, Bo and Cherie. m Much of the humor in the play c< I comes from these two characters. Bo, the immature cowboy, wants to take p< Cherie to his ranch. Cherie, the pi chanteuse, calls on the people in the pi diner to protect her from Bo. fr Dwayne Walls as Bo cleverly depicts a character driven by his c< heart. cl Laura Grooms shows the extremes of Cherie. She shows both the scared H young girl and the young girl's at- Ji ? tempt at being sophisticated. David Avin is brilliant as Virgil, L Bo's level-headed guitar-playing J friend. Mr. Avin's ability to maintain a a blank look while delivering his lines f; nf ,%f Pnrnl cl I^IIUUUWU Ills. \J I own 1V, V/l V/UI 31 Burnett's best moments. 7 j? j Richard Jennings, the bus driver, c V ! 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Young. w< The Bus Stop will be performed at ongstreet Theater on June 29 and or uly 1, 3, 15, 21 and 30. Ticket prices Fi re S8 for the public, $7 for USC th lculty and staff, and $4 for tudents. For reservations, call di 77-2551. For group reservations, h< all 777-6353. gc ) in 2 weeks ma Center lis Street Appointments available but | not necessary tion 254-2280 ash drawing!! I is worth $ 3LLf1RS$$ 1 $ per person) $ s I J) vD u) J) \T) a) ^ a) i^ u) *n J) u) J) J) Cn J) ?j) eturn this coupon and gei Compact Disc or Pre-i r higher I're recorded Video Sl^yfilist price or higher ! item) May no( lousedin conjunct ion withanyothercou Expires 7/9/88 b^H5H5B? 1 11 sells the blues till Wells moved his store. Bill's Music Shop, to 710 Mee kin' Parlor and Saxe Gotha Coffeehouse. The parlor alii professional acts. Sluegrass fin CRAIG WRIGHT iff writer He's a retired Navy man who worked as a personnel mager for 12 years. Bill Wells figured Columbia was the perfect place to end retirement, maybe even open up a little pickin' rlor? he thought Columbia would be "the hub of jegrass." Unfourtunately, except for the rare occasion, bluegrass S.C. had practically disappeared. Compared with our .ter state to the north, with her weekly bluegrass stivals and fiddler conventions, we have allowed irselves to practically lose a native art form. Bill decided to set up his own business on State Street in est eoiumoia in uecemoer 01 ivhz. He said he grew up in what folks call "the good old lys." Bill says people don't seem to remember that they sre also "the hard old days." But they were days when folks got together and helped le another. Days when "morality was a key word." om this period with people getting together and playing eir own music, bluegrass was born. Bill left his home in Macy Springs, Virginia in 1945, firing there was "more to life than the coalmines." When : left, folks were "still carrying water from the well and >ing to the little house out back." He went home recentand said the only things different were "tractors, new irs and televisions." "Back then, about everybody played some kind of in rumeni. i ne iamous carter lamuy uvea in trie same >unty. This is the kind of spirit Bill wants to bring to Columia. In December of 1985 he moved his business to its pre:nt location on Meeting Street. "I'm not looking to get rich off of it," Bill said. If the $ EARN CAS Serologicals, Inc. is in need of all blood t up to $160.00 per month for 3 hours pi your time. Call for more information. Serologicals f A J 2719 Middleburg Dr. ? I\Sm Columbia, S.C. 2i S^rologtals 254-6537 "The United Way works *j 365 days a year, not just vJOT A the day they take up the Liiiiii(iiii-^iiiii--aBJ money.' 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On Fridays, there usually a big, old-fashioned jam session with several d ferent groups locating themselves throughout t building. f olks wander from group to group, and each group I its own characteristics. tiiuegrass is ucimcu, n seems, oy trie musical struments used. "They can play bluegrass songs on el< trie instruments," Bill said, "but they're not playi bluegrass." The pickin' pat lor hall of the business alio only bluegrass. The only instruments that can be used to play bluegr are guitars, banjos, mandolins, dobros, fiddles a "doghouse" bass? tlus is bluegrass, the pure art fori Getting bluegrass established as an acoustic art forn what Bill really wants. Recently, Bill wrote the Governor telling him that IV was world-wide blue grass month. Campbell, in turn, p claimed it so in S.C. and sent a certificate to Bill. Rccentlv there seems to lie a revival of interest bluegrass. "In the last lour or five years, I've notii more and more young people coming to festivals," 1 said. 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C^R^LI^^i J N?C Bull St., Columbia, S.C. 29202 / 256-3198 mt Students study art, I Vniilrlincrc overseas 1 By ANNA GARDNER j^? Slaff writer Vjelconaf home naonl! I U|Kft+ dici youbdofi us7 ; These words, printed on a banner, greeted graduate assistant Debbie Shearer when she walked toward the pzu baggage area of the Columbia pi; Metropolitan airport June 12. [???; Shearer and 11 other art students jjl and community members went on a pij three week art tour with art professor xc Nell LaFaye. The group toured >re through England, France, Spain and s Portugal. NiF Gothic art was the primary focus p-fti of Shearer's study. js Although the students had been up bm jr approximately 24 hours after arriving M lie at the airport, they were eager to chat pi about the trip and introduce one pa |as another to friends and families. pjl By the way the students were \- p jn_ checking to make sure everyone had QK cc_ a ride home, it was obvious that they | ing had become more than classmates H ws while studying painting, sculpture and architecture abroad. ass The trip was sponsored by the art ntj department, and LaFaye said the : n purpose of the trip was to expose I y. j . . ? 1- - _ r ?a 1 1 js siuaenis 10 actual worKS ui an anu m architecture. hm j. Jean Thomas, an M.F.A. student ' who went on LaFaye's New York art | tour two years ago, enjoyed the op- tj? jn portunity to study with LaFaye I bIh ' ' ^ was a 8reat trip." 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