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Musical Drama Chronicles Life Of King: The dream of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. will come to life Feb. 13 at the Koger Center
in a passionate musical drama chronicling the legacy of the slain civil
rights leader.
The play, "Ain't Got Long to Stay Mere," will begin at 8 p.m. It
was authorized for production by King's estate and premiered to rave
reviews in Nashville in 1991. Actor Barry Scott, who plays the civil
rights leader, developed the play from King's letters and speeches.
The two-act play is told through a series of powerful vignettes of
King's life, beginning with the now-famous Montgomery bus boycott
and ending with King's assassination. The action is punctuated with
moving spirituals and original songs.
Tickets are $15.50 and $11.50 for adults and $10 for students and
are available at the Coliseum box office. Box office hours are 9 a.in
to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. To charge by
phone, call 777-7228.
Museum To Display USC Students' Art: Approximately 60
works of art by USC students will be on display Feb. 14 Uirough
March 21 at McKissick Museum. The annual student ail exhibit will
feature the work of advanced students in undergraduate and graduate
courses in all media, including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawing,
ceramics and photographs.
Art professor Harry Hansen, who is organizing the exhibit, said the
show gives the university a chance to showcase both the art department
and its students.
The exhibit will also feature several pieces by advanced graphic
design students, as well as computer-generated art, works in fiber and
papermaking and illustrations. All work for the exhibit is being chosen
by art department faculty.
PBS To Air Malcolm X Special: "Tony Brown's Journal." a
PBS program, will air "The Life And Death Of Malcolm X," a fourpart
Black History Month special. The program attempts to offer
answers to the numerous questions surrounding the fiery orator's death
in 1965.
Part one "Who Killed Malcolm X?" will air from Feb. 5 to 11. This
first episode digs into 25 years of investigative reporting on Malcolm
X to unveil several inconsistencies that raise questions about official
conduct. Tony Brown turns up these questions through rare interviews
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his killers' trial. A never-before aired audiotape recording the final
minutes of Malcohn X's life ? up to the first shots that were fired ?
is used for the first time.
Part two, "The Assassin," will air Feb. 12 to 18. It features the first
televised interview with the only confessed killer of Malcolm X,
Talmadge Hayer. In a 1981 interview with Tony Brown from his cell,
Hayer tells of his motivations, his co-conspirators and what happened
Feb. 21, 1965 when Malcolm X was killed at the Audubon Ballroom
in New York.
"Malcolm and Elijah" airs as part three from Feb. 19 to 25 and
deals with the split between Malcolm X and Nation of Islam founder
Elijah Muhammad. "Malcolm X and Judas," part four, airs Feb. 26 to
March 4'and asks whether or not a black FBI agent or informant literally
called the shots that killed Malcolm X.
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The Carolina Classics is open to
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