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4 WHAT'SUP Guide to Arts & E AUDITIONS Chapin Community Theater will hold auditions for "Mama 'N' Em," 7 p.m. today in the Chapin Community Theater, 107 Columbia Ave., Chapin, S.C. Available roles are for five women and four men ages 35-80. Must be able to do a convincing upstate South Carolina accent. For more information, call 7723720. Town Theatre will hold auditions for "Prescription: Murder" 7:30 p.m. today. Roles are available for four men and three women in range in age from early 20's to 50's. Perusal scripts are available. For more information, call 799-2510. BALLET The Columbia City Ballet presents The Nutcracker," directed by William Starett and accompanied for the first time bv the full 50-plus member South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Smith. The show runs at 8 p.m. until Sunday, and tickets are $8 and $10 for children and students, $16.50 and $18.50 for adults and $5.00 for balcony, on sale now. CONCERTS The Benedict College Concert Choir presents "A Special Kind of Christmas" featuring Yuletide Music by contemporary composers 7 p.m. Sunday in the Atisdel Chapel on Benedict's Campus. The performance is free. HOUDAY CELEBRATIONS The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia will hold a Holiday Cafe with music, food, drama, comedy and dancing featuring performances by Gloria Talcove-Woodward, Jessica Slotkin, Pat and Don Mohr, Jon Ustaine, The Play Readers, Brian Cassedy and others, 7 p.m. Friday. Call 799-0845 for more information. MOVIES Nickelodeon Theatre will feature films through Dec. 14 by Ingmar Bergman including 1972*s "Cries and Whispers," with showtimes at 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $3.50 for members of the Columbia Film Society, $4.50 for students and senior citizens and $5.50 for non-members. I J I I THE PI I SYSl I This USAFIEY Multim need to experience th plete with 8 MB RAM, j Fax/Modem, 2x Sony the amazing Altec Lai earth-shaking bass. T1 from several exciting i limited warranty. T1 ntertainment MUSEUMS/GALLERIES McKissick Museum The work of talented USC graduate art students will be on display until Dec. 18. The Annual MFA Exhibit" will feature works by Vicky Heapee, Bingjian Zhang and Shinli Zhou, who are all working towards a master of fine arts degree. The USC art department faculty show is featuring approximately 40 recent works in a variety of media, including paintings, drawings, mixed mecSa. print making, photography, watercotors, jewelry and sculpture. The exhibit will run through Feb. 12. Columbia Museum of Art "Richard Estes: The Complete Prints" will run through Dec. 11. This is the first traveling exhibition surveying the print work of photo-realist Richard Estes. Admission is free. South Carolina State Museum The museum has introduced a new exhibit, "Brain Teaser," that includes a puzzle so difficult the curator is offering a free museum membership to the first visitor who can solve it. PLANETARIUM "Season of Light" at the Gibbes Planetarium is open. The show begins with the winter solstice and examines how ancient cultures celebrated this dark time with their warmest and brightest holidays of the year. TELEVISION "The Eagles in Spotlight" is a reunion concert at 8:58 p.m. Friday on SCETV. THEATER Drayton Hall USC Theatre presents "The Christmas Cande," an original music play based on an old German fairy tale, Wednesday through Sunday at Drayton Hall. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Town Theatre "Lend Me a Tenor" opens today and will run through Dec. 17. Tickets are $8 for students. RFECT PENTIU MULTIMEDIA "EM FOR ONLY ,099! (W/COUPON) ledia Pentium system comes with every le most exciting software available. It co 1424 MB Hard Drive, 64-bit PCI video, 14. CD-ROM drive, SoundBlaster 16 Sound < nsing ACS-31 speaker system with subv le system comes with your choice of a C titles. All USAFIEX systems come with a t 10 Gamecock CAM ThePli Original work by LUPE EYDE Carolina! Editor Do you believe in miracles or fai tales? If yes, then bring your imagir tion along to the University of South C olina's production of "The Christm Candle" Wednesday through Sunday Drayton Hall. , Curtain time is 8 p.m. Wednesd through Saturday and 3 p.m. on So day. Tickets are $10 for adults and for children under 12. "The Christmas Candle" is an ori; nal musical. Music and lyrics are by co: poser Dick Goodwin, a USC music pi fessor, and script and lyrics are by Jo! MacNicholas, a USC playwright in r< idence. The play, based on an old Germ; fairy tale relatively unknown in th country, tells the story of two childr who put their broken doll and teddy be on the window ledge on Christmas They hope the toys will be repaired 1 Santa Claus. An angel carries the to to Santa's workshop where, after mai adventures, they are repaired and i turned to the children at sunrise < rwi i /i lowns' STEPHEN BROWN Staff Writer Town Theatre's new production of the play "Lend Me a Tenor," a madcap adventure that runs through Dec. 17, is a comedy of errors full of zany double entendres leading to consistent roaring laughter. 'Die plot involves world-class tenor Tito Merelli (Joe Cobb), who arrives in Cleveland to play Othello for the gala season-opening of the Grand Opera Company. But what should have been the biggest night in the theatre's history goes awry when his nervous caretaker Max (Thomas Hagler) lets the singer get a hold of alcohol and women. When Merelli passes out, a substitute Othello must go onstage to try to fool the audience. Max re r$5o~ I A MACINTOSH P I A USA FLEX PEh | Receive $50.00 off eith shown in this ad whet] sented. Offer good thr 1994. limit one coup< l^tl I IlkllU J \L? I BOO. ^ We are proud to sell pro companies at an ec Apple Compu thing you mes com- J, 4 Internal W T^5 Card, and r ~ roofer for D chosen HMAJETT jjpiA! Monday, Do ay's Th USC professor oj Christmas Day, just before the i Qu/olrona ia "vThe Christmas Candle' tell broken families can survive gri ag damage," MacNicholas said. "Th< at ney that the teddy bear and the doll take to be repaired requires cc and self-reliance. This dramatis demonstrates how hope in a frighl ?5 and chaotic world can, and must, i from these virtues. Transformatic repair are earned, not magically a] m_ The story communicates on sever ?0 els to both adults and children," h( Margit Resch, the playwright's 33- grew UP in Germany hearing this recited from her own storybook y( an ter year. Immediately following1 War II, new dolls and toys for Ge en children were non-existent, so tl: iar dition of small children putting /e chipped, scratched and broken toj side on the window ledge for Sante yS gel to repair was, for Magrit's ge ny tion, more than a symbolic gestm >e. The cast includes a brother and 3n ter, who become the dolls, and thi dren's mother and grandfather. < Tlarini^ In luctantly volunteers for the daunting task. Meanwhile, Merelli awakens and rushes onstage. The events following are clever and lead to a delightful finale. As the timid nerd Max, who becomes the most acclaimed imposter to grace the Cleveland stage, Hagler began with a little uncertainty about his role, but by the end, delivers a juicy performance with great gusto. Cobb plays the larger-than-life singer with magnificent theatrical style. His Merelli has a zest for rich experiences that leads him to a neardownfall and propels the play's comic situations. Cobb projects great energy and enthusiasm in the role. Featured in the play as a seductress and manipulator is USC's very OTFF! ERFORMA 475 I ITIUM SYSTEM I er computer system i this coupon is preoush December 31, mi per customer. ERSITYl J ( <$TORE ?i L ducts from the following lucational discount: A A / ter, Inc. The Ma< includes PffV9 mmmm mmm M Smm PowerPC SS~ >m EBSBm mmmm SB SB {future. ! (upgrad 160MB1 -PACKARD For more information, cc The Computer Desl 777-7917 comber 5, 1994 ^ ^FhtW' >ens Wednesday lamily characters are Santa, a lively Chris angel named Fitzroy and a chorus s how work in Santa's workshop. The st AlTAllfl 1 Ja*? Alii cyuuo in picociib kjuxy ouuui v^ciiuiilici. mil 3 jour- it speaks to family values, it is not i girl's ligious story, MacNicholas said. >urage Goodwin and MacNicholas have nation working on this musical for the pas tening years. MacNicholas' plays have beei apring formed in some of the very best the in and in the nation, and Goodwin's resum Dplied. braces virtually every musical g al lev- from popular to opera, chamber r e said, to symphony orchestra and jingle tc ) wife, Jim Patterson, a professor in t i story department of theatre, speech and d jar af- will direct the performance. He hi World rected over 200 productions in both rman demic and professional venues, in le tra- ing this summer's hit, "Anything C their The orchestra will be directed by ] rs out- ny Alvarez, former director of the i's An- school of music, mera- A special performance will be e. Tuesday to benefit the Children's . a sis- pital at Richland Memorial Hosj e chil- Call 777-9353 for more information i Other tickets and the benefit performj nds rave ] own Whitney Webb, an advertising : junior. She sinks her teeth into the role, conveying a dazzling worldliness < as she wields her power over men. Way to go, Whitney! i Kathy Seifert, Kimbi Glenn, Dawn Lutz, Harry Heizer and Dick Calkins i round out the energetic cast. The en- i semble has an electric chemistry, supplying the play with an incredible com- | ic luster. 1 The play's set, consisting of two i rooms in a deluxe highrise suite, is 1 constructed to perfectly contain the ] situational comedy. While Merelli's i near comatose body is moved from < room to room, characters try to seduce each other, and last minute prepara- ! tions are made to prepare for the dis- < astrous curtain call of the play-with r 1 ms&r X^PMJj H S;??te?'A ^HMDLETI \CINTOSH COM SYSTEM FOR Ol $1,049! (W/COUP< :intosh Performa 475 is your ticket to "Cy i everytbingl From the monitor to the s ] upgradability; this is the machine that m tome of its features include: a quick 25MHs able to PowerPC technology when you an lard Disk, Perfortna Plus Display, standard k UarisWorks and 12 other software titles, and >ntact: ( S jtmas z' 5 who ory is J2g lough Wt? . a re- ^^56 been Af it two iper" latres T\ e em- f enre, nusic > jazz. JSC's lance, as di1 acaclud Manuse held H?sjital. about ance. review in-the-play. The two-sided set design allows concurrent hilarious moments on both parts of the stage. The cast vividly brings the clever script to life, highlighting the fun and fantasy of becoming a star, falling in love and taking a walk on the wild side. "Lend Me a Tenor"provides for a great evening full of impressive performances. All students yearning for that last required cultural event for the semester will definitely find this play the most painless possibility imaginable. It is a delightful theatrical comedy sure to please all sorts of tastes. Town Theatre is located on 1012 Sumter St. Student tickets are $8. Call 799-2510 for reservations. PUTER I MLY >N) berbliss". This price oftware, modem to ill take you into the i 68LC040 Processor e), 4 MB of RAM, a keyboard, Apple Font a Global Village Fax