| OCR Text |
Show THE THUNDERBIRD MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1987 PAGE 9 Art faculty's art will hang BY DAWN DE BUSK When Glen Dale and go out together to do watercolors, some days have successes and other days, he does Sometimes we both do and sometimes neither one of us gets anything It's like fishing," says Mark Bangerter, associate professor in the art department Bangerter's watercolors will be part of November's Faculty Art Exhibit in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery Glen Dale Anderson's art will hang along with art by Arlene Braithwaite, LaRae King, Mary MacDonald, Anton Rasmussen and Mark Talbert The show opens Nov 5 with a reception at 7pm and classical music performed and Brenda by Jackie Riddle-Jackso- n Reep Paintings, portraits, pastels, watercolors, sculptures and ceramics add variety to the show Like much of the work in the show, Bangerter's watercolors reveal a southern Utah flavor since the projects were done close to home "A subject loses its life, its spirit when it is painted from a photograph," he says. "I can't move around to another side and see why the light seems to be falling this way on my subject, you can do that with a real life subject," Bangerter explains The 10 real life watercolors included in his showing range from horses to creek beds of red stones and snow each framed by unfinished wood Recently the college commissioned Bangerter to paint a portrait of Grace and Obert Tanner Rasmussen will exhibit his latest commissioned piece, a 21 foot long This enormous mural has a future in the visitor's center at Zion National Park St George artist L'Deane Trueblood will display her art in the second exhibit she has done at SUSC Fler exhibit entitled, "Visages The Face and Figure in Watercolor, Clay and Bronze" will fill the small gallery Fler Mark Bangerter works on one of his watercolors which will hang this month credits include several commissions and one in the Dixie Medical Center. along with other pieces by the faculty . -- work-in-progre- ss Tickets sold via phone I 1 3 A Patriotic musical opens Wednesday The U S Constitution, which has been prevalent in events over the past year of its bicentennial birthday, will be remembered again SUSC's annual ticket sales drive is into the second week with as the last two months of the year fade out very encouraging interest being generated, according to Scott The people and places related to the buth of Phillips, promotions coordinator for the college's theatre and our U S Constitution will come to life again in dance department the SUSC Auditorium on Wednesday night at 8 "The season tickets are the bread and butter of the theatre the musical 1776 during season It's money we know we have," said Phillips The early days of the Second Continental This year, instead of going house to house, the drama students Congress remain a rich part of America's history with the orgamzion of Tracy Burns got involved in a telethon and will be revealed through a study of "We had a really good student turn out," Burns said. "We Edward delegates ranging from contacted over 1 ,200 people. Not everyone bought tickets, but to Franklin, Rutledge Benjamin at least they now know about the season and what we're debates about the Constitution and the writing doing," he said and signing of the Declaration of Independence Matt Page, who participated in the telethon, said, "I think we "We think of the Declaration as being divinely got a lot better response doing a phone survey than we did last and sometimes we forget the very inspired year going door to door." Andy Colvin added, "Personally it human side of its creation," said Fred C. Adams, brought back a lot of memories of missionary work People are professor of theatre arts and director of the more willing to talk about theatre than religion." season's first play. The telethon brought in more than 150 inquirers, who were Adams not only directs 1776, the award-winnin- g sent brochures the following day Their names were placed on Peter StoneSherman Edwards musical, the theatre mailing list, according to Phillips "The people on the he acts in it, too. The performance, which will list receive our mailings for at least two years At mailing begins Nov 4 and plays through this Saturday, the end of two years, we review it to see who has shown coincides with the 200th anniversary of the U S interest in the department and who hasn't We will drop the Constitution and Cedar City's 136th birthday names of those who haven't shown any further interest " Representatives will be on hand for the Nov 4 Phillips explained the program further by saying, "This is the opening Curtains will rise at 8 each first year that we will have complete records of who was and there will be a matinee at 2 p m evening contacted, who responded and who participated in our season on Saturday Besides those who buy season tickets, we will also keep track of " 7 776 is a musical comedy which delivers a single ticket sales This will enable the department to find out touching patriotic message," Adams said, "but how successful this program is in the long run." we definitely see the human side of the 56 This year's theatre season includes three mainstage some of it very comical, 1776 opens this week and runs Nov 3, 4, 5 and 6 congressional delegates, productions as they struggle word by word to perfect the The Agatha Christie murder mystery, Ladies in Retirement will Declaration of Independence " be produced the end of February The Life and Adventures of "Much of the material for the play," Adams Nicholas Nicklebv will be the mainstage season finale in May, "comes from actual records as continued, said Phillips documented by Congressional Secretary Charles The Stage Two season includes The Octette Bridge Club, Thomson " will which in rehearsal, currently open in Adams first brought 776 to the SUSC stage Another student directed production, The Woolgatherer will play more than ten years ago in 1972 This time he sometime in April is both director and cast member, playing the BY JOE MARTINEZ i AND REBECCA WINSOR ld first-nig- ht er 7 role of New York delegate Lewis Morris. Adams hasn't appeared in a SUSC production since he was cast as Don Quixote in the production Man of La Mancha the year before he directed 7 776 Many of the original cast members are returning 15 years later to teapjrear in the 7 776 cast Kent E Myers is cast again as Benjamin Franklin, A Thomas Challis as George Read, Richard A Dotson will portray Roger Sherman and Scott Phillips has been cast as Stephen Hopkins The cast includes only two women Abigail Adams as played by Lisa Newhouse ard Martha Jefferson as played by Wendy Johnson invade the confines of the Continental Congress only as memories. Tickets are on sale at the Auditorium box from 1 to 5 p.m. weekdays office, 586-787and from 1 p m. until 8pm curtain on days of er 6, Director Fred Adams also acts in this recapturing of the Declaration signing. performance A 2 p m matinee is planned Nov. 7 in addition to the regular evening performance TheatreDance Promotions Coordinator R. Scott Phillips indicates that several area schools are bringing students to see the show High school students will be admitted free, space permitting, to the Nov. 6 performance, Phillips said Special group discounts can be arranged for schools on other production dates. General admission tickets are $6 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens and $4 for children 5 through 12 SUSC students with valid identification cards are admitted free. Several season subscriptions are also available, the money-savin- g passes available through the box office |
