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Show IMONDAY, JULY 12, 1999 PAGE 7 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS Festival educates as well Concerts This summer several actors, along with other theatre professionals, will add teaching and coaching to their list of responsibilities by participating in one of more of the Utah Shakespearean Festival's summer education programs. Students who sign up for classes have the opportunity to interact in discussions and coaching sessions with stage manages, Shakespeare scholars, musicians and .actors performing in the 1999 season plays. The nine different classes , which vary frorn week-long camps to three-day courses, are for university credit. Festival favorite Brian Vaughn teams up with Shakespeare scholar Ace G. Pilkington, Festival literary · seminar director to teach the class From Page to Stage, July 29-3 1 or August 5-7. This class explores the works of Shakespeare and how they translate to the stage. Students earn two credits at SUU and the $300 tuition includes tickets to King Lear and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Brian William Baker, Festival production music director, will be the instructor-for Producing a Musical, July 14-17 or 28-31 . The class is worth one credit, and the $ 100 tuition includes tickets to a matinee performance of Damn Yankees which shows Baker's work as a music director. William Metzo is King Lear. Carey Lawless, Festival stage manager for the past 15 seasons, will be the instructor for Backstage at the Festival , July 12-15. The class, which is worth two credits, explores the magic of the behind-the-scenes work of stage manages, production managers and technical supervisors. The $300 tuition includes tickets to Damn Yankees, A Midsummer Night's Dream and You Never . Can Tell. A July 19-23 class on Shakespeare's comedies by SUU Professor S.S. Moorty will focus on A Midsummer Nighrs Dream. It is worth one credit and the $145 tuition includes tickets to the featured production. Other classes that are part of the Festival's education curriculum are Actor Training, Parts 1 and 2 for budding actors; Shakespeare: Bard and Feminist that explores the villainous, frail and heroic women created by Shakespeare; Camp Shakespeare . and Camp Shakespeare for Seniors; and the highly popular Shakespeare's Plays and Forums, a self-guided class that allows Festival patrons to attend plays, seminars, orientations and The Greenshow and receive university credit. "I believe Learning is a live-long process, and our workshops are designed for the young, the college bound and the life-long learner," said Bahr about the mission of the summer education programs. "The best way for us to learn is by discussing, observing and doing. That is why our courses are so interactive." For more information on availability of to register for any of this summer's educational programs call 586-7881 . To register for Camp Shakespeare of Camp Shakespeare fo·r Seniors call 805-664-2121. This year's summer season plays run June 24-Sept. 4 and include A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, You Never Can Tell, The Lion in Winter, and Damn Yankees. The Festival's new fall season from September 16 to October 16 features Forever Plaid and The Complete Works of Willm. Shkspr (Abridged). Tickets for the plays of The Royal Feaste can be purchased by calling 586-7878, or by visiting the Festival website at www.bard.org or in person at the Randall L. Jones Theater or Auditorium Theatre Box Office on the comer of 300 West and Center Street. Forgot Something at Home? Fashi'on for- men, women {Jr' cht1clr-en Traveling TOGS continue The award-winning Latin jazz quartet, Yoboso, will perform their special style of Jazz and Latin rhythms July 18 during the third Sunday of the free Summer Evening Concert Series. Yoboso-"the soulful one," is a perfect definition for Latin jazz. A unique highenergy sound which expresses all the varried and extensive talents this quartet, comprised of Bert Dalton playing piano and keyboards, Ricky Malichi on drums and percussions, Gary Cardile adding the sounds of the condas, and John Belzaguy struming the bass. The music of Yoboso is best described as Latin jazz although there are elements of R & B, blt1es, straight-ahead jazz and a tinge of Brazilian. Much of the repertoire is original, although some unique arrangements are included of selections from salsa, be-bop and even Motown. Yoboso recently won the nationwide Jazz Discovery competition sponsored by the Black Entertainment Network's Jazz Central program. The quartet was also awarded wBest of the Year," "Best Jazz Production," and "Best Arrangement of a Previous Work" by the New Mexico "Mic" Awards for their CD "Yoboso-Ya Uego!" The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Randall L. Jones Theatre and is open and free to the public. 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