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Show !THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 , 1999 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS PAGE 15 I Theatre arts season announced for SUU BY KEVIN M. HARING JOURNAL ARTS EDITOR Philadelphia, a fortune of one million dollars-not hay in 1917-and a great enthusiasm for lunacy. The play will The SUU College of Visual and run from Dec. 9-11 and 15-18 at the Perfonning Arts, and the theatre Randal Jones Theatre and will be arts and dance . .r < ·,.:·; ,, directed by Michael Don Bahr. department has ~ ; . ~.. Quilters by Molly Newman and released the '99-'00 ·! .. : ·"~ Barbara Damashek chronicles schedule for their plays, • , the real-life accounts of prairie musicals, and women in their tedious, often productions, with the first lonely and passionate lives in play, a comedy and special the 19th century. The scholarship fundraiser to be , ., women of Quilters are full of shown in late November. ~ ~ love, able to tol,rate Neil Simon's The Sunshine .;. intolerable conditions and Boys is the story of two ancient \ ~ move through lessons vaudeville stars who are coaxed ,.. . , • . · . with grace and strength. 1 11 out of retirement to put on one · · .~ . · \ · i · .~ These women yeam last comedy special for television. leave a peace of their The trouble is that they hate each ~ souls, a mark, a legacy. Their other. · gifts are passed on to each generation One thing unique to this play is that with love and wisdom, recorded, handed the two leading roles have already been down and remembered in quilts. The pre-cast. The show will star Fred Adams, show will run Oct. 7-9 and 13-16 in the founder and executive producer of'the Auditorium Theatre and will be directed Utah Shakespearean Festival, and by Connie Fulton. Charles L. Metten, dean of the From Nov 2 through 6, Life's Rhythms College of Visual and Perfonning will be presented in the Auditorium Arts, who also starred as Coach ~ .Theatre. A love for expression and . Van Buren in the Utah storytelling through Shakespearean Festival's movement is the production of Damn Yankees. . ....c J)l ?:f!;. emphasis for this The show will run from · C-P"" . night of entertainment Nov.16-20 at the Randall The marvelous Jones Theatre and will be creativity and dedication directed by R. Scott of our best students is Phillips. shared in a grand The Happiest montage of dance. Millionaire by Kyle .. :. ~ The first play of the 21st Crichton is the story of ' century at SUU will be Arthur , ~ fl Miller's The Crucible. Wnner the eccentric but loveable Anthony J. ,, -~,, -~ u of the 1953 Tony Award for Drexel Biddle, who ~ ' f best play, this exciting drama collects alligators and . · . about the purge of witchcraft in prizefighters and rules his family by ';1- old Salem is both a gripping bluster. He has a fine house in historical play and a timely parable a;._.-~ ·~ j M SUU syn,phony tunes up BY MARIAM ARTHUR SENIOR STAFF WRITER . Members of thecsymphony also benefit. "It has helped me grow and thrive as a human being," said Sara As SUU symphony members arrive at Kelly, a senior music perfonnance major practice, Thorley Hall echoes with the from Salt Lake City. sounds of various instruments, such as Unique to this year's schedule is the cellos, oboes, trumpets and drums. A centennial celebration of the birth of virtual jungle awakens: ~ - - - - - - - - - - - composer Aaron birds sing, elephants ~ Copland. In February, call and lions roar. The '/ ,ee/ that symphonic A Copland Portrait, will lite.rature can say highlight the work of conductor steps on lo the platfonn in front of Copland, an American the orchestra. Instantly Something important composer who "put there is silence. One to everyone who American music on the by one members play map,· according to the same musical note Ji~tens to it, ' Said Baldwin. "Until then you Phillip Baldwin had to be trained in - fine-tuning their instruments. Brass, ' European style first,· strings, woodwinds director Of Baldwin said. Included orchestras. in the concert will be and percussion work on particular sections Uncoln Portrait, which of the music as will be narrated by directed by the conductor. Ste.yen D. Bennion, president of SUU. The symphony is practicing for its first The final concert, The Stars Shine. perfonnance, Festive Overture!, features outstanding student soloists scheduled on Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in who will have competed in January. Thorley Recital Hall. I expect a quality The symphony is comprised of both program this year, said Phillip Baldwin, students and faculty members. Anyone director of orchestras and associate is welcome to audition. Generally, professor of strings at SUU, "I feel that musicians have had private lessons and symphonic literature can say something have been in a t:iigh school orchestra or important to everyone who listens to it.· band or had previous experience. .. . . . . . . .. . ... ' .... . . \, .... of out contemporary society-a thrilling, this wildly impractical person be a victim, poignant, often bloodcurdling drama that or change the world around him? ts he depicts the monstrous course of crazy, or the wisest of us all? It will be bigotry and deceit. It will run from directed by Richard Bugg, chair of the Jan. 17-22 in the Auditorium theatre arts and dance Theatre and will be directed by department and can be Duane Waihi. seen in the Rope: A Dance Experience Auditorium Theatre. directed by Kay Andersen, "This season, we Roy Fitzetl, Gwen Grimes will have plenty of and Shauna Mendini will exciting, entertaining, thrill to the innovated thought-provoking, and interpretations of the soul-stirring theater," SUU dance program. Bugg said. ·our variety of This production will be ::,-,,. settings ranges from the the culmination of a :-":,_ -~ - . Old West, to Salem, Mass.. year's work and will · .- · • .~ to ancient Greece, to Spain in ~ ~:,:,, :-: ~ the days of Don Qu\xote.· showcase the program's rich traditions and dedicated ~ · . "The SUU dance program artists. It will be shown in the Randall has become very popular with Jones Theatre from March 2-4 and 8-11 . the public in recent years. The Sophocles' Oedipus Rex chronicles number of majors and minors has grown one man's search for the unbearable significantly, and the quality of the truth no matter what the cost-a hero program is being increasingly fated to kill the King, his father and marry recognized," Bugg said. "The two dance the Queen, his mother. Though 2,500 programs this year should attract large years old, Sophocles' play remains a audiences. We are excited about powerful story of human will in opposition the shows that we will be ~ . presenting this year." to the forces of destiny. Directed by Marcine Lake, It will run April nine different subscription 4-8 with the location to series· are available to anyone be announced. wanting season tickets at a Wrapping up the . . reduced price compared to school year, Dale . individual production tickets. Wassennan's musical Advance single production Man of La Mancha will ~ ickets will go on sale early run April 20-22 and 26-29. in the fall semester at the · ~ SUU Theatre Box Office. Winner of five Tony Awards, it's a musical to lift Ticket infonnation is you out of your· seat. Don available by calling Quixote seeks his "Impossible · , H 586-7876. For more Dream· on a quest to defend -' ~ information about truth and honor. Make the play times and joumey with him as he tilts at schedules you can also windmills, battles evil and contact the theatre arts and dance attempts to right all wrongs. Will department by calling 586-77 46. ...... Gallery plans fall exhibits each, in some.way, related to playing cards. This is really a fun collection of quilts from across the nation.· Dec. 3-16, the gallery will feature A Smithsonian Institution traveling winners of a Utah Rural High School exhibit of quilts based on playing cards Fine Art Competition and the annual and two annual exhibits, one featuring exhibit of recent works the work of Southern by members of the Utah University art 'This is a collection SUU art department faculty members and faculty. the other Utah rural of quilts created by "There is always a high school students, expert quilt artists wide diversity in the are scheduled during fall semester at the and circulated by the creativity and approach to art in the high school Braithwaite Fine Arts Smithsonian show; and there are Gallery. some unique "Full Deck Art Quilts," Institution Traveling perspectives and a unique exhibition of Exhibition Service,' methods that are quite 54 quilted playing interesting,· Johnson cards, will open Oct. 22 said Lydia Johnson, said. "The art faculty and run through Nov. director of musems exhibit offers a good 23 at the gallery and galleries at SUU. opportunity for those located on the lower who teach at SUU to level of the Braithwaite Liberal Arts Building located on SUU's display representative pieces they have created." , upper campus. The Braithwaite exhibits are free and "This is a collection of quilts created by expert quilt artists and circulated by open to the general public from noonthe Smithsonian Institution Traveling 7 p.m. ~onday through Friday. The Exhibition Service," Lydia Johnson, gallery is closed on weekends and university holidays. director of museums and galleries at For more information call 586-5432, or SUU said. "The quilts are not replicas visit the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. of playing cards, but rather, they are BY JIM ROBINSON SUU NEWS SERVICES . I • |