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Show ,. !MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1000 UNIVERSITY ·, ouRNAL ARTS PAGE 15 Fall festival cuts deal Author accomplishes dream on student tickets BY STACY VENTURA SENIOR STAFF WRITER leads to the friendship· of a lifetime. College students looking for a Always . . . Patsy Cline gives reasonably priced evening of entertainment or just a cheap date audiences a look at the life of the some Friday night this fall can turn legendary country singer and her most devoted fan, Louise Seger. to the Utah Shakespearean Festival The play, which is based on a true for a good deal. In conjunction with the fall season story, is essentially a concert in productions of Always ... Patsy which the 24 musical selections are Cline and Driving Miss Daisy, the linked by the anecdotes of Louise festival has announced "Five Buck Seger, who knew Patsy CUne. Always ... Patsy Cline arid Fridays· and the "Half-and-Half Driving Miss Daisy run now through Ticket Deal," two discount ticket offers created for college students. Oct. 14, Wednesdays through "For our Five Buck Fridays, all you Saturdays. Both plays have 2 p.m. need to do is show up at the matinees, as well as 7:30 p.m. Randall L. Jones Theatre on the evening performances. ·we hope that these deals will Friday of the performance you want to see, present your student ID at help students enjoy and take the Box Office, and purchase your advantage of the terrific live theatre ticket for just five dollars,· said that we have to offer," Law said. Donna Law, USF public relations "After all, the Utah director. Shakespearean Festival received a "For our 'Half-and-Half Ticket . Tony Award for Outstanding Deal' all you need to do is show .up Regional Theatre this year,· she at the Randall L. Jones Theatre Box added. "How many students around Office half an hour before the play, the country have such easy and on ·any day, present your student affordable access to theatre of that quality right on their own campus?" 1.D., and purcoase your ticket for half price," she said. There are no special seating Driving Miss Daisy is a Pulitzer restrictions for this offer. However, Prize-winning play of humor and tickets are limited to one per I.D. and to remaining available seats. love that follows the often bumpy Tickets may not be reserved in road traveled by two seemingly different people-a southern matron advance. and her chauffeur. For more information on the plays and specific performance times, call The story spans 25 years in post World War II Georgia and eventually the box office at 586-7878. Lawrence Coates, director of the creative writing program, was awarded the Western States Book Award for his book Blossom Festival. · 1was greatly honored," Coates said. "It is so hard to get a book published and most people never get that chance unless you are Stephen King. I was happy to see how well my first book did." ThIB is Coates' first published book. Blossom Festival is on sale at the SUU Bookstore and at Mountain West on Main Street. Although he has received several awards for his book, the Western States Book Award is one of the most prestigious. It is given by the Westem States Art Federal Organization. To be nominated, one must be from one of the 11 western states, including Alaska. Coates' novel was nominated along with 70 others. It was published in the fall of 1999 and nominated for the award earlier this year. "It was a big deal just to be nominated," Coates said. "It was so exciting." During June, Coates received an invitation to attend the awards banquet, which took place in San Francisco. While there, he visited with other winners in different categories. He also obtained a sticker that appears on his books, announcing that he was a winner of the Western States Book Award. · 1had fun reading with all the other writers,· Coates said. "I enjoyed learning from their pieces of work." Blossom Festival tells the story of two to t~ree families that live.in the Santa Clara area during the 1920s through the 1930s. The novel is about landscape that resembles paradise or a Utopia on the surface, but is unpleasant underneath the surface. This is Coates' fourth year working at SUU. He is the director of the creative writing program and assistant professor of language and literature. He coordinates the reading series and helps with literary magazines. Even before he began teaching, he wrote short fiction stories in magazines and was the editor of a literary magazine that was sold nationwide. "It was neat to see my writings in places such as Boston,· Coates said. He has also written as a free-lance journalist for newspapers: SUU's Homecoming C(!f!Cert: Cele-brate Hofilecollling _2000 with C-h uck Negron of Three Dog Night Septen1ber 29, 2000 Centrufil Arena • 8:00 p :lll. I' Students just $6. Or Catch the sp ecial Homecoming package grab a date, or a friend and get two tickets to the dance and concert for only $1 5 ! Tickets·available at the Centrum Box Office (586-7872) or at any Smit~tix outlet. j |