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Remember a little over a month ago when 1 came out
pushing Hair in Kansas City?
Well, a lot of people didn't get to see that production tor
numerous reasons. . They weren't willing to drive-down to
Kansas City, they weren't willing to pay the ticket prices and,
perhaps most important, all the tickets were sold out.
WELL I'VE GOT a solution. Let's bring Hair to Lincoln!
A couple of weeks ago Pershing Municipal Auditorium
made the statement that it might bring Hair to Lincoln next
fall.
GREAT! fi .
But the key word is might. According to Ike Hoig,
manager of Pershing Auditorium, IF public response is
favorable Hair will be brought in, IF public response is bad,
forget it.
So laying it right on the line, you and I know that there will
be plenty of self-rightous guardians of Lincoln's purity who
will raise a commotion over the possibility of bringing Hair to
town.
We can't have those dirty commie-pinko sex-fiends in our
fair city.
AFTER SEEING how Hair was handled in New York City,
I know that some people might be offended by the
production, but if they are broad-minded at all they will not
be.
I'm not saying that everyone in Lincoln has to go see Hair.
Furthermore, 1 believe that quite a few Lincolnites would
like to see Hair. This was evidenced by the fact that a large
majority of the audiences in last year's poll at Lincoln
Community Playhouse voted for a presentation of Hair at the
Playhouse this year. Of course, there were some audience
members who were quite opposed to the idea, but the point is
that not everyone who would like to see Hair is a communist
or a pervert.
So what can be done by those of us who would like to see
Pershing Auditorium bring Hair in?
The answer is simple. Just cut or tear out the Daily
Nebraskan my headline (LARRY KUBERT LARRY KUBERT
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somewhere on it, put it in an envelope, address the envelope to
Larry Kubert, Daily Nebraskan, Room 34, Student Union and
drop it into the Campus Mail (that way no one will have to
pay postage).
AFTER I receive these, I will gather them up and present
them to Hoig as an indication of how many University of
Nebraska students (or Lincolnites for that matter) want to see
Hair performed in Lincoln.
But we must take this action NOW if we want to have Hair
here next fall. So please don't sit back on your rear-ends and
forget about it. Let's get together and "Let The Sunshine In."
Oh Oh Omaha will open Thursday at the Sweetness and
Light satirical theater in Omaha (where else).
The premise of the production is that everyone needs a
good laugh now and the, and that Omaha is certainly worth a
good laugh.
AMONG SUBJECTS to be covered in the show are such
problems as the Omaha World Herald , a courageous Douglas
County woman who wouldn't accept relief, Police Chief
Andersen and his new hard-hitting recruits and the continued
moral decay in Omaha as evidenced by the presence of the
Pussy Cat Theater.
Oh Oh Omaha will run in repertory with the Almighty
Revue: You Can't Keep A Good Man Down. Oh Oh Omaha
runs at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays and three times
on Saturdays at 8, 10 p.m. and midnight. The Almighty Revue
is presented at 8 and 10 p.m. on Fridays and at 8 p.m. on
Sundays.
Sweetness and Light is located in the Old Market at 1014
Howard Street, and I recommend that you make telephone
reservations by calling 345-8388 before going up.
TRYOUTS for Jules Feiffer's play Little Murders will be
held Monday, March 29, in Room 103 of the Temple Building
from 7:30 to 10 p.m.
An interesting feature of this show is that the proceeds
from it will go to help finance Stephen Rozman's defense
fund.
Feiffer's play is black comedy in two acts and centers on a
man who is slow to become involved in a world of murder and
revolution.
The play calls for nine men and five women.
Speaking earlier of Pershing Auditorium, Blood. Sweat and
Tears will be there April 3 and Rod McKuen will be there
April 1 6.
Wcrthcr, Jules Massenet's romantic opera, will be broadcast
for the first time by the Metropolitan Opera on Sat., March
27, at 1 p.m. and will be heard locally over KRNU (fm) (90.3
mc).
LEADING roles will be sung by mezzo-soprano Rosalind
Elias as Charlotte, soprano Judith Blegen as Sophie, tenor
Franco Corelli as Werther, baritone John Reardon as Albert
and bass Dondald Gramm as the Bailiff. Alain Lombard will
conduct.
A concert of organ and choir music featuring Dr. David
Lumsden, organist and choirmaster at England's Oxford
University, is schedulted for Monday, March 29, at the
Kimball Recital Hall.
LUMSDEM WILL be assisted by the NU Madrigal Singers,
directed by John Moran; the University Singers, directed by
Earl Jenkins; NU organ professor Richard Burner and soprano
soloist Jill Eiche.
The concert begins at 8 p.m. and admission is free.
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by CHARLIE HARPSTER
Staff Writer
The Beatles gave Helter
Skelter to the criminologists,
Sexy Sadie to the anti
transcendental meditationists,
and a score of ghostly clues to
the Seekers of Hidden
Meaning.
Now Peter Townshend and
the Who have given Tommy to
the dramatists.
Recently, at the University
of Connecticut. Next month at
the University of Southern
California. And on April 3 and
4, at the University of
Nebraska Coliseum, produced
by Kosmet Klub.
How many times have you
started Tommy spinning,
settled down to listen, turned
to read the album cover and
wondered: Wow, I wonder
what all this means, anyway?
As the imaginary director of
Tommy, given only the album,
the printed lyrics, and a
knowledge of drama history,
what would you come up'
with?
E. Mike Dobbins, the
directop of Tommy,, asks: "Are
we to face the written script
and offer as literal an
interpretation as our energies
will allow? The script and
nothing more? Or are we to
investigate, discover, and
exploit an extant thesis buried
deep within the text that seems
to carry the most relevant
our times - at the expense of
the poesy and primary
intention of the playwright?"
The rock background of this
rock opera, The Music, face a
related problem: How to copy
a piece of music so complex?
How to get across a certain
mood without straying from
the intent of original? How to
create a personalized
reproduction?
Dobbins answered part of
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
his question with the setting:
early-renaissance, 16th Century
England. And for the set, the
only prop is a 50 foot long by
17 foot high casket, suggesting
the opera's obsession with
Eternal Life and Eternal Death.
Dobbins interprets Tommy
as a Jesuit morality play - a
play based on the teachings of
the Bible.
"There are so many parallels
between the life of Christ and
the life of Tommy," he said.
"Anything that is written, if
it has value, represents
something larger than the
story," Dobbins continued. A
simple storv about a poor boy
- blind, deaf, and dumb - may
be saying more than is shown
in a photograph of the script.
Bruce McCracken of the
Music described how the group
has met their problem: He said
the seven members listened to
the album, practiced
individually, then began
working together late into the
nights to nail down the themes
and moods of the music.
Tommy spans the centuries
from 16th Century England
with an electronic-age light
show and rock background.
But it's not only about 16th
Century England, and not only
about today.
Tommy is a simple story
about Eternal Life and Death.
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