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Legislative funds rescue
Musical Theater shows
By BUI Roberts
Relying on box office receipts to pay
for UNL's musical theater and opera pro
ductions would threaten the shows'
purpose, said David Fowler, vice director
of the School of Music.
"If receipts are your only source," he
said, "then you have to emphasize
commercial appeal rather than the
educational value for students-both those
participating and those who ought to go."
The Legislature i3 coming to the musical
theater's financial rescue with $34,735,
part of a three-year Area of Excellence
appropriation.
The UNL School of Music received
$86,505 this yea: for upgrading designated
areas of study, Fowler said. The remainder
goes toward starting a new curriculum and
improving the school's instruments, he
added.
The last time box office receipts
covered production costs was when Fiddler
on the Roof was produced in the fall of
1973, Fowler said. Last month's musical,
Showboat, cost about Si 2,000, .he said,
and brought in only $8,500 despite four
sell out performances.
The school probably could get more
money with more performances, he said,
but the extra work would not be of
educational value for the students in the
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"Four to five shows on a weekend is .
a maximum for college students, Fowler
said. '
The School of Music tries to schedule
a mixture of what Fowler called "popular"
and "heavy, serious" shows. He said lest
year's The King and I, which played to
full houses, helped offset the low box
office appeal of The Gonad, an opera by
Menctti.
The musical theater's next production
will be Cossi Fan Tutti, an opera by
Mozart, scheduled to open at the end of
January.
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Baby Doe. Both have gone on
to advanced study in opera,
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thern California and Brand
s tetter with- the Minnesota
Opera Company.
Live entertainment
Nightfall
improves this week
By K. Alice Betts
I have always been baffled by Lincoln's
approach to live entertainment. There
seems to be a disregard for diversity and
quality. I suppose money, like anything
else, governs the caliber of performers.
However, fate or coincidence has bless
ed our humble night scene with talent and
variety this week.
Fanny's-9A and '-The musical repertoire
of Surely is an interesting concoction of
harmony and melody. Their music features
the nifty fifty, top forty, et al, suitable for
both dancing and listening. (Monday
through Saturday)
Little Bo's West-267A and Comhusker-Tox
nostalgia fanatics, Big Al and the Hi Fi's
are believably reminiscent of the fifties.
Expect nothing more and nothing less.
(Monday through Saturday)
Little Bo's Center-267A and Comhusder
Cricket has become a musical tradition for
the "college crowd" (yuk). They are a
witty, versatile and contemporary show
group.
Z00-VJ6 A". 14th-1hc Blue Grass Crusade
is one of the finest Midwest groups of
bluegrass musicians. They fiddle, pick and
strum the invigorating sounds of the hills.
(Thursday through Saturday)
Goal tost-1023 O Street-Jon Emery has
developed a country-western style which
never fails to stimulate the homegrown
spirit. (Friday and Saturday)
Open L&tch-13th and Z-Dave Landis,
on guitar, has a most penetrating and
powerful voice, yet his music creates a
subtle aura. After a hectic day, Landis
provides a peaceful aftermath. (Saturday)
By Theodore M. Bernstein
Heavenly words. It all began with a dis
cussion Arthur J. Morgan of New York was
having concerning an adjective form related
to me pianei venus. .nc uiun
word Venusian, which appears in dictionar-
iV hut seems to him to have too much of a
sci-fi sound.
Another possibility is venereal, which is
related to Venus and love, but is normally
restricted to physical or medical uses.
Then he started to think of adjectival
derivatives from the names of other planets
and came up with mercurial; martian and
martial; Jovian and jovial, and saturnine,
Saturnalian and Satumian. Interesting if
a bit useless.
No like. A previous column took up a
point presented by a reader concerning the
sentence tHe looks like me," and asking
whether it should be, "He looks like I."
The column ruled in favor of me, and now
Richard Klein of Philadelphia writes that in
his opinion I is also correct.
In that sentence, he argues, like is used
as a conjunction introducing the clause "I
. look" (with the "look" understood) and
hence the, nominative pronoun I must be
used because it is the subject of the under
stood verb.
There is only one trouble with the argu
ment: just about any dictionary will tell
you that the use of like as a conjunction is
improper, with the labels ranging from
colloquial to illiterate.
The day may come-and probably will
come-when like will be acceptable as a
conjunction, but that day is not here yet.
(c) 1979 Tfeaotfora M. Bamstein
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