thursday, december 6, 1979
pas 10
daily nebraskan
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Four Christmas concerts offered at Kimball Recital Hall
By Michael Wiest
Four Christmas events will be offered
this month by the UNL School of Music,
according to Ron Bowlin, director of Kim
ball Recital IlaU.
On Sunday the University Chorus will
perform at Kimball flail at 4 pjn. On
Tuesday, Dec. 11, the Varsity Glee and
University Chorale will perform at 8 p.m.
In this performance the University's
women's and men's choral groups will
combine to sing selections from Gaudete
by Anders Orwall, accompanied by flutes
and bassoon, and Christmas Cantata by
Daniel Pinkham, assisted by organ and
brass.
On Sunday, Dec. 16, the University
Orchestra and University Singers will per-
form J.s. Bach's Magnificat, as well as
Schoenberg's Christmas ballad, Friede auj'
Erden. Other selections will include Cop
land's Fanfare for the Common Man,
Mozart's Serenade No. 10, and R.
Schuman's Concert-stuck for Four Horns,
According to School of Music professor
Ed Bruner, the concert will be broadcast
simultaneously on radio station KUCV
and the Nebraska Educational Television
-Network.
Then on Monday, Dec. 17, Kimball Hall
will host the First Annual Community
Messiah Singalong. This will be an informal
performance open to the public. Singers in
terested in participating should bring their
own musical scores if possible. All orches
tral players should contact the Kimball
Hall Box Office to reserve a seat in the
orchestra. Orchestral music will be furnish
ed by the School of Music.
Events planned for next semester at
-Kimball Hall,will include the spring opera,
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, scheduled
for presentation by the UNL Opera
Theatre Feb. 7-10 and the fifth annual per
formance of The Nebraska Dance
Ensemble on Feb. 15 and 16.
The Kimball Performing Arts Series will
present the Guthrie Theatre and their pro
duction of Tennessee Williams' play The
Glass Menagerie on Feb. 25 and 26, the St.
Louis Symphony Orchestra on March 4
and the San Francisco Ballet on. March 1 1
and 12.
Hothouse showing
better than script
By Peg Sheldrick
It isn't often that a production is actually better than
the script it is based on, but such was the case with Megan
Terry's Hothouse as presented this week at UNL's Studio
Theatre.
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Thanks to several excellent performances and some
very skillful directing by Judith Pratt, the production
overcame the script's tendency to lapse into melodrama
and its lack of character growth to emerge as an intriguing
study in human Weakness. ... .
Set in Seattle, Wash., in 1955, the story concerns the
lives of a family of women who have learned to depend on
only two things in life: alcohol and one another. Jody,
still in high school and confused about her own identity,
was weaned on beer and raised by free-spirited Roz, a
vibrant, desperate woman whose favorite time in life was
the wild day-to-day existence she knew during World War
II. They live with Roz's crusty, raucous old Ma, a grande
dame who keeps her midget love? and her booze always
within arm's reach. -
The mother-daughter, relationships are subject to con
stant role reversal. Between Roz's sometime husband,
Jody's would-be fiance and the cavalcade of loonies re
. gularly stumbling in and out, their's is a hothouse full of
very aberrant hybrids indeed.
Patricia A. Raun was overwhelming as Roz, infusing
her character with a superlative blend of vivacity, pathos
and vitriol. The fine shadings of her performance madd
totally credible Roz's wild gyrations from ficiousness to
vulnerability, from her raunchy invitations to bed to her
plaintive pleas for a tender embrace.
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Devil psych ic to star
The Sheldon Film Theatre will be showing The
Devil Is A Woman, starring Marlene Dietrich, and
Make Me Psychic, an animated film on Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. : -,
The Devil Is A Woman is a 1935 film directed by
Josef Von Sternberg. Along with Make Me Psychic,
it will be shown at 7 and 9 on the three nights, with
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. Admission
is $2.50 ($2 for those 12 and under, and 65 and old
er.) - ; v . ..' ;
In addition, the Film Theatre will present' The
Children of Theater Street, a documentary about
the Kirov ballet school, Friday, Dec. 15 through
Sunday, Dec. 23 at 7 and 9 p jn., with Saturday and
Sunday matinees at 3 and 5 p.m. For this film, ad
mission is $3 and $2.50 for those 12 and under and
65 and older.
Women headed for easy street; conversation shows how
By Peg Sheldrick
"Man, women today have it so easy," he said.
"Really? That's a new one on me," she said.
"Well, sure, man. J mean, you got your affirmative
action plans, your women's lib movement, your Susan B.
Anthony dollar."
"Oh yeah. That Susan B. Anthony dollar sure has
changed my life. Had a real direct impact on me, I'm tell
ing you."
"Aw c'mon. You know what I mean. It like symbolizes
the new respect for women and like their place in
history."
"Oh really. Is that why you gave your's back to the
, clerk the other day and asked for a paper dollar?"
"No, man. I mean, it's not because it's a woman on the
coin. It's just that those dollar coins are inconvenient. I
mean, they're the same size as quarters. How's a guy
supposed to tell 'em apart?"
"Gee, I don't know, Size is important. I suppose you
have the same problem with one dollar bills and five dollar
bills and..." ,
"That's different."
"Oh. Thanks for clearing that up."
"YOU KNOW what I mean. I'm not just talking about
that coim I mean, you've got affirmative action. You got
the edge when it comes to getting jobs. You got all the
breaks."
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Chorus openings
The University Chorus of the UNL School of
Music is seeking singers from on and off campus.
Director Raymond Miller said chorus rehearsals
will be moved to Monday nights from 7:30 to 9:30.
Rehearsals will begin Jan. 14.
Prior to the first rehearsal, Miller will have
auditions for interested singers on Monday. Anyone
, interested should call the School of Music to arrange
an audition.
"You're absolutely right. Look at all those women
heading up those multinational corporations. They're
acing those men right out. It's amazing."
"Oh yeah? Well, there are a lot more women in politics
then there used to be, getting elected and like that. I
mean, a lot more women are in higher places."
"Name five."
"Well, there's . . . uh, Bella Abguz or whatever her
name is..."
"Not anymore, and it's Abzug."
"Okay. Five. Let's see . . . okay, got it. Rosalynn
Carter, urn, that nun that got the Nobel prize, uh, Queen
Elizabeth, Erma Bombeck, and, uh, Jane Fonda. So
there." . . " .
"Gee, all duly elected and frighteningly powerful. I'm
impressed."
"Okay, so they aren't exactly office-holders. At least
they're in the public eye. That's something, isn't it? At
least the media's paying some attention to you guys."
"AND WHAT influence they have. Look how fast the
ERA is moving."
"Hey, I know what that's all about, and I'm against it."
"Because you think you and I will have to use the same
bathroom, right?"
"You bet."
"Your political pcumen dazzles me."
"Okay, leave politics alone. What about TV? I hear a
lot about women's lib on TV."
"You mean on those commercials for panty hose and
mascara and hair spray?"
; "Yeah." ' . .
"Doesn't that strike you as just a touch ironic?"
"Okay, but there are a lot more women in important
parts on TV shows .. ."
"... wearing spike heels and hobble skirts and jiggling
like pornographic jello."
"Not all of 'em."
"Granted. But Grandma Walton doesnt really grab the
ratings, you know what I mean?"
"Look, what is it that you want? Don't you think
there s been any progress at all?"
"There must have been. Otherwise we wouldn't be
having this conversation."
