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Page 8 Daily Nebraskan Monday, January 19, 1937 C o j o o a a n nn "frn I ffs t?ttttt Chubby Checker got no respect at Metro New Car Expo if . V V 5i I v ! WW -rY s v-A x .-nruia- - si it I - .s MONDAY Taco - Rito 69c WEDNESDAY Taco 49 C SoftTaco 69 TUESDAY Machos $1.89 THURSDAY Combination Burrito S9C ( LlOJ) Classes University Health Center FIRMER BODY T-Th 12:10-12:50 T-Th 5:10-6:00 Feb. 2 thru Mar. 13 City Campus Both Campuses BREATHE-FREE PLAN TO STOP SMOKING Feb. 10, 12, 15-19, & 24 7-9 p.m. H.C. Conf. Room AN ACTIVE WAY TO WEIGHT CONTROL M 9:30-11:00 W 9:30-10:20 and 2 days per week for 10 weeks starting Feb. 16 Registration forms can be picked up at the Community Health Dept. in the Univ. Health Center lower level. Call for more information at 472-7440. For all those schedules that just don't mesh . . . ... let UNL Independent study help. Day and night testing hours; syllabi available for examination before you sign up. Visit room 269, Nebraska Center, 33rd and Holdrege, or call 472-1926 for information. 01 UNL Is a non-discriminatory Institution Campus Make A Positive Lifestyle Choice! Classes Forming NOW! AEROBIC CONDITIONING Feb. 2 thru Mar. 13 M-W-F 12:10-12:50 Both Campus M-W-F 5:10-6:00 Both Campuses T-Th 4:00-4:50 City Campus By Stew Magnuson Senior Reporter I couldn't think of a worse situa tion in which to see a concert. Chubby Checker, Mr. Twist himself, was playing at the Metro New Car Expo. Chubby was just a lure, I'm afraid. He was just an act, used to bring in people who wouldn't nor mally want to stop in at Pershing Auditorium just to look at all the new 1987 car models. Concert Review About 20 feet separated the new cars and the stage. Fake hedges lined the area to make it seem as if I was shopping for new cars in my neighbor's backyard. When Checker hit the stage, the lights were dimmed just a little. The car dealers wouldn't want the lights so low that someone couldn't browse for a new car while listening to Chubby do "Pony Time." Chubby came out and played a few token new songs. Nothing I can't hear every day on FM radio stations. Chubby said in a phone interview with me last week that he can't help being influenced by the music he s heard through the years. Who couldn't? But I think he's been listening to the wrong music. Well, never mind those new songs. Chubby finally got into some clas sics, a medley of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis tunes, all crowd pleasers. The 12 little kids, too young to remember the Stray Cats, let alone Chubby Checker, enjoyed the show. Then again, I'm too young to remember Chubby Checker, and I'm 23, for gosh sake! Well, the lights were on, the V Linda StoryDaily Nebraskan Chubby Checker twists the night.away. atmosphere was lousy, and the acoustics were terrible, but Chubby made the most of it. He got a few people up with him to twist and shake. He played some of his hits "The Twist," "Let's Twist Again" and a great version of "Twist and Shout." Chubby played an hour. There was no encore, and afterwards he signed autographs. On the way out, I bought a car. Actors nominated for award 'Checkov in Yalta' to compete A play presented by University Theatre-Lincoln has been selected for performance in the Region V Competi tion of the American College Theatre Festival on the University of Iowa campus. "Chekhov in Yalta," presented in UNL's Studio Theatre in the Temple Building in November, will be presented at 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, in the University of Iowa's Mabie Theatre. The play was one of six selected for performance in the regional festival from productions by colleges and universities in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. "Checkov in Yalta" is based upon a real event in the life of famed Russian playwright Anton Checkov. It was written by Jeffrey Haddow and John Driver and won the 1981- Los Angeles Drama Critics Distinguished Playwriting If vuUWi (Ml) fs 1 WIL Hundreds to choose from Downtown buys used records, cassettes & compact discs. 217 No. 11th 472-6061 Award and an American Critics Citation, and was included in Best Plays of 1980-81. The UNL production was a directing project involving the combined talents of seven advanced directing students under the guidance of Rex McGraw, chairman of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. The students, including Christopher Carmouche of Gary, Ind., who was also production stage manager, were Connie Layton, Bountiful, Utah; Jack Parkhurst, a Ralston teacher on leave to earn his MFA degree; Sam Schimek, Lincoln; Bruce Tinker, Ander son, Ind; Scott Tomhave, Lincoln; and William Trotter, Lawrence, Kan. McGraw and all the members of the directing team also act in the production. Tinker, who appears in the play as the writer Ivan Bunin, and Cynthia Totten, a Ph.D! student from Basile, La., who portrays Chekhov's sister, Masha, were nominated for the pres tigious Irene Ryan Award. """" I ,. m N I I . 1 R I I I i I Lai Ml It ' r i v l l l l i j rnrriw ' WWW