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6 Arts & Entertainment _g.... - . — — ... — i Lincoln eventful during break By Micki Ilaiier Senior Kditor When the dust settles from the stampede of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students fleeing to rural relaxation or beach side hedonism, some brave souls will be left to survive spring break in Lincoln. Whether the obligations arc work, study, social or simply sanity-pre serving, there’s still a little something going on in town to break up the monotony. Theater “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” Neil Simon's autobiographical comedy, will still be running during spring break at the Lincoln Community Playhouse. Performances start at 8 p.m. today, Saturday and Thursday through March 27. For those who have trekked to far places and can’t get back for these performances, additional performances are April 1, 2, 7,8 and 9. Matinees will be staged on Sunday and April 10 at 2:30 p.m. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, those over 18 with current student ID can get tickets for half price at the door 30 minutes before the perform ance. Otherwise, ticket prices for Thurs day and Sunday performances are $8 for adults and $4 for those under 18. For Friday and Saturday perform ances, tickets are $10 for adults and I $5 for youth. t “Frankenstein,” presented by the I Guthrie Theater, could be the last I show the theater plays in Lincoln. The I company has announced plans to indefinitely end touring. The adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous novel will be performed at i Kimball Recital Hall tonight. I Tickets are $ 11 and $ 15, and UNL I students can get tickets for half price, c The pla\ starts at 8 p.m.; preperfor- f mance talks start at 7:30 p.m. in 1 For those tired of theater, “The Whales of August” will be playing at the Sheldon Film Theater today through Sunday and March 23-27. Performances arc at 7 and 9 p.m., and at 3 and 5 p.m. on Sunday and March 27. The movie will still be playing after spring break from March 30 to April 1. Orchestra and chorus On Sunday, the Lincoln Youth Symphony will perform at Kimball Westbrook Music Building 119. “Holy Ghosts,” a story about Pen tecostal snake-handlers, will still be playing Friday and Saturday at Temple’s Studio Theater. Tickets are S8 for the general public and S6 for UNL students and senior citizens. Performances start at 8 p.m. On Thursday, the Omaha tribe’s Hcthu’shka (Warrior) Society dance performance will be in Olin B at Nebraska Wesleyan University at 50th and Huntington streets. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Lincoln Community Playhouse auditions will be held for the musical “Mack and Mabel” on March 26 and 27 from 2 to 5 p.m. For students who leave town for spring break, there is nnc audition on March 28 from 7 to 10 p.m. The auditions will be at the Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500 5. 56 St. On Tuesday, a one-day conference ltled “Telecommunications: A Look o the Future” will be at the Corn msker Hotel. The exhibits are open to | he general public from 9 a.m. to 7 . ).m. The registration fee is S25. This conference is part of the year ong “Celebrate Nebraska ’88.” And finally, for the legally en angled, Nebraska ETV Network iresents “Nebraskans Ask: Ask a .awyer.” A panel of experts will field < alls about legal issues facing the < arm community. The program airs hursday at 9:30 p.m. ( Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Also at 8 p.m. Sunday, Abendmu sik Chorus and Nebraska Chamber Orchestra will perform Webber’s “Requiem” at First Plymouth Con gregational Church, 2()th and D streets. Tickets arc $9.25 for adults, $6.25 for students and senior citizens in advance or $ 10.75 and $7.75 at the door. The Nebraska Ja/z Orchestra will present its third concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Hilton Hotel. Woodchopper’s Ball is the theme of this concert, which will feature the music of Woody Herman. The world premiere of Randall Snyder’s new piece, “Quctzalcoatl,” also will be performed. Tickets arc S8 and S6 at the door, with a $2 discount for students at 7:25 p.m. Doors open at 7. Nebraska Wesleyan University’s swing choir, “Touch” of Class, will present its spring concert at 8 p.m. March 25 in the O'Donnell Audito rium of the Rogers Center for Fine Arts. The group just returned from its annual spring lour in Arizona and California. And more For students determined to make something of their spring break, a beginning glass-blowing workshop will be offered March 26 and 27 at Wesleyan University in the Lucas Art Building. The workshop, sponsored in part by the Nebraska Arts Council and bresented by Ray Schullze of Kear icy, costs $25. Schullze will work with students n 45-minute sessions assisting with techniques, problems and possibili ties of off-hand blown glass. Sand blasting designs and slumping glass bver three-dimensional forms will ilso be covered. A free hour-long lecture and dem mstralion will be March 26 at 9 a.m. . Due to a large, boisterous snow storm over Kansas and northern Oklahoma, the Juke Jumpers of Fort Worth, Texas, had to cancel their scheduled Friday and Saturday ap pearances at the Zoo Bar. Replacing them will probably be Lincoln’s B and the Hot Notes. Other bands playing during spring break at local venues include The Swaydos, The Blue Crew, Charlie I Burton, Ida McBcth and Magic Slim at the Zoo; Private Eyes and comedi ans Steve Gales and Tim Slcgle at the Royal Grove; and Tuna Fish Jones, the Confidentials, Project S and the Shakes at Duffy’s. • The School of Music at the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln will host high school students from throughout Nebraska today during its annual Audition and Career Day. In addition to providing opportu nities for students to meet with faculty advisers and plan college programs, the career day program will include attending open rehearsals of School of Music ensembles. Auditions, required ol all prospec tive music majors and minors and applicants for music scholarships, will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building. Laura Johanson, a senior home economics major, studies under a serigraph by Cecile Broz Thursday afternoon at the Coffee House. The name of the work is “Alienation of X and Y after a Garden Evening.” American Music Club Two alternative-music bands to play at Duffy’s next week By Ken Havlat Staff Reviewer Out-of-town alternative music, the way The Drumstick used to bring it, rears its ugly head as Duffy’s presents the American Music Club Wednesday and Flying Color March 25. American Music Club, from San Francisco, got its start in 1984 w hen Mark Eit/cl and Vudi.both in bands on the verge of breaking up, got together to see if there was any interest in forming a band. In 1985, the third AMC (there were two previous versions) be came an acoustic outfit and re corded “The Restless Stranger.” Four versions of the band later, the band released their second LP, “Engine,” late last fall on Frontier/ Grifter Records. Both albums have an acoustic feeling and evoke a rustic feeling without sounding old. Music like this, of someone’s intro spective thoughts, seems much easier to relate to than most top-40 material. Flying Color began in October 19X4 when the band members wanted to play infectious pop in the tradition of Bad finger and The Flamin’ Groovies. On their sclf litlcd debut album, the Flying Color musicians have developed a sound featuring riveting guitars swirling about with a solid rhythm section. Their single on Cryptovision brought the band high praise and was a w ay for people to gel a taste of the band. “We were trying to write classic pop songs,” said bass player Dale Duncan. “On our next LP we are hoping to see more of a theme on it.” “We are not trying to be a Dylan ora Bono, where they feel they have to be political,” said Duncan. “We like to be subliminal about it.” The San Francisco-based band hopes to begin its next l.P in May. Cover for the shows w ill be $2 at Duffy’s, 1412 0 St. Local bands 13 Nightmares w ill open for American Music Club, and Trout Mystery w ill open for Flying Color. Flying Color Coffee House displays artwork by past and present students By Mark Lage Staff Reporter A new ari exhibit is on display in downtown Lincoln's Coffee House. The exhibit, which opened March 6 and runs through April 16, features the works of four artists: Paul Sheri dan, Sue Kouma, Karl Stephen and Cecilc Broz. “The four artists represented arc all currently or have been UNL stu dents, ’said Rob Benton, organizerof the shop s art shows. “However, this is not necessarily true of past or future Coffee House exhibits.” Sheridan is a sophomore at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln working toward a bachelor of fine arts degree, and his specialty is earth enware and stoneware pottery, Ben ton said. His display features a num ber of fairly small stoneware items that are subtly designed in tans and browns. Kouma’s mixed-media illustra tions arc the most varied of the dis play. She combines a variety of paints into illustrations ranging from several brightly colored, abstract representations of people to more earthy-toned pictures of fish. Kouma has received a BFA. Stephen, who has also received a BFA.has many photographs on dis play, both black-and-white and color. His photographs feature stark, desolate city scenes, involving things like parking garages, old houses and old city buildings. The black-and white pictures feature striking light ing and shadow effects. Broz has a masters of fine arts degree and teaches at an Iowa col lege, said Benton. Her works arc scrigraphs, which Benton described as “a silk-screen process in which omy a certain number per edition are made.” Her scrigraphs are brightly, sometimes flourcsccntly, colored abstractions, often juxtaposed with a black background. All of the works on display are for sale. Benton lakes 25 percent of the selling price for his duties in organiz ing the shows and the artists receive the rest. “The Coffee House doesn’t take anything,” Benton said. Benton *s a*so an arl student at UNL. He is a senior working toward a BFA whose main areas of interest are pottery, sculpture and prints. This-exhibit will remain on dis play until April 16 at the Coffee House, 1324 PS t. Prices and contacts lor interested buyers arc posted next to each work.
