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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.
