Arts & Entertainment
Athletic schedules hinder musical bookings
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Sul'f Reporter_
New personnel and having the
right facilities at the wrong time is
hindering the University Program
Council's ability to book national
acts on campus.
John Fremstad, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s major concerts
coordinator, successfully booked
bands such as Def Leppard and Van
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culty working around the university
athletic schedule, he said.
Fremstad is completing his first
year at the University of Nebraska as
concert coordinator.
The athletic schedules prevent
bands from performing at Bob Dcva
ncy Sports Center from mid-October
to April 1.
“Athletics come first (at the Uni
versity of Nebraska),” Fremstad
said.
Despite bands’ willingness to play
at the university, Midwest tour dales
often conflict with the athletic sea
son, he said.
The Sports Center is Nebraska’s
best facility for large concerts, be
cause it scats 1 ,(X)() more people than
other Nebraska auditoriums, Frcm
stad said.
The Sports Center also has a better
sound system than Pershing and
Civic auditoriums, he added.
Thus, NU is often the first place tour
promoters contact when coming to
Nebraska. However, the UPC is
forced to turn them down due to
conflicts with the athletic schedule,
Fremstad said.
The Oct. 19 Del Leppard concert
was plagued by a technical problem
and disagreements between tour
manager Charles Hernandez and
Sports Center officials.
Hernandez was upset by the
band’s treatment. The major prob
lems began when Jerry Lott, superin
tendent of the Sports Center, and the
band’s crew disagreed on how to
handle the lighting and sound equip
ment.
The concert was behind schedule
by four hours. Fans weren’t let in on
lime, and opening band L.A. Guns
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Job is never done ror
costume supervisor
By Jim Hanna
Stall Reporter
l ast Saturday, when the cur
iam fell on the theater arts and
dance department’s season-end
ing production of “Three Sis
ters." it marked the beginning of
the end of another hectic theater
season for Ann Watson.
Watson carries the relatively
low-profile tide of costume shop
supervisor at the University of
Nebraska-Lincofn. In effect, she
keeps the costuming efforts for
theater and dance productions
running smoothly.
As her 15th year in the position
ends, she w ill turn her attention to
returning her shop into a neutral
state before The Nebraska Reper
tory I heater begins its prepara
tions m late May. The productions
lor the UNI. season may be over,
but Watson’s job is almost never
done.
"It involves working with the
sloek. keeping the inventory a bit.
knowing where things are when
people need it," she said. "It in
volves stitching the new things
dial come up, it involves working
with the people that are assigned
lo work here on a projector people
that know what they’re doing
when they’re already here -- the
graduate students and the work
study people, am f talking too
last?”
It s>he is talking too last, nobody
could blame her. The deadlines lor
productions often have her work
ing quickly.
To help her with all of this
work, Watson is provided with an
"army” of young workers. In
addition to graduate assistants and
work-study students, Watson has
several students from the intro
ductory theater course. Theater
112, who must work on technical
crew s as part of their class require
ments.
“It’s really fun to have the
variety of people who come
through here on projects. I
counted this semester; we had 75
people on 112 projects alone,”
she said.
Watson is responsible for coor
dinating these workers, some of
whom have little or nocxpcricncc.
Although it may be hard to keep a
handle on all ol these students and
still lullill her other costume shop
obligations, Watson refuses to let
the pressure negatively effect her
perfonnance.
“Pressure is only as great as
you let it be to yourself,” she said.
“I find that I don’t work well
under pressure and I don’t think
other people do either, so I try to
keep that at a minimum. We try to
keep it cool. We get done what we
get done. This is theater, it’s not
cancer research.
“Years hack, when we started
this project of having so many
112>crs here... it was supposed to
be an experience that would make
people want to come back to thea
ter. So my interpretation of that is
to never let it he a had experi
ence.”
Watson has become so gtxxl at
making the costume shop a posi
tive place to be that she was re
cently nominated for the Sue
Tidball award, which recognizes
creative humanity and contribu
tion to a caring environment at
UNL. Watson received five letters
of recommendation from her
friends and co-workers who no
ticed and appreciated her positive
work.
“What it means for me? It was
a big thank-you for being me, l
guess,” she said. “It says that I’m
doing okay being me. I get a
chance to be just me and that’s
okay.”
Watson admits, however, that
she was not as prepared as she
might have been for work in thea
ter costuming when she took the
job in 1975.
‘‘I didn’t have a lot of back
ground as far as period,” she said.
“You know, what makes this a
Renaissance dress as opposed to
this being an empire waistline.”
Now, the period work is one of
the most interesting aspects of her
job.
“Wc get to work on things
from all eras. ‘The Devils’ was set
in 14(X), and Coastal Distur
bances’ was modem and wc work
on the dress ol all t ypett through all
‘‘It’s always^!
experience. I hqgc
ing until the dayTteavc/’ she said.
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Anne Watson, costume designer for the UNL theater department, fits a mannequin at her
shop in the basement of the Temple Building. Watson has designed costumes for UNL
productions for 15 years, but says she has no favorites.
‘I suppose the last one is always good because it’s done,” she said.
‘Major League’ prompts reviewer to crave hot dogs
Shut Up and Watch the Movie is
written by Lisa Donovan, a junior
news-editorial major and William
Rudolph, a sophomore English ma
jor.
Lir.a Donovan: Even though
‘ ‘ Major League” was a rip-off of the
1988 baseball movie “Bull Dur
ham,” it was a well-done, mindless
little film.
William Rudolph: Isn’t it funny
how, as the movie went on, the stupid
jokes got funnier, the cliched charac
ters got more likable, and Tom Ber
enger grew more and more like Kevin
Costner?
LD: In many ways, “Major
League” corrected Bull Durham’s
mistakes, especially where the minor
roles arc concerned. Especially Bob
Ucckcr, who played Henry Doyle,
the “Harry Carey” announcer of the
Cleveland Indians.
WR: How ‘bout those Cleveland
Indians? Well, for one thing, they’re
a washed-up team who haven’t won a
pennant in 35 years. Maybe that’s
because their players are washed up.
We’re talking the dregs of the league,
here. They’re so bad, the team’s ex
Las Vegas show girl owner is trying to
sabotage their season in order to
move to Florida.
LD: Let the plot begin. After se
lecting what William calls the dregs
of the league, spring training begins.
This is where we meet the handsome,
sensitive stud Jake Taylor (Tom Iter
engcr), tough ex-convict Kick
Vaughn (Charlie Sheen, again) ami
the bh-so-pretty rich man Don
(Corbin Bcrnsen).
WR: No one expects these Iom i
to win. They’ve all got personal pro!
lems, not to mention the tact that tltes
can’t play better than many slov,
Kilch teams. For that matter, I played
eltcr in T-ball and I was terrible. Bin
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