Arts&Entertainment
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Roger W. Stutheit, left, Carolyn Stutheit, Bill Fuller, Linda Fuller, Tom French and Pam French, all of Lincoln, dance
at the new bar Legends. The bar, 301 N. Corner, opened in October.
Sweatin’ to oldies
Legends night club features dining, dancing, live music, drink specials
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Legends, a blast from the past,
is Lincoln's newest “oldies” night
club.
As customers enter the club,
301 N. Corner St., they are greeted
with posters and other memorabil
ia that can take them back in time.
Further into the club, the walls are
lined with photographs of vintage
cars and restaurant signs.
Co-owner Roger Yant called
Legends “a place to relax. A place
to just have a good time.”
Rock-n-roll from the '50s, '60s,
’70s and early ’80s comprises the
music-jU Legends. Wednesday ,
through Saturday DJ's take re
quests from customers. Live mu
sic from local bands on the week
ends might be heard in the future,
Yant said.
Legends also plans to offer a
place for frustrated comedians to
perform, with an amateur comedy
night at least once a month. Yant
said anyone could participate in
amateur night.
Legends also offers a menu of
various hot and cold sandwiches.
Nothing on the menu is over $5.
Wednesdays and Thursdays are
reserved especially for for college
students, with specials that include
SO-cent draws and $1.99
margaritas.
The establishment is large, with
plenty of dining space, a dance
floor and, of course, a bar. Leg
ends also has a party and banquet
room upstairs available free of
charge.
Although Legends opened its
doors Oct. 18, the grand opening
is scheduled for Dec. 3 and 4. Dur
ing the grand opening the owners
will feature live music, an Elvis
impersonator and plenty of drink
specials.
Legends opens at 11 a.m. for
lunch. On Monday and Tuesday
closing time depends on the crowd.
Wednesday through Saturday the
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... a place to relax.
A place to just have
a good time.
—Yant,
Legends co-owner
-tf —
doors are open till 1 a.m.
Legends has a relaxed, friendly
atmosphere with a courteous staff.
Although Legends is a little off
the beaten path, it’s certainly worth
checking out.
—Elaine Clair \
New album
provides
alternative
in struggle
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing
Pumpkins and other alternative bands
provided National AIDS organiza
tions with “No Alternative” to AIDS
awareness.
“No Alternative,” a benefit album
that includes contributions from 21
alternative artists, was produced to
raise funds for AIDS organizations
worldwide.
The effort is being brought to Lin
coln with the help of Twisters record
stores, The Edge, and KKNB-FM,
104.1 The Planet. The businesses will
sponsor a listening party in coordina
tion with the Nebraska AIDS Project
on Wednesday.
John McCallum, owner of Twist
ers record stores, said the effort was
originated by the Red, Hot and Blue
organization to raise funding for Ac
quired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
' education and primary care.
“Artists have benefitted from their
talents and have communicated a suc
cessful art form and now they are
giving back to their community,” he
said.
McCallum said he wanted to bring
this national effort to Nebraska. The
proceeds from the album sales would
go to the Nebraska AIDS Project.
The Nebraska AIDS Project is a
statewide non-profit social service
agency that provides assistance to
HIV/AIDS patients and educates oth
ers to help stop the spread of the
virus.
Gary George, executive director
of NAP, said the proceeds from the
listening party would go to the case
management program in Lincoln to
provide HIV/AIDS education, assis
tance and support in and around the
area. NAP will also have an informa
tion booth at the party for direct do
nations.__
See ALTERNATIVE on 10
Theatre’s opening night deemed unenchanting turn-off
rress aisturos audience,
actors in one-act plays
I’d never seen anything like it.
KOLN/KGIN-TV, Channel 10/11, news
owes an apology to the Coffeehouse and its
Off Broadway, On Lincoln Theatre for ruining
opening night.
Some reporter — who’d obviously never
run a television camera before—came in part
way through Friday night’s first one-act, “The
Enchanted Mesa,” with her camera-mounted
light blazing so brightly it cast a shadow of the
audience upon the stage.
During the show she moved from the back
along the side till she was close enough to the
stage that the actors could have spit on her. I
would have, if I were one of them.
All this light and commotion obviously dis
tracted the actors.
When the stage lights went out for a dra
matic end to the scene, the camera light still
Hooded the small stage.
Actors had to make their entrances and
exits — along with set changes — in unex
pected illumination. f
In the following one-acts, “Piece for an
Audition,” and “Mike and Susan,” the players
adapted better than the first could have been
expected to; they came on stage forewarned
and forearmed.
But the audience had to endure this intoler
ably bright light — the reporter panned across
us between acts—for all of the first half, until
the 10/11 camera fiend was forced out by
audience complaints.
All this commotion going on at the time
makes clear criticism of the show a little diffi
cult.
But there are a couple of things that can be
said with some certainty.
Director Ron Silver should have been out
in the house the moment he realized what was
going on. He should have thrown that reporter
out on her ear, coverage be damned, and invit
ed her never to return — unless at a dress
rehearsal.
Nothing, no television coverage on 10/11,
should come before the show.
In the one-acts a similar lack of directorial
strength could be noted.
The stage at the Coffeehouse is very small.
That’s no liability, some great theater has
happened on similar stages. And the intimacy
of the space should be an actual advantage.
But I’d be willing to bet that not many of
the actors had done any work in such intimate
quarters.
When an actor who’s used to prancing
around an enormous stage gets into a tight
comer with an audience, it takes great person
al strength from the director to get them to
calm down and be still.
See THEATRE on 10
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