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Nebraskan I Give it a shot > HuskerVision celebration — Tonight’s gala will combine a pep rally with an official introduction to Memorial Stadium’s new giant-sized ^replay screens to Husker Also featured will be a performance |^ g Mk fl| Hgkk flk by the Comhusker Marching M WK0 H The Millions — ^ H gg^^k W . W hometown makes an appearance T H ’ A ▼ ■ H ^k ^____F ^^^k ^^k Childhood fantasy comes alive By Paula Lavlgne Senior Reporter Within the tales of classic childhood fan tasy lies the key to unlocking the progression of death, birth and regrowth in “The Secret Garden.” The popular chidren’s novel by Francis Hodgson Burnett will come to life when a national touring company brings the Broad way musical adaptation to the Lied Center for Performing Arts main stage this week end. “The Secret Garden” tells the tale of Mary Lennox, a young orphan girl who is sent to live with her widowed uncle in the English moors in 1906. The young girl discovers an enclosed, locked garden overrun with vegetation; and the mystery begins. Mary befriends the maid’s younger brother, Dickon, and the two set out to investigate the estate. They stumble upon Mary’s sickly cousin, Colin, lying in his bedroom. The three set off on a mission to bring life and love to each other, and to unlock the mystery of the secret garden. Alee Ralph, the touring company’s pro duction manager, said “The Secret Garden” remained a timeless classic because of its childhood idealism. “It is the story of death, birth and re growth, which is sort of a child's fantasy,” he said. Show: “The Secret Garden” At: Lied Center for Performing Arts Times: 8 p.m. today and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $28, $24, and $20, available at box office; student tickets are half-price L L . A world void of parents and authorities is every child’s dream, Ralph said. “If you really place yourself in the posi tion of Mary and see things from a child’s point of view,” Ralph said. “A child’s reality is very different.” He said “The Secret Garden” was univer sally appealing. “I just saw it this weekend, and the adults were crying as much as the kids were,” he said. “It’s just a classic everyone sort of knows.” Ralph said touring with a cast of children was very different. A trained, adult professional can accept a role and translate it into a performance, he said. A child wants to know why, when and how a character acts. “Adults are working from life experi ences they’ve accumulated,” he said. “Chil dren don’t have these experiences to draw from.” This doesn’t mean children are any less professional, Ralph said. He said some of the children in the cast had more experience than some of the adults — and it showed. “The Secret Garden” opened on Broad way in 1991 and captured three Tony Awards. Since then, the show has been touring across the nation under the direction of Victoria Bussert. “The SecretGarden” will open at the Lied Center at 8 p.m. tonight. Additional perfor mances will be Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sun day at 2 p.m. Tickets are $28, $24 and $20. Student tickets are half-price. Photos courtesy of Big League Theatricals Abovo: Tho cast of tho Big Lookup Thoatricals touring company of Tho Sscrot Cardin," which will stop at His Uod Cantor for PorfonnlnS Arts this wookond. Top: Wobocca Stovons Is Mary Lsnnox, an orphan, In ThoSocrot Gordon. " Cornhusker band prepares for first performance 8y f auta Lavlgw Senior Reporter “Ten hut! Ten hut!” When Erin Beave hears th is com mand Saturday, he’ll be at attention on the field of Memorial Stadium. But Beave isn’t a football player. He’s a trumpet player. Beave, a senior music major, and the other 284 members of the Comhusker Marching Band, will start preparing at 9 a.m. Saturday for their first home game perfor mance. The band starts the day with a rehearsal that runs until 10:45 a.m. From then until 12:30 p.m., they are allowed to eat, prepare their equip ment and get into their uniforms. They meet in the band room at Westbrook Music Building and run through the halftime show. Then the show begins. They line up and march down to Memorial Stadium. Saturday’s game will be Beave’s 28th home-game performance. “I wasn’t really nervous until I got into the tunnel and realized 76,000 people would see every move I made,” Beave said. “I wouldn’t exactly call Satur day morning relaxed,” he said, “but it’s not a high pressure situation.” Becky McGuire, a senior music education major, knows the mean ing of pressure. She’s the head drum major and is responsible for calling out the commands and getting ev eryone in line. “It’s a lot of excitement,” she said. “For people who haven’t marched before, it’s quite an expe rience to see all those people in red and white cheering and screaming.” McGuire said much of the morn ing was spent polishing music and running over commands. “My main job is being on the ladder and conducting, which is a lot of keeping time and giving dy namics and being a reference point for what’s coming up,” she said. There are combinations of ver bal and whistle commands McGuire and the other drum majors use. “Ten hut! Ten hut!” calls the band to attention. “Mark, time, hut!” prepares the band to “forward “It’s a lot of excitement. For people who haven't marched before, it’s quite an experience to see all those people in red and white cheering and screaming. ” ■ BECKY MCGUIRE Comhusker Marching Band head drum major march.” “Parade rest” instructs the band members to stand at rest. McGu ire said the specific move ments depended on the individual and his or her instrument. The mu sicians’ spots are marked on drill charts diagraming the program, which the band runs back and forth unti I the members learn their charted positions. See BAND on 18