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Thursday, October 27,1994 Page 9
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and Paul Naa.
Judybats’ lyrics pot brews
a mix of pop, punk, rock
By Joel Stmuch
Senior Reporter
The popular Southern pop band
Judybats will be flying into Lin
coln for the first time tonight and
will be hanging at The Hurricane.
The diverse-sounding band is
touring coast-to-coast on the re
lease of its fourth full-length al
bum, paradoxically entitled, “Full
Empty.”
Jeff Heiskell, the lead singer
and lyricist for the ‘Bats said the
tour had been going well.
“We’ve been out for about a
month and a half now and we’ve
been playing every night,” he said.
The haunting lyrics and mix of
pop, punk and rock on their new
album give it a decidedly different
Show: Judybats
At: The Hurricane, 1118 O St.
Time: 9:30 tonight
Tickets: $6 at the door
flavor from much of the band’s
older stuff.
“We have a lot more electric
guitar on the new album which
makes it more organic sounding,”
he said.
Heiskell said that the crowds
had been really responsive to the
band’s new material, but were still
fans of the earlier music.
“People seem to like the new
stuff, but they keep hollering for
songs from the first album,” he
said
Heiskell writes all the songs for
the band and said that he used ‘ liv
ing and literature’ to stimulate his
lyrical inspirations.
“I read pretty much every
thing,” he said. WI read quite a bit
of Southern fiction, but I don’t
limit myself to that.”
Trov “Bubba” Way, the man
ager of The Hurricane, said he was
hoping for a big college crowd.
“They’re a great band. They’re
kind of a mix between Hank Will
iams and R.E.M.,” he said.
“They’ve got a real organic feel
ing about them.”
The Irish band Lir will be open
ing for the ‘Bats and will take the
stage around 9:30 p.m.
Emotional problems
link sisters’ hearts
By Paula Lavlgn*
Senior Reporter
One neurotic, one murderer
and one wild spirit have one
thing in common — blood.
The three characters are the
Magrath sisters in Beth Henley’s
play “Crimes of the Heart” play
ing at the Studio Theatre this
weekend.
The Magraths are far from or
dinary. Their father ran away and
their mother hung herself in the
cellar, along with the cat.
In 1974, Hurricane Camille
hit their hometown of Hazlehurst,
Miss., and the sisters went their
separate ways.
Lennv, the oldest, is on the
verge of a nervous breakdown.
Babe, the youngest, is in jail for
shooting her abusive husband.
Once a singer, Meg, the middle
sister, moved to a psychiatric
ward and then to the accounting
office of a dog food company.
The sisters reunite five years
later upon Babe’s release from
prison and confront their differ
ences.
Randall Wheatley, the show’s
director, said the play empha
sized “coming home.”
“It’s about the security and
love that we desperately need,
and we get that from our home,”
he said. ”... The play is about our
emotions and what we feel and
how we deal with love and fam
ily. It’s about caring.”
Lenny, played by UNL alumna
Catherine Jarboe, never left
home. She stayed to take care of
her ailing grandfather. When
Babe returns, she also becomes
Lenny’s responsibility.
“She’s the oldest, most intro
verted and neurotic,” Jarboe said,
“and all of this is because she has
this shrunken ovary and can’t
really deal well with men.”
Show: “Crimes of the Heart”
At: Studio Theatre, Temple
Building
Times: 8:00 tonight through
Sunday, Nov. 1 through 5
and 2:00 p.m. Sunday
Tickets: $9, $7 for faculty,
staff and senior citizens;
and $6 for students;
available at Studio
Theatre
Lenny and her sisters are
“quirky, southern women” who
add to the play’s bizarre black
comedy, Jarboe said.
“The way Beth Henley writes,
she creates depth characters with
neuroses and problems, and these
are all flushed out with the ca
tharsis of Babe shooting her hus
band.”
“It’s just a sweet little south
ern story,” she said, laughing. “If
you have any skeletons in the
closet, they come out at this
point.”
The most notorious skeleton
in Hazlehurst’s closet continues
to haunt the Magraths after Babe,
played by Alice Perry, shot her
husband Zackery.
Perry, a senior psychology
major at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln, said the shooting
“was the scandal of the town.”
“It was bad and it wasn’t ex
pected of her,” Perry said. “It was
certainly not looked highly up on
social circles.”
Babe turned to her sisters for
help and they took her in —
bringing a whole new set of prob
lems into the picture.
Meg’s complication arises
with her lost love, Doc Porter,
See CRIMES on 10
Christian singer offers fans
a taste of heaven in Omaha
iy John Fulwldf
Staff Reporter
Heaven is only 55 miles away.
“Heaven in the Real World,” the
concert tour, that is.
Steven Curtis Chapman, one of
the first Christian contemporary
artists to successfully cross over to
the pop mainstream, tonight brings
his tour to the Omaha Civic Audi
torium arena.
The show originally was sched
uled for the 2,500-seat Music Hall,
but demand for tickets prompted
Grace College of the Bible, the lo
cal sponsor, to move the concert
to the larger arena, which scats
4,600.
The clamor for tickets might be
due partly to the popularity of
Chapman’s opening act, the News
boys. The Australian alternative
band’s third album, “Going Pub
lic,” is at No. 2 on Billboard
magazine’s Top Contemporary
Christian chart, right behind
Chapman’s “Heaven in the Real
World”
But Chapman still is the prime
attraction for many. He is the win
ner of three Grammys and 20 Dove
awards (Christian music’s equiva
lent of the Grammy).
Chapman said the aim of his
tour, wnich will be seen by more
than half a million people in the
United States and 35 foreign cit
ies, wasn’t just to share what he
believed.
He said his goal also was to
“show that belief is important, that
it can make a difference, that it can
be put to action, that there can be
meaning to all this we’re going
through.”
Chapman said the “Heaven In
the Real World” theme of his al
bum and the tour had been in his
head for almost his entire
songwriting career.
“People are searching, looking
for meaning in life. Our job is to
show them heaven in the real
world,” he said.
The tour is being sponsored by
Prison Fellowship Ministries,
headed by Charles Colson, the
former special counsel to President
Nixon who served a prison term
Show: Steven Curtis
Chapman
At: Civic Auditorium, Omaha
Time: 7:30 tonight
Tickets: $19.75 and $17.75,
available from Ticketmaster
for his involvement in Watergate.
For every “Heaven in the Real
World” compact disc or cassette
purchased through Nov. 26, Spar
row (Chapman’s record label) will
donate a “Heaven in the Real
World” cassette to children of in
carcerated parents.
“Prison Fellowship is striking
at the root of the crime crisis that
is gripping our countiy by bring
ing the Gospel and Christian love
to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their
families,” Chapman said.
The point Chapman wants to
make through his concert is this:
“Hope can be found.”
Courtesy of Sparrow Racords
Steven Curtis Chapman, winner af thraa Grammy
awards, will appear tanight In concert at the Omaha
Civic Auditorium arana.