Love, sex and IRS create chaos
By John Fulwider
Staff Reporter
Imagine claiming your male room
mate as your wife on your taxes for
years. Now you’re being audited by
the Internal Revenue Service on the
same day that you’re expecting a visit
from your mother.
That’s the premise of “Love, Sex
and the IRS,” a play being performed
tonight, Saturday and Sunday at the
Joyo Theater, 6102 Havelock Ave.
Jon (Greg Weinert) has been tak
ing advantage ofhis roommate, Leslie
(Matt Works) for years by claiming
Leslie as his wife on his taxes, with
out telling Leslie.
When Jon’s mother, Vivian (Beth
Leslie), shows up, chaos ensues. Jon
tries to deal with his mother and pass
Leslie off as his wife to the IRS agent.
Robert Rook, production assistant,
said the play, by William Van Zandt
and Jane Milmore, was written when
the two playwrights ran out of “good,
quick, zany comedies” while work
ing for a repertory team. So the two
wrote “Love” to make up the comedic
deficit.
The comedy is directed by Patrick
Lambrecht, a 1994 University of Ne
braska-Lincoln graduate.
Rook said seeing die play was a
great way to relax and forget about
problems.
“It’s very entertaining for a $5
ticket,” he said. “It ’ s definitely a lot of
good laughs.”
Tickets for the 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday perfor
mances are $5.
The Roots
“Do You Want More”
Geffen Records
Grade: A
Every once in a while, a hip
hop crew comes along with a vi
sion to reform music in their own
image, and that is what the Roots
have done with “Do You Want
More.”
This Philadelphia-based group
has not only has skills on the mic,
but its members have reinvented
music to conform to their words.
Like many rap crews, The Roots
have chosen jazz as the bed for
their words to lie in. Unlike the
others, this crew does it all live.
This is not Guru’s
“Jazzamatazz,” although a few
jazz stars pop in. These guys can
really play, and they play exactly
what they need for each track.
For the rhyme style, these guys
come with the delivery of Native
Tongues, but they’re less abstract
and more down to earth like Com
mon Sense. On the first single,
“Proceed,” they calmly run their
agenda, with only drums, bass and
light keyboards to back them.
They use several jazz sounds,
including a scat sound on
“Datskat” with voice fluctuations
and a sax accompaniment by Steve
Coleman. On the live recording of
“Essaywhuman,” they use lyrics
and human sound effects with al
ternating measures of live horns
and other instruments.
Human sound effects are better
represented, though, in “? vs.
Rahzel” and “The Lesson.” Rahzel
is becoming one of the most fa
mous mouth-men in hip hop, and
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for good reason— he rips it.
“The Lesson” finds the group
“stepping through the corridor of
metaphors” to give a well-stated
commentary on Philly street life.
This will be a real classic.
Other than the disturbing poem
on “The Unlocking,” every track
is good. Not many crews can say
that these days. While the lyrics
may not be abstract, they are defi
nitely well built, as is the live jazz.
This stuff is not jazz/hip hop; it
is hip hop, like it should be.
—Greg Schick
Various Artists
“Wakefield: A TeenBeat Sam
pler”
TeenBeat Records
Grade: A
When delving into the world of
music, and especially the world of
indie music, the sheer quantity of
bands can be a bit overwhelming.
How then, you may ask, do lis
teners sift through the unsavory
and unlistenable to locate the best
of the best?
Compilations and samplers, of
course.
Just about every record com
pany has at least one compilation
designed solely to give listeners a
“taste test” of what it has to offer.
TeenBeat is one of those record
companies, and “Wakefield: A
TeenBeat Sampler” is one of those
compilations.
“Wakefield,” however, is not
just any compilation. For starters,
it is remarkably inexpensive ($6 or
less, depending on where you find
it). It is just the first in a four-part
TeenBeat overview. And it con
tains some of America’s best new
music.
If you’re familiar with
TeenBeat, you know that it is home
to a short but sweet tradition of
sugar-coated pop music with an
undeniable appeal and a frequently
hidden dark side. Bands, past and
present, like the now-defunct Un
rest, Eggs, Versus and Vomit
Launch have consistently turned
out fantastic music for the Wash
ington, D.C., label.
These bands (with the excep
tion of Unrest) and more than a
dozen others have contributed
songs, many new, to “Wakefield.”
“Wakefield” starts off with an
alternate mix of Blast Off Country
Style’s “Buttercup,” an immedi
ately catchy tune that sets the tone
for the entire compilation.
It is followed by “Know Noth
ing,” a previously unreleased gem
by Versus. This song jumps back
and forth between brooding verses
and a perkier, guitar-laden chorus.
The rest of the album continues
in this vein. Additional standout
tracks include Tuscadero’s “Holi
days R Hell,” Eggs’ “Sugar Babe”
and “The Angry Employee” by
Johnny Cohen’s Love Machine.
Cheap, challenging and chock
full of songs you will find yourself
humming for weeks, this taste-test
album does exactly what it’s sup
posed to do—leave you hungry for
more.
—Jeff Randall
The Loner
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ceiling,” she said. “They’ve had to
scale their acts down for the children’s
theater.
“But that’s the mark of a really
good twirler.”
Many of the students have had to
sacrifice other obligations to be a part
of the dance theater performance,
Adcox said.
“It’s been very difficult. A lot of
them been heavily involved with other
activities,” she said.
“But they put them aside to have
the opportunity to do this,” she said.
Adcox said the experience of work
ing with the dance troupe was quite
enjoyable.
Lamphere echoed her sentiments.
“It’s been a real fun project,” she
said. “I feel really pleased to be in
volved in her North American tour of
Montreal, New York and Lincoln.”
' Heggen, who has never been fur
ther west than Lincoln, said the expe
rience was very interesting.
“It’s very nice to meet new people
wherever you tour,” she said.
“Einzelganger” will be shown at
the Lincoln Community Playhouse
Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. Tick
ets are $8.
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Out of the home of the Big Red
comes Orange, a Lincoln band that
will play tonight at Knickerbockers,
901 O St.
Orange will open for Kansas’
Green Cage. This is not the band’s
first time opening for a national act,
Orange bassist Kris Trautner said.
Trautner said her band had its own
original sound, though they have been
compared to Soundgarden and Pearl
Jam.
“Tim (Masters, guitarist) likes to
call us hard rock. I guess we could be
considered alternative, too, since that
doesn’t really mean anything any
more,” she said.
Trautner said Orange had quite a
bit of experience, although thpy have
only performed in the Lincoln-Omaha
area.
Orange’s plans include recording
a four-song tape and setting up week
end tours in the Midwest.
Minnesota’s Swivelhead and open
ing band Wide will also play at
Knickerbockers this weekend on Sat
urday night.
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St., will
have Caribe tonight and Saturday
night.
St. Nickelhead, Grither and the
Catholics will play tonight at Le Cafe
Shakes, 1418 O St.
And at the Hurricane, 1118 0 St.,
No Left Stone and Trip Master Mon
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“He is certainly a product of the
generation of dancers who emerged in
the 1960s, and is breaking away from
the traditions of classical ballet, as
well as the formalized, stylized mod
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post-modern dance.”
Tickets for the performance are
$14, and half price for students with
identification and youths 18 and un
der. Box office hours are 11 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. weekdays and an hour be
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