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Lied’s ’95-96 schedule features diversity
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter '
Travel from Broadway to Brazil, Chile to
China without even leaving Lincoln. Those
journeys are offered by the Lied Center for
Performing Arts 1995-96 schedule.
When Bruce Marquis came to direct the
Lied Center for Performing Arts last Octo
ber, he said he wanted to increase the diver
sity of the center’s schedule and feature
upcoming artists.
Marquis accomplished his goal by at
tracting dancers, musicians, actors, singers
and other performers from different coun
tries and smaller stages.
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But Marquis was also able to bring in
Broadway show-stoppers such as the danc
ingpinball wizards in “The Who’s Tommy,”
which will be on stage Oct. 6-8.
Other Big Apple names featured on the
schedule include the New York City Opera’s
“La Traviata” and the Paul Taylor Dance
Company.
The Lied Center’s around-the-world tour
features the Central Ballet of China, the
Chilean folk ensemble Inti-Illimani, Urban
Bush Women, Peking Acrobats, Brazil’s Bale
Folclorico de Bahia, Dancers and Musicians
of Bali, the Caribbean Jazz Project, the
Bolshoi Ballet Ensemble and the American
Indian Spiderwoman Theater.
The Irish folk singers, the Chieftains, will
perform five days after St.Patrick’s Day.
Their recent album, “The Long Black Veil,”
sold more than a half million copies and
included vocals from Sting, Mick Jagger and
other popular artists.
The American Indian Spiderwoman The
ater will take the stage in December. The
group was founded by three sisters, Marquis
said, who weave storytelling traditions in
with contemporary themes about overcom
ing stereotypes and finding a common un
derstanding.
The Lied Center will continue its New
Voices program by featuring artists such as
jazz musician Joshua Redman and Japanese
marimbast Makoto Nakura, along with big
names such as Wynton Marsalis.
Marsalis will serve as conductor and so
loist with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Sept. 30. Marquis said his Lied Center per
formance may be the only chance to see
Marsalis perform, because he disbanded his
small jazz ensemble.
Other highlights include the National
Theatre of the Deafs “An Italian Straw
Hat,” the Royal Shakespeare Company and
National Theater of Great Britain’s “Romeo
and Juliet” and “Macbeth,” and the San
Francisco Symphony with conductor Michael
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Changes
to come in
cable TV
By Gerry Beltz
Senior Reporter
Lincoln Cablevisionjoined forces this
weekend with Time/Wamer Communi
cations.
The first few days of the partnership
have been smooth, said Rick Kiolbasa,
Cablevision regional business manager.
“It has been going very well,” he said.
“For the most part, customers will not
see any change, although we are inter
nally adapting to the change.”
The public probably won’t notice any
change in their cable service for a while,
he said.
“In the short term, there will be no
effect on the day-to-day goings-on,” he
said. “In the long term, there will be a
greater access to technology and pro
gramming. -
“For the people of Lincoln, this means
they are going to have a lot more access
to technology they would not have had
before.”
une type ot technology that will even
tually become available to Cablevision
customers will be the full-service net
work, Kiolbasa said.
“Time-Wamer is one of the leading
developers of the full-service network,”
Kiolbasa said, “which uses the cable
system for features such as video-on
demand, phone service, games and other
advanced services.”
But there are no plans to add a full
service network anywhere in the near
future, Kiolbasa said.
“We haven’t even talked about it yet,”
he said.
There is some discussion about add
ing some new channels to the Cablevision
lineup, but nothing is set yet, Kiolbasa
said.
Cablevision will announce any
changes by May, he said, and new chan
nels may be added by early summer.
Some upgrades of the current
Cablevision system have already taken
place, Kiolbasa said.
“A fewyears ago, we rebuilt the cable
system here to make it one of the best
built systems in the country,” he said. “It
has fiber optics, a 78-channel capacity
and addressable technology.”
Kiolbasa said the partnership would
benefit both Cablevision and its cus
tomers, Kiolbasa said.
“Things have been good in the past,”
he said, “and will be even stronger in the
future.”
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Audiences keep moving withMudiack
By Joel Strauch
Senior Reporter
Mudj acking is the process ofmoving con
crete by pumping mud underneath to shift
and move it. In a similar manner, Lincoln
band Mudjack pumps their music and inten
sity to shift and move their hometown audi
ences.
“The best part of our show is the crowd
involvement,” said vocalist Pete Pedersen.
“We’re the spectacle onstage, but we like to
interact with the crowd a lot.”
Pedersen really enjoys inciting the audi
ences to get into the show. He uses goofy
gimmicks to keep the audience involved.
“I’ve got seven or eight different hats that
I wear and I’ll change them every song or
so,” he said. “Everybody gets a kick out of
the changing hats.”
Pedersen said this started when he saw a
j ester’s hat at the music store where he works.
“It’s one of those floppy little hats with
the bells on it,” he said, “and I thought it
would be great to wear at our show.”
Pedersen has since found baseball caps
and other hats from the music store.
The rest of the band — Brian Tyson on
bass, JeffKelly on drums, Bill Marhenke on
guitars and Chris Marhenke on violin —
enjoys the audience involvement as well.
Kelly said the audiences were always
really receptive.
“We’ve been playing here in town so long
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One-act plays serve two-course meal
By John Fulwider
Staff Reporter "
Dark comedy has a new face.
Actually, two new faces. Performances of
“Out at Sea” and “Ball Boys,” two short one
act plays with less-than- light senses of hu
mor, continue Thursday through Friday night
at the Futz Inc. Theater, 124 S. Ninth St.
The shows started last weekend. In “Out
At Sea,” three people are stranded on a raft
in the middle of the ocean. They have no
food, only three chairs and a trunk full of
plates and utensils.
The three — Fat (Kyle Clark), Medium
(Laura Nettland) and Thin (Linda Nettland)
—decide that someone must be eaten to save
the other two.
The play becomes a metaphor for politics
as the characters argue over how the person
to be eaten should be chosen, whether through
a dictatorship, democracy or some other
form of raft government.
They each give speeches about why they
should not be eaten. Their reasons become
rather ridiculous; Fat and Medium claim
their dead parents as a defense. After all,
who would eat an oiphan, they ask.
The play’s one-liners are tremendously
funny. One character tells another, who has
been chosen to be dinner, “You will go down
in our stomachs—I mean our memories—
as a hero.”
“Ball Boys” centers on two tennis ball
boys, Rupert (Laura Nettland) and One-Eye
(Linda Nettland). The two spend the play
discussing how much they hate and would
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