Candye Kane gives
Zoo Bar audience
songs to remember
By Patrick Hambrecht
Music Critic
A mighty fine time was had by all
at the Zoo Bar on Wednesday night,
thanks to the bawdy antics of Candye
Kane and the Swinging Armadillos.
It was a real ruckus, with much whoop
ing and hollering, dancing and shak
ing, singing and drinking enjoyed
- until 1 a.m.
Kane, an
avowed feminist,
stripper, pom star
and burlesque
dancer, sang a
wide variety of
boogie-woogie,
country and blues,
vvnccri Her rangC(j
ROVieW from the political
- to the risque, fea
turing such collar-looseness as “Put
It All In There,” “The Meat Song,”
and “Press My Buttons.”
After the last song of her first set,
“All You Can Eat,” Kane finished the
song by unbuttoning her tiger-print
blouse and play ing an impressive blues
solo on the keyboards with her breasts.
Despite an obvious penchant for
smutty silliness, Kane is a seriously
engaging performer with a great voice
and mature interpretation of the blues.
Hugely charming and photogenic, it
is easy to see how she was a shoo-in
for the Gong Show, and later, Juggs
magazine.
With the easy spiritual duality of
southern music, Kane showed no
strain in switching from steamy sexy
tunes to cheerful testimony about
religion, feminism or selfesteem. Her
songs ‘The Lord Was a Woman —
Who Dressed Up Like a Man” and
“She Wore A Red Carnation,” advo
Despite an obvious
penchant for smutty
silliness, Kane is a
seriously engaging
performer.
catingabortion rights, were performed
easily, without the tense delivery
sometimes given to songs with con
troversial messages.
The Swinging Armadillos were
thrilling, visually and musically. The
California band featured a beehivcd
keyboardist wearing a tiger-print
dress, disco-ball earrings and starlet
glasses; an enormous muscle-bound
guitarist with a 6-string the size of
Texas; a stoic black-garbed bassist
hidden under a large-brimmed puri
tan hat; and a lamb-chopped drum
mer — all living testimony to the
Hollywood excitement of American
fashion.
They sounded super.
Kane is well-informed of burlesque
history and its ties to feminism. She
named Victoria Woodhull as a per
sonal hero, saying, “She was very
revolutionary, into the tree-love move
ment. She ran for president before
women could vote. Susan B. Anthony
and her group hated her.”
“Stripping is such a hate relation
ship, these days. The strippers hate
the men for showing up; the men hate
the strippers for doing it. Stripping
ought to be more about love.”
Candye Kane and the Swinging
Armadillos will be performing Fri
day and Saturday, 9 p.m., at the Zoo
Bar. Admission is $5.
ALL RESIDENCE HALL PICNIC
Friday, 8/25/95 4:30pm - 6:30pm
at the Greenspace West of Selleck
Under the big tent you’ll find:
Godfather’s Beef and Cheese Pizzas
Hoagies Chicken Fillet on Bun
Polish Sausage/Bun
Also:
Baked Beans, Potato Chips, Watermelon,
Relish Tray, Fresh Fruit Salad, Popcorn,
Caramel Apples, Frozen Treats, Snowflakes,
Rice Krispies, Funnel Cakes.
Show your ID to the checker in front of Selleck.
The checker will stamp your hand. Only those with
stamped hands may enter the Greenspace.
($6.20 if you don’t have a Board Plan.)
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Demolition derby, bees featured
By Gerry Beltz
Senior Reporter
There’s going to be a lot of
crashing and burning going on at
the 1995 Nebraska State Fair.
At least that’s the buzz.
Added to concerts, the arts and
crafts and the hustle and bustle of
a crowded midway, this year’s fair
will feature a demolition derby and
a live bee exhibit.
The demolition derby is sched
uled for Saturday at 7 p.m., with
fast cars and faster drivers. Expect
high-speed entertainment from the
fair’s fourth demolition derby in as
many years.
Leon Meyer, superintendent of
this year’s demolition derby, said
the drivers for this derby were found
at competitions at county fairs.
“We bring them in here and
have a derby of the top drivers in
the state,” Meyer said.
This year’s demolition derby
will last about four hours and take
about 12 hours to clean up after
ward. It will feature at least 35
cars, Meyer said.
“Everybody brings their own
cars,” Meyer said. “Some bring
new ones, and others bring cars
used at other fairs.”
Injuries have been almost non
existent for the past three Nebraska
State Fair demolition derbies, and
Meyer said he expects this year to
be no different.
“These guys are experts,” Meyer
said. “They’ve been driving for a
long time and know how to hit a car
“These guys are experts. They've been driving for a
long time and know how to hit a car without
damaging the guy inside."
LEON MEYER
Derby superintendent
without damaging the guy inside.
“We stress safety real hard
around here.”
This year’s fair will also feature
a live bees exhibit. The demonstra
tion will include bee-keepers, as
well as several thousand bees, dem
onstrating how bee beards are
made, and how new hives are be
gun. Honey ice cream cones will
also be on sale for 25 cents at the
Heritage Square booth.
Marion Ellis, an apiculturist
(beekeeper) who teaches an intro
duction to beekeeping class at UNL,
is an extension beekeeper at this
year’s bee exhibit. Ellis said the
variety of demonstrations would
range from watching a hive grow
to a football made out of beewax.
“We’re trying to make this an
educational sort of thing,’’"Ellis
said. “We want to show them how
we work with bees, and show things
about their behavior.
“Basically, we place a small
colony into a plexiglass booth,”
Ellis said, “and one of our people
goes in using a microphone, and
shows how we work with the bees.”
Other activities at the bee ex
hibit will include observation hives
(glass-sided hives for observations
to watch the interior of a forming
hive), a demonstration on what
happens when honeybees swarm,
and open classes with different
kinds of honeys, Ellis said. Ellis
was quick to note that the building
of the bee beards is for education as
well as entertainment.
“We don’t do it to be part of side
show,” Ellis said, “but to show
their value as pollinators and teach
about them.”
A few precautions have been
taken to help avoid injuries while
managing the bees, Ellis said.
“You might say we stack the
deck. We move the colony in the
middle of the day to get rid of the
older bees so the only ones remain
ing are the younger bees, which
take care of the nest.”
StafTReporterCUffHIcks contributed
to this article.
Revamped Cinderella a hit with cozv crowd
By John Fulwider
Theater Critic ~
Roseanne is just too wicked to cast
as the wicked stepmother in
“Cinderella.” Isn’t she?
The Futz Inc. doesn’t think so.
When Roseanne didn’t show up for
auditions, Futz found someone just as
wicked for “Cinderella Waltz,” its
delightfully irreverent interpretation
of the classic fairy tale.
Vicki Clark, as the wicked step
mother (also known as Mrs. Snow), is
positively evil. While she dotes over
her daughters, Goneril and Regan,
she tells her stepdaughter, Rosie
(Jillian M. Jakub) to wash the goat,
her father and the cat — twice.
“You can only wash a cat so many
times,” Rosie groans. “The fur’s start
ing to rub off.”
Lines like that kept the audience of
about 20 rolling in the aisles for the
two-hour performance. And that
seems a large audience for a Futz
production — the theater is roughly
12 by 20 feet. It was cozy.
Outstanding performances by some
of the players deserve special recog
nition. Machele Miller plays Rosie’s
stepsister, Regan. With her deadpan
expressions, Regan is one ofthe play’s
most likeable characters.
Lauri Buchanan as Mother Magee
(read: the fairy godmother) gives the
play’s best performance. Besides her
flawless acting, she displays some
impressive physical ability when she
convincingly disappears several times
into a stage-prop well that was not
even four feet deep.
One serious flav/ mars the other
wise triumphant performance: It is
far too loud for the small theater.
Yelling and screaming and gunfire
Play: “Cinderella Waltz”
Company: The Futz Inc.
Director: Les Edwards
Grade: B+
Five words: Fun new twist on
“Cinderella”
abound. Perhaps the Futz players
should project a bit less.
The final two performances of
“Cinderella Waltz” are tonight and
Saturday night at 8 at the Mission
Arts Building, 124 S. Ninth St. Tick
ets are $10, and can be reserved by
calling 435-6307.
New videos: Blood, bees and honeys
By Gerry Beltz
Film Critic
A very easy week this week for
new video releases—just two of note,
but they are at both ends of the spec
trum: awful and awesome.
“Candyman U: Farewell To The
Flesh" (R) — The original
“Candyman” sucked rocks, and they
made a sequel to it?!? Yet another
point that shows that Hollywood cares
about money, not quality.
In this inept sequel, our hook
handed friend Candyman is discov
ered to have a connection to a
schoolteacher’s family tree. The vio
lcnce and bees follow from there.
Blech. Next!
“Tom and Viv” (R)—Based on a
play by Michael Hastings, “Tom and
Viv” looks at the stormy relationship
between classic poet T.S. Eliot
(Willem Dafoe) and his first wife
Vivien Haighwood (Miranda
Richardson).
Performances from both Dafoe and
Richardson are top-notch, and the
film itself is a treat as well. “Tom and
Viv” will be playing at the Mary
Riepma Ross Film Theater in mid
September.
PICK-OF-THE-WEEK — One
of two movies that started the ball
rolling toward the introduction of the
“PG-13” rating,“Gremlins’* is a blast
for everyone.
As a gift, Billy (Zach Galligan)
receives a pet “Mogwai” named
Gizmo that looks like a crossbreed
between an Ewok and a Vulcan.
One of the rules for keeping a
Mogwai is accidentally broken, and
eventually the entire town is taken
over by evil, psychotic Vulcan Ewoks.
The violence toward the end of the
film is a bit intense for the wee chil
dren, but the film is a load of fun.
v Check it out.
Lincoln General Hospital Auxiliary’s
STAR NIGHT BENEFIT
Paula
Poundstone
8 p.m., September 9, ‘95
Lied Center for Performing Arts
DISCOUNTED STUDENT PRICES!!!
Proceeds to help fund Lincoln General Hospital’s
Outreach Program On Youth Violence.
Tickets on sale at the Ued Center, 472-4747.
I DOUGLAS THEATRES I
Movie Info:
441-0222
Call for Showtimes!
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