Sold-out crowd affirms
B.B. is still the King
By John Fulwider
Music Critic
When you’re the king, you can
make people wait.
And wait the audience did, in ea
ger anticipation of the great one’s ar
- rival.
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audience rose
from their seats to welcome him.
A collective gasp of awe came from
the sell-out crowd at Omaha’s
OrpheumTheater when he touched his
guitar’s strings.
The King had arrived.
B.B. King and the B.B. King Blues
Boys rocked from the start with their
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first song, “Let the Good Times Roll."
Backed by a trumpet, two saxo
phones, an electric bass guitar, two
drum sets, a guitar and keyboards,
King held the audience in rapt atten
tion with a mix of classic blues, swing
and rock ‘n’ roll.
The first guitar hook of each blues
song reverberated through the theater
and through some members of the
audience, who often stood up and
waved their arms in the air, swaying
with the music.
As King crooned, growled and
yelled each song (which invariably
involved being dumped on by his girl
friend or wife), people in the audience
agreed, saying: “You know how it is"
and “Sing it,B.B.!"
King, who recently celebrated his
70th birthday, has lost none of his en
ergy or talent in 47 years of profes
sional playing. His ability to move his
audience, and get them just as blue as
the songs he sings, is unparalleled.
He is, without a doubt, the king of
the blues.
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Courtesy of Gami/Simonds
The famed Chilean folk group Inti-lllimani brings its
unique musical style to the Lied Center for Performing
Arts tonight.
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Inti-Illimani brings this enthusi
asm to the Lied Center’s stage to
night.
Dr. Joel Gajardo, director of
Lincoln’s Hispanic Community
Center, will present two pre-perfor
mance talks in the Lied Center’s
Steinhart Room.
The free lectures precede the 8
p.m. concert, at 7:05 and 7:30.
Tickets, on sale at the Lied Cen
ter box office, are $20, $ 16 and $ 12,
and half-price for students with ID.
‘Fool’ captures dark emotions
By Jeff Randall
Theater Critic
“Fool For Love,” Sam Shepard’s
one-act play, debuted at the Studio
Theatre Thursday night under the
direction of Greg Tavares, a gradu
ate student in directing.
The cast features Jason
Richards, Kristi Covey, Patrick
Tuttle and Mark KJemetsrud, all
graduate students in the fine arts
department.
Richards and Covey earn top
billing as Eddie and May, half
brother and sister who developed
a relationship in high school that
went beyond the usual sibling ties.
The action of the play picks up
in May’s hotel room, where Eddie
has met her for what appears to be
a final showdown to determine
whether the pair will love or hate
each other, once and for all.
Richards plays his role with a
relaxed arrogance that appears ef
fortless, even at the most emotional
high points. Covey is equally con
vincing as a woman who has spent
nearly half her life running away
from and back to a man who will
either make her whole or destroy
her.
Tuttle plays May’s dumb
founded, seemingly disposable
boyfriend, Martin. Klemetsrud
plays Eddie and May’s father, a
ghost-like figure on the edge of the
stage. Both hold their own with the
highly energetic Richards and
Covey.
The set design, by Ahna
Packard, perfectly reflects the emo
tional states of the characters —
barren and dirty.
The entire performance is filled
Play: “Fool For Love”
Company: UNL Theatre
and Dance
Director: Greg Tavares
Grade: A
Five Words: Ugly love
story performed
beautifully
with the urgency and intensity that
should be present in all produc
tions, especially Shepard’s.
Tickets for the performance,
which runs tonight, Saturday and
Nov. 14-18 at 8 p.m. each night,
are $6 for students, $7 for faculty,
staff and senior citizens, and $9 for
the general public.
Quirky tale alludes to great minds
By John Fulwider
Theater Critic
Romance, Russian philosophers
and typing monkeys. Only The Futz
could get them all into one play.
And it does in its latest offering.
“All In the Timing” is written in stand
alone episodes, like The Futz’s last
show, “Parallel Lives.”
In the running for best episode are
“Sure Thing” and “Words Words
Words.”
“Sure Thing,” the first episode,
opens in a coffee shop. Betty (Susanne
Evans) is reading “The Sound and the
Fury” and drinking her coffee. A1
(Brad Boesen) plops down at Betty’s
table, intent on hitting on her.
What makes this scene interesting
is Uncle Time (Ward Lewis). Dressed
in black, Uncle. Time stands in the
background, holding a silver desk bell.
When A1 says something stupid to
Betty, Uncle Time rings the bell, and
A1 gets a chance to rephrase what he
said.
Uncle Time rings the bell a lot.
The set designer gets high marks
for authenticity — the chairs in “Sure
Thing” are from The Coffee House.
“Words Words Words” borrows
from the old premise that if you give
typewriters to a million monkeys,
they’ll eventuajly type a great work
of literature.
Three monkeys — Swift (Boesen),
Milton (Scott Cook) and Kafka (Lauri
Buchanan) — lament their fate as they
type away at the whim of a scientist.
The literary references in their dia
logue are a bit vague until Milton
stands up and reads what she has
typed, which turns out to be lines from
John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
Rounding out the episodes are
“Variations on the Death of Trotsky,”
in which the famed Russian revolu
tionary walks around with a mountain
climber’s axe lodged in his skull;“The
Universal Language,” where a shy
woman with a speech impediment
finds joy in a gibberish language; “The
Philadelphia,” in which two men dis
cuss Catch-22’s named after cities; and
“Speed the Play,” a tribute to play
Play: “All In the Timing”
Company: The Futz Inc.
Director: Bob Esquivel
Grade: B+
Five Words: Uncle Time hosts
bell-ringin’ play
wright and filmmaker David Mamet,
who was famous both for his short
scenes and generous use of the F
word.
“All in the Timing” is entertaining.
But an episodic play such as this one
doesn’t give the Futz’s extraordinar
ily talented players a chance to really
shine, as they could in a standard two
act play.
“All in the Timing” continues
through Saturday at the Mission
Arts Building, 124 S. Ninth St. The
$ 10 tickets may be reserved at 435
6307.
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“Miracle on 34th Street” (PG) —
The remake of the classic stars Sir
Richard Attenborough (“Jurassic
Park,” “The Great Escape”) as the man
who believes he is Kris Kringle and
the oh-so-adorable Mara Wilson
(“Mrs. Doubtfire”) as the only person
who believes in him.
It’s touching, it’s fun, it’s the holi
days. The original was still better,
though.
PICK-OF-THE-WEEK — True,
Kurt Russell and director John Car
penter teamed up for “The Thing,” but
they also worked on “Escape From
New York” together.
Snake Plissken (Russell) is a pris
oner who must utilize his military
skills and bad attitude to rescue the
president from New York, which has
been turned into a maximum security
prison.
The music and mood of the movie
are great, and it’s an action-adventure
film that relies more on situations than
special effects and buckets of blood.
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