Friday, February 2,1996 Page 9
New flicks
help warm
cold days
The bone-chilling weather this
weekend may be the perfect reason to
stay home with something warm. But
just in case you feel like venturing
outdoors to find some entertainment,
TGIF has a few suggestions.
But, for your own safety, please
don’t stick your tongue on anything
while you’re out there. Take our word
for it.
At Knickerbockers, 901 O St., the
rock will keep rolling this weekend
with Kranic Gravel Band and Ezra
tonight. On Saturday, Ezra and I, the
Jury will take the stage. Both shows
start at 10:30 p.m., and the cover is $3.
At Mudslide Slim’s, 1418 O St.,
Rosebud and Spelling Tuesday will
provide the evening’s entertainment.
The show starts tonight at 10:30, and
the cover charge is $3.
At the Zoo Bar, 136N. 14th St., the
spirit of Jerry Garcia will enter the
building when the Grateful Dudes, a
Grateful Dead cover band, takes the
stage tonight and Saturday. Both shows
start at 9 p.m. and have a S3 cover
charge.
- -The Mojava'Coffee House, 2713
N. 48th St., continues its 1996 concert
series Saturday with Kusi Taki. The
show will run from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
and there is no cover charge, but tip
ping i s reccwnmended (come on, cheap
skate, give ‘em at least a dollar or
two.)
Ridley Scott’s “White Squall”
opens this weekend on Lincoln movie
screens. JeffBridges stars in thi s based
on-a-true-story flick about a student
run sailboat in the South Pacific that
finds more than it bargained for.
Inane comedy fanatics may rejoice,
for Chris Farley and David Spade have
made another movie, this one called
“Black Sheep,” which throws them
into the world of politics and cam
paigning.
Alec Baldwin takes a break from
beating up nosy photographers and
stars in “The Juror,” where he’s ha
rassing a juror on a delicate case.
Rounding out the new movies is
the critically-acclaimed “Dead Man
Walking,” directed by Tim Robbins.
Sean Penn plays an inmate on death
row, and Susan Sarandon (Robbins’
longtime girlfriend and partner) plays
the nun who befriends the murderer.
Movies returning to Lincoln in
clude “Bio-Dome” and “Sudden
Death” at the Star Ship 9,1311 Q St.,
and “How To Make An American
Quilt” at the Joyo Theatre, 6102 Have
lock.
At the Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, the pioneer of electronic
music will receive his dues in the
documentary film, “Theremin: An
Electronic Odyssey.” The film, di
rected by Steve M. Martin, provides
an examination of Leon Theremin and
his most famous invention, the aptly
named Theremin.
The film will show tonight at 7 and
9, Saturday at 1 pjn., 3 p.m., 7 p.m.
and 9 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m., 5
p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Admission is
$5 for the general public, $4 for stu
dents and $3 for seniors, children and
members of the Friends of the Mary
Riepma Ross Film Theater.
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braska Union, 1400 R St, Lincoln, Neb.
68588, or fax ns at 472-1761. TGIF is com
piled by the arts and entertainment staff.
Dancers
abundant
in energy
By Greg Schick
Staff Reporter
Urban Bush Women may sound
like a contradiction in terms.
But this Saturday at 8 p.m., the
African-American performance
group will open up a cross-cultural
exchange at the Johnny Carson The
ater in the Lied Center for Perform
ing Arts.
The award-winning company of
nine uses its unique style of chore
ography and vocal performance, as
well as a live drummer, to explore
struggle and the human spirit. In
1994, they received the Capezio
Award.
The company’s variety of works
range from “Girlfriends,” a collec
tive interpretation of a teen slumber
party, to “Shelter,” a powerful ex
amination of the social issue of
homelessness.
“These are dances, not stories,”
said Katherine Voorhees, director
of Arts Are Basic! and coordinator
of education/outreach for UNL’s
College ofFineand Performing Arts.
“They are very evocative.”
Jawole Willa Jo Zoller founded
the group in Kansas City in 1984.
Although she no longer performs
with the group, she is still the chore
ographer and company director.
On its extensive travels through
the United States and Europe, the
troupe has held workshops and semi
nars to help communities better un
derstand others and themselves.
Last night, the troupe played host
to a free community sing at Park
Middle School in Lincoln. The
troupe also will work with univer
sity dance students.
Voorhees will give two
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Photo courtesy of Lied Center
The Urban Bush Women, a theatrical dance troupe, will bring their physical approach to social
criticism to the Johnny Carson Theater on Saturday.
A cappella sextet visits Lied
By Emily Wray
Staff Reporter
The King’s Singers will bring
their soaring harmonies to the Lied
Center for Performing Arts on Sun
day,, .
The six-man ensemble will per
form a variety of arrangements from
various musical styles and periods.
Bruce Marquis, executive direc
tor of the Lied Center, said the King’s
Singers’ program includes Renais
sance madrigals, contemporary jazz
and pop songs.
He compared the King’s Singers
to a classical version of Manhattan
Transfer or Take Six, a gospel choir.
“We’re thrilled to present the Lied
debut of the finest a cappella vocal
ensemble on the planet,” Marquis
said.
Sunday’s performance includes
music spanning four centuries of
music across the United States and
Europe.
“This ensemble is six exquisitely
trained classical musicians. Like the
Canadian Brass, they don’t take
themselves seriously,” Marquis said.
The concert is divided into five
sections, with the first, “Simple
Gifts,” highlighting traditional
American folk songs.
The next selection is “The Wak
ingFather,”by 35-year-old contem
porary composer Daron Aric Hagen.
Other sections of the program
include Irish folk songs and music
from Renaissance Italy.
But the concert’s final section,
described in the program as “by ar
rangement,” promises to be a sur
prise for everyone.
“Since the last section is not de
fined, it still has surprises that the
audience will have to wait and see
for themselves,” Marquis said.
Tickets for the 7 p.m. perfor
mance are $30, $26, $22 and half
price for students.
Robert A. Emile, professor of
strings and music theory, will give
two pre-performance talks 55 min
utes and 30 minutes before show
time.
Art yields contrasting scenes
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
In these weeks of cloudy, starless
skies and snow-smothered earth,
“Black and White” is not only a
perfect description of the city land
scape —it ’ s also the theme and title
of a new art show at Gallery 9,124
S. Ninth St.
Patty Gallimore’s assemblages
and Myron Moore’s photos domi
nate the show, each showing more
than four pieces.
On a gloomy winter day, Moore’s
“Untitled” photo series of a hot,
bewitching summer seems a thou
sand miles away. Wizard children
run wild, radiating a strange free
dom and power only available at the
peak of a school-free, 90 degree
season.
In one “Untitled” photo under a
backyard deck, an emotionless boy
vanishes the head of the child next to
him, banishing it in the arc of his
sulphur sparkler. The head re
emerges in mid-air, ghostly floating
on a hot evening wind.
At another house in Moore’s
magic suburb, a pre-adolescent pig
tailed girl stands tensed and grin
ning, knees locked and fists curled
in a brown front yard. She glowers
proudly over bodies fallen in front
of her, their feet limp in the extreme
foreground. Like a July sun, she
seems to bum with joyful, destroy
ing energy.
Contrasted with Moore’s steamy
summer photos, Patty Gallimore’s
assemblages and photographs ex
ude a cool, smooth spirituality.
In one of Gallimore’s best, “Truth
as she stands on the Outer Rim of the
Worlds,” an old woman sits in the
shadows, bathed in white light. The
light glows through a window in
long vertical beams, with the photo
manipulated and mirroring itself to
make the brightness seem like a full,
physical object.
A more sinister godhood beams
slyly from Gallimore’s assemblage
“Minion of the Demiurge.” From
the middle of a black and white dart
board, a white porcelain grin pro
trudes. An icon for a religion that
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Play focuses on homosexuality
By Brian Priesman
Theater Critic
One of the most remarkable the
atrical events in
American the
ater history.
That’s all that
can really be
Theater
& Review
saiu aooui An
gels in
America,”
which ran Tues
day and
Wednesday at
the Lied Center.
The two-part story tells the
story of two disintegrating rela
tionships and the events that shape
the participants’ lives in the
Reagan-era of the 1980s.
Prior Walter is a gay man liv
ing with AIDS. Unfortunately, his
lover, Louis, is unable to cope
with the decay of Prior’s health,
and runs out on him and into the
arms of Joe Pitt, a Mormon law
clerk who is trying to cope with
his new-found homosexuality.
Throw in Joe’s boss, the big
Roy Cohn; Joe’s wife, the pill-pop
ping sex-starved Harper; and an an
gelic representative from the Coun
cil Continental Principalities and you
have a rundown on the important
characters.
“Angels in America” is a gay
play. It is an AIDS play. It is a
great philosophical debate about
religion and the nature of good
and evil in the world.
“Angels in America” is also
one of the most remarkable pieces
of truly American theater today.
Old photos
give artist
inspiration
By Gerry Bettz
Senior Reporter
In a dazzling combination of self
identity, juggling and theatre arts,
UNL Resident Artist Jeff Raz will
bring his one-man show, “Father
Land,” to Kimball Recital Hall to
night at 8.
The show was written after a five
month visit to Europe in 1989, he
said.
“I was at Dachau, looking at pic
tures taken there,” he said,“and while
I was there, not connecting, I real
ized that there were no photo cred
its, and my dad was a photographer
back in World War II.”
Things really came together after
he came back and told his mother
about the photos he said.
“It was one of those classic mo
ments,” he said. “She comes in with
this leather tome and blows the dust
off of it, saying no one had looked at
this book for years.”
In the book were photos and let
ters from Raz’s father.
“One letter in there was written
the day the war ended,” he said.
“That was the one letter that really
showed his true feelings.”
Raz said his favorite character in
“Father-Land” was the ghost of an
unrepented Nazi (“He’s very charm
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