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Thisweek’seditionofTGIFwillbe
presented in memory of the nice
weather we had up until Thursday.
Other than that, we’ve got the usual
concerts, movies and other equally
heartwarming entertainment options.
UNL’s School of Music will make
a double offering this weekend at
Kimball Recital Hall. Tonight we’ll
see the Jazz Ensemble under the direc
tion of David Sharp. On Sunday, the
Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will
take the stage under the batons of pro
fessors Rod Chesnult and Jay Kloeckcr.
Tonight’s show starts at 8. Sunday’s
show starts at 3 p.m. Both concerts are
free and open to the public.
At Mudslide Slim’s, 1418 O St.,
rock ‘n’ roll will continue to fly over
Lincoln. Offerings include Marlee
MacLeod and former Millions singer
Lori Allison tonight. Saturday night
will feature the Tom Ficke Group (with
the illustrious Tom Ficke) and, in their
final performance, the local guys
known as Heroes and Villains.
Tonight’sshow starts at 10, Saturday’s
will kick off at 10:30 p.m. Both shows
have a $3 cover charge.
At Knickerbockers, 901 OSt.,some
West Coast sunshine will make a stop
tonight courtesy of San Francisco’s
own Ovarian Trolley. The Criminals
will open the show. Saturday will see
Cadmium and Gasoline on the stage.
Both shows start at 10:30 p.m. and
have a $3 cover charge.
Lollapalooza ’96 is on its way, kids,
so what better way to get primed for
the show than with the tour’s sched
uled headliner, Metalliea. The music
of these hard-rockin’ boys will be fea
tured at this weekend’s Laser Fanta
sies show tonight and Saturday. Show
times are at 8 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for
UNL students with identification.
Movie pickings are, sadly, a bit
slim this weekend; there’s mystery, a
kid’s flick and comedy.
In a teen-age version of “Fatal At
traction,” Mark Wahl berg gels his first
starring role in “Fear.” Also, in the
animation style of “The Nightmare
Before Christmas” comes “James and
the Giant Peach,” featuring the voices
of Richard Dreyfuss and Oscar-win
ner Susan Sarandon.
For the comedy lovers, check out
“Flirting With Disaster,” where a man
(Ben Stiller) goes on a search for his
biological parents (Alan Alda and Lily
Tomlin). The film also stars Mary Tyler
Moore and George Segal.
At the Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, the exotic and erotic vampire
film we like to call “Nadja” will con
tinue its run. The film, which features
Elina Lowensohn and Peter Fonda,
will show tonight and Saturday. Show
t imes for tonight are 7 and 9 and Satur
nay ai 1 p.m., j p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
On Sunday at the Ross Theater, the
University Program Council Interna
tional Film Series will continue with
China’s “Red Firecracker, Green Fire
cracker.” Show times are 2:30 p.m.,
4:45 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
Admission for both films at the
Ross is $5.50 for the public, $4.50 for
students and $3.50 for senior citizens,
children and members of the Friends
of the Mary Riepma Ross Film The
ater.
Returning movies include “The
Bridges of Madison County” to the
Starship 9 and “Down Periscope” to
the Joyo Theatre.
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Steinbeck’s classic novel takes the stage
By Brian Priesman
Staff Reporter
A new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic
novel, “To A God Unknownwi 11 make its world
premiere tonight as Thealrix continues its 1996
spring season.
“To A God Unknown” tells the story of Joseph
Wayne’s spiritual and physical journey to the
open lands of the West in the early 20th century.
This production is a staged reading of the
script, which means that unlike a full production,
the cast will perform the play with scripts in hand.
“The difficulty is having the script in your
hands most or all of the time,” said Andrew
Hayes, the play’s director. “It kind of makes the
Jazz group
cruises into
lied Center
By Lane Hickenbottom
Staff Reporter
For those who have always wanted to go on a
Caribbean cruise, now is the chance.
Well, kind of.
The musical brilliance of
the Caribbean Jazz Project will
fill the hearts and cars of the
Lied Center audience Satur
day night at 8.
The Caribbean Jazz Project
delivers tropical pleasures that
are kind to the ear and remind
us of that dream vacation upon
a Caribbean cruise ship.
Originating as a 1993 con
cert in New York’s Central Park Zoo, the Project
started when a promoter came to vibes/marimba
master Dave Samuels. Samuels collaborated with
Cuban saxophone/clarinet great PaquiloD’Rivera
and steel pan legend Andy Narell.
In 1995 the Caribbean Jazz Project released a
self-titled compact disc featuring south-of-thc
border rhythms.
Samuels, D’Rivera and Narell will play along
with pianist Dario Eskenazi, bassist Oscar
Slagnaro and drummer Mark Walker.
D’Rivera has called the Project’s music a
melting pot of a melting pot, a type of music that
requires a sense of humor.
David E. Sharp, director of jazz studies at
UNL’s School of Music, will oiler two pre
performance talks 55 minutes before and again
30 minutes before the performance in the Lied
Center’s Steinhart Room.
Tickets for the show are $22, $18 and $14,
half-price for students.
actor feci like he’s in a rehearsal.”
The actors are doing a staged reading of the
play so they can get full legal approval from
Steinbeck’s family.
“It has not been put into a form that can be
submitted to the Steinbeck family for legal ap
proval,” Hayes said. “Of course there is an inter
est in preserving the integrity of Steinbeck’s
works.”
Hayes has more than a passing interest in the
success of the play. The playwright, Gloria
Gaither, is his mother-in-law.
Hayes said Gaither was a Steinbeck scholar
and had done the play as part of her graduate
studies.
“She wasn’t sure if she wanted it to be a
screenplay or a movie of the week or a stage
play,” lie said. *
Hayes said that switching from dramaturge to
director has been his biggest problem with the
piece.
Hayes said Gaither’s adaptation stayed very
close to the novel.
“It’s extremely faithful, in that all of the dia
logue was pulled from the novel.”
Steinbeck’s visual style of writing assisted in
the effort to bring his book to the stage, Hayes
said.
“To A God Unknown” plays tonight and Sat
urday at the Wagon Train Project, 512 S. Seventh
St. on the third floor. The performance starts at 8
p.m., and admission is free.
Photo courtesy of Heads Up International Ltd.
The Caribbean Jazz Project is (from left to right) Dave Samuels, Paquito D’Rivera
and Andy Narell. The group will perform at tne Lied Center on Saturday night.
Young artists show off work
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
The genius of Barbie, Ludwig
van Beethoven and Pablo Picasso is
just one of the themes explored by
Lincoln artists of all ages in the
“Mentoring a Generation of Women
Artists” show by the Nebraska
Women’s Caucus for Art.
To encourage and train girls in
art, the caucus’ mentoring program
selects girls from the community to
participate. Some of the pieces cre
ated by these young artists are fea
tured, along with the work of profes
sional women, in this show at the
Burkholder Project, 719 P Street.
A surprise hit, Omaha seventh
grader Evan Thompson’s painting
“Ode to Joy” celebrates freedom
and classical music in brilliant pri
mary colors.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall,
Thompson’s mentor, Mary Beth
Fogarty, played Beethoven’s mas
terpiece to her to help inspire her
and provide extra stimuli for inter
preting the event. The result was one
of the strongest pieces of the gallery
show, an angelic statement of thrill
ing grace.
About half of the show is made
up of Anne Burkholder’s “Love
Letters to Picasso,” a long.series of
tributes to the Spanish artist. Each
piece in the series has a Pablo Picasso
chocolate candy wrapper in the cen
ter, printed with a painting by the
famed artist. The wrappers are
framed by arranged rectangles of
decorated paper, signed by
Burkholder to Picasso, like a hand
made Valentine.
Burkholder said her “love let
ters” were inspired by a Picasso
slide show she saw 40 years ago,
which was one of her first introduc
tions to modem art.
“I thought, ‘Wow, this stulT is
really great,’” Burkholder said of
the slide show. “It was all kinds of
news, intellectually.
“When a friend gave me this box
of chocolates, I thought, ‘Gee, that
would be really neat to do some
thing with them.’ It’s kind of a play
on love letters.”
Corrie Suhr’s “How To Make A
Girl” commands attention, just as it
did when it appeared in the UNL
Undergraduate Show in March. Her
cupcake-pan assemblage of ink
prints combines resentment with
nostalgic kitsch in a surprising, pretty
way. The segregated black prints
seem at once cute and regal, imply
inga strongmeaning for Barbie dolls,
curling irons and other feminine
objects of consumer culture.
The Women’s Caucus show will
be on display through April 30. The
Burkholder Project is open from 10
a.m. to 3 pan. Admission is free.
‘Nobody’s Fool’
author to read
on Saturday
By Gerry Beltz
Senior Reporter
On Saturday night, acclaimed
author Richard Russo will give a
fiction reading at Love Library Au
ditorium at 8. The event is free and
open to the public.
Russo wrote the novel,
‘‘Nobody’s Fool,” which was made
into a major motion picture starring
Paul Newman and Melanie Griffith.
For his reading Saturday night,
Russo will take selections from his
new novel, “Occam’s Razor,” which
is still in progress, said Kate Flaherty,
managing editor of the Prairie
Schooner.
“He’s hoping to finish it this sum
mer,” she said, “and it should come
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