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Page 4 Wednesday, October 8, 2003 University Press
Auditions for LU ‘soap’
to be held Friday
By STEVEN RUFFIN
Staff Writer
Auditions for Lamar University’s third student-run soap
opera will be held on Friday at 12:30 p.m. in the television stu-
dio located in 113 Communication Building.
The soap, titled “Student Affairs,” will feature six Lamar
students, an even cast of three men and three women, who
will act as the main characters in a very cliche-type setting,
Jay Jacobs, producer and script writer, said.
Jacobs said that he initially created the soap opera script
as part of a class assignment. He received a mark of “A” and
eventually got permission to run the script as a soap opera to
be filmed and edited.
The soap deals with issues on the effects of divorce on
children, college relationships, and the obstacles that we all
must face in the name of love.
Jacobs’ soap will consist of three episodes, and he says
that it should take a total of about three weeks to shoot all
three episodes.
The filming of the soap will take place in mid-
November, and the theatre class will take part in the filming
and editing process of production.
The auditions are open to any Lamar student who is
interested in acting. There is no requirement of having taken
prior acting classes.
“It’s open to anyone that can carry a scene,” Jacobs said.
“The last soap opera had a good mix of theatre and commu-
nication students, so anyone can do it.”
The actors of this year’s audition will be chosen based on
a cold reading from a selected portion of the script.
Jacobs said that his soap is just like any other typical
soap opera, but he “would compare the soap to ‘Melrose
Place’ in a college setting.”
“I try to make it light and fun,” he said. “It’s a little
cheesy...like the sibling rivalry thing.”
He says that he grew up watching soap operas and found
them to be an interesting form of entertainment because of
the unusual happenings that occur.
“I watched soap operas for a long time,” Jacobs said.
“You can do anything in the realm of a soap opera.”
It has been nearly two years since the last soap opera
was put on by Courtney Hall, a recent graduate of Lamar.
Hall’s soap script setting was in a TV newsroom and was
about the backstabbing that goes on between co-workers
when the cameras go off Jacobs said that he was part of the
production team for her soap opera, so he knows how much
fun it can be.
Jacobs said that the actors’ ages for the last soap were
between 18 and 25, and he plans to stay within those same
ages for the actors of this year’s production.
Interested students must be available for rehearsals
between 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Also performances will be recorded on one to two Friday
afternoons, so students must have a flexible schedule.
The soap is a class project and will offer no pay to the
actors and others involved in the production.
Call 880-7222 or 880-8038 for more information.
UPGuiseppe Barranco
Employees of the Thorton Company of Conroe install seating in the Southeast Texas entertainment arena on Friday.
SE Texas
arena
nears
completion
By GUISEPPE BARRANCO
Staff Writer
Chairs are being installed in
the Southeast Texas entertainment
arena by the Thorton Company of
Conroe
Jimmy Thorton, president of
the company, said, that his people
had been working on the installa-
tion for almost two weeks and
should be finished by the end of
this week.
“In addition to the chairs,”
John Hughes, director of marketing
for the complex, said, “all we have
left to do is install a kitchen facility
for the concession stands, a 70-foot
scoreboard and lay the ice.”
“The arena will be open to the
public Nov 8 for the Wildcatters’
first game against the Louisiana Ice
Gators,” he said.
The blue seats that Thorton is
installing will cost hockey fans any-
where from $11 to $21, depending
on their location.
Season ticket buyers can pay
an additional $250 for a special club
membership that provides cush-
ioned seats and VIP parking.
The arena has 14 suites,
Hughes said, that will cost $35,000
each for the season. Each suite
includes a private room for 16 at
the top of the arena and a clear
view from black leather couches.
Other amenities include bar serv-
ice, a television and Internet access.
In the arena’s first 30 days, it
will host events such as monster
truck rallies and a Christian music
concert. Also WWE Monday Night
Raw will also be televised live on
Spike TV from the arena, he said.
Reach this writer at
com gpb@hal.lamar.edu
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