The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 5 of 8
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Arts & Entertainment
The North Texas Daily
Thursday, September 29,1983
Backstage crew supports cast
Lighting, sets, costumes create atmosphere
By DIANE VALENTINE
Daily Reporter
Before the curtain goes up on “Working,”
the drama division’s musical which opens
Wednesday, hours of effort will have already
been put into the show.
The cast of 36 actors and actresses are
supported by a crew of 83. Faculty direc-
tors working on costuming, make-up, light-
ings, sets, props have had to deal with tight
budgets, conflicting schedules and the dif-
ficulty of keeping track of the 129 students
involved.
Many of the students are members of
classes such as the costume lab taught by
Nancy Pickering, faculty costume director.
Pickering is supervising 35 students involved
in costume and makeup.
Contemporary shows are more difficult
to design than period plays, Pickering said.
“You have to decide what is true fashion
and what is fad; you don’t have the luxury
of hindsight or objectivity like you do with
period plays,” she said.
“When you’re working on a contempo-
rary show, and you can’t afford to buy all
new costumes, you are dependent upon do-
nations, Pickering said. “The donations are
more often than not out-of-date, since the
bulk of donations come when people clean
out their closets, which is about once every
five years.”
Costume design can be expensive, she
said, with cleaning bills alone costing about
$125, which is 25 percent of Pickering’s
total budget for "Working.”
Wayne Lambert, drama division techni-
cal director, is supervising a technical crew
of 35 students. The crew is involved in set
design, lighting and the sound system for
“Working.”
Most of the scenery is done with lights
and $4(X) worth of rented scaffolding. “The
sets were designed to establish a mood; this
will be a highly technical show that will
appear simple and clear,” Lambert said.
“Lighting for the show is very important,”
he said. “Working” involves more than 100
lighting cues for four follow spot operators
and three light board operators. Twenty-four
extra light dimmers had to be purchased for
the 22 light projections neeeded for the show.
One of the special effects in the show
will be a lire scene in which smoke pours
out from doors on stage.
“This is the kind of set you plan for two
or three months, build for one month, and
it’s gone in three days,” Lambert said.
Ticket sales, seating and advertising for
“Working” will take the effort of an addi-
tional 17 people. This group is know as the
“front-of-house.”
Mike Winkelman, Dallas senior and stu-
dent assistant for front-of-house, said that
publicity and advertising costs for "Work-
ing” have exceeded $700.
Reserve tickets may be purchased in the
drama division office.
Studio offers many mini-courses
The Union Arts Studio, on the lower level
of the University Union, offers mini-courses
for both beginning and advanced-level artists.
“The courses last six weeks, during which
time the students learn basic techniques and
create projects of their own,” said Dale
Davis, studio employee.
Classes offered this semester are glass
etching; enameling; stained glass; paper-
working; silkscreening; beginning and in-
termediate ceramics; and beginning and in-
termediate weaving.
The classes meet from 6 to 9 p.m. on
weekdays. Two children’s classes are con-
ducted on Saturdays.
The studio now offers a more contempo-
rary and varied selection of courses, said
Emily Casillas, studio employee and Denton
freshman. Paperworking, offered for the first
time this semester, and silkscreening, a
course not available from the art department,
have the highest number of students enrolled,
“We re getting more successful every se-
mester,” Casillas said. More students have
been using the facilities for personal proj-
ects, she said.
The studio staff is knowledgeable about
all processes and is willing to teach students
how to operate equipment and make differ-
ent kinds of art, Casillas said. Students do
not have to be enrolled in a mini-course to
use the equipment.
A list of tools and equipment available
is in the studio. The studio is open 11 a.m.-
9 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturdays.
Photo by SUSAN THOMAS
PICKIN’ AND LOOKIN’ SOMBER—Denton grad-
uate student Bruce Anderson, right, and Stewart
Cheney, Dallas junior, perform with the New Music
Performance Lab '
Hurleys to host second annual University Picnic at Library Mall
The Second Annual University Picnic,
set for 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday after-
noon on the Willis Library Mall, will
kick off Higher Education Week.
The picnic will include a dunking
booth, clown acts, juggling and animal
acts, watermelons, balloon tosses, a
jalapeno pepper eating contest and a hairy
legs contests, Janet Kennard, Union Pro-
gram Coordinator, said Wednesday.
NT President Al Hurley and his wife,
Joanna, will host the event, which is
sponsored by the University Program
Council. Admission to the picnic is free,
but there is a cost for food and beverages.
"Last year, the response was tremen-
dous." Kennard said,."Right away, we
got a date set for this year. This is open
to everybody ”
Barbequed hamburgers, watermelon,
hot dogs, soft drinks, beer, wine and cot-
ton candy will be available, Kennard said.
Activities for children will include a
fishing booth, puppetmaking, face paint-
ing, a parent/child three-legged race and
a big-wheel race. Prizes will be awarded
for the children's events, which are sched-
uled for 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
A cow chip toss, a tug-o-war, a vol-
leyball game and a water balloon toss
are other activities planned for the
afternoon.
The Sadstone-Jacomo Duo, a profes-
sional mime team from the "Five M"
troupe, will perfrom from 2 to 4 p.m
The clown-mime team is composed of
Art Davis, University Union Technical
Supervisor and member of Fort Worth's
Hip Pocket Theater, and Gerald
Edmundson, Denton resident
The Royal Lichtenstein Sidewalk Cir-
cus, a traveling troupe from San Jose,
Calif., will perform from 4 to 5 p.m.
Their acts include a fast moving collec-
tion of narrated mime fairytales, magic,
animal and juggling acts. The troupe
performed at NT four years ago before a
packed crowd. Kennard said.
The Two O’Clock Lab Band will play
from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.. and from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m.. Silver Wings, a country
and western band, will play.
Dunking booth volunteers include Phil
Diebel, vice president for fiscal affairs;
Delbert Overstreet, director of the Phys-
ical Plant; Joe Stewart, dean ot students
John Altland. housing program director
Jim Nieklas, assistant director of the Uni
versity Union for operations; Alton
Thibodeaux, equal opportunity officer:
Virginia Williams, advancement associate:
Ernest Laun. student attorney; Matt
Connel, assistant Union director for ac-
tivities and organizations; Jim Peterson
housing director: Corky Nelson, head
football coach; and Kennard.
Symphony prepares for
informal pops concert
The NT Symphony Orchestra’s second
concert of the semester, an informal pop-
ular music performance styled after the
Boston Pops Orchestra's, is set for 7:30
p.m. Oct. 6 in the Denton Civic Center,
Anna Dryer of the School of Music said
Wednesday.
The deadline to buy tickets is Friday
at 5 p.m., but tickets may not last that
long. Dryer said The center has a seat-
ing capacity of 500, but more than 4(H)
tickets had been sold by Wednesday at
noon, she said.
The orchestra, directed by Geoffrey
Simon of the Music School, will perform
John Williams’ “The Empire Strikes
Back” theme; a set of pops songs for
jazz trio, rhythm section and orchestra,
arranged by Paris Rutherlord of the mu-
sic faculty; and a collection of music the
orchestra performed at the Golden Tri-
angle Mall Sept. 24, Dryer said.
Other music to be performed will in-
clude: Rossini’s "William Tell Overture;”
“Romeo and Juliet;" and two Johannes
Strauss waltzes—“Blue Danube,” and
"Voices of Spring.”
The informal benefit costs $12.50. Pro-
ceeds will go for the Orchestra Scholar-
ship Fund, used primarily to bring out-
of-state talent to NT to further develop
the symphony.
Popcorn, beer and wine will be pro-
vided at the concert, Dryer said.
“The concert was half sold out last
week.” Dryer said. "It s getting full. I'm
pretty excited about the whole thing, and
I think the rest of the orchestra is, too.”
On Oct. 31, the orchestra will perform
Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the com-
poser's patoral symphony, in the NT Con-
cert Hall. The concert will be a 2 p.m.
matinee.
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