A National Deal with Local Appeal

■¡Vi ylifii g THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTION OF THE DAILY NEXUS For The Week of November 2 1, 19 9 1 M m ■ 1 I i V i P ^ i IB& ¡Com edy 9dN| I Sp o rtz fSTOilK • • '--r q:J Efc&ciß a A N ational D eal W ith 3f l Local Appeal ALAN RlTARVOuly N m a 2 A Thursday, November 21,1991 ntslore AUDITIONS Kings Productions, the world's #1 producer of entertainment, is holding The Zeros look like they might have been locked in a freezer at one point in their career. auditions for the 1992 season at GREAT AMERICA, Santa Clara, California. A variety of positions are available and a travel fee w ill be f a newspaper is printed, but doesn’t have any money, (perhaps right next to that fourth sense) is that Dramarama paid to employees who must travel more than 250 miles to the park. does it make a sound? Just something to ponder dur will be coming to the Ventura Concert Theatre on Satur SAN JOSE, CA — Sunday, December 1 ing the upcoming pre-Thanksgiving rush week. Oh, day, Nov. 30. But that’s not all. Opening the show will be San Jose Civic Light Opera Rehearsal H all, 1717 Technology Drive I most of these events offer a discount for Inside the Zeros, who, judging from their photo, have never 1 -3 p.m. Singers, Specialty Acts rs. stopped eating Pop Rocks. They must know a cheap morti 3*4 p.m. Dancers, Instrumentalists Wave 3*5 p.m. Technicians M usic: cian, but the look works for them. Showtime is at 9 p.m., so FRESNO, CA — Thursday, December 5 • Locals can see what happens as Jane’s Addiction gets a you’ll be missing the “ Golden Gills”, but hey, that Sophia W am or Theater, 1400 Fulton St. South African flavor when Tribe After Tribe brings its chick isn’t getting any cuter. Besides, tickets are only $15. 5- 6 p.m. Singers, Specialty Acts sound to The Pub Thursday, Nov. 21. Woodbuming Pro Theater: 5*7 p.m. Technicians ject, an extremely promising Santa Barbara band, is the Some little-known work called 6- 7 p.m. Dancers, Instrumentalists • The Wizard of Oz, or opener, so it should be a terrific musical night. Festivities maybe ... o f Oss, o r something, will be performed at the SAN JOSE, CA — Saturday, December 7 San Jose Civic Light Opera Rehearsal Hall begin at 8 p.m. and it’s free (sorry, Wavers, no discount). PCPA Theaterfest in some little-known town called Santa 1717 Technology Dr. • Santa Barbara’s Trinity Episcopal Church (quite a con Maria. L. Frank Baum (whoever that is) wrote this so- 10 a.m .-l 2 p.m. Singers, Specialty Acts cert venue, you know — die Doors played there, too) will called fantasy and now it’s a musical. Well, whatever. It 10a.m .*2p.m . Technicians plays Friday, Nov. 21 through Dec. 22 (that’s a long showl) 12-1 p.m. Dancers, Instrumentalists host the Fine Arts Brass Quintet and guest organist Owen Burdick. This whole music-at-the-Trinity Episcopal thing and tickets range from $17 to the low, low price o f $13. For additional information cal: Groat America Audition Hotline 408/988* 1776 seems very close to breaking that church and state separa • Anything Goes, a musical that takes place on an ocean Kings Productions 800/544*5464 tion. The program includes the music o f Bach, Gabrieli, liner, opens Friday, Nov. 22 at the Lobero Theatre. That’s KINGS ISLAND ■ KINGS DOMINION ■ CAROWINDS ■ GREAT AMERICA © Kings Productions Debussy and Gershwin. Is that Ira or Geoige? N o one’s re right, setyour course for adventure and your mind on a new ally sure. The answer will be given Friday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. romance, because these characters are hot! And, best of all, Tickets are $12, but only $8 for those few students who can love won’t hurt anymore. Tickets cost anywhere from $9.75 produce a good-looking reg card photo. for small farm animals to $26 for fully grown super-species. w w w w w „ • Something to keep stored 'in 'Bie back of your mind It’s exciting and new. Come aboard, they’re expecting you. Finding a Direction THE END Students Show Talent in One-Act Plays IS NEAR... It’s once again time for stereotypes about the home the student-directed One “We are trying to less, especially that it’s just Act Plays at the Old Little about men,” she said. Theater. This quarter we get break stereotypes The act is broken into a There are two pieces, one about the about the series o f narrative scenes, aftermath of a dysfunctional homeless.” and follows a single family, the other about the mother’s descent from a God Bless A Child homeless. mildly strapped existence to R eunion, written by Da d ire c to r complete impoverishment. 5 vid Mamet and directed by The entire cast gives solid L is a B u o n o senior drama student Kath performances, notably leen Wilson, is a me Wendy Gough as the lead Days Left To lancholic but heartwarming W ilson’s direction and Julika Lackner, a sixth play about rediscovering a catches Mamet’s script grader who plays her Advertise father. where emotional tension daughter. The choreogra As the title implies, we are and restrained movement phy is tight, the stoiy ab amidst a reunion between a intercede. The acting is sorbing and the message in the father and daughter after a strong in creating that awk taxes our conscience to 20-year separation. Scott E. wardness, but PnZant, play healthy levels of discomfort Daily Nexus Lawrence plays Bemie, a ing a woman close to her We can, however, ap 53-year-old recovering al own age, has an easier time pease our conscience to coholic who left Carol, with it than Lawrence, cast some extent at the door, I Be4 the end of the Quarter played by Yael PriZant, as a middle-aged man. where Buono asks that you *" ------------------------------------------- when she was only four. In a slightly different bring a canned food dona Carol, now an adult, has genre, senior drama/ tion in recognition of “Give called upon Bemie in his psychology major Lisa a Damn, Give a Can” week sparse little apartment. Buono brings her own to support the homeless. Bemie, who has feared adaption to the boards, in this meeting, awkwardly God Bless a Child. W e are The student-directed meanders through a now full steam into socially One Act Plays begin to suppressed past with ill- conscious theatre, specifi night at the Old Little fitting anecdotes. A nervous cally the homeless problem. Theatre and run until this Carol endures his honest Buono’s intent is not merely Sunday, Nov. 24. Admis but superficial parlay. Fi to raise awareness, but to sion is free, and all shows nally, the ice begins to melt, dispel a few misguided no begin at 8 p.m. and the two divulge their tions about the problem. emotional needs. “We are frying to break —Christian Lincoln ENCORE staff Contributors Dylan Callaghan Assistant Editor Aaron Cappocchi DEADLINE IS Josh Elliott NOON 2 days prior Pax Wassermann Greg Dean Jenkins Editor Christian Lincoln to when you Jenn Myers want it to run! Brian Banks Ted Mills ¡ore interview Thursday, November 21,1991 3A PEARLS Living AND • u MARLOWE In Color A NEW PLAY ADAPTED FROM THE STORIES OF TKeyah Keymah Draws RAYMOND CHANDLER H »an .iv ■ BY Barato** ■ Self-Expression in Her ROBERT G. EGAN NOVEM BER 15-16 One-Woman Show NOVEM BER 19-23 By Dylan Callaghan 8:00 PM NOVEMBER 17 AND 23 or two seasons r questions a n dfo 2:00 PM now, the cast of “In comments. F Living Color” — According to Keymah, STUDIO THEATRE one of Fox televi her performance draws NO LATE SEATING sion’s most successful at from such rich sources as STU D EN TS $ 7 .0 0 tempts at tickling America’s the work of Lily Tomlin, funny bone — has been fill Whoopie Goldberg and G EN ER A L $ 1 0 .0 0 ¿ÉSÉi:- ing file bill in the laughter poet Maya Angelou. Those BOX OFFICE department with it’s no- who expect the hyperactive 805-893-3535 ■ ¡ M M r x f S jokes-barred brand o f hu lunacy that defines L iv in g mor. Characters like Homey C o lo fs humor might find DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC ART the Clown, the gutter Keymah’s soft-spoken, arti mouthed children’s show culate professionalism a bit T’Keyah “Crystal” Keymah host who likes to hit kids o f a suprise. THEATRE at UCSB On Vanilla Ice: and say, “ Homey don't play In an interview with E N UNIVERSITY OF CALIF0R NIA • SANTA BARBARA that,” nave found popular CORE, Keymah discusses “I probably own less than 10 albums and, ity among television audi the business o f being true to I dare say, he’s not among them. ences. And Fire Marshall ourself, David Duke and On her interest in politics: Bob — the half-bald, pyro- er lack of Vanilla Ice al maniac fire marshall who al Sbums in her distinct style o f ‘7 come in and out” ways winds up torching the few words. location of his fire-safety de ENCORE : Is In L iv in g monstrations — has proven C o lo r the funniest tiling on to be just the type o f mad T V today? Keymah: No I don’t.

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