Emmy Award-Winning Actors, Bonus DCDC Performance Highlight University of Dayton Arts Series for 2001-2002 University of Dayton

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NEWS RELEASE EMMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS, BONUS DCDC PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHT UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ARTS SERIES FOR 2001-2002

DAYTON, Ohio- That the 2001-2002 University of Dayton Arts Series features a slate of seven premier acts, highlighted by and opening with an evening of poetry, drama and comedy with award-winning stage and screen actors Anthony Zerbe and Roscoe Lee Browne, is enough to make the series package - at only $60- one hot ticket. But this season's package also includes a pot-sweetening bonus -patrons who buy season tickets in advance of the first show will also receive a free ticket, valued at $40, to a repertory performance of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. In simple math, that makes the Arts Series package an exceptional value in prime entertainment. Season tickets are currently on sale by calling the Arts Series office at (937) 229-2787. Brown and Zerbe will kick off the series in grand style with "Behind the Broken Words," a performance of 20th-century poetry, drama and comedy at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Kennedy Union Boll Theatre. Browne, whose name doesn't always bring a face to mind but whose face is unmistakable, is most often recognized by his robust yet eloquent voice and noble elocution. While older fans may remember the Shakespearean actor for his film roles in The Comedians, The Cowboys and Uptown Saturday Night and television appearances on the Cosby Show - for which he won an Emmy in 1986- and as Saunders the butler in the comedy series Soap, among many others, even the youngest fans will recognize the distinguished voice of the narrator for the films Babe and Babe: Pig in the City. Zerbe, also a versatile actor who has appeared both on and off Broadway, lists more than 30 films to his credit including Cool Hand Luke, Papillon and the not-yet-titled sequel to The Matrix. He has appeared as a guest star in a host of television series from vintage classics such as Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible and Bonanza, and is perhaps best known for his Emmy Award winning role as Lt. Trench in the series Harry-0 with David Jannsen. -over-

OFFICE OF PuBLIC RELATIONS 300 College Park Dayton, Ohio 45469-1679 (937) 229-3241 (937) 229-3063 Fax www.udayton.edu Browne and Zerbe created Behind the Broken Words in the early 1970's and premiered the show to critical acclaim in both Los Angeles and New York City. They reprised the show in 1996 and have since brought it to more than 90 stages across the country in celebration of love of poetry, long-time friendship and practice of their art. The show opens with e. e. cummings comic "The Very Latest School in Art." The actors then move into and out of a number of characters including burned-out businessmen in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Junkman's Obbligato," the comic gods in Jean Giraudoux's "Amphitryon '38," and foolish shepherds inventing a deadly game in Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo." Intense and moving solo performances include Browne's portrayal of Richard Wright's "Between the World and Me," in which he lives the horror of a man tarred, feathered and about to be hung, and Zerbe's battlefield aria in Joe Henry's "Lime Creek." The remaining series performances, all at 8 p.m., are: • Saturday, Oct. 6, Immaculate Conception Chapel- Rebel, an internationally renowned ensemble known for the musicians' provocative approach to the baroque repertoire;

• Saturday, Oct. 13, Kennedy Union Ballroom- Five Guys Named Moe, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based quintet whose members aim to get audiences moving- and sometimes laughing- to their performances of an eclectic mix of swing, free-wheeling bebop, American jazz and traditional and popular music;

• Thursday, Nov. 15, Sears Recital Hall in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center- Richard Fuller, a leader in the fortepiano movement in Europe;

• Thursday, Jan. 31, Kennedy Union Ballroom- the Cincinnati-based, prize-winning Amernet String Quartet, recently appointed as the Patricia A. Corbett String Quartet in Residence at Northern Kentucky University;

• Wednesday, March 6, Sears Recital Hall- David Cullen, who delivers his blend of classical, jazz and world music in personalized style; and

• Tuesday, April 9, Sears Recital Hali- the ProMusica chamber woodwind quintet, based in Columbus and dedicated to the promotion and presentation of contemporary American repertoire as well as to the development of new music.

Those who purchase a season ticket will also receive a free ticket to a performance' of DCDC at the Victoria Theatre featuring dances created exclusively by women choreographers such as B. B. Miller, Shonna Hickman-Matlock and Sharon Leahy. Ticket-holders can choose from performances at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, or at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3. -30- For media interviews, call Barbra Lupp, manger of the UD Arts Series, at (937) 229-2787.