JHmtjaficJt. flle/zengef 6 ?FcJr*wxULy. 7^, 2 0 0 0 Entertainment= MC Salutes Irving BerUn j^Jilg Goes The Extra MUe FAYETTEVILLE, NC - The Melody,” “1 Love a Piano,” and guards in prison movies, were kind, supporting characters and find an Oscar Methodist College Departments of “Everybody’s Doin’ It.” By Chuck Heaton caring men who tried to keep the row nominee, including a tamed mouse who Theatre and Music will salute one of The director said other songs; Editor as pleasant as possible for the inmates. is the center of a good portion of the America’s greatest composers February “That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Few writers have had as many The center of the movie is a huge action. 24-27 with an original musical revue Tune,” “When the Midnight Choo- problems translating their work to the black man named John Coffey who is It is hard to find a movie that can entitled Young Mr. Berlin. The revue Choo Leaves for Alabam’,” “Snookey silver screen as Stephen King has. convicted of molesting and then move so successfiilly from one will feature 40 songs written by Irving ‘okums,” or “The Girl on the Magazine While he has managed such cult murdering two little white girls when is emotional extreme to the other without Berlin between 1907 and 1930. Cover” have faded a bit from the classics as “Carrie” and “The Shining” found with the girls in his arms. In losing its audience, but “The Green Dr. Paul Wilson, professor of collective memory, but do reflect the he has had huge flops like “Maximum Louisiana in 1935 such evidence was Mile” makes it look easy. Darabont has theatre at Methodist, will direct the popular culture of their day and Overdrive” and “The Running Man”, all one needed against a black man. managed to capture the essence of the revue. Mrs. Betty Neill Parsons, Berlin’s musical genius. along with numerous other mediocre Coffey does not act like a murderer novel on the big-screen, something that associate professor of music, is the Irving Berlin wrote more than films. However, the latest King work and, in fact, has a supernatural ability always seems to allude screen adapta­ musical director. The cast includes: 900 songs, 19 musicals and the scores translated into film, “The Green Mile” of the holy sort. This power is the tions of books. He makes the very Jessica Baldwin, Jonathan Barber, of 18 movies during a career that joins the “Shawshank Redemption” as center around which the movie remarkable power in Coffey seem Christian Baumgart, Shelley Bennett, spanned eight decades. He is still the only movies connected to King that revolves, although much of the movie plausible because it is not huge and Shaun Bowman, Melissa Ann Cain, remembered today for the “patriotic” can be called great film. works around the implications of this showy. He makes the characters come Andy Dickerson, Brad Laub, Emmaline songs he wrote during World Wars 1 Directed by Frank Darabont, who power instead of the power itself alive because they are not stock Taylor, Krystal Taylor, and Brenda and II, and the shows and films Annie also directed the “Shawshank Redemp­ “The Green Mile” is rare in its characters. He turns a King novel into a Janine Vandervort. Ten of the 11 cast Get Your Gun, Top Hat and Easter tion”, the Green Mile tells the story of power. Rarely, if ever, does a three- theatrical masterpiece for the second members are music students and nine Parade. Some of his most famous a death-row prison block in 1935 hour movie not seem like a three-hour time, and that is an accomplishment to are members of Rainbow’s End, songs include: “There’s No Business Louisiana. It is told through the movie. There is as much humor in it as brag about. Methodist’s scholarship vocal en­ Like Show Business,” “This is the flashbacks of an old man in a nursing there is drama and it is the characters semble. Army,” “White Christmas,” and “God home named Paul Edgecomb. Paul, Young Mr Berlin will be staged Bless America.” played by Tom Hanks, was in charge of instead of the plot that holds our attention. You could look at any of the Feb. 24-26 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 27 at 2 Irving Berlin was the son a the death4ow guards who, unlike most p.m. in Reeves Auditorium. Admission Jewish immigrant and was one of eight is $7 for adults, $4 for students and children. His father brought the family senior citizens, and $3 for children 12 to America from Russia in 1893; the and under. Berlins lived on the Lower East Side of Look and Ye Shall Wilson decided to put together a New York City. In the early 1900s, musical revue after studying two while he was in his teens, Berlin began Charles Hamm collections of Irving working as a singing waiter and writing Berlin’s early songs. “These were songs. Later dubbed “Mr. Jazz,” Irving songs Berlin wrote for song pluggers, Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101. Find...But We Can Help vaudeville singers, and parlor piano A preview of the songs included players,” said Wilson. “Some were in Young Mr Berlin can be accessed on By Joel Stanford-Asiyo 2/26 Skeeter Brandon $ Hwy 61 Chapel Hill/Carrboro tremendous hits in their time and are the Internet at www.geocities.com/ Staff Writer 2/29 Acoustic Open Jam The Cave still standards, like “Alexander’s ~pfwilson/midis.html#Berlin. 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