Be a
part of the fun during 'Sing-Along Wizard of Oz'
"Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz," the interactive theatrical
film experience combining audience participation with one of
the
most beloved movies of all time, will play Nov. 8 at the
Lied
Center for Performing Arts. Performances are at 2 and 7:30
p.m.
A master of ceremonies will introduce the film and lead the
crowd through the audience participation, including singing with
Dorothy and hissing at the Wicked Witch. Every audience member
will
receive a free "Perform-A-Long Fun Pack," including
a
kazoo, bubbles, a noisemaker and a magic wand. Audience members
are
encouraged to sing along to some of the best-known songs
in motion
picture history, which will be subtitled for new fans.
Audience members also are encouraged to dress as their favorite
Wizard of Oz character. The MC will lead an on-stage costume
parade, where prizes will be awarded for imagination and creativity.
Prizes include food certificates, tickets to the Lied Center,
hotel
stays in Kansas City, movie passes, "Wizard of Oz"
games
and "Wizard of Oz" DVDs.
Tickets for
"Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz" are $22/$18/$12;
tickets are
half-price for college students and those 18 and
under. Call the
Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231
for tickets.
Theatre tells tale of 'Boys Next
Door'
UNL Theatre's University Theatre continues its 103rd
season
with Tom Griffin's The Boys Next Door. The production,
directed
by Harris Smith, vice chair and associate professor, will
have
performances at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31 and Nov. 1, 5, 6, 7,
8 in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building.
Four men, all intellectually disabled, supervised by Jack,
their
increasingly burned-out social worker, are trying to carve
out
independent lives in a group residence. Norman, who is unable
to
resist the merchandise at the doughnut shop were he works,
is also
"sweet" on Sheila. Arnold, constantly chattering
and
nervous, suffers from deep-seated insecurities. There is
Lucien,
who wants the world to know he means business by checking
out
weighty tomes from the library, none of which he can read,
and
Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic, who believes he is a golf
pro and
is devastated by his father's unfeeling rejection.
The
undergraduate cast includes Stephen Lenz as Barry Kemper,
Jack
Carpenter as Jack, Darin Hemmer as Lucien, Justin Rae as
Arnold,
Jeff Nathan as Norman, and Bethany Hall as Sheila. Playing
a
variety of characters are John-Paul Wilson and Carrie Brown.
UNL
Theatre Professor William Grange plays Barry's father.
Tickets are $14, $12 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and
$10
student/youth. Groups of 20 or more may buy tickets at 50
percent
of the regular price. Tickets may be purchased from the
Lied Center
Box Office, 301 N. 12th St., from 11 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Monday
through Friday and one hour before the performance
in the Studio
Theatre lobby. Call 472-4747 for tickets.
Folk legend Joan Baez returns for
performance
Folk music legend Joan Baez returns to the
Lied Center after
a performance in 2000 at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7.
Opening for Baez will
be rising star Josh Ritter.
Baez, a native of Staten Island, N.Y., developed her social
consciousness and her love for music at a young age. She made
her
performing debut at a high school talent show when she was
14,
performing Honey Love on a ukulele. She moved with her family
to
Boston, where she sang at Boston coffee houses, colleges and
later
concert halls along the East Coast to increasingly large
crowds.
She signed with the then small folk label, Vanguard,
which released
her first album, Joan Baez, in 1960.
Enrolling herself in
the civil rights cause and the peace
movement, Baez has sung at
almost every historic demonstration
and fosters a school for
non-violent protest in California. A
legendary protest figure for
over three decades, she continues
to perform at fund-raising events
around the world.
In September, Baez released her first
studio album in six
years. Dark Chords on a Big Guitar is a
collection from contemporary
songwriters, including Ryan Adams,
Greg Brown, Steve Earle, Natalie
Merchant, Josh Ritter, and Gillian
Welch and David Rawlings.
Ritter, whose song Wings
is on Baez's latest album, gained
acclaim last year with his
breakthrough album, Golden Age of
Radio. He has become a celebrity
in Ireland fueled by the single
Me & Jiggs, which made the
Irish Top 40 and even landed Ritter
his own tribute band.
David Landis, professional actor and Nebraska state senator,
will give a talk 30 minutes before the performance in the Lied's
Steinhart Room.
Tickets for this performance are
$39/$34/$29; tickets are
half-price for university students and
those 18 and under. Call
the Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800)
432-3231 for tickets.
Quilt
Center site features database
The International Quilt
Study Center has launched its new
online image database that allows
anyone, anytime, anywhere to
search its extensive quilt
collections.
Online audiences can go to the IQSC website,
<http://quiltstudy.unl.edu>,
and link directly to the database of more than 1,200 quilts,
viewing detailed information about each quilt as well as full-color
images. Quilts can be searched by pattern name, quiltmaker, location
of origin, date and predominant technique. Users are also able
to
search the database by exhibition name, creating a virtual
quilt
gallery on their computer screen, or by collection name.
The
International Quilt Study Center will add the newly acquired
400-piece Jonathan Holstein Quilt Collection to the database
in the
coming year.
In conjunction with the online database, the
IQSC has also
introduced a newly redesigned website. It features an
updated
look and new information, as well as old favorites such as
the
Quilt of the Month program, an e-mail subscription service for
keeping in touch with the IQSC, exhibitions and public events.
For information, call 472-6549.
Wanted: Tales of gardening disasters
What's your
worst gardening blunder? How many plant skeletons
are hidden in
your compost pile? Does your green thumb sometimes
turn black?
If you've got a true tale of gardening disaster, the Nebraska
Statewide Arboretum wants to hear it, for possible inclusion
in
next year's Spring Affair newsletter.
"Gardening
successes are great to see and to hear about,
but we probably learn
more from failures than successes,"
said Karma Larsen, editor
of the newsletter.
Anyone hesitant to put his or her name
with the story can
submit stories anonymously, she said.
Selected stories will be collected and printed in the 2004
Spring Affair News, which is mailed to more than 10,000 gardeners
around the state.
The deadline is Nov. 21. Stories can be
any length, but they
may be shortened and edited for the
newsletter. They can be sent
to Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, Attn:
Karma Larsen, UNL, P.O.
Box 830715, Lincoln, Neb. 68583-0715 or
e-mailed to <klarsen1@unl.edu>.
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