October 4, 1996



Who Shot Andy Warhol?

Actress Lili Taylor strikes a pose in front of Andy Warhol's famous image of Elvis Presley on the set of writer/director Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol, opening Oct. 24 at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater. The movie is a kicky, sharp and thoughtfully docudramatized saga of Warhol's would-be assassin, Valerie Solanas, who pumped three bullets into the Pop artist/celebrity on June 3, 1968.

Also showing is a short feature, Your Name in Cellulite, by Gail Noonan, a hilarious six-minute animated rocket travelogue of the female body as it tries to conform itself to the images of modern culture.

Both are showing Oct. 24 through Oct. 27 and again Oct. 31 through Nov. 2. Screenings are at 7 and 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; at 1, 3, 7 and 9 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. on Sunday. For more information call 472-5353.



'Ain't Misbehavin' Brings Harlem's Golden Age to Lied

Classic Fats Waller hits such as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" highlight the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin' to be presented at 8 p.m. Oct. 18 and 2 and 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas star in the all-new production of the Tony Award-winning musical brimming with 30 songs of the 1930s from the Golden Age of Harlem.

Reeves is a 1960s Motown mainstay often credited with beginning the Motown soul music sound. Her hits include such records as "Dancing in the Street," "Heat Wave," "Nowhere to Run," "Jimmy Mack" and others. She began her career as a blues singer and was also a secretary for Motown Records in Detroit for singers such as Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and producer Berry Gordy.

Ain't Misbehavin' doesn't attempt to depict songwriter Fats Waller's life story. Rather, it is a celebration of his robust enthusiasm for life.

At Harlem's famed Apollo Theatre Waller learned a boisterous piano style called 'stride piano' that was a combination of ragtime and "shout" music of the South.

James A. McShane, UNL associate professor of English and director of the University Foundations program, will give an educational pre-performance talk in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room 55 minutes and 35 minutes before the three performances are scheduled to begin.

The presentation is made possible in part with generous support from Nebraska Bookstore.

Tickets for Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' Ain't Misbehavin' are $36, $32 and $28. Students at UNL, Wesleyan and Doane Colleges with valid identification and youth under 18 pay half price. The Lied Center box office is open for walk-in sales weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 90 minutes before the performance. Phone orders may be placed by calling 472-4747 or 1-800-432-3231.

Ceramics Exhibition Opens Oct. 14 at Richards Hall

The UNL Department of Art and Art History welcomes 17 artists for an exhibition of regional artist/teachers in the exhibit Handle, Spout, Story, Shrine: A Regional Ceramics Exhibition, opening Oct. 14 in the Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History, 102 Richards Hall.

Several of the artists will participate in special events accompanying the exhibition. A studio demonstration will be given from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 19 in 104 Woods Hall. A slide lecture will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in the Richards Hall auditorium (room 225).

An opening reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Gallery. All of the above events are free and open to the public.

The artists included in the exhibition are: Ingrid Lilligren, Iowa State; JoAnn Schnabel, University of Northern Iowa; James Shrosbree, Maharishi International University; Roy Strassberg, Mankato State; Victoria D. Christen, Knox College; Bede Clarke, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Keith Ekstam, Southwest Missouri State; Anna Calluori Holcombe, Kansas State; Yoshiro Ikeda, Kansas State; Malcom Kucharski, Pittsburg State; Marcia Polenberg, Barton Community College; Henry Serenco, UNO; Jerry Horning, Creighton University; Gary Martin, Doane College; Lisa Lockman, Nebraska Wesleyan; Jake Jacobson, UNK; Linda Ganstrom, Ft. Hays State College.

UNL Symphony Opens Season With Tribute to Hanson

The UNL Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Tyler White, will present the opening concert of its 1996-97 season at 8 p.m. Oct. 10 in Kimball Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

The program begins with a tribute to Nebraska native Howard Hanson, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth. The orchestra will perform Hanson's Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky. Koussevitzky, a friend and mentor of Hanson's, was conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924-51 and commissioned many significant 20th-century orchestral works, including Hanson's own Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic").

UNL faculty members David C. Neely, violin, and Clark Potter, viola, will join the orchestra as soloists in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K. 364. The 65-member all-student orchestra will conclude its program with a performance of Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G major (old No. 4).


Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' at Howell Theatre
UNL Theatre will present The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare at 8 p.m. Oct. 11-12 and 15-19 in the Howell Theatre.

Directed by assistant professor Paul Steger, the play offers a pinch of intrigue, a dash of bawdiness, a dramatic shipwreck and a dose of mistaken identity, all mixed together into a mass of confusion.

It is generally believed that The Comedy Of Errors was Shakespeare's first play, perhaps begun before he left Stratford-upon-Avon for London in 1587 and first performed in 1594 at Gray's Inn.

Tickets are $10 regular admission, $9 for senior citizens, faculty and staff and $6 for students. A preview performance will be given at 8 p.m. Oct. 10. Tickets for the preview are $5.

For more information call the box office at 472-2073.

Sculptor Steve Barry to Lecture Oct. 7

Sculptor Steve Barry, a visiting artist from the University of New Mexico, will be on campus at the UNL Department of Art & Art History Oct. 7-8. He will present a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Richards Hall auditorium, room 225.

Barry, an artist who uses both film and video in his work, will be working with students in photography and sculpture during his visit to UNL. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and his MFA from Hunter College in New York City. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990,1988 and 1986, as well as AVA Awards in the Visual Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Emergent Forms.

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