Smoke Signals, March 13, 1986
Entertainment
A Chowan Players Production
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The Chowan Players are hard at
work on preparations for their upcom
ing production of the musical comedy,
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to
the Forum. This zany comedy takes
place in 300 BC in Rome in the court-
tyard separating the homes of two
dignified citizens of Rome and a house
of ill repute.
The story involves an assortment of
wild and crazy characters. Hero, a
citizen, begs his slave, Pseudolus, to
find for him a virgin to be his wife.
Pseudolus agrees when his master pro
mises him his freedom in return. The
fun begins when Pseudolus begins his
search at the House of Lycus, a local
house of ill repute. Hysterium, slave-in-
chief, who has a problem maintaining
self control in the best of cir
cumstances, has difficulty staying
calm when Miles Gloriosus, a Roman
warrior appears with his soldiers,
demanding the same virgin for his wife.
The plot takes many twists and turns
before we know who gets the virgin.
Some familiar faces will be seen on
the stage in this production. The fleet
footed Pseudolus, who gets himself into
and out of a series of escapades, is
played by Scot Tanner. Tanner was last
seen as the ailing Ben in Look
Homeward Angel. Hysterium, his
fellow slave and sidekick, is ably
portrayed by Ricky Kllian. Kilian was
seen as border Jake Clatt in Look
Homeward, Angel. Hero is played by
Bill Eckstein who played Luke Gant in
the fall production. The lovely virgin,
Philia, is protrayed by I>ane Windham.
Other familiar faces include Michael
Hewitt as Lycus, the owner of the house
of courtesans; Chaplain Taylor as
Senex (who also has a romantic
rendevous with the lovey Philia); Ach
Harden as Erronius; and Jamie Min-
nich as Domina, wife of Senex. The
girls of the House of Lycus include
Tracy Whitley, Tracy Fox, Kaytee Bell,
and Andrea Jones. The Proteans, three
characters who fall over themselves
and each other as they try to play
everybody else in Rome, are played by
Eugene Baker, Greg Granger, and
Caroline Stephenson.
Rehearsals are already a laugh a
minute, reports Mrs. Boyce, director
who comments that this is the funniest
script she has ever worked with. Plan
now for an evening of fun and laughter
when A Funny Thing Happened on the
way to the Forum performs on the Col-
unuis stage on March 19-22, 1986, Hear
famihar songs like "A Comedy
Tonight” and delight to the antics of the
Chowan Players. A matinee is schedul
ed for 1 pm on March 19, with evening
performances scheduled for 8 pm on
March 20, 21 and 22. Put It on your
calendar now.
Adult Tickets $4.00
Students $2.00
Turner Auditorium in McDowell Columns Murfreesboro, NC
Pioneers
Inducted
To The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame
A whole lot of shaking was going on in
the usually more sedate art deco
ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria as the
world of rock music inducted its
pioneers into the Rock and Roll hall of
Fame.
“Dy-no-mite,” responded Chuck Berry,
59, who slid across the stage on his
knees to the tune of his “Roll Over
Beethoven” before the Rolling Stones'
Keith Richards presented him with one
of 15 such awards Thursday night.
Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee
Lewis, James Brown, Fats Domino,
Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Buddy
Holly were among those honored as a
crowd of 1,000 clapped and howled
delightedly with the sounds of rock
punctuating the black-tie dinner.
“I’ve lifted every lick he ever played.
He’s the gentleman that started it all,
as far as I'm concerned,” Richards
said of Berry.
The balconies were festooned with
giant photos of the music idols and the
stage was decorated with old-style
WurUtzer jukeboxes lighted in tutti-
fruiti colors. A giant video screen was
suspeneded above the stage to show
film clips of the stars’ great musical
moments.
Domino, whose 23 gold singles includ
ed the 1960 million-seller, “Walkin’ to
New Orleans,” got his award from
singer Billy Joel.
“We Are The World” producer Quin
cy Jones presented another to Charles,
and trumpeter Herb Albert
posthumously honored Cooke, who sang
“You Send Me,” “Cupid” and “Twist
the Night Away”
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Nigerian-born pop star
claims she’s no musician
She’s seductive, stylish and stunning.
She’s a singer, and her name is Sade.
She cooly stands before a sold-out
crowd at Radio Music Hall, about to
sing one of her hits, “Your Love is
King.” Then she sheds her
cosmopolitan exterior and sinks into a
slow samba, pulling down her jacket to
bare her back.
Her fans love it!
“I’m not a musician,” she said during
an interview during the concert. “I’m
just a music fan...I wouldn’t even know
if we were doing a samba...I’m
uneducated in that respect.”
Though she never wanted to become
a pop star, Sade (pronounced shar-
DAY), has quickly risen to fame. She’s
been nominated for a Grammy Award
for best new artist, and her debut
album this year, “Diamond Life.” a
blend of jazz, pop, and Latin, sold more
than 7 million copies worldwide. Her
new album, “Promise” has already
soared on the charts.
“I haven’t popped out of nowhere, not
as extremely as people think.” said the
Nigerian- bom British pop star. “We
have been together for about four and a
half years now; so we’ve actually been
been working fairly consistently,
and...it hasn’t been that easy.”
Sade, 25, brought her soul and jazz-
flavored act to the United States for the
first time in December, as she she
began an eight-city concert tour follow
ing her huge successes in Britain.
She is one of the hottest pop sensa
tions to emerge from England since
Boy George and Culture Club. And like
fashion concious Boy George, Sade is
setting trends with her sleek ap
pearance.
Her severely pulled back hair and the
bright red lipstick she wears with her
simple, but elegant wardrobe and
t’-aUemark gold-hooped earrings em
phasize her striking, Afro-Asian
features.
She exudes understated elegance on
stage as well, with her smooth and
sultry voice.
“Promise” shot to the top 10 during its
first week of release and has spawned
such hit singles as “Sweetest Taboo,”
“Is It Crime”, “War of the Hearts” and
“Maurine.”
But it was the Latin-based “Smooth
Operator” that first introduced her to
American audiences.
Sade’s musical career came almost
by accident.
It began four years ago when, as a
designer of men’s clothing and a part-
time model with no formal training as a
singer she was discovered by a friend
managing Pride, a London funk band.
Desperate for a back-up vocalist, he ap
proached Sade.
“I went to an audition, and basically
they turned around to the manager and
said that I wasn't any good," she recall
ed laughing. “It's true; I'm fair, 1
think."
"Then they waited for about a week,
and they auditioned a couple of more
people who must have been even worse,
and they came back and asked me
again...So I fell into that completely by
mistake."
Soon after joining Pride, she stood oul
as the group's main attraction. In early
1984, she broke off from the group with
three of Pride's original members, her
songwriting collaborator and sax
ophonist Stewart Matthewman, bass
guitarist Paul Denman and keyboardist
Andrew Hale. She named the group
Sade.
Sade writes all the lyrics and melodies,
and Matthewman composes most of the
music. The result has been a sound that
is so different from most of today's pop
music that Sade has found acceptance
on all types of American radio stations,
from urban contemporary to album-
oriented rock.
"A lot of songs are a part of me," she
said. " Some are fantasies of course,
but 1 don't want to be self-indulgent
when 1 write songs. I just want to put
some feeling across that not only me
but other people enjoy."
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HOLD OUT FOR MAD MAX
THIS IS HIS GREATEST ADVENTURE
MEL GIBSON
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