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Dy ELENI CHAL'SS
Staff Writer "
For some, Carowinds offers just a
day of crazy rides and cotton candy,
but for others it can provide a lifetime
of experience.
Although official opening for Caro
winds theme park for the 1986 season
is March IS, auditions for the live
shows began January 26.
Singers, dancers, characters and
escorts are all needed at the theme
park. Carowinds also has job openings
for instrumentalists, technicians,
supervisors and variety performers.
Auditions are held in different cities
around North and South Carolina;
therefore, the judges are different in
each city. In Charlotte auditions are
judged by the Entertainment Depart
ment manager Mike Hamrick; a
choreographer, Stevie Rivers; and one
of the producers, Mike Cheeseman.
In other cities, a musical director is
added to the list of judges.
Stephanie Anderson, assistant to
Mike Hamrick, said that the salaries
vary with the jobs.
"Singers and dancers make $230 to
$260 a week while technicians earn
$195 to $230 a week. Characters and
escorts follow with $150 to $210
weekly," Anderson said.
Auditions can be competitive.
I auditioned three times and made
it the last time, which was this past
summer," said Elizabeth Klomp
maker, a junior accounting major
from Chapel Hill. "Since I wanted a
job as a singer, I had to sing two songs
an up-tempo and a slower ballad.
Afterwards, if they like you, theyll
. give you a call-back. Then youll learn
some music and a dance combo that
they teach you. There's about a two
or three week wait after that for the
final decision.
Elizabeth worked as a singer for a
country show called 'The Cross
Country,' as did Al Parker, a drama
and radio, television, and motion
pictures major, who graduated in
December.
"The auditions aren't bad bcause
you get to choose your own material
if you're a singer, which is mainly what
I am," Parker said. "They teach you
a dance combo in a large group, but
for the judges, you perform it in
groups of three."
Both Parker and Klompmaker
joined the show in February 1985 and
performed the same show every
weekend until the end of May or first
week of June. Then the two, along
with others, did the same show six
days a week, four to five times a day
through October.
"By the end of the summer, we
probably did the show 500 times,"
Parker said.
Both heartily recommended these
dance shows to anyone interested.
"I felt like there were so many
people better than me. It was really
a humbling experience," Klompmaker
said. "I don't think I want it as a career,
though.
"Some kids will work at it really
hard ten or twelve hours a day, but
I don't want it that bad. Maybe after
I get my accounting degree, 111 try to
make it and then I can always lean
back on my degree," she said.
Benefits for the performers are
numerous.
"Recognition is the greatest
benefit," Anderson said. "Over a
million people see our shows. The
performers also receive discount
merchandise and food, free entry into
the park, and family passes."
Although the job may seem glam
ourous on stage, it's a lot of hard work,
Klompmaker said .
"I am a responsible person, but
when you make a committment to
perform in a show like this, you make
it for a long time," she said. "A lot
of times, you work from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. The work is not easy, but the
people are great. They really expect
1 10 percent every show. But I had a
great time and hope to do it again
the future."
Parker agreed. "Keeping the show
fresh is the big thing. You have to
make it like it's the first time you've
ever done it each time you do it.
Even if there's only five peple in the
audience, you have to act like those
are the five most important people in
the world."
Anyone interested in auditioning
should call the Carowinds Entertain
ment Department at (704) 588-2606
for more information.
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Dy JAMES CAMERON
StaffWriter
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salt and maybe some sugar. Mix it all together and let it
cool.
That is the general recipe for sushi, but it doesn't get
interesting until a few more ingredients are added.
Pile some raw salmon eggs on top and wrap seaweed
around the edges, and you have ikura. Or stick a shrimp
on top of a sushi roll, and end up with ebi.
So many other sushi combinations are made with seafood
or vegetables that it can get a little confusing.
Fortunately help is not half a world away from Chapel
Hill. Two local shops specialize in Oriental food, cooking
utensils and helpful tips that are friendly and free.
"I always welcome questions," Suyu Martinique said. "I
help customers whenever I can."
Martinique owns The Silver Wok Food Shop, located
beside Food Lion at Eastgate Shopping Center.
The aisles of her store almost overflow.with cans, plastic
bags, bottles and some fresh produce. Labels read in English
and Chinese, with a little French on a few of the items,
thrown in for real international flavor.
At the back of the store, shelves of porcelain dolls admire
the handmade wicker dragons and other figures on the
colorful sides of mainland Chinese tea gift-packs. Behind
the dolls, rows of plates stand on glass shelves, just waiting
for that perfect Oriental meal that is not too difficult to
. prepare, according tc Martinique.
"Just put some oil in the wok, throw in some kind of
meat, then some vegetables," she said. "It is much cheaper
than going to a Chinese restaurant."
Health-conscious diners might want to try some tofu, which
comes in several varieties made from fresh bean curd.
"Tofu is a high-protein food with almost no cholesterol "
Martinique explained. She said she knew of a book tnat
told 150 ways to fix it.
Nan-Ming Chen and his wife, Pau-Chiu, agreed with
Martinique that Oriental foods were very healthy.
The Chens opened the Eastern Market on Rosemarv Street
eight months ago.
Because Oriental cooking uses less meat and more
vegetables than western cooking, Mrs. Chen said it made
a more healthy diet.
"Chinese cooking uses many different kinds of vegetables,"
she said. "It is more nutritionally balanced."
With several kinds of rice, spices, vegetables and meats
to" choose from, Oriental cooking may involve a great variety
of foods. But it is the Oriental style of cooking that makes
it easy, according to Mrs. Chen.
"Once you choose one kind of dish and start cooking,
you are pretty much on your way," she said. "To cook other
dishes, all you need to do is change the ingredients."
Some of the basic implements needed to prepare Oriental
food are a cookbook, a wok, a cleaver,and perhaps an electric
rice steamer, Mr. Chen said.
Walking through the store, he pointed out some of the
ingredients that might be used in a Chinese meal. Bamboo
shoots, baby corn, foot-long green beans, purple Chinese
eggplants and noodles of all sizes were just a few of the
items on the shelves.
The Eastern Market carries a selection of fresh produce,
especially during the summer. Much of it is grown just 10
miles from Chapel Hill, Mr. Chen said.
Something straight from the Orient might be more
appropriate for entertaining special guests, like dried squid
or salted jellyfish.
"Jellyfish is most of the time used for parties, served cold
and sour," Mr. Chen said. "It tastes a little crunchy, and
it's very good."
Whether entertaining or eating alone, The Silver Wok and
the Eastern Market both offer a wide variety of Oriental
foods. From several kinds of ready-to-eat dim-sum, which
are snacks, to all the ingredients for a traditional Chinese
meal, these stores stock foods found no where else in Chapel
Hill.
And they are more than healthy alternatives to the steak-and-potato
checkout line. They offer a taste of another culture
right in your own kitchen.
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Dy UZ SAYLOR
Staff Writer
The UNC Glee Club was an all-male
singing group in an all-male school in
the early 1800s. Today about 40 men
and women, all close friends, work
together and separately as the UNC
Glee Clubs.
The Women's Glee Club began in the
1960s, said Director Michael Tamte
Horan, who came to UNC three years
ago. The Glee Club is a one-credit class,
with the grade based on attendance and
attitude.
"Until I came here the groups sort
of functioned separately," Tamte
Horan said. "They still function separ
ately meaning they rehearse separ
ately twice a week but they also
function as a mixed group."
"The funny thing is that there are
maybe two or three music majors (in
the. ,grp.up),7 -said . Men's, Glee. .Club
President Bobby Hobgood," a junior
from North Wilkesboro. "We have
chemistry to biology majors, with a
graduate student or two. People aren't
in it for a grade."
Tamte-Horan said the Glee Club is
not only a performing musical organ
ization, but also a strong social group.
"You talk to the students in it, and
you get a very strong impression of what
it means to them a very positive
thing," Tamte-Horan said. "That's
because not only do they get a lot of
musical rewards out of it, but because
they do things socially and they're close
friends. The combination is powerful."
According to Tamte-Horan, he has
an unusual relationship with the singers
which includes both professionalism
and comaraderie. "I have a double role
. . . professor and director of the
chorus," he said. "I make all the musical
decisions. I'm the one that disciplines
them. I don't think of it in those terms,
but I'm the one that focuses their
attention and gets them to develop
themselves and reach their potential.
Outside of rehearsal I let down. I just
drop that sort of authoritarian role ...
they think of me as an equal in that
respect, and yet also as a professional
director."
"Our director is more involved,
concerned," Hobgood said. "He often
asks us, 'What do you think of this
music?' Outside of rehearsal we treat
him like one of us."
"He tells us to understand the text
and phrase it like normal conversation.
. . . make sure the audience under
stands," said Women's Glee Club
President Janice Cole, a sophomore
from Charlotte.
Tamte-Horan said attitude and
attendance were both excellent in the
group this year.
"If you talked to somebody out in
the University -t ?a student their
reaction to (the club) would be: 'Four
hours of classes plus performances for
one hour credit? Whereas the Glee
Club's attitude is: 'We get all of this
enjoyment and satisfaction out of this
group, and on top of that we get an
hour of A, " he said. "It's a different
perspective. That's why the group is
special. The people really work hard to
get their schedules to work so they can
be in the group."
"There are a lot of people who take
heavy loads 18 hours and call
this a 'release of energy,' " Cole said.
"I just stay in it because this is a large
university, and it's a real close-knit
group. It's nice that we do get credit
one hour but even if I didnt,
I'd do it anyway."
Hobgood said his first objective was
to enjoy himself.
"If I'm not, the audience won't," he
said. "We want them to see we really
care about the music. Every perfor
mance is really important. We treat it
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Glee Club activities include end-of-semester
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mances. The big audiences are students,
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Tamte-Horan said the group tries to
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"Music is a form of communication,
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When it is sincere, there's a certain
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heart-felt kind of expression."
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words, but expression was his goal.
"When a composer writes the music,
he assumes the performer will take to
mind what the lines say," Hobgood said.
"Some choruses sing like a computer,
but a computer can't feel the music. . . .
You can tell when a chorus cares."
"Involvement, conviction and
honesty" are what Tamte-Horan said
he considers the group's initial attrac
tions. "Once they're in it, they're
attracted to the high level of music
making, which means involvement,
polish and the type of music I select,"
he said.
Tamte-Horan said the group per
forms a variety of music. He tries to
program folk songs often and picks one
contemporary piece for each perfor
mance that is "avant-garde and off-the-wall."
The Glee Club has never had a bad
performance, Tamte-Horan said.
"We've had performances we thought
we could do a lot better," he said. "You
always run that risk. . . . Last spring
we performed in Hill Hall. It was 100
degrees in there, so hot! Physically a
singer cannot sing, concentrate as well.
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fortunate thing is when you have a
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