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The Pilot Wednesday^ March 3,1999 Page 7 Boychoir sings and keeps busy schedule Courtnie Walton Special to The Pilot He could barely reach the microphone, but his voice rang out saying, “I usually end up sleeping during my free time, but sometimes I play soccer and talk with my friends.” Although this is a typical response from a young boy, this boy and his friends are not completely typical. They make up the American Boychoir, the country's premier concert boys' choir. On Tuesday, February 2, at 8:00 p.m. in the Dover Theatre, the American Boychoir enter tained members of the commu nity, as well as Gardner-Webb students and staff. “I was surprised that they sang so many different types of music. I especially liked the African selections. The boys are so talented,” said Mary Jones. The program included Concert Spirituals, Classical music, Slovak and Newfoundland Folk Songs, South African songs, opera, and a Gershwin medley. In their matching red turtlenecks and black pants, the boys went from soothing melodies to live ly dances. The South African selections included drums. The opera consisted of spirited choreography and humorous acting scenes of a disillusioned lover and the advice of his pirate friends. “Their voices were so pure. I was impressed that such young boys were so talented,” said Wes Browning . Two of the boys were selected to answer a few ques tions in order to give the audi ence a chance to get to know them a little bit. They talked about their daily schedules, beginning with a 6:30 a.m. wake-up call and a 9:15 p.m. curfew, with school work and rehearsals in between. The American Boychoir has been performing for 58 years at home and abroad. The boys attend The American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey, North America's only nonsectarian boarding choir school. The school has 82 students, grades five through eight, and this year's boys come from 25 states. The Virgin Islands, and four Canadian provinces. They have signed a recording contract with Angel Records and have recorded “Hymn” and “By Request.” Students hear about Fusion and growth Courtnie Walton Special to The Pilot “Fusion is a physics term,” said Louis Giglio, the founder of Passion, “But I'd like to see it applied to us here tonight.” On Friday, February 5, two GWU vans and a trail of cars traveled to Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte for free pizza, worship, fellowship and a Christian message from Giglio of Passion ministries, which is an interdenomination al student revival. Fusion brought together college students from campus es all over the Carolinas to encourage a new generation of Walk America is looking for people to help March of Dimes Be a member of the Walk America team contact: Andrea Butler • ext.4251 or stop by room 215 in the Webb Building Christians to pursue holiness and in doing so, see God. “It was totally awesome. I can't find the words to describe it,” said Jacqueline Bowen. Giglio spoke on Colossians 1:25-28, explaining that the mystery talked about in these verses is how Christ in us is our hope of glory. He said that Christians often have an incorrect theolo gy that states that the combina tion of Christ and us can pro duce holiness in our lives. The truth, Giglio said, is that Christ in us changes us, not Christ and us. When Christians realize this, they are free to stop being overwhelmed with the burden of becoming holy by them selves, said Giglio. “Louis Giglio, in his search for truth, found it in the Trinity, and he shared that with me and about a thousand other people,” said Doug Keene. “The pizza was good, and I liked the speaker's message,” said Andrea Turlington. “What the speaker had to say really inspired me,” said Hanh Tran. For Walter Miller, the best part of Fusion was “The fact that God came down and touched puny lives like mine in an awesome way.” Grease Review. whole audience was singing along to “My Little Runaway." That itself was worth coming out to see the play, I was impressed with the fact that those five musicians played the entire musical score themselves, and played it beautifully. As far as the quality of acting goes. I’ve seen better. Many lines were lost in a haze of poor projection, over-act ing and mcdiocrity, however, the charm and chaiisitia of the core characlens pulled it all off nicely. Jeremy Burger (Danny Zuko) and Michael Brooks (Kenickie) were fantastically ’greasy’. Their showy yet convincing tough-guy act and heavenly voices were tantalis ing. I doubt there was a woman in the audience who didn’t love the musicai num ber '‘Greased Liglrtning'*. Betty Rizzo played by Erin Cox couldn’t have been any trashier. Cox's ability to make the aitdicnce despise Rizzo as a slut and then turn around and open up their hearts to her duiing her beau tiful perf’onnance of ‘There are Wor.se Things I Could Do” was excellent. I found Cox to be an incredible actress. Other characters worthy of note were Eugene (Nathan Roasc), the lovable nerd of Ridcll High. Jan (Denise Deaton), who kept the audi ence rolling in their seats with her appetite driven antics, and Jonny Casino or Teen Angel (Derek Futrell) who, as the name would denote, sang like an angel. And last but not least, Sandy, played by Corie Lewis, belted out her songs with incredible beauty and passion. Musically, she rocked! Tlie entire cast sang well. I was impressed, not only wiUi the lead characters’ musical abilities but also with the sup porting actors’ and chorus singers’ as well. All the musi cal numbers were highly entertaining. My only major criticism of the play wai. of the sound. ■ m From page 6 The cast used approximately ten hiuid-held mikes with Jong cords that got in the way. I’ve be€3i told that the original show did it that way, so 1 guess the point was to bring in that old nostalgic feeling. That’s all well and good, but it detracted from the play. Several times 1 was tcrritied that someone was going to trip over a cord or drop their mike. Grease is a lot of things to a lot of people. It’s a state ment about the moral values of a generation. Jt’s a musical ma.steipiece and an entertain ment icon. When it’s all said and done.GWU's pn)doction of Grease was excellent, ft was funny, the music was catchy, and the sceneiy and props were great. Although, I wouldn’t want to base my moral out look on Ais play (f still think Sandy sold herself out for some no good high .school punk), if you missed Grease^ yoft really missed out.
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