6 The Compass Friday, November 19, 1999
Entertainment
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Photo courtesy of University Players
Left left to right: Sandra Sutton, Gerald Langford, and Dorothy
Downing.
ECSU Players Present
Musical “Tambourines
To Glory”
By: Amber Hassell
Staff Writer
The University Players, Elizabeth
City State University’s theatre troupe,
presented Langston Hughes’ musical
comedy, Tambourines to Glory, for a
four performance run on November 10,
11, 12 and 14, 1999, in The Little
Theatre, located in the G.R. little
Library building.
Tambourines to Glory, a gospel musi
cal, is about two poor African American
women who, attempting to make a liv
ing for themselves, starting a Baptist
church in New York’s Harlem. These
leading characters, Laura Wright Reed
and Essie Belle Johnson, were played
by veteran actress Dorothy O. (Wills)
Downing and local newcomer Sandra
Sutton respectfully. Downing has
delighted Little Theatre audiences with
her leading roles in MaRainey’s Black
Bottom. A Raisin in the Sun, and The
First Breeze of Summer. She has also
performed with the Encore Theatre
Company in Nunsense II. Ms. Sutton, an
Elizabeth City native, makes her acting
debut in the role of Bessie.
The play’s author, Langston Hughes,
was one of the major artists of the
Harlem Renaissance. Hughes called the
play “a comedy,” yet it is filled with
moral and ethical overtones.
The major characters are forced to
make life changing decision, helped by
Buddy Lomax, player by another new
comer, Gerald Langford, an ECSU
freshman from Bronx, New York.
Buddy Lomax is a character who makes
little effort to hide his evil intentions;
after all, Buddy is The Devil. While
Buddy knows the Devil cannot win, he
also knows that he will have “a heck of
a good time trying.”
The musical was directed by William
Lamar Frasier, who recently staged The
Me Nobody Knows for the Players.
Frasier assembled a large cast of forty
stage veterans and novices, including
Taneisha Armstrong, Michael Edwards,
Jerome Brothers, and Amelia Pledger.
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World AIDS bay (SA)
• Student Leadership Development
• SA(i§ Steering Committee Mtg.
2 PM (AA)
• Final Exams for Graduating Seniors
(SA)
• SAT l/SAT II (SA)
• M/W Basketball. ECSU vs
Academy. University Center. 5;30 PM
(SA)
• Department Chnstmas Party,
Lester Hall. 12 Noon (AA)
• Jaz2 Concert, 12 Noon (SA)
• SGA Chnstmas Celebration (SA)
Johnson C. Smith, 5.30 PM (A)
• Movie Rama, University Center. 2 PM
• Annual Christmas Celebration.
University Center. 7 PM (SA)
• New bmployee Onentation (HR)
• Faculty Evaluations Erxl (AA)
• BINGO. University Center, 8 PM (SA)
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• Movie Rama. University Center.
« Final Exams for Graduating Seniors
• Iniramural Basketball Clinic,
• Final Exams tor Graduating Seniors
■ Composition Theory Recitals
* Grade Reports for Graduating
Seniors Due in Registrar’s Office,
• Academic Administrative and
Planning Council Mtg, 2 PM (AA)
• Final Exam Refreshment Break,
University Center (SA)
• GRE (Subject Test Only) (SA)
3 PM (SA)
Wms Hall 7 PM (SA)
9 AM (SA)
• Final Exams Week Begins
• Administrative Council Mtg. 6 AM
(C)
• Hnal Exam Retreshmeni Break.
University Center (SA)
• Ftnal Exam Refreshment Break,
University Center (SA)
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University Certter (SA)
BOARD Of TRUSTEES 11 am
• Final Exams Week Ends
• All ^rade Reports Due in
R^strar's Office by 3 PM (SA)
• hiew Employee Onentation (HR)
■ M/W Basketball ECSU at
Winston-Satem, 5:30 PM (A)
• Final Exam Refreshment Break.
University Center (SA)
• Residence Halls Close. 12 NOON
(SA)
• Institutional SAT (SA)
• Sexual Harassmeni Semir\ar (HR)
* Staff Senate. 3 PM
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