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February 9, 1989
The Pendulum
Arts and Entertainment
Laughs abound
Commedia Tonight premieres
At the
Cinema Theatre
119 N. Main St.
i 226-1488
The Naked Gun R
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I Park Twin Theatre
^ 2139 N. Church St.
226-4447
The Naked Gun R
Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels R
I Tequila Sunrise R
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Huffman Mill Rd. |
228-1981 !
Twins R
Beaches PG-131
Her Alibi PG j
Oliver & Co. G |
Rainman R;
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by Krissa Holland
Staff Writer
Whitley Auditorium has been
quietly taking a back seat to the
new Fine Arts Center, until lately.
For about the last five weeks
echoes of young actors and bright
ly colored tapestries have filled the
theater while Assistant Professor of
Fine Arts, Fred Rubeck and the
Department of Theater Arts have
been preparing for their up com
ing performance, Commedia
Tonight!.
With a company of seven, the
play will deal with wiley servants,
troubled lovers, and befuddled
masters and parents. The actual
story line of the play is being kept
secret until opening night. “Actual
ly, the plot is secondary to the com
edy and to the amusingly theatrical
means with which the play will be
presented,” said Rubeck.
He also explained that this is an
entirely new production created
especially for this company of per
formers.
The cast includes: V. Dale
Enderlein, Wendi L. Hargrove,
Mark Harris, Sandy Jeanne
Johnson, Kathy Klinedinst, J.
Trevor Oxenham, and Tom E.
Powell IV.
These students, who will portray
no fewer that eighteen characters,
began in January and spent five
hours each day rehearsing. Now
that second semester is underway,
they are rehearsing three hours
every night. “These actors are lear
ning to be funnier... they’re also
learning to communicate in new
and dynamic ways,” Rubeck said.
Performances of Commedia
Tonight! will be presented in
Whitley Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday,
February 9-11; and at 2 p.m. on
Sunday, February 12. Tickets are
free to all Elon students and $5.00
for the general public.
These are available in the Fine
Arts Office from 12:30- 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. Reserva
tions are encouraged because
seating is limited, but tickets will
also be available at the door begin
ning one hour prior to each perfor
mance.
Fred Rubeck has enjoyed work
ing on this production a great deal.
“I like comedy and feel that
laughter is very important.”
He also feels that this play’s
primary goal is to make people
laugh. “It’s nothing heavy, just slap
stick comedy. It is one big living
cartoon.”
Rubeck is also planning a spring
production of A.R. Gurney’s Th^
Dinning Room and a series of one-
act plays this semester.
Auditions for The Dinning Root^^
will be held on Monday and Tues
day, February 13 and 14 at 7:30
p.m. in the Black Box Theater
the Fine Arts Center. Three men
and three women are needed.
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; Practice makes perfect: Members of Fred Rubeck’s Winter Term class
; - Kathy Klinedinst, Wendi Hargrove, and Mark Harris - prepare
i themselves for this weekend’s debut of Commedia Tonight!
Music review
Spanish serenade
by Lynn Bregler
Special to The Pendulum
Elon faculty and students
gathered in the Fine Arts Center
Sunday night to be serenaded by
the melodies of a group of five
engineering students from Madrid.
“La Tuna,” as the group is call
ed, is one of many such groups of
Spanish university students who
clad themselves in medieval garb
and sing traditional Spanish songs
at parties, in bars, or simply for
their own enjoyment.
The word “tuna” is derived from
the Greek word for “melody”, and
since the founding of the first
Spanish university in Salamanca,
has been the term for such musical
groups.
Although few were able to
understand the lyrics, the audience
was very entertained by La Tuna’s
jovial antics, anecdotes, and
costumes.
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