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A Thanksgiving
Word from Spider
Webbs page 2
An indepth look at
Disney’s "Beauty and
the Beast"
page 5
INSIDE:
Crossword p.6 Movies p,5
Dateline p.6 Spider Webbs p.2
Endnotes p.6 Timeout p.2
Features p.3,4 Letters to the Editor, p.2
THE
HILLTOP
-65. Issue 5
Monday, November 25, 1991
"Bah-Humbug" —
Banceteller Style
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^^in-*^®'^ceteller, one of the most excit-
Ai^ . and theatre companies in
^ P^’^sent their heartwarm-
[)ij,|°®'^ce-theatre rendition of Charles
A-Christmas Carol in Moore
9,l9q on Monday, December
r>ian ninety minute perfor-
'Ce will begin at 8:00pm.
^ounded in 1975, Danceteller has
for more than a half-million
®fice members coast-to-coast
9*^°ut the US during the past 17
JP^Odi Company’s award-winning
|iri of A Christmas Carol is now
season of touring. In the
i^.j *he ten performers of the en-
® portray some fifty different
Dickens characters, all
in Victorian finery.
^-^rding to The Philadelphia In-
Danceteller’s production of A
^gstsY^3g§_Carol is, "A joyful affair that
^icke° story...just as
i^6en '^ould have imagined had he
® choreographer."
A Christmas Carol has been told in
many forms; Danceteller’s is one of the
most unusual renditions. On lengthy
tours, Charles Dickens himself read his
beloved tale aloud to enthusiastic
American audiences in the 1860's.
Danceteller’s festive production of
the Carol- which combines dance with
drama, with the dancers speaking the
words of their characters much like ac
tors in a play- is full of high spirits,
heartfelt emotions, and exuberant
dancing. "Dickens would like Dickens,"
notes The Philadelphia Inquirer, "and
the dancing has a Victorian touch in
keeping with the period... the two
mediums mix with nary a hitch."
Everyone’s favorite characters will
be there: crotchety old Scrooge, the
terrifying apparition of Jacob Marley,
the rustic merrymakers at the Fezziwig
Ball, the Ghosts of Christmas Past and
Present (not to mention the towering
Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come), as
well as bespectacled, shivering Bob
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Scrooge shudders in fear of the Ghost of
Christmas-Yet-to-Come in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol
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Shelter from the city
a city with a skyline il-
hgM a glamorous horizon across
^ of glimmering nights and
■fiilciu nights making many a
- ^ bream come true; a city full
•'-‘^'11 UV-/IMC? u UI7, a lun
' ^'^'^'^y'og bay after day to be
Atlanta: a ghost town of
homeless people con-
Hg,. ^ Searching for some kind of
'''SrfgjJ® ^ost students went home
°'"®ak to enjoy some of Mom’s
and take a break from
iife, fourteen Mars Hill stu-
iJrcf^.^oog with Mars Hill Baptist
pastor
Tutterow
JriQj 1° Atlanta, Georgia, to look
. giarnorous skyline and
bights. Instead, they found
themselves looking face to face with
reality everytime they looked into the
eyes of a man, woman, or child who
has found themselves with no place to
call home.
Their welcome into the city was a
frightening one, to say the least. Fear
and anxiety took hold as they wit
nessed a man beating on a car and
chanting loudly for everyone to hear.
Excitement vanished and silence over
came them. "When I first got there, it
was like a culture shock...my first reac
tion was to lock the door," remembers
sophomore Suzi Holcombe. Tutterow,
who escorted the students, remembers
the doubts crossing his mind as to
whether or not he should even let
anyone get out of the van. Senior
Carol Jo Howell
contributing editor
Tammy Condrey comments that the
one way to overcome that fear was to
know "...there was always a security in
having lots of people around that you
knew." Though Tutterow at first felt "an
apprehension about what was to be
found" among the group, he saw no
fear in them after their initial introduc
tion to the environment.
The volunteers spread their labor
among several locations, each of
which had a specific purpose to serve
the homeless. The Samaritan House,
which sheltered the students during
their stay, is a daytime shelter for the
homeless that focuses on helping them
find jobs. By giving them a place to
shower and dressing them up in a suit
and tie, they are given the confidence
of walking into a job interview without
feeling like someone who just walked
in off the streets. Condrey feels her
work ar the Samaritan House was her
most rewarding experience of the trip,
commenting, “It was great to spend
some quality time with the guys who
came there."
The "quality time" each volunteer
spent with the individuals they en
countered seems to have left a lasting
impression upon them all. While work
ing at St. Luke’s Soup Kitchen, for ex
ample, junior Laura Blakewood
observes "how great it was to see how
much the people really appreciated it
all...they were happy to get anything."
The greatest impression left by the
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