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Thursday, April 21,1994
UNC Student Fulfills His Dream With Movie
BY TARA POWELL
STAFF WRfTHR
Making movies might seem like a dis
tant dream for budding young directors,
but one UNC sophomore already has been
able to live that fantasy.
Luke Barrow of Banner Elk recently
wrote and directed the original movie
“Millie and Duncan” in the Gimghoul
neighborhood of Chapel Hill.
Barrow said he was interested in work
ing in the feature film industry as a director
and screenwriter. “I had a little exposure to
feature filmmaking at an early age, and
that’s how I decided what I wanted to do.”
Barrow entered the movie business in
his early teens. He said that after becoming
involved with “Winter People, "afilm shot
near his hometown when he was 13 years
old, he knew working in film was the way
he wanted to spend the rest of his life.
“I saw the intensity of the industry. It
totally intrigued me, and I knew from that
point on that that was what I wanted to
do.”
At 16, Barrow started Fandangle Pro
ductions, a small production company that
specialized in industrial and educational
videos.
After winning first place in the 1993
UNC Juried Student Film Festival for “The
Kiss,” a 25-minute video that he worked
on with 50 other students, Barrow set his
sights on something bigger.
“This is my first major film that I’ve
done independently,” he said. “It was a
larger commitment and a huge leap in
price.”
The original script of “Millie and
Duncan” took five days to shoot and turned
into a film about 30 minutes long, but the
preparations took much more time.
Barrow said he started working on the
concept for the film, which tells about an
elderly couple’s relationship, last summer.
“It deals with a lot of the issues and
concerns that face the older population,’’
he said. “It also ties in the ‘carpe diem’ kind
of theme.
“I’d been interested in being able to
work with older people. One of my gut
feelings for doing this film (was that) the
elderly population of this nation has just
Campus Calendar
THURSDAY
3 p.m. University Career Services will have an
information and registration session in 209 Hanes
Hall.
5:45 p.m. Baptist Student Union will meet for a
program and a meal at the Battle House.
8 p.m. ModeraExtension will present a choreog
raphy show at Memorial Hall.
9 p.m. WXYC-FM will present “Fairport and
Friends."
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misidentified as a representative of the Office of
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The production crew of "Millie and Duncan" sets up a scene in a garden on Gimghoul Road. The original movie was
written and directed by UNC sophomore Luke Barrow, who has been active in movies since he was 13.
been kind of shut out of things. This film is
out to conquer these beliefs.”
Barrow also had to find a place to shoot
the film. The Gimghoul area, where he
said he frequently took leisurely strolls,
seemed perfect.
“I had been walking back there, (and) I
just got to know these old ladies (who
were) incredibly nice and hospitable. I just
started talking to them and befriended
them.”
When he decided to make the film,
Barrow immediately approached his
newfound friends about using their house
and yard. “They ended up winning the
for the Outstanding Black Faculty Award available
at the BCC. Forms are due by Friday.
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cations for loans until Friday.
University Career Services recommends all
graduating seniors with a job or plans for graduate
school complete a follow-up form for UCS in 211
Hanes Hall.
Students seeking a job should make sure they
have a supply of resumes on file at UCS and should
call the job hot line (962-WORK).
Harris works at OIT but did not attend the
Tuesday night Elections Board forum as a repre
sentative of the office.
The DTH regrets the error.
ARTS & FEATURES
support of the entire neighborhood for me, ”
he said.
He hired professional actors and a cin
ematographer through Fandangle Produc
tions; so, although the movie was an inde
pendent student production, it had a seri
ous atmosphere.
Barrow financed the film through
Fandangle Productions, bank loans and
corporate sponsors. “It’s really expensive
to do this, and that’s why a lot of people
don’t do it,” he said.
Alton Chunning acted as the cinema
tographer, bringing up-to-date equipment
to the set and allowing the movie to be shot
Play Makers Presents Shakespeare’s ‘Winter’s Tale’
STAFF REPORT
Jealousy, betrayal, mistaken innuendo
and long-lost relatives. Shakespeare lives
on the Play Makers Repertory Company
stage this spring in “The Winter’s Tale.”
Play Makers closes its season with one of
Shakespeare’s finest romantic plays.
Written near the end of Shakespeare’s
career, “The
Winter’sTale”is
lyrically bound
in extravagant
invention and
implausible cir
cumstances.
Charles
“The Winter's
Tale"
Play Makers
Repertory Company
Paul Green Theatre
Through May 15
Newell returns from Chicago to
Play Makers to direct “The Winter’s Tale.”
Newell directed “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
for the 1989-90 season.
The cast features guest actors Terrence
Caza as Polixenes, Mary O’Brady as
Hermione and Julie Fishell as Paulina,
Hermione’s gentlewoman.
In the play, Leontes, king of Sicilia,
beseeches his childhood friend Polixenes,
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Chunning, who tries to work on several
Chapel Hill student productions each year,
said he had been interested in the script
ever since Barrow approached him.
“I’d heard of (Barrow) eight months
ago. Some friends had seen his earlier
video, ‘The Kiss.’ He was one of the more
promising young members of the depart
ment."
He said Barrow was well organized and
committed to producing the film in a pol
ished manner.
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king of Bohemia, to extend his visit in
Sicilia. Polixenes claims pressing duties in
his homeland until queen Hermione,
Leontes’ wife, eloquently asks him to stay.
When Polixenes accepts the queen’s
invitation, Leontes suspects infidelity and
begins a rapid and irrational descent into a
j ealous rage. He orders his friend killed and
Hermione imprisoned. Polixenes escapes
to his homeland while Hermione, branded
as an adulteress, bears a daughter. En
raged, Leontes disowns the child and or
ders her abandoned in a distant land.
Astonishingly enough, after many years,
a little supernatural intervention and a
whole lot of chance, everyone is united
happily. However, it is the telling of the
tale that is Shakespeare’s true art and the
audience’s reward.
Performances of “The Winter’s Tale”
mn through May 15. All performances are
in the Paul Green Theatre and will be at 8
p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with a 2
p.m. Sunday matinee. Tickets range in
price from $8 to $19.50. For more informa
tion, call the box office at 962-PLAY.
Saturday
Friday
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Pauper Players Lend
Creativity to ‘The Wiz’
BYRYAN COLEMAN
STAFF WRITER
Pull out the ruby slippers and click your
heels. Dorothy’s coming to town.
The perennial favorite “The Wiz,” with
its 25 musical numbers, 13 choreographed
dances and approximately 65 people in
volved, is being produced by Pauper Play
ers, a student-run musical production
group.
“The Wiz,"
by William
Brown and
Charlie Smalls,
"TheWh"
Pauper Players
Playmakers Theatre
Through Sunday
will be directed by UNC graduate Ash
Curtis. This show marks the 50th musical
production that he has been associated
with, and he thinks it probably will be the
most successful.
“I have a feeling this is going to be the
biggest selling Pauper Players show we’ve
ever had,” he said.
“The Wiz” is Pauper Players’ 10th full
scale production. The group is the
University’s only musical theater company
and is open to all students.
He said the production, with the excep
tion of a few minor details, was “pretty
much the same story of ‘The Wiz’ that we
are all familiar with.”
The popularity of “The Wiz” allowed
Curtis to make special creative decisions.
“If we really had to be concerned with
making the audience understand every
thing as in ‘Les Miserables,’ we couldn’t
take the liberties we’re taking
“With the show, Oz is a make-believe
world. So we can create a world with the
set and characters and do whatever we
want to with them. We’re creating a world
that’s upside down from the real world,”
he said.
Curtis, who directed “Broadway Melo
dies” in January, believes this show is
unlike any he has been involved in. “This
production is very different than other
shows,” he said. “I’ve never encountered a
show with so many songs in it except all
song shows. There are just so many people
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Terrence Caza, Ray Dooley and Mary o’Brady star in Shakespeare's "The
Winter's Tale," a play about friendship, lust and betrayal, "The Winter's
Tale' runs through May 15 at Paul Green Theatre.
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playing so many things.”
He said the story was about acceptance
and learning the value of things in the
world. “The show shapes you as a person
and crosses any lines of gender, race or
economic background,” he said. “I want
the audience to be entertained.
“You will walk away from the show
happy to have shared something with all
those involved in the show.”
“The Wiz,” which traditionally has an
all-black cast, is equally split among races,
he said. “It is not as multiracial as I want it
to be, but that was a function of who came
out for auditions,” he said. “I cast entirely
colorblind. I chose who I thought was
proper for each individual role.
Curtis, who also plays a part in “The
Wiz," said what really made the show
interesting was that it was the first time
many members of the cast had been in
volved in musical theater.
He looked to his co-choreographers,
Holly Hamff and Charles Wright, to help
out those who were unfamiliar to musical
productions. “We spent the bulk of our
preparation in choreography, ” Curtis said.
“Dancing is the hardest thing for anyone to
learn. With choreography, you have to
show every move to every person in
volved.”
Wright said it was difficult working
with people who did not have dancing
backgrounds. “It’s hard to choreograph
dance for nondancers and make it look like
they were dancing all their lives,” he said.
Hamff said having two choreographers
on the set made everything run smoother.
“It was cool working with two choreogra
phers because it was two sets of eyes in
stead of one to help watch everything. It all
works out well because we compliment
each other,” she said.
“The Wiz” will be presented at 8 p.m.
today through Sunday, with weekend
matinees at 2 p.m. Performances will be
held at Playmakers Theatre. General ad
mission tickets are $5 and can be pur
chased at the Union Box Office. For more
information, call 962-1449.
Tuesday
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