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It is a rare occasion when Chapel Hill
is fortunate enough to witness the birth
of an original musical production. Such
is the case with the premier of Diamond
Studs, a musical comedy, written by
UNC graduate Jim Wann, to be
presented at the Ranch House Thursday
through Monday, Get. 14.
Based on a factual account of the lifei
of Jesse James, Diamond Studs '
incorporates the largest room in the
Ranch House as an authentic Old West
backdrop for the show. John Haber,
also a UNC graduate, directs the
company a group of local musicians
who hope to head for New York after
their Chapel.H ill debut.
Tickets, on sale at the Record Bar, are
$2 for all shows except the $10 dinner
show at 7 p.m. Saturday. Curtain is at 9
p.m. Thursday and Friday, 11:30 p.m.
Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday and
Monday. . "
Haber describes the play as a "story
about thd South, the War between the
States, and Reconstruction.
"Jesse is famous but no one knows
anything about him. This account is
more factual than any film or television
study,' Haber said.
The highlight of the saloon show is
the music of two area bands, Southern
States Fidelity Choir and the Red Clay
Ramblers. The members of these two
groups help to make up the 14 member
; cast and play 12 instruments between
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; Jim Wann, who wrote the script and
; lyrics, became interested in Jesse James
several years ago and read dozens of
: James biographies. Portraying the lead
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Vladimir Nabokov once said it took him "twenty or thirty years
to reinvent Europe " In actuality, Nabokov refashions life as he
perceives it to reflect his personal egocentric world. He loves
turning the world on its head, giving us a Europe or an America not
quite like the real thing.
In Look at the Harlequins!, he works this same transformation
on himself, giving us a mock version of his own life through the
character of Vadim Vadimovich Russian exile, author world
traveler and collector of words.
As always, Nabokov deals with the unusual. At the beginning of
the book, Vadim meets and marries the lovely Iris, a deaf mute so
shy "she could not make herself learn to read male lips." Iris is soon
killed in the kind of grotesque and fortuitous accident with which
Nabokov so often dispatches his characters. She is murdered on a
Paris street by a madman while her husband fumbles for taxi
change. Other wives and other accidents follow, but Vadim is
content to meditate on his life and art.
If this is autobiography, it is certainly autobiography knocked
awry, a kind of fun-house mirror held up to life. Nabokov, for
instance, collects butterflies; Vadimovich despises them. Nabokov
wrote Laughter in the Dark; Vadimovich retaliates with Slaughter
in the Sun. Vadimovich finds himself being constantly mistaken for
"that other writer" whose works and life bear such a curious"
resemblance to his own. "Should I ignore the coincidence?" he
wonders. "Should I abandon my art, choose another line of
achievement, take up chess seriously, or become, say, a
Icpidoptcrist?..." This cat-and-mouse game between author and
character goes on throughout the book. At times, it seems only a
matter of pages before they will actually bump into each other.
Nabokov often seems to be writing the same novel again and
again. Look as the Harlequins! is no exception. The themes that
obsessed him when he began writing in 1925 remain with him today.
His characters are fascinated by time and memory; his novels skip
back and forth, often ending where they began. It is not unusual for
Nabokov to introduce a character by telling you the day on which
she will die 25 years later. The sudden fragrance of a flower will
i remind someone of a garden he walked through 50 years before,
before.
In Look at the Harlequins! this obsession with time is
transformed into an obsession with space. Vadim is constantly
boring visitors with his descriptions of a dream in which he cannot
mentally reverse his step. When he finally succeeds in doing so, he
has a nervous breakdown.
This repetition of themes is both Nabokov's major strength and
his major weakness. It allows him to polish his imagery until it
shimmers, but it may also give avid readers of Nabokov an
unpleasant feeling of deja vu.
All the usual Nabokov targets are offered in the book:
academicians, Marxists, Freudian quacks. There is, for instance,
the husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists who spend their
Sundays analyzing each other on the beach and the enthusiastic
scholar whose extensive footnoting eventually obliterates the text
he is editing.
But it is not real life which mosts interests Nabokov. He is not
interested in things, but in the names for things. His books are
drenched with the texture of words, with lyrical description, with
the new way of saying the old thing.
When Nabokov reinvents the world, he does so by renaming it.
in this production, Wann is also a well
known local singer and poet, author of
the 1972 Carolina Repertory Company
production The Wonderful O.
Haber is remembered for his
production last year of The Roar of the
Greasepaint. A co-founder of the
Carolina Repertory and founder of the
Tanglewood Children's Theatre in
Ashe ville, Haber spent three months in
Europe studying theatre production and
recently worked on a show at
Washington's Arena Theatre.
Choreographer for Diamond Studs is
Patricia Birch, who did the original
choreography .for the New York
production of You're a Good Man
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He also plays piano in the
Southern States Fidelity Choir and
recently recorded Simpson, an album
on Columbia records.
The show opens with Jesse as a young
man and follows his life up to the
moment when he is shot in the back at
age 35. En route Jesse encounters
Pinkerton detectives, irate sheriffs and
mobs of angry citizens as he blazes
across the West in a rip-roaring, foot
stomping avalanche.
Other members of the cast include
Red Clay Ramblers Thommy
Thompson, Jim Watson, Bill Hicks and
Mike Craver. The three musician-actors
of the Southern States Fidelity Choir
are Jan Davidson, John Foley and
Mike Sheehan. Filling the female roles
are Madelyn Smoak and Cindy Gooch
Huntley. Frances Tamburro and Scott
Bradley are also in the cast.
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will run continuously and food will be for sale.
Psychic Richard Wolf will speak at 7:30 p.m.
today In room 202-204 of the Union. Free to
the public.
Dr. Zhorez A. Medvedev will speak at 8:15
p.m. Thursday in Duke University's Page
Auditorium. Admission is free.
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Music at 8 p.m. today in the Union snack bar
with Jim Taylor and Howard Sheppard. Also,
at 8 p.m. Thursday In the Union snack bar by
Don Karl, bagpipes; Piedmont 'Possum
Hunters and Trenton Lowe, guitarist
Free to the public.
New York composer John Watts will open
the Composers-Concerts season at 8 p.m.
Thursday in Hill HaiL Free to the public.
The YM-YWCA will sponsor "The
Bohemian Outdoor Cafe" from 7 to 11:30 p.m.
Thursday in the Y-Court Live entertainment
"Five on the Black Hand Side" I fs about a
middle-class family ruled by an autocratic
father and the repercussions which occur
when . Mama finds out about women's
liberation and decides if s gonna work for her,
too. Her sons and daughter take the cue and
begin to assert themselves, as well, and Papa
starts losing his rule in the roost. Today and
Thursday, at 6, 8 and 10 p.m., $1.50, the
Alternative Cinema, Greenlaw Auditorium.)
"San Quentin" A Warner Brothers crime
drama with Humphrey Bogart in the pen and
Ann Sheridan waiting, outside. This was
Bogart's first penitentiary story, although the
elements became nearly standard for later
epics, including Pat O'Brien's role as the wise
counselor, entreating the criminals to go
straight (Carolina, Thurify at 1 and 4 p.m.,
$1.50 or by subscription.)
"Alfredo, Alfredo" An extremely funny
comedy starring Dustin Hoffman once
again miraculous as an Italian trying to
extricate himself from a neurotic wife end an
insane marriage. (Carolina at 7:10 & 9:10 p.m.,
$2.25.)
"Serpico" Frank Serpico's story Is tense
and exciting in Its frustrating documentation
of a honest cop trying to expose all the
rottenness in N.Y.P.D., but Sidney Lumet's
movie doesn't give us any other characters to
work around. Al Paclno, however. Is
fascinating in the title role. (Varsity, at 1, 3, 5, 7
& 9 p.m., $2.25.)
"That's Entertainment" That's 130
minutes of highly enjoyable strolling through
movie musical history. Lots of truly great
numbers, not a single boring one. See it.
(Plaza 2, at 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $2.25.)
"Juggernaut" "The Three Musketeers
director Richard Lester takes on a Poseidon
adventure about a bomber working within a
luxury liner. (Plaza 1 , at 3, 5, 7 & 9 p.m., $2.25.)
"Summer of '42" and "Class of '44" A
touching nostalgia piece and its bastard son.
Sequels wiil be sequels. (Plaza 3 at 3:05 & 7:05
p.m., $2.25.)
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