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Date: 10/2/01
Contact: Christina Chapple 52-O
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FANFARE'S SECOND WEEK IS "CLASSIC"
HAMMOND -- Classics -- from stage comedy to chamber music to film -- is the theme
of the second week of Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University's annual festival of the arts,
humanities and sciences.
The second week's entertainment lineup includes two different kinds of classics on
Southeastern stages. Throughout the week in D Vickers Hall's Vonnie Borden Theatre,
Southeastern Theatre will present George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's famously zany play,
"You Can't Take it With You," one of the greatest hits of the post-war era and a perennial theater
favorite. And at week's end in Pottle Music Building Auditorium, the Missoula Children's
Theatre, a classic on the Fanfare schedule, will star local children in two funny, tuneful
performances of "Treasure Island."
Meanwhile, Canada's fine chamber music ensemble, I Musici de Montreal, will perform
classical music favorites and the classic film "Ben Hur" will usher in a new Fanfare film series
that offers big time movies on the big screen.
Here is a detailed look at Week Two:
Jazz pianist Brad Pregeant, a Hammond native and Southeastern graduate, returns to
familiar territory on Sunday, October 7, for the first of three "Music for a Sunday Afternoon"
concerts at area churches. Pregeant's free performance is at 3 p.m. at the First Christian Church,
305 E. Charles St.
A Fanfare tradition, the Missoula Children's Theatre brings this to town a charming
adaption of "Treasure Island," complete with pirates, adventure and buried treasure. The unique
touring company arrives in town with a director a several lead actors who cast dozens of local
children in the production and guide them through an intense, but fun, week of rehearsals.
Auditions will be held at 4 p.m., Monday, October 8, in the Southeastern Lab School gym.
Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 12 and 2 p.m., Saturday, October 13
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at Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.
Critics have called the young musicians of I Musici de Montreal Chamber Orchestra
"winning, persuasive artists of the highest caliber." Winner of a "Juno" award, Canada's
equivalent of the Grammy, the chamber orchestra gives more than 100 concerts a year at home
and abroad and has recorded more than three dozen compact disks. The musicians are celebrating
their 18th season under the direction of conductor/artistic director Yuli Turovsky, performing a
repertoire than ranges from Baroque to the 20th century and from Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance on October 8 in Pottle Music Building Auditorium
are $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for all
students. There is an $8 rate for groups of 10 or more.
Fanfare's annual foreign film festival begins on October 9 with the German film
"Beyond Silence." The free showing is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.
"Honky Tonk Angels," a new musical by Ted Swindley, author of the Broadway
show, Always. . . Patsy Cline, a hit at Fanfare 2000, spotlights three women who gamble
everything for a chance to become country music stars. The show is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, October 9, at Ponchatoula High School on Hwy. 22, east of Ponchatoula. The show's
powerhouse singer-actresses will perform 20 country classics from "Stand By Your Man" and
"Coal Miner's Daughter" to "Harper Valley PTA" and "Nine-to-Five."
"Honky Tonk Angels" is produced by Georgia's official state theatre, the Springer
Theatre, a 130 year-old National Historic Landmark in Columbus with a year-round schedule of
plays, musicals and a top ranked Academy of Theatre Arts. Tickets for "Honky Tonk Angels" are
$15 general admission.
Southeastern Theatre's "You Can't Take It With You" opens Tuesday, October 9 at
Vonnie Borden Theatre. Running nightly through October 13, the show is directed by music and
dramatic arts faculty Kay Files with costumes by her colleague Robin Steptoe. Senior theatre
major Misty Pelas of Venice is the set designer and lighting is by music and dramatic art's Steve
Schepker.
Written in the 1930s, the famous play, which paints an affectionate portrait of the
eccentric Sycamore family, has enjoyed widespread popularity since its 1936 Broadway debut.
Tickets for "You Can't Take it With You" -- $5 general admission, $3 senior citizens, faculty
and staff, and non-Southeastern students -- are available at the theatre box office in the lobby of
D Vickers Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and beginning at 6 p.m. each evening of performance.
Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D.
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Naturally Seven, a seven-member gospel and rhythm and blues a cappella group
hailing from New York City, will bring their "gorgeous textures, brilliant arranging, and
inspired,
soulful delivery" to Pottle Music Building Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 10.
Not long after Roger Thomas, Marcis Davis, Warren Thomas, Dwight Stewart, Roderick
Eldridge, Garfield Buckley and David LaRoche put their voices together in 1999, the singers
bested top a cappella groups from around the country in the Harmony Sweepstakes National
Championship. Their first CD, "Non-Fiction," was heralded as "one of the most electric
innovations yet in Contemporary Gospel music."
Thomas, Naturally Seven's founder, arranger and musical director, says the group's
faith-infused music reaches across denominations, striking common chords of human experience
among religious and secular audiences alike. "We're all about hope," he said. "It's spirit, music
and entertainment. We want to give you something you remember, that makes you smile and
even do the right thing."
Tickets for Naturally Seven are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty
staff and alumni and $5 for all students. The group rate is $5.
The "Cinema Classics" film series, organized by Southeastern communication professor
and film expert William Parrill, begins at 7:30 p.m., October 11 with "Ben Hur." The free series,
is being hosted by the East Gate Caf‚ & Cinema, located across from the Southeastern campus at
1006 N. Oak.
The Sweet Home Folklife Days will join the Fanfare schedule from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on October 12 and 13. The annual celebration of Kentwood's African American community, held
at Sweet Home Baptist Church Museum on Hwy. 51N, includes hands on demonstrations of
story telling, home remedies, hair styling, childhood games and music, buggy rides along a
scenic
nature trail and a traditional baptism at the "baptizing hole" Cool's Creek. Traditional African
American foods, such as fruit pies, sweet potato pones, outdoor open kettle fried chicken, collard
greens, red beans and rice and crackling bread, will be offered for sale. Admission is $ 2 for
adults, and $1 for children. For additional information, contact 985-229-5016.
For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information about Fanfare
events, call the SLU Public Information Office, 985-549-2341, or email publicinfo@selu.edu.
Fanfare information is available online at www.selu.edu/fanfare. Fanfare tickets are available at
Gate 1 of the SLU University Center on University Ave., 985-549-2323.
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