DECEMBER 2, 2004
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Wind Ensemble to Give Public Performance
The Wind Ensemble is the university's premiere concert band. Its select mission is to provide instrumentalists of advanced technical proficiency a pre-professional ensemble experience. Their performance will be open to the public and will be held at Kimbal Recital Hall this evening at 7:30 PM. With an emphasis on 20th century American compositions, the Wind Ensemble's repertoire reflects the most recent technical and textural innovations, as well as the rich tradition of wind and percussion music extending back to the Renaissance.
The objectives of the Wind Ensemble are to rehearse and perform repertoire of the highest caliber, encompassing the broadest possible spectrum of styles; to develop a high degree of refinement and independence in students' ability to communicate musically in both chamber and larger ensemble settings; and to provide, through the study of the masterworks of the wind band repertoire, an anthology of styles, performance practices and techniques that will serve as the foundation for students' ability to realize their professional musical aspirations.
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115 AVERY HALL, 3:45PM
Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium
Mary Lou Soffa, Univ. of Virginia
211 BRACE, 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - 'Effect
of Interface Bonding on Spin-Dependent Tunneling'
Evgeny Tsymbal, UNL
N172 BEADLE, 4PM
Redox Biology Center special seminar -
'Structural Studies of the DJ-1 Superfamily: Implications for the
Molecular Basis of Parkinson's Disease'
Mark A. Wilson, Rosenstiel Basic Medical
Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, faculty candidate
for structural biologist, Nebraska Redox Biology Center
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HOWELL THEATRE, 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Presents
Final Performances of The House Of Blue Leaves
UNL Theatre's University Theatre
completes its fall semester season with John Guare's dark comedy
The House Of Blue Leaves. Guest artist Gil Lazier directs
the production, which plays this evening at 7:30 PM. The final performance
is tomorrow evening, December 4 at 7:30 PM. All performances
are in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building at 12th and R
Streets. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office,
301 N. 12th Street, Monday through Friday 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM and
one hour prior to performance in Howell Theatre lobby. The Ticket
Office may be reached at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231. Tickets for the
sneak preview are $5.00 and may only be purchased at the door. Regular
performance tickets are $14.00 regular, $12.00 faculty/staff and
senior citizen, $10.00 student.
The House Of Blue Leaves is set on October 4, 1965, the day the Pope
first visited New York City. Zookeeper Artie Shaughnessy (played
by undergraduate theatre major Jeff Nathan) is on a quest to revive
his stalled show business career. A darkly comic look at the underside
of the American dream, The House Of Blue Leaves is complete with
Artie's delusional wife Bananas Shaughnessy (played by undergraduate
theatre major Caitlin Brandes) and his mistress Bunny Flingus who
talks a mile a minute (played by undergraduate theatre major Brittany
Leffler). A look at how people expect miracles from fame and celebrity,
Artie's son Ronnie (played by undergraduate theatre major Brett D.
Waldon) can't get famous by being in a movie, so he seeks fame as
a mass murderer.
Director Gil Lazier describes the play as "*not directly about politics or religion,
its themes touch on these dimensions of our lives as Americans. Guare's
America of 1965 was a nation at war, as we are today. We tend to
look to our current religious leaders for solace and inspiration,
as do Guare's characters. But The House of Blue Leaves deals with
even more basic human issues, our sometimes desperate need to succeed,
our assumptions that things are always better somewhere else, our
compulsions to validate who we are by what others think of us, our
aspirations for our '15 minutes of fame.'"
Dr. Gil Lazier is Dean Emeritus of the Florida State University School
of Theatre, where he served as Dean from 1982 to 1999. For the past
three years he was Director of the FSU/Asolo MFA Conservatory for
Actor Training in Sarasota. Under his leadership, the FSU School
of Theatre achieved international prominence as an academic program
of the highest excellence, consistently in top-ten listings by such
publications as US News & World Report.
As a theatre artist, Dr. Lazier has directed many dozens of productions
in the U. S. and abroad including musicals, new works and classics
by such masters as Albee, Brecht, Chekhov, Coward, Ibsen, O'Neill,
Pinter, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Stoppard and Williams. In Moscow,
his production of Neil Simon's "I Ought To Be In Pictures" played
for over ten years in Russian. He is a specialist in theories of
acting, especially those of Stanislavski. He is a member of the Society
of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Dean Gil Lazier was awarded the two highest honors in his discipline,
election for life to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre,
comparable in theatre to the National Academy of Science; and the
National Theatre Conference, limited to 100 acknowledged leaders
in theatre in America.
Other cast members include Cecilia Stinner as Corrinna Stroller,
Carrie Brown as the Head Nun, Naomi Mitarai as the Second Nun, Jenny
Cary as the Little Nun, Seth Petersen as the M.P. Jeff Tinnean as
The White Man and well-known community actor Richard Nielsen as Hollywood
director Billy Einhorn.
The tech/design team is made up of graduate students Jeff Weber (scenery)
and Mike Legate (sound), undergraduate students Jaime Borchert (costumes),
Alicia Bailey (technical director) and Jennifer Dierking (stage manager). Faculty
member Heath Lane designs lights.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Nicotina, Woman
Thou Art Loosed
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Mexico's highest grossing film in 2003, Nicotina and
the film Woman Thou Art Loosed, a screen adaption of the
play by legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West
Angeles Cathedral.
From the producers of Amores Perros comes Nicotina, a
highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange
that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters
to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds.
Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with
his neighbor Andrea (Marta Belaustegui) and catalogs her every move
via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals
Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and his younger counterpart Nene (Lucas Crespi)
in a deal with a Russian mobster (Norman Sotolongo) that involves
the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts.
But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's
romantic trysts spiral out of control.
Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto (Daniel Gimez Cacho)
and his fed-up wife Clara (Carmen Madrid) inadvertently become entangled
in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo (Rafael Inclan)
and his domineering other half Carmen (Rosa Maria Bianchi).
Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with
the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly
transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears,
computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have
gone up in a cloud of smoke.
This R-rated Christian film about child abuse, drug addiction and
murder is startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of
those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with
Jesus. Directed with seamless competence by Hollywood veteran Michael
Schultz (Car Wash), Woman, Thou Art Loosed is based
on the fact-based novel and stage presentation of the same name by
the legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles
Cathedral. Jake, a preacher of improvisational genius, plays himself
in the film as he counsels a death-row inmate whose story unfolds
in smoothly integrated flashbacks. Michelle (Kimberly Elise) was
fighting back valiantly from the effects of child sexual abuse and
incarceration when she backslid with a vengeance.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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