Wed, Jul 12, 2006
July 10-14, 2006
MEMORIAL STADIUM, THU 7:30PM
School of Music Hosts Drum Corps International Show
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music and Drum Corps International present the Cornhusker Summer Music Games on Thursday, July 13 at 7:30 pm in Memorial Stadium. Drum and bugle corps is an intense, competitive, choreographed musical experience staged on a football field by young people achieving high levels of excellence. There are no woodwind instruments (flutes, clarinets, etc.) in drum corps.
The DCI corps travel throughout North America, starting this year in early June and culminating in August at the World Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, with a stop in Lincoln on July 13Performing at Memorial Stadium will be the 2005 World Champions The Cadets, along with The Cavaliers, Crossmen and Blue Stars corps.
Tickets are $27, $22, and $17 (ticket price includes sales tax). Handling fees will be added to phone and online sales. Tickets are on sale now at the Lied Center Box Office, (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 or online at http://www.liedcenter.org. All ticket sales are final.
DRUM CORPS SHOW
LIED CENTER JOHNNY CARSON THEATRE
Repertory Theatre Continues 39th Season With Local Wonders
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the professional wing of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, continues its 39th season July 12 with the world premiere of a new musical adaptation of Ted Kooser's work, Local Wonders. The play is adapted by Virginia Smith (Nebraska Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director) and Paul Amandes with music by Paul Amandes (musician/actor/playwright from Chicago). This new adaptation, featuring David and Melodee Landis, combines Ted Kooser's Pulitzer-Prize winning poetry with exquisite observations of "the good life" right here at home.
An excerpt: "Contrary to what out-of-state tourists might tell you, Nebraska isn't flat but slightly tilted, like a long church-basement table with the legs on one end not perfectly snapped in place, not quite enough of a slant for the tuna-and-potato-chip casseroles to slide off into the Missouri River." Songs include: "So This is Nebraska," "The Back Door," "The Empty House," "After Years," and "Local Wonders." Performances are July 12, 13, 14, 15, 25 at 7:30 pm and July 23 at 2:00 pm in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building, 12th & R in Lincoln.
Season Passes, which allow the purchaser unlimited attendance at NRT 2006 performances and each of the Destinations performances, are available for $45, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $25 students. Individual tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and seniors, and $10 students. Tickets and passes may be purchased at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N 12th St. in Lincoln, 11 AM to 5:30 PM Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to performances in the designated theatre lobby. Via Telephone: 402-472-4747 or toll free 800-432-3231.
Following the Sunday, July 23 performance of Local Wonders, meet Ted Kooser, cast and creators. Hear about the creation process over coffee and dessert. This event is free with a paid admission to the July 23 performance and will take place in the Studio Theatre.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
Repertory Theatre Continues 39th Season With Local Wonders
An excerpt: "Contrary to what out-of-state tourists might tell you, Nebraska isn't flat but slightly tilted, like a long church-basement table with the legs on one end not perfectly snapped in place, not quite enough of a slant for the tuna-and-potato-chip casseroles to slide off into the Missouri River." Songs include: "So This is Nebraska," "The Back Door," "The Empty House," "After Years," and "Local Wonders." Performances are July 12, 13, 14, 15, 25 at 7:30 pm and July 23 at 2:00 pm in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building, 12th & R in Lincoln.
Season Passes, which allow the purchaser unlimited attendance at NRT 2006 performances and each of the Destinations performances, are available for $45, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $25 students. Individual tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and seniors, and $10 students. Tickets and passes may be purchased at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N 12th St. in Lincoln, 11 AM to 5:30 PM Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to performances in the designated theatre lobby. Via Telephone: 402-472-4747 or toll free 800-432-3231.
Following the Sunday, July 23 performance of Local Wonders, meet Ted Kooser, cast and creators. Hear about the creation process over coffee and dessert. This event is free with a paid admission to the July 23 performance and will take place in the Studio Theatre.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, will show through July 13 while Water will play through July 20.
The Daily Show regular Rob Corddry takes the spotlight in this wonderfully silly mockumentary, starring as Bobby Dukes, a former paintball champion who gets one last shot at putting a paintball team together and competing at the highest level of the game. Dukes's career ended in shame after he "wiped" in a competition--yes, even the rugged Dukes wasn't above a little cheating, rubbing off a clear splash of paintball and continuing with the game as if he hadn't been hit. After 10 years in the paintball wilderness, Dukes returns to his hometown determined to assemble a kick-ass paintball team that will destroy everyone else in sight. There's just one problem: no self-respecting paintballer will go anywhere near Dukes, so he has to scrape together a team from some of the biggest misfits he can find, most of whom are more likely to paintball themselves or each other instead of gunning down the opposition. A spoof of the sports movie genre that also has a lot in common with Christopher Guest movies such as Best in Show, Blackballed is a neat vehicle for Corddry's first starring role in a motion picture. The supporting cast is mostly culled from the impressive improv comedy troupe the Upright Citizens Brigade, and director Brant Sersen keeps the laughs coming thick and fast throughout.
When Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of Water takes a tragic turn.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BLACKBALLED | WATER
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, Water. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, will show through July 13 while Water will play through July 20.
When Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of Water takes a tragic turn.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BLACKBALLED | WATER
