feature of Aggie’s play
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1977
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Jove to Tony Hal] (Harry).
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
The music is the only redeeming
factor in “Here Comes th’ Rain”, a
play written by Beau Sharbrough, a
philosophy student at Texas A&M,
and performed by the Aggie
Players.
This “original rock opera” is an
incoherent, rambling philosophy on
America, love and social responsi-
blity...probably. It’s hard to get the
point of the play.
The plot revolves around Harry
the Singer (played by Tony Hall),
and April May, the Big City Dancer
(played by Shaunna Green). He
loves her but she can’t take his
jover-powering love.
Two of their friends are Al (played
by Gary Wood), and A.J.(played by
Karen Miller). They are “phil-
i osophical spies” in an underground
group called Sunshine. It’s a cute but
ridiculous concept.
'onsolidated finishes project
or gaining TEA accreditation
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By MAUREEN BUCEK
A self-evaluation project has been
mpleted by A&M Consolidated
PINGCB® dependent School District, and a
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e-year improvement plan is being
epared for submission to the
s&Td'AC.'i.tvon Agency (TEA).
TEA said that all schools in the
ite must be accredited by 1978. A
ter from TEA directs schools to
gin the accreditation process.
inces irting and finishing dates for
lools’ work in the project is
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|Dr. H. R. Burnett, assistant
erintendent of instruction, is the
I)eel director for A&M CorvsoU-
ledlSD. In May 1975, the school
:eived its notice from TEA and
tiated a program. A consultant
mTEA’s accrediting department,
pyYvcffi, was assigned to oversee
jrams<2fe| laid the district in its work.
The administration developed
basic philosophies and goals for the
district which the board adopted in
August 1975. This was the first step.
A steering committee was then
set up to organize and coordinate
the work throughout the district
with separate steering, committees
created on each campus.
The campus steering committees
organized various subcommittees to
study all aspects of that campus: the
different educational programs,
facilities and personnel. They have
submitted an evaluation of each.
Guidelines and forms were ob
tained from the National Study of
School Evaluations which is based
in Virginia. The final reports of
these committees, completed in the
fall of 1976, contained commenda
tions for some current elements and
recommendations for possible fu-
Tore improvements.
Copies of the seff-evaluation re
ports are available in the principals’
offices at each school.
These are the only actions re
quired by the TEA in the accredit
ing process, but A&M Consol took
it one step further.
They invited a team of 30
educators from across the state
which visited the campus on Nov.
31 and Dec. 1, 1976 and submitted
their evaluation of the school dis
trict, again containing recom
mendations.
Both evaluations were given to
TEA representative Ruff and to the
school board.
On the basis of the evaluations, a
five year improvement plan is being
prepared which outlines the im
plementation of programs to meet
the internal and external recom
mendations.
This plan will be submitted to
dvc school board \rv April. When, the
board committs itself to the plan, a
copy is sent to TEA followed by
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Tony Hall sings the title song
beautifully. His voice is powerful
and he puts real feeling into the
music. But his acting is stilted and
he moves like a puppet on the stage.
He’s in appropriate company
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though. The rest of the cast’s acting
is also stilted and uninteresting. But
most of this is Sharbrough’s fault as
the playwright.
No strong personalities emerge
from his dialogue and direction. The
philosophical monologues, skits and
conversations say little with many
words. The human relationships are
unconvincing and pretentious.
There is no soul to this play.
“Here Comes th’ Rain” also suf
fers from bad choreography and
over-crowding. The small stage in
the Forum can’t effectively handle
25 people dancing and prancinq
around. It’s commendable to in
volve as many people as possible,
but it hurts this production.
A bright spot in the play, how
ever, is a song and dance number
called “If Only I’d Known You
Then ”. Shaunna Green’s voice, the
funky beat of the music and the
energetic but simple dancing are
excellent.
However amateurish the play,
though, Sharbrough’s musical talent
is exciting. But his attempt to write,
direct, conduct the music, and
single-handedly put the play to
gether was ill-advised. “Here
Comes the Rain” could have bene
fited from another’s viewpoint and
direction.
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Many recommendations call for
more staff, more materials and more
equipment.
“There is a possibility, as we up
grade our programs, that it will be
more costly,” Burnett said.
“A lot of the cost has already been
included in the last bond issue,” he
explained.
For instance, one of the recom
mendations calls for more space for
the shop class. This cost was part of
the overall cost of maintenance and
expansion of facilities under the last
bond issue.
It was also recommended that a
display counter and cash register be
provided for distributive education
students. This is an example of the
extra costs which would be in
curred.
“We wvay not meet all the rec
ommendations because it would be
too costly,” Burnett said.
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