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Broadway series
'Annie/ 'Evita' and 'Deathtrap' coming to A&M
by Susan Dittman
Battalion Staff
If taking a trip to the Big Apple
to see a Broadway play or music
al is way out of your budget,
you're in luck.
MSC Town Hall is bringing
three of New York's finest theat
rical attractions right here to
Aggieland.
The broadway series will in
clude “Deathtrap” on Nov. 21,
“Annie” on Dec. 6, 7, and 8 and
"Evita" on Feb. 15 and 16. MSC
Opera and Performing Arts
Society will sponsor “Evita” on
Feb. 14. All of the performances
will be in Rudder Auditorium.
"Deathtrap,” a comedy chil
ler written by Ira Levin, opened
on Broadway in 1978 and has
since been made into a movie,
starring Michael Caine and
Christopher Reeve.
In the performance at Texas
A&M, veteran actor Leslie Niel
son, of “The Poseidon Adven
ture" and "Airplane" fame, will
star as Sidney Bruhl, the glib,
middle-age playwright who
hasn't written a hit play in 18
years.
When Bruhl reads a script
written by a young and brilliant
playwright, he becomes envious
and tells his wife he will do any
thing to get the script under his
own name.
Playwright/author Levin
plays games with the audience
all through "Deathtrap” by
leading them to believe that they
already know the entire show by
the end of the first act.
But in the second act, the
twists and reversals of the plot
leave the audience guessing.
Levin once said: “It was not
until I was halfway throught the
first act that Act II came to me. It
wasn't difficult. It was as much a
surprise to me as it has been to
the audiences ever since.”
The Broadway musical
"Annie,” winner of seven Tony
awards, is a rags-to-riches tale of
a young orphan who searches
for her parents with the help of a
soft-hearted billionaire.
Based on Harold Gray's com
ic strip, "Little Orphan Annie,"
which first appeared in the New
York News in 1924, the show is
set in New York City during the
Depression.
Ten-year-old Kathleen Sisk
will star in the role of Annie in
the touring company's perform
ance at Texas A&M.
Now into its sixth year on
Broadway, "Annie" has become
the eighth longest running
musical with over 2,213 per
formances. It is also the only
Broadway musical to have four
productions playing simul
taneously in the United States.
The life story of Eva Peron,
wife of a former Argentinian
President Juan Carlos, forms the
basis for the Broadway musical,
"Evita.”
Unlike most musicals which
have as much speaking as they
do singing, "Evita" is Imost
done entirely in song.
Winner of the 1980 Tony
Award for "Best Musical," the
show chronicles Eva Peron's life
from her career as a hairdresser
to her political leadership of
Argentina.
Season tickets for the Broad
way series are on ale in the MSC
Box Office. Prices are $41, $35,
and $30.
Ticket prices for each indi
vidual show are:
Deathtrap — $10.50, $9.50 and
$8.50
Annie — $18.50, $16.50 and
$14.50
Evita — $22, $18 and $14
For more information call 845-
1234.
Kathleen Sisk as "Annie" and Roxanne as her dog, "Sandy."
Religion and song on Sunday
Steve and Annie Chapman
Steve and Annie Chapman
will be in College Station Sun
day to spread their religious
message through song.
The two singers are former
members of Dogwood, a Christ
ian group which enjoyed a suc
cessful ministry. The religious
content of the group's songs
was the main reason for their
success. The Chapmans were
involved in writing almost all of
that music.
The two broke away from
Dogwood to spend more time
with their family. Steve's
wanted a singing job that would
also allow him to spend more
time with his family.
The two have made an album
which includes songs about
marriage, children, single peo
ple, financial hard times and
worship.
The Chapmans will be singing
Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at College
Station Junior High School audi
torium. There is no charge to
attend the concert.
1 O'clock Lab Band
to play Thursday night
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
One of the best college jazz bands in the nation, the North
Texas State 1 O'Clock Lab Band, will perform at Texas A&M
Thursday at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
The group has played at Texas A&M for the past several
years. Thursday the band will perform selections that were
composed by well-known jazz musicians and by students in the
band.
The band also will play "Au Privave" by Dizzy Gillespie,
"Birds in Flight" by Mario Cruz and "Hello and Goodbye" by
Bob Brookmeyer.
The 1 O'Clock Lab is the top band among NTSU's nine jazz
bands. In 1975, it became the first collegiate big band to be
nominated for a Grammy award by the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences.
Five trumpet players, five trombonists, five saxophonists, a
piano player, a bass player, a drummer, a guitarist and a percus
sionist make up the band. Band members come to NTSU from as
far away as Winnipeg, Canada, and as near as Fort Worth.
The director of the band, K. Neil Slater, has been at North
Texas since 1981. He also is director of the jazz program at
NTSU, which has received wide acclaim for its excellence.
Tickets are available at the MSC Box Office for $5.