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talion Review
Broadway show a ‘clear winner’
lySTEPHANIE M. ROSS
Staff Writer
Broken hearts, lost dreams
d forgotten pasts gave all
ree the right to sing the blues,
id sing they did — to the near
lacity crowd at Rudder The-
er'Tuesday.
“Blues in the Night,” pre-
pjed by MSG Townhal-
adway is the musical story
ee women who live in a
|p hotel and sing the blues
t them through the long
y night. The scenery allows
to have their separate
is, telling their similar sto-
eparately, and coming to-
ier a few times to sing to-
lues opened with a number
that explained why all three are
blue. Della Reese, the star of the
show plays the lady of the road
who used to be at the top but
now is nowhere. Her room is a
museum to her past, her cos
tume trunk in one corner and a
screen covered with programs
of her old shows and memora
bilia.She’s waiting for a call
from TOBA.
“You know. Theater Owner’s
Booking Association,” she told
the audience. “We always called
it Tough on Black Asses.”
Reese was clearly the hit of
the show, singing upbeat comi
cal tunes such as “Kitchen
Man,” to a moving number
“Wasted Life Blues.”
Dialogue in the show was ah
most non-existent, but the mu
sic was well chosen. The music
was a combination of tunes
from the 20s and 30s, and even
though it was not written for
the musical, it carried the story.
The woman of the world,
played by Cynthia White, had a
once-posh life and now has
nothing but memories and the
four walls in her rented room.
White sang well early in the
show, but began showing her
true talent in Act Two. She has
an ability to sing sad songs like
“Low,” and belt out gutsy tunes
like “Rough and Ready Man,”
about the kind of man she
wants.
Christina Baker filled in for
Neva Small to play the third
woman, the girl with a date.
Baker, who looked a little too
old to be a girl, sang well, but
wasn’t as convincing as her two
co-stars. She opens the first act
anticipating a date and by the
end of the act is singing the
blues after being stood up.
All three sing the blues while
the saloon singer, played by
Clem Moorman, watches on. In
the middle of the musical, he
breaks in singing “Wild Women
Don’t Have the Blues.”
“Blues in the Night,” nomi
nated for a Tony for best musi
cal, was a clear winner. The
combination of sad, upbeat and
satirical blues songs sung by tal
ented women made the evening
a success.
Della Reese, Cynthia White, Christina
Baker (left to right) perform in“Blues
Photos by JOHN MAKELY
in The Night” presented by Town
Hall last night in Rudder Theater.
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orses die from lead poisoning in feed
United Press International
|AMP GRADY SPRUCE
arians Tuesday we
orrection
Two candidates for Resi-
ce Hall positions were left of
I Monday’s Voter’s Guide,
ie candidates are: Gina Har-
iw, candidate for president;
Michelle Fisher, candidate
or vice president. The Battal-
(| a , ( on regrets the omission.
“ olice beat *
a fire.k ^
w"' jhe following incidents were
he said E ted 10 the University Po-
and th0'lP e P artrnent t n rou g‘ 1 ‘ ues ~
Ind t JlSDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A black Schwinn ten-speed
n iHde was stolen from the
■J 0 ;” Sfre Hall bike rack.
• A Sony Walkman stereo
V* | as stolen from 216 Memorial
his lowen , n .
, tudent Center.
^"bur i 1 MIN A LMISCIHEF:
stablerorJ* Several cam P ai g n si g ns
w Houston and Ross Streets
iere knocked over and broken.
• Someone kicked the left
l 'd )0 , , oor panel of a car parked on
fogg Street,
l,lt f BURGLAR Y:
• A jewelry box containing
(0,300 in gold jewelry was sto-
:n from a student’s dorm room
- sce " e , ftain Hall,
len nadflk
ford
then
trying
of lead conmaninated feed that
killed 19 of the 50 horses at a
West Texas YMCA camp since
December.
Dr. John Reagor, chief of
toxicology at the Texas Veter-
narian Diagnostic Center in
Bryan, said the lead poisonings
at the Palo Pinto County camp
west of Fort Worth appeared to
be accidental and isolated.
“All the horses consumed the
lead, but none of the survivors
shows severe clinical signs,”
Reagor said. “There was lead
contamination in an ingredient
of the horse feed.”
Graham veternarian Dr.
Glen Rogers said the latest of 19
deaths occurred Monday, but
he expects seven more may
have to be destroyed because of
side effects.
YMCA President John Davis
in Dallas said the horses may
have consumed the contami
nated feed as far back as Octo
ber but the first death did not
occur until Dec. 20.
Reagor said officials did not
pinpoint the cause of the prob
lem until the second week of
March, but did not think the
poison was mixed intentionally.
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