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The Children’s Radio The ater annually challenges the creativity of the nation’s youth with a play writing contest, won this year by scripts that render ordinary, everyday events into spectacular fantasy. Imagine how a dollar bill ("Bill’’) must feel when crum pled in a wallet. Or why a dog really wags his tail — canine title character “Sydney” says it’s a manifestation of high blood pressure. Four youngsters, from among hundreds of budding playwrights, won this year’s “Henny Penny Playwriting Contest.” Their plays will be staged and broadcast live from the Kennedy Center this spring by the Children’s Radio The ater’s troupe of actors The 1984 winners are Cindy Buchanan, 12, LaPlata, Md., (“It’s a Dog’s Life Syndey”); Chris and Jason Freitag, 11 and 14, Valparaiso, Ind., (“The Lucky One” and “Bill”); and Thomas Dickson 15, Upper Marlboro, Md., (“The Yankee and the Georgian Witch”). The plays will be produced jointly by National Public Ra dio, the Children’s Radio The ater and the John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts Pro gram for Children and Youth. This year’s winning plays, as in previous years, proved chil dren’s awareness of the adult world is often underestimated. The scripts comment on hu man nature at its best and worst. “The Lucky One” raises the issue of wildlife preservation; a hoy struggles with bureaucratic red tape to save a bird species. His efforts are unsuccessful. “Most of the kids have great ideas,” said Doris Indyke, one of the founders of the Chil dren’s Radio Theater. “But it’s those who follow through with the idea, structure the play well, develop their subject ... those are the kind of scripts that win.” One of this year’s winning scripts is about the life of a dol lar bill. “Thai’s not the first time we have gotten a script about that same topic,” said Indyke. To trace the life of the dollar named “Bill,” playwright Jason Freitag, 14, went so far as to re search the printing process and average life span of a dollar. Joan Bellsey, David Thomp son and Indyke created the Children’s Radio Theater in 1977. It currently is broadcast on 100 public radio affiliates. The contest, which has won several prestigious awards in cluding a George Foster Pea body, was begun a year later to attract original material from listeners. With advertising in grade school publications and on CRT’s Saturday morning pro gram, the contest attracted more than 1,000 scripts this year from children age 7 to 15 from 42 states and Canada. The four winners will come to Washington to assist in the production of their plays, ap pear on NBC’s “Today” pro gram, and be interviewed on Voice of America. Producer seeking boy soprano United Press International SAN ANTONIO — The overture of Rossini’s opera “William Tell” is known throughout America as the theme music for “The Long Ranger” — so what better place to revive the seldom-performed opera than in Texas. Thai’s what Bulgarian-born arts director Parvan Bakardjiev plans for the 1984 San Antonio Festival. Bakardjiev, whose stunning success with the 1985 Festival surprised both art critics and budget watchers, wants to break with tradition and, he says, for the first time ever cast a boy so- irano in the role of Tell’s son, enmty. The role conventio nally falls to a woman wearing trousers and waistcoat. Bakardjiev is conducting a nationwide search for the right boy. “I am looking for a boy so prano with a strong, pleasant voice, exceptional music in stincts, solid musical training, good looks and assured stage presence,” he said. “It will be difficult to find all those qual ities in one person, but these qualities are crucial to the role of Jemmy.” Bakardjiev said he is vehe mently opposed to seeing a woman play the role of a hoy, both for dramatic and script reasons. But he said the role will be double-cast with a woman in case he fails to find a male. The long, sometimes repeti tious opera, written in 1828 by Gioacchino Rossini, was last produced by the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1931. As in previous years, a woman played Jemmy’s role. Bakardjiev cites American television as the main reason for breaking tradition — not only by casting a boy in the role, but also by cutting some of the op era’s repetition and updating the period from the 1300s to the late 1700s. “Americans are over whelmed with TV,” he said. “They look more than they hear these days. At the same time, we’re trying to be true to Ros sini. Opera in America is done differently.” Bakardjiev said the “William Tell” overture had been popu larized by the “Lone Ranger” radio and television series, and he wanted to use that familiarity to update the 155-year-old op era. “The opera is difficult to pro duce. It’s always subject to revi sions in the musical score and the drama. Nowadays, you have to find the right people to sing it, and they have to look right,” he said. With the exception of the boy soprano, the “William Tell” cast is all set with Margaret Pent, Rosalind Elias, Guiliano Cian- nella, Giorgio Zancanaro and Eric Halvarson. It is scheduled to play the Majestic Theater May 26, 29 and June 1. Bakardjiev said he hoped to bring television’s original Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore, to San Antonio for the opening. f I INTERNATIONAL HOUSE *"»**nc RESTAURANT ALL YOU CAN EAT Buttermilk Pancakes Offer expires April 30,1984 $1 79 4 p.m. - 6 a.m. 7 days a week At INTERNATIONAtHOUSE# PANCAKES; ^RESTAURANT 103 N. College Skaggs Center Breakdancing spreads like wildfire from streets to stage shelf iternatioml Cordless let he elderly an ense of sets vho live alos us fear of (t Yeeks, apfc li the Visit®! n of Chicago, fall can ira« I hey could k i for days h Is them. If' ne is altf ii, they have! of mind a« United Press International SAN FRANCISCO — The streets of America are alive with the sound of disco — and the sight of gyrating t eenagers spin ning like whirling dervishes. From New York to San Fran- risco, to the rhythmic blasts from giant tape decks, young sters are dropping to the ground, kicking their feet and twirling on their tailbones, shoulders, arms, hands — and even heads — in the latest craze known as “breakdancing.” Views of this phenomenon are as diverse as the dancers’ movements. In interviews, observers de scribed it as a non-violent reso lution to gang warfare, a repro duction of a fight dance of Brazilian slaves and an art form that could pump “new blood” into classical ballet. Few would disagree the streetside spectacle seen in parks, in front of department stores, at tourist centers, on street corners and in alleyways may be the flashiest show this side of an Olympic gymnastics meet. San Francisco Ballet co-direc tor Michael Smuin was so im pressed, he planned a stunning surprise for the audience at tending the gala opening of the dance company’s 51st season in January. The pristine corps of balleri nas in white tutus had pi rouetted away. The final cur tain had fallen. The tuxedo- clad men and bejeweled women prepared to leave — when a horde of youngsters bounced onto the San Francisco Opera House stage. Against a wall of graffiti, to the disco sounds of “Thriller,” the 46 mostly black and latino youths strutted their streetwise stuff — bringing the glittering audience to its feet. “My idea was to bring the street onto the stage,” Smuin said in an interview. “Break dancing is completely the other side of the coin from ballet, but it’s all dancing.” Artless, unschooled hi the es tablished sense, impatient with traditional conventions, break dancing is the antithesis of tra ditional ballet — and could add “new blood” to classical dance, Smuin said. “Things are going to happen to classical dance because of breakdance, or strutting or popping as it’s sometimes called,” he said. “In its own way, as fast-moving and virtuosic as a classical pas de deux.” Robert North, director of the British Ballet Rambert, how ever, sees “no great linkup be tween breaking and ballet, and I don’t think there will be one in the future.” to o. 0) cc O I ■*-* 3 < a> a> a. E o o Ken’s Automotive 421 S. 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