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Just sinqin' in Rudde
On-stage rainstorm will add touch of reality to OPAS production of classic musiot |
By Karen Janes
The Battalion
A rainstorm will be passing
through Rudder Auditori
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through Rudder Auditorium.
MSC OPAS is presenting the
classic musical Singin’ in the Rain.
The real rainstorm will occur during
the famous “Singin’ in the Rain”
number, when 45 gallons of water
will fall onto the auditorium stage.
Jeffrey Cranor, the OPAS direc
tor of audience education and de
velopment and a senior journal
ism major, has never seen the
musical onstage.
“I am anxious to see it,” Cranor
said, "especially the rain scene. It
should be really neat.”
The musical comedy Singin' in
the Rain originated as an MGM
movie in 1952. The movie, which
has made several top 10 movie
lists worldwide, starred Gene Kel
ly, Donald O’Connor, Jean Hagen
and Debbie Reynolds in her first
starring role.
Since then, Singin’ in the Rain
has been on Broadway and toured
internationally. The musical has
been extremely successful onstage,
partly because of its broad audi
ence appeal. In 1989, it was one of
the first 25 films selected by the Li
brary of Congress for its film registry
of Significant Motion Pictures.
“Faculty, students and adults in
the community have all been buy
ing tickets for the show,” Cranor
said. “A wide variety of people are
coming to see it.”
MichaeJ Hernandez, account co
ordinator and media planner for
play publicist The Matthews Group,
said Singin' in the Rain has some
thing for everyone.
“Older people will enjoy this pro
duction because they will remem
ber seeing the original movie ver
sion,” Hernandez said. “The young
will enjoy it, too. It has lots of high-
energy dancing and music.”
The characters in the musical
are dancing and singing in Holly
wood in the 1920s. It is a time of
glamorous actresses and matinee
idol actors. The two hottest silent
movie stars of the era are Don
Lockwood and Kathy Selden.
Lockwood and Selden, however,
are facing tough times.
The age of “talkies,” or movies
with sound, is dawning on Holly
wood. It turns out that although
Selden is a beautiful silent picture
actress, her voice is far from perfect.
The musical goes on to tell the
story of Hollywood’s transition from
silent films to talkies.
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audience can sit back and enjoy.
“The story is not too deep,” he
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Cranor described Singin' in the
Rain as “fascinating."
It is one of the most diverse
shows that OPAS has put on. The
group producingS/ngm'/n the Rain
is th e same that did Crarr
last year and The Wizardoj
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Austin blues 'Godfather' to visit B-C!
By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
P laying the blues is more than just a job for
Austin musician W. C. Clark. It’s the very act
of life itself.
“Ask a blues musician what the blues means,”
Clark said. “The first thing Id have to say is sur
vival, the way it soothes my soul, satisfies my
hunger for playing the guitar, making music.”
Clark will bring his guitar-centered blues to
Bryan’s 3rd Floor Cantina Saturday at 9 p.m.
The veteran guitarist, singer and songwriter
is no stranger to Bryan-College Station. He has
performed to a packed house several times at
the 3rd Floor Cantina.
Saturday’s performance supports last year’s
release of Texas Soul, his third album and second
release on Black Top Records.
Clark said his influences as a songwriter
are diverse.
“B. B. King, I do a lot of his stuff,” Clark said.
“When he writes a blues song, the meaning
is clear.”
But Clark said he takes his cue from more
than just blues musicians.
“I listen to jazz,” he said. “I’ve always loved the
jazz from the old guitar players like Wes Mont
gomery and George Benson.”
Texas Soul contains four of Clark’s original
songs and numbers by B. B. King, Johnny Taylor,
and Larry Graham and Sam Cooke. The album
also features a cover of Willie Nelson’s “Funny
How Time Slips Away.”
Clark is still firmly based in the blues, though,
and he said contemporary music takes much of
its influence from early blues pioneers.
“Each style of music will have a little piece
of the blues in it,” he said. “When the styles
come back around, they come back to the ba
sic blues structure.”
Clark’s experience dates back to his teen-age
years, when he played bass forT. D. Bell’s band.
Much of his musical influence in his early years
came from the songs he heard at the Baptist
church his family attended.
His big break came in the early 1960s, when
blues legend Joe Tex hired Clark as a guitarist. Clark
said working with Tex was a learning experience.
“I learned a lot about how to control the au
dience,” he said. “Sometimes the blues just
flows, and sometimes you’ve got to make it hap
pen. It’s really all within yourself.”
Clark spent a few years in the the Triple Threat
Revue with the late Texas blues musician Stevie
Ray Vaughan. Clark co-wrote Vaughan’s hit sin
gle “Cold Shot,” which he recorded for his 1994
album Heart of Gold.
Later, he formed his own band, the W. C.
Clark Blues Revue, which has played with leg
ends such as B. B. King, James Brown and Bob
by Bland.
His growing renown in Austin led to his nick
name “Godfather of the Austin blues.”
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read it in the paper,” Clark said. “It means I’m the
link between the black and the white. For a long
time, I was the only black coming from Austin’s
east side over to the west side.”
The “Godfather’s” band regularly cleans up at
the Austin Music Awards, and Clark has been fea
tured in the pages of People Weekly and the
Chicago Tribune.
Clark said he sees no end to the blues or his
“Texas soul.”
“Is the blues still alive?” Clark said. “Oh, yeah,
sure it is. As long as there’s sadness, thert [ |
ways be the blues.”
Clark said he hopes to open a club biros'
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“It gives me pride,” he said. “I was the
fore, and ever since, and I’m still here.”
INN announces nominee!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Alan
Jackson edged Vince Gill to win the
mostn ni’ Tions for the 1997 TNN
Mu .c . L y News Country Awards.
Jackson, who was named enter
tainer of the year at last year’s cere
mony, had seven nominations in
Wednesday’s announcement. The
singer is up for best entertainer
once again, best male vocalist, al
bum [Everything I Love), single
(“Little Bitty”), vocal collaboration,
and two video awards.
Gill had six nominations, includ
ing best entertainer. Other nomi
nees for best entertainer are Billy
Ray Cyrus, Reba McEntire and
George Strait.
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