Androcles Held Over
Androcles and the Lion, a play
produced especially for children
by the Eugene Theatre Company,
will continue to run through the
month of June. Performances are
scheduled for every Saturday at 2
p.m. on the second floor of the
Atrium, the company's permanent
home for the coming year.
According to the company’s
Producing Director Randi Doug
las, “We are very encouraged by
the response to our first children’s
production and plan to start work
on another shortly. In the mean
time, we want to continue to make
Androcles available to children
and their parents as a summer ac
tivity."
The children’s play, designed
for commedia style performance
either indoors or outdoors, is easy
to set up in the now unfinished
theatre space in the Atrium. "We
have plans to construct an inti
mate 150-seat thrust stage au
ditorium in the space during the
summer," says Douglas, “until
then, it just feels good to have our
audience find us in a place they
know they can come back to, and
we’ll still be there.”
Androcles and the Lion is
based on the fable about the lion
who has a thorn stuck in his paw.
The zany “lost-in-the-woods”
chase scenes have been particu
larly popular with the children.
Performances will take place on
Saturdays, June 4, 11,18 and 25
at 2 p.m. on the second floor of the
Atrium Mall, 99 West 10th. Tickets
are $1 for children and $2 for
adults. For advance reservations
and information, call 485-1946.
Country star Tanya Tucker sings
Tanya Tucker, one of the brightest young stars
in country music, comes to Paramount Northwest for
a concert Saturday, June 4 at 8 p.m.
An overnight sensation at the age of 13 when
she recorded the #1 hit ‘Delta Dawn,” Tucker has
proven in the five years since that auspicious start
that she is an exceptional talent with a glowing future.
Although she has achieved more success at age
18 than many performers have been able to attain in
a lifetime. Tanya ultimately would like to be known as
a more versatile singer. “I want to be known as a
singer who sings ail types of songs,” she explained.
The pretty teenager has had hits with tunes such
as “Short Cut” and “It’s a Cowboy Lovin’ Night."
“Ridin' Rainbows” is the title of both her new MCA
album and single.
Octavian, a country-rock group, joins Tucker on
the bill as special guest.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at The Ticket
Place at Lipmans (downtown), First Federal in Van
couver, Rising Sun Records in Salem and the
Paramount. Tanya Tucker is presented in Portland
by Northwest Releasing and Sounds of the World.
In Portland:
Ella Fitzgerald
The Pablo Jazz Festival, star
ring the immortal Ella Fitzgerald,
legendary pianist Oscar Peterson
and guitar master Joe Pass,
comes to the Auditorium for two
concerts next Thursday, June 16
at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
With the possible exception of
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald is
the most widely celebrated jazz
artist in the world. The most
talented vocalist to ever grace the
jazz scene, the incomparable Ella
has a freakishly wide vocal range,
literally perfect intonation and an
acutely sensitive ear.
Oscar Peterson, regarded as
one of the world’s greatest jazz
pianists, has won the Down Beat
Award for 12 consecutive years as
the Best Jazz Pianist; the coveted
Playboy Award; and the Grammy
in 1975. Gene Lees wrote in Down
Beat: “If there are pianists who
rival Oscar’s speed, they lack his
virility and blues-rooted power. If
there are those who rival his
power, they lack his absolute mas
tery of the instrument."
The most honored jazz guitarist
in the world, Joe Pass was voted
the best at his profession last year
by Down Beat, Critics Poll and the
15th Annual Reader’s Poll of
Swing Journal. British jazz critic
Benny Green raved that Joe Pass
“was able to cope with even the
very fastest tempos, and en
dowed with the most winning of ail
jazz virtues, melodic grace. He is
one of the most recent additions to
the small group of jazzmen who
are undisputed masters of the
genre."
Tickets for the Northwest Re
leasing concerts are on sale at the
Ticket Place at Lipmans (down
town), First Federal in Vancouver,
Rising Sun Records in Salem and
the Auditorium Box Office.
Bootsy’s Rubber
Band plays
Bootsy’s Rubber Band, along
with the Horney Horns (honest),
will appear in concert next Thurs
day at the Paramount Theatre in
Portland. The performance be
gins at 8 p.m.
In 1976 there were a tot of new
performers emerging on the rock
and funk horizon; One of those
performers was a young bassist
named Bootsy Collins who
seemed to combine “the best of
Captain Kangaroo with the funk of
today,” according to the press re
lease. At any rate, Collins has
amassed quite a following and is
considered to be one of the hotter
performers to emerge in the past
year.
And who are Collins’ listeners?
He calls them geepies. What’s a
geepie? “I look at geepies as
younger kids who are turned on
without drugs,” explains the smil
ing 24-year-old bassist. “They’re
so deep, they’re past D all the way
to G. That’s what makes them
geep.”
Collins’ first release, Stretchin'
Out In Bootsy’s Rubber Band,
just turned gold and contained two
hit singles, the psychotic progres
sive funk tune “Stretchin' Out”
and the love ballad “I’d Rather Be
With You.”
On his second album, The
Name Is Bootsy, Baby, Collins’
r
brand of “hound dog rock”
stretches out even further. Com
bining Ns psychotic funk with nur
sery rhymes, he came up with the
“Pinocchio Theory” (“Don’t fake
the funk, or your nose got to
grow”). On "Rubber Duckie” Col
lins becomes Robin Lee Hood,
and “steals from the rich and gives
to poor little ol’ me—Funk that is.”
Collins’ musical style is an out
growth of his eight years as a per
former. He was on the road at 16
as bassist for the James Brown
Band. Maceo Parker and Fred
Wesley joined up with Collins after
leaving Brown. They are best
known as founding fathers in
James’ touring and recording
band, the JB’s. Wesley’s horn
charts coupled with the elastic
rhythms of the Rubber Band from
a backdrop for Collins’ space-face
double bass, chest-thumpinq
solos.
Bootsy Collins’ latest album,
Ahh... The Name is Bootsy,
Baby, continues to put forth those
seriously-silly psychotic bump
tunes to his growing legion of
“Rubber fans and funkateers.”
Tickets for the show are $6.50
in advance and $7.50 on the day
of the show. Advance tickets are
available in Eugene at
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