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Swing into
summer with
CARNIVAL THEATRE!
University Theatre's fun-filled season of plays will fill
your summer evenings with music and laughter!
I'm Getting My Act Together and
Taking It On The Road
The critically acclaimed musical starring
PRISCILLA LAURIS
July 5, 6, 7, 19, 25, 26; August 3, 4, 10
Side btj Side ty Seudkem
A musical revue of
Broadway show tunes by the
master songwriter, Stephen
Sondheim
July 12, 13, 14, 20, 21
August 2, II
Robinson Theatre • 8 p.m.
$5.00 - Any Friday or Saturday
$3.50 - Any other performance day
Call 606-4191 for ticket reservations and information.
Mass Appeal
A heartwarming comic
drama starring TOM
LASSWELL and DENNIS
SMITH
July 17, 18, 27, 28
August 1, 8, 9
Potpourri of ‘out-of-step’ folks
adds more life to country fair
It was a people-watcher’s paradise.
More than 20,000 people beat the heat and
flocked to the Oregon Country Fair this weekend,
and, as tradition would have it, the faces and
bodies in attendance were anything but dull.
There were jugglers and clowns and children
sporting painted faces. A man wearing a loin
cloth and sandals danced with abandon to the
Celtic folk music of “Just Friends” on the Main
Stage. Several onlookers joined him.
The fair’s parade was an extravaganza of
brass and color; everyone out of step but un
Musicians made the midway a maze of
melodies, with each turn offering a new song.
doubtedly in tune. Teetering high above the
crowd was a woman on stilts wearing satin pants;
she answered no questions, even from the awed
five-year-old who wanted to know. “How does
she do that?”
A fellow with a paper mache swan's head ex
tending three feet in the air wandered through the
crowd, white cotton wings flapping in the warm
breeze. An Indian chief and a silver-skinned
woman with silver hair also drew stares.
There were others who, perhaps not so ob
viously, fit into the scene just as well, and added
their own shade of color to the myriad souls. A
great-grandmother of 82 years was there,
although she didn’t even attempt to make it all
the way around the midway. Then there were the
l. :
A giant towered over the crowd.
teenagers wearing Van Halen t-shirts and dark
glasses, meandering from booth to booth, never
losing sight of each other. Mothers with newborn
babies and small children rested at the base of the
Shady Grove Stage.
The Oregon Country Fair differs from the
Lane County Fair, because of its setting. The
“fairgrounds” is a mostly-shaded, figure-eight
path that winds it’s way through the forest just
west of Veneta. There are no carnival rides and,
besides the ponies available for children’s riding,
the only animals to be seen were two parrots near
an earring booth and some horses with riders her
ding cars in the parking lot. And there’s a per
vading friendly spirit not entirely uncommon to
Eugene, but refreshing nevertheless.
If you missed the experience this year, the
fair will be back next summer for its 16th show
ing. Everyone should attend at least once. As
Seattle-based musician Scott Cossu said after
playing at the fair, "It’s like being in another
country.”
Story by Kim Carlson
Photos by Michael Clapp
Out 2 Lunch, a local juggling group, demonstrated the “carrot and club” aspect of American
foreign policy on an unsuspecting audience volunteer.