Oregon daily emerald., April 21, 1988, Page 5, Image 5

ENTERTAINMENT
'Cowboy' a tribute to moods of Old West
By Frale de Gu/man
Emerald Reporter
Eugenians will receive a taste
of the rough and tumble life of
the Old West when the Montana
Repertory Theatre presents the
high-spirited musical
‘‘Cowboy” Friday night at the
Hult Center.
Set in the late 1800s.
‘‘Cowboy” is a musical about
the life of western artist Charles
M. Russell. However, amid the
show’s hoopla, excitement and
tributes to cowboys, horses and
rough comradery on the open
range, “Cowboy" also is a
tribute to the sounds and spirit
of the vanishing West.
"Montana in the last years of
the 19th century was a place of
rapid change," said director
Robert Bridges. "The open
range — the West of the rugged
individualist — was vanishing
and being replaced by fences,
towns and homesteaders."
But in his paintings and il
lustrations. Charles Russell
managed to preserve the fading
spirit of the West. Born on
March 19. 1864, Russell re
mained a cowboy at heart, even
after giving up the life of a
cowboy and moving to Great
Falls, Mont, to live as an artist.
Through his works. Russell
recaptured the moods, dreams
and realities of the american
West in addition to its sadness,
violence and humor.
"The real power of Russell's
work resides in the fact that he
felt to the very depths of his be
ing that the era was dying and
that it meant something and
should be recorded." a short
biography on Russell stated.
“He had been part of that era
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when white men first began
coming to Montana. This
realism and depth of feeling
helped to chronicle one of
America’s most exciting
times," the biography said.
"Russell's works have a
warm feeling of storytelling
amend the campfire." said
Patricia Cusick, a Hult Center
spokeswoman. "His range of
moods reached from impres
sionistic works like his epic
'Lewis and Clark Meeting the
Flathead Indians at Ross' Hole'
to the picturesque 'Men of the
Open Range' to dramatic
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sculptures and humorously il
lustrated letters and cards,"
Like the West that was an in
tegral part of Russel I,
“Cowboy" attempts to recap
ture this old-world excitement.
“ 'Cowboy' drew out the
themes of the West that have
become myth: freedom in wide
open spaces; comradeship in
labor; virtue in hard work and
beauty in unspoiled nature,"
claimed John McCarthy in a
review published in the
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