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Sugar Beets dish up the goods
■ Voted Eugene’s best band,
The Sugar Beets rock the
WOW Hall Saturday in their
final show of the millenium
By Sara Jarrett
Oregon Daily Emerald
Everything started with eight
starving musicians jamming to
gether in the University dorms
between classes.
Ten years later, not only are
The Sugar Beets still together, but
the band was just voted as Eu
gene’s best in the Eugene Week
ly’s readers’ poll.
“[We] were born out of and
sustained by the Eugene spirit —
and gosh it feels good to be ac
knowledged by the community
we came out of,” the band’s gui
tarist and vocalist Marty Chilla
said of the award.
Chilla stressed that what
makes the band unique is that it
has six songwriters and each per
son in the band contributes to the
vocals. The group’s performance
Saturday at the WOW Hall is its
last one until a 10-year anniver
sary celebration in the spring of
2000.
“We started taking a winter
break last year so we can have a
love life and stuff like that,”
Chilla said.
The release of “Once Upon A
Time” earlier this year marks the
Sugar Beet’s fourth recording and
second CD.
“I was very happy to hear [the
Sugar Beets were voted number
one] because they have personal
ly been my favorite local band for
some time now,” WOW Hall
publicist Bob Fennessy said.
Opening for The Sugar Beets
on Saturday is The Clumsy
Lovers, from Vancouver, B.C.
Each band offers prominent fid
dle and bluegrass sounds, Fen
nessy said, but Chilla points out
that his band isn’t one-dimen
sional.
“We are a band with strong
bluegrass roots, but we like to use
it as a starting point and get cre
ative from there,” he said in a
press statement. The Clumsy
Lovers is a five-member band
and has been described as “a
combo platter of impeccable mu
sicianship and silly showman
ship” by die Seattle Weekly.
“Our sound is bluegrass,
Celtic and pop-rock with plenty
of high energy and even some ska
thrown in,” the band’s fiddle
player and vocalist Andrea Lewis
was quoted in the SW. “We play
big party, foot stomping type of
music.”
The Clumsy Lovers have been
together since 1993 and have re
leased four CDs; the most recent
is called “Barnburner.”
All ages are welcome at the
show, which begins at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets cost $6 in advance, $7* at
the door and are available at CD
World, Face the Music, House of
Reqords, La Tienda & Taco Loco,
Record Exchange, the EMU Tick
et Office or the WOW Hall, 291
W. Eighth.
VLT opens on a ‘fantastick’ note
By Yael Menahem
Oregon Daily Emerald
A boy, a girl, their two mothers
and the wall that separates the
two family’s houses. That’s the
premise for the Very Little The
atre’s season premiere “The Fan
tasticks.”
The musical is based on Ed
mond Rostand’s 1892 short play
called “Les Romanesques” and
has been produced 693 times in
68 foreign countries since first
opening in 1960.
The story takes place in one
character’s imagination. The Nar
rator — El Gallo, played by
Stephen Newbury — is a roman
tic hero and has control oveF the
other character’s actions. The en
tire play revolves around El Gal
lo almost “puppeteering” the
main characters.
Accompanying El Gallo and
the rest of the cast is The Mute
and two actors who are also fig
ments of his imagination.
Matt and Luisa have been
neighbors since birth and a wall
built to keep them apart is actual
ly a scheme by their mothers to
bring them closer together. Matt
is conservative and stern, while *
Luisa is afraid of being ordinary
and acts like a princess. Two
University students, Tyler Hold
en and Kimberly Bates, play Matt
and Luisa, respectively.
The mothers hire El Gallo to
create havoc in the lover’s lives
by asking him to attempt to kid
nap Luisa while the two are
walking in the park. The kidnap
ping is actually referred to as a
rape in the song, but the play’s
program clarified that the origi
nal 18th-century meaning of the
word meant “to seize and carry
off by force.” The directors, Jack
Powell and Jane Russell, decided
to stay true to the original play
and added that they do not con
done the act of violence that the
word represents today.
The kidnapping is staged to
portray Matt as a hero who saves
Luisa in distress. Then the moth- *
ers tell the two that the wall and
the disapproval of their relation- -
ship is actually a farce.
The first act ends happily with
Luisa saved, and with Matt and
Luisa to be married.
The play takes an unromantic
turn in the second act when El
Gallo decides to tear Luisa and
Matt apart. The mischief starts
with small things like El Gallo in
fluencing Luisa to tell Matt that
she likes his face better in the
dark.
As a result, Matt decides to
take a trip around the world, all
courtesy of El Gallo, so he can
work his magic on Luisa.
In the end El Gallo hurts Luisa,
and when Matt returns, she re
turns to him and everyone recon
ciles. El Gallo warns the audi
ence, however, to keep the wall
up.
The cast of The Very Little
Theater does a good job in bring
ing the musical to life. They use
imaginative tools such as silver
confetti thrown by The Mute to
create rain, and green confetti to
create the illusion of cutting
bushes in one of the mother’s
garden.
The two actors who accompa
ny El Gallo, and appear at his re
quest, add a humorous touch to
the musical.
“The Fantasticks” plays
through Nov. 6. Very Little The
atre i£ located at 2350 Hilyard St.
007653
Community
Center lor the
Performing Arts
8th &
Lincoln
■ Friday ■
Caribbean Ntyht
Jahkuumba,
The live Bombers, Abaka-Dubi,
Groupo Flamenco
SUdin^Scale $6-12 door, 9:00 pm
■ Saturday ■
The Su^ar Beets,
The Clumsy Lovers
Bluegrass
$6 advance, $7 door, 9:00 pm
■ Sunday ■
Sloppy Seconds,
Shortround, Compact 56
Punk Rock
$8 advance, $8 door, 7:30 pm
■ Tuesday ■
Buck-O-Nine,
Scrimmage Heroes
Ska-Punk-Reggae
$7 advance, $7 door, 7:30 pm
All Ages Welcome • 687-2746
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