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Original script noted Play entered in College Festival By D.Dietrich Of The Print The Clackamas Community ..College spring term theater production “Nuptials” has been entered in the American College Theater Festival. The College will compete with other college productions in the Northwest vying for a spot in the Northwest Drama Con ference in Seattle in February of ’86. If successful there, the show will go to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. that June. Theater Director Jack Shields said he decided to enter the play, written by former student and staff member Joette Rose, because he was urged by the head of the American College Theater Festival Association. Shields said the urging for entering this particular play was to en courage play writing by local talent. Because this play demonstrates such work, Shields decided to contact the organization after several Alyssa McVey played by Lynda Hale, tries to retrieve end of champagne glass lost in her shirt after she hid glasses in “Nup years of not participating in the program. tials.” Prince’s latest broadens audience Of The Print After reading so many reviews comparing Prince’s new “Around the World in a Day” album with The Beatle’s “Magical Mystery Tour” album, I was anxious to take a serious listen to this new album. True, such numbers as “Paisley Park” and “Raspberry Beret” have that unique Beatle-ish rhythm. As a matter of fact, Prince’s “Paisley Park” is the perfect counterpart to the Beatle’s “Penny Lane,” yet I don’t think we should start compar ing Apollonia, Shiela E. or Vanity with Yoko Ono quite so soon. Side one opens with the title cut, co-written with John L. Nelson (Prince’s previous pal) and David Coleman (keyboar dist Lisa Coleman’s brother). Its unique snake-charmer flute and African drum beat, mixed Page 4 the same cast for such a period of time. So far one representative of the program has visited the College for a reading of the script. That same judge will return with another judge for one of the final performances planed in June. Shields com mented that-the rehearsal for the play is going very well and he believes the College’s pro duction has a good standing in the competition. The story of the play takes place at a wedding and deals with the relationships of the people involved. Shields stated earlier that it is one of his policies to per form original plays at the Col lege. He said that he believed such activity should be one of the primary functions of a community college theater department. “Nuptials” will be the third play written by a former student to be perform ed at the College. The play will run May 30, 31, June 1, 7, 8 and 9. For more information, contact the department at ext. 356. Home tourney ends year Music review J. Jason The program carries a $90 entrance fee which Shields had chosen not to submit to because of an earlier ex perience during which he felt the judging of the play was in adequate. Part of the benefit of the program is that judges critique and comment on the College’s work, and help the production improve. If the production is chosen, the organization will cover the transportation costs to the Seattle and Washington, D.C. performances. Other colleges in the state, such as Portland State Univer sity and the University of Oregon, have been selected to perform at the Kennedy Center. PSU has gained the honor twice that Shields could recall. “I think the quality of our productions are equal (to PSU) in the most part,” Shields said. One major problem in the program is the length of time between possibly qualifying and performing in Seattle.“That’s the question,” Shields said when asked if it would be possible to maintain with the Minneapolis roots sound that Prince has formed, truly take the listener around the world.“Paisley Park,” the second song on the side, has a dizzying sound that puts the state of mind in an amusement park, although the song ac tually describes a “place in your heart.” struments as cellos and violins, may actually broaden his au dience. Prince gambles with the ex tensive use of many interesting instruments, including finger cymbals and saxaphones. On the song “Temptation,” he creatively mixes a saxaphone with a heavy-metal guitar sound. Besides playing several songs himself, Prince incor porates the skills of percus sionist Shiela E. on one track and enlists several talented str ing and bow musicians as well. According to Billboard- magazine, Warner Brothers records, along with the record promoters, are having a dif ficult time selecting a song to release as a single. “Raspberry The studio techniques on Beret” seems the best bet for the first but “Paisley Park,” this album also make it stand “Around the World in a Day” out from any of his previous and “Pop Life” all have works. The mixing effect in the song “Pop Life” gives the potential. A concern of Prince’s feeling that Prince is singing record company was that he the song twice, differently in may have become too obscure each ear. The other songs on on this album to maintain his the album seem too slow to large audience. This album, become hit singles, but stanger due to the insertion of such things have happened with unusual rock and roll in slow Prince songs. Ten schools participated in the Tom McCall Speech Tour nament at Clackamas Com munity College last Friday and Saturday. The event was to include hot air balloon rides on Friday, but the activity was canceled due to bad weather. The “Cruise-in,” which featured old and rare cars, continued as planned, however, and Jen nifer Hanel, a member of the College’s speech team, won first prize for her ’66 Thunder bird. In the speech tournament itself, Hanel won second place for her After Dinner Speech in the junior division. Dawn Birch captured second place also in the Novice Expository catagory. Vince VanDeCoevering won third place in the junior division of Extemporary Advocacy, in which the speaker is given a court case to argue with a limited amount of time to prepare. “Junior Prom and the Twisters,” a local 50’s style band, gave a benefit concert for the speech team Friday night, raising $132.20 for the team. Speech team member Jen nifer Hanel made a sweep of awards at the speech tourna ment held the weekend of April 20 at Portland Com munity College. At the last off-campus tournament for the team, the competitors came home with four awards in the meet with junior col leges from five Western states. Hanel’s success was con sidered “bordering totally awesome,” Coach Frank Harlow said. The victories in cluded two first-place awards, one in the After Dinner Speak ing category and one for an ex pository speech. Heidi Mosier and Hanel shared a second-place finish in the dramatic duo area and Laura Walton also earned a second-place award for her persuasive speech. The McCall tournament was the last competition for the College’s speech team. Clackamas Community College