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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
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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.
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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.
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