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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Wednesday, January 24, 19'.. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three
Honey': Colorful,
conancing comedy
HELL, UPSIDE DOWN
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BUSTER KEATON'S
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THE
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Silent comedy at its best.
A great comedian
interacts with the
machine, in this case
a train.
ADDED ATTRACTION:
Donald Sosin's delightful
piano improvisations
at both shows.
ARCHITECTURE
AUDITORIUM
By GLORIA JANE SMITH
Arts Editor
Honey, comedy in twopacts, written
by Mick Daugherty, produced by
Ashton Springer, directed by Charles
Gordone, presented in its pre-New
York engagement at the Vest Pocket
Theatre, 14832 Grand River, Detroit.
Performances Tuesday through Fri-
day at 8; Saturday at 7, 1:30; Sun-
day at 3, 7:30.
Cast:
Honey Moonlight Robinson Jackson
Williams ......... Ebony Wright
Claude Proctor Hazlitt Joey Van
Junior Faulkner ... Winston Young
For those who believe it im-
possible for a White critic to in-
telligently discuss a predominate-
ly Black dramatic production, let
me dutifully warn you that I am
White and therefore in many
ways witnessed Honey through
a White prospective.
But whether Black or White or
Purple or Green, Mick Daugher-
t:v
tonight
6:00 2 4 7 News
ty's Honey - the story of a 24-
year-old woman who employs
humorous wit and imagination
in her attempts to support her
three children by cheating the
Welfare department - stands
solid as truly enjoyable comedy.
Making his first visit to the
home of Honey Moonlight Robin-
son Jackson. Williams, social-
worker Claude Proctor Hazlitt is
nervous and uneasy - trying
desperately to remain calm and
pleasant, keeping in mind the
fate of previous workers who at-
tempted to unravel Honey's files.
Honey, however, is no ama-
' teur at greeting social workers.
Having turned the heat up past
90 and the radio up past toler-
able decibel levels (clever intim-
idation maneuvers), she wisks
about the apartment with a scarf
7 Paul Lynde
9 Saint
50 Dragnet
56 Intertel Law and Order
8:30 4 Banacek
7 Movie-Drama
"Go Ask Alice"
50 Merv Griffin
9:00 2 Medical Center
9 News
56 Eye to Eye
9:30 9 There's Nothing Like a Big
Brass Band
56 To Be Announced
10:00 2 Cannon
4 Search-Adventure
7 Owen Marshall
56 Soul!
50 Perry Mason
10:30 9 This Land
11:00 2 4 7 News
9 CBC News
50 One Step Beyond
11:20 9 News
11:30 2 Movie
4 Johnny Carson
7 Dick Cavett
50 Movie
"Prides of the Marines" (45)
12:00 9 Movie
"A Matter of Innocence"
(English, 1967)
1:00 4 7News
1:30 2 Movie
"Dressed to Kill" (41)
3:00 2 News
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Courtship of Eddie's Father
Flint stones
Maggie and the Beautiful
Machine
CBS News
NBC News
ABC News
I Dream of Jeannie
Gilligan's Island
Making Things Grow
Truth or Consequences
News
To Tell the Truth
Beverly Hillbillies
I Love Lucy
Zoom
What's My Line?
Festival of Family Classics
Wild Kingdom
Irish Rovers
Hogan's Heroes
Consumer Game
Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
Adam-12
tied about her head little-miss-
housekeeper fashion gathering
scattered toys and polishing dust-
less tables. She speaks with fi-
nesse to the sweating social
worker whose ears have long
ago begun to ring.
Fgom the action that follows-
which is as humorously complex
as Honey's infamous welfare
files - we learn that Claude and
Honey are notreally so very dif-
ferent after all. They share
many of the same problems of
everyday living and they grow
to learn much from each other.
"'I, too, am a man of color,"~
Claude tells Junior (Honey's boy-
friend - "rosey-ass pink."
The impact of the play is phe-
nomenal as it gradually departs
from a simple "social worker vs
recipient" encounter to a deeply
moving human experience. We
empathize with H o n e y who
spends her rent and food checks
on beer, a television set, a
stereo, two phones, and the ul-
timate: a floor-length gold lame
gown complete with gold purse,
gold bracelet and gold shoes. We
do understand and even applaud.
And at the same time, we
empathize with Claude, at first
ill at ease in his job of attempt-
ing to determine whether or not
Honey qualifies for aid and then
turning to Honey for comfort on
Christmas eve when his mar-
riage finally hits the rocks.
The action, under the direction
of Pulitzer prize winning author
Charles Gordone, moves along at
a moderately fast pace. Gordone
expertly plays with the subtle
and obtuse conflicts that consist-
ently loom between the three
characters. He works to contin-
ually rearrange the human tri-
angle on stage, blurring all dis-
tinct divisions between relation-
ships.
Ebony Wright is nothing less
than beautiful in her role as Hon-
ey . . . conniving and arrogant,
understanding and lovable. From
the moment she first turns to
Claude and drawls "Jus' call me
HONEY," it's perfectly obvious
that the stage is hers and hers
alone. Her self-assured coolness
and her hard-hitting anger are
so well executed that we grow
to deenly feel her words, to
relish her whims and inconsis-
tencies.
Understandably, W rirg h t' s
stage and film credits are many,
including roles on Brother John,
What's Up Doc, Play It Again
Sam and Harold and Maude,
and most recently an apearance
in the role of Soledad Mother in
the New York City Center pro-
duction of Uhurub!
Winston Young (Junior) and
Joey Van (Claude) likewise pre-
sent fine stage performances.
Youngwconvincingly portrays the
mellowing arrogance of a man
who at first just doesn't quite
trust the actions of Honev's new-
ly acquired White male social
worker. Van brings to life on
stage the bumbling antics of a
man who turns from nervous
social-worker to jobless friend.
atstic wrtn
If you are interes.
ed in reviewing
poetry, and music.
or writing feature
stories about the
arts: Contact Arts
Editor, c/o The -
drama, dance, film,
Michigan Daily.
By TONY CECERE
Universities with music schools
have always been faced with
the problem: What do you do
for people who want to partici-
pate in a musical organization
but do not want to major in mu-
sic?
Here at the University, the
LSA Arts Chorale has partially
solved the problem for singers.
Instrumentalists in this position
have not fared so well - they
are confined to playing in the
Wolverine Band (while the more
athletic ones opt for the March-
ing Band) or the Gilbert and
Sullivan pit orchestra. This term
will see the end of this predica-
ment with the formation of the
All Campus Orchestra.
Directed by music school pro-
fessor Charles Gabrion, the All-
Campus Orchestra aims to be a
standard-sized orchestra that will
perform works involving all sec-
tions of the group (as opposed to
chamber orchestra literature).
The requirements for member-
ship in the All-Campus Orches-
tra are not at all stringent. To
belong, you must be enrolled in
the University - music school
students are! excluded - and
must play an instrument. At
present the groups meets every
Tuesday night at Harris Hall
(corner of State and Huron) for
a 7:30 to 9:30 rehearsal.
Gabrion says that the orches-
tra's repertory will gravitate' to-
ward the romantic period. One
of the possible works slated for
this term is the Second Sym-
phony of Alexander Borodine.
"I feel that the primary pur-
pose of this orchestra is to pro-
vide an enjoyable musical ex-
perience for the participants,"
Gabrion says. "I envision hav-
ing rehearsals culminating in one
or two formal concerts a term,
possibly a concert with the Arts
Chorale sometime in the fu-
ture."
If the ensemble proves success-
ful, it will be offered next term
as an LSA one-credit elective,
much the same as the Arts Chor-
ale. The ensemble is sponsored
by several different schools,
with theSchool of Music provid-
ing the essential funding for this
term.
Joey Van (left) and Ebony Wright (right) perform with Winston
Young (center) in the new comedy, Honey, at Detroit's Vest.
Pocket Theatre.
LANTERN GALLERY:
Color interactions
mark uui. work
Non-music majors:
You can play, too!
The All-Campus Orchestra's
director, Gabrion, studied con-
ducting here at the University
under Elizabeth Green and Theo
Alcantara, earning a bachelor's
and master's degree in -music.
He has previously conducted the
Ann Arbor Symphony, the Michi-
gan Youth Symphony and sev-
eral groups at the National Mu-
sic Camp at Interlochen. In ad-
dition, Gabrion has taught music
in the Ann Arbor public schools
for 12 years.
Those interested, in joining the
All-Campus Orchestra should at-
tend the next rehearsal at Har-
ris Hall, 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Currently violists, bassoonists
and string bass players are espe-
cially needed to fill out the in-
strumentation.
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By VERONICA GERAN
Nobumitsu Fukui, born in To-
kyo in the early forties, has lived
in the United States for the past
ten years. During that time, the
artist has had a great number
of shows both abroad and in this
country.
A sampling of his work - six
paintings and a series of screen-
prints - are currently on ex-
hibit at theLantern Gallery.
Fukui's work entails centered
geometric forms around which
are stripes of color gradations.
Though the style is hard-edged,
both in acrylic and screenprint
he makes interesting use of back-
ground color on which is a
slight brushstroke texture. Per-
A
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haps this factor makes his style
unique.
A balance of geometry, color,
and space makes his work dis-
tinctive from that of Joseph Al-
ber, whom he considers "the
father of all this." Fukui's works
are all the same, differing only
in the colors they employ.
Some canvases use primary
colors of reds, blues; others are
subtle in nature. His most recent
painting is beautiful in its
treatment of white rainbowing
from soft, fleshy tones of beige.
The beige background again has
glints of white sparks, making
the canvas into a beautiful in-
terplay of visual elements.
The more one studies the work
of Fukui, the more one sees in
it the paradox of its subtle qual-
ity contrasted by its bold treat-
ment. Viewing one of the large
canvases for some time, my eye
began to round angles and to
form dimensions in areas of flat
color. So good is his use of jux-
taposing areas that a sense of
logic tied with beauty results.
At leaving the show my first
reaction was that of a certain
calm and simplification of the
world around, overtaking the
senses. The show is thus quite
enlightening as well as illustra-
tive of an artist who, confident
in his work, sees the world as a
function of color interaction.
The Lantern Gallery will pre-
view Nobumitsu Fukui's work
through Feb. 7 from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday.
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C.ULTURE CALEINDAR,
FILM-The Psych 171 Film Series presents High School in the
UGLI multi-purpose room today at 4; Cinema Guild
shows Keaton's The General at the Arch. Aud. tonight
at 7 and 9:05; The AA Film Co-op presents Antonioni's
Blow-up in Aud. A, Angell Hall at 7 and 9.
MUSIC-David Bromberg and Terry Tate give a concert to-
night at the Power Center at 8. Ko Iwasaki plays cello
at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium.
UPCOMING CONCERT TIP-John Hartford and Norman
Blake perform Friday at the Power Center at 8.
DRAMA-The University's speech dept. sponsors two plays,
written by its students, today in the Arena Theater of the
Frieze Bldg. at 4:10.
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Local
Poets-
The Michigan
Daily Arts
Page is now
accepting
poetry for
publication.
Submit work
to Arts Editor
c/o The Daily.
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