Ewa l~lkTHE MICHIGAN DAILY A rts &8.Enrtferta~Inrrren~ Thursday, November 4, 1976 Page Five STARTS TO NIGHT' IN M ENDELSSOHIN:I Im' Mlusk et s Camelot: Bawdy .fun t (Ei i I By ANDREW ZERMAN ~~HEX were recreating King A r th ur' s Camelot1 last Thursday night on the sec- ond floor of the Union - with lots of songs, dances and some jokes. It was a rehearsal for Mus- ket's pr'oduction, of Camelot, which opens tonight at the Mendelssohn Theatre and which will run for .nine performances there over the next ten days. Camelot opened in New York in 1960, and was the first musi- cal Alan Jay Lerner and Fred- erick Loewe wrote after their perfect My Fair Lady. Producing Camelot in con- junction with Musket is M. M. Productions, brainchild of Mardy Medders, a graduate of the music school andr an in- structor in the Theatre Depart- nment. In the past Medders has produced dinner theatre at the Campus Inn, but she was anx- ious to share her acquired pro- ducing expertise with Musket which, she points out, is the "sole recognized musical thea- tre entity on campus." She and Robert Bianco of Musket ex- plain that the cost of as elabo- rate a show as Camelot would have made it difficult for either group to tackle the project] of the scenes in a dance num- 'ber. 1 ,, alone. Together they will Vsee DIRECTOR Paul Hustoles, at whether Camelot can sustain a the rehearsal, blocked the cur- run of nine performances, about' tain calls, jokingly reminding twice as, many as Musket has, the cast that when "the curtain had in the past.' opens, you're all smiling - this is a musical comedy." Hustoles "MUSKET," in case you've! has directed lot of plays all wondered, is an acronym which around town and when this stands for "Michigan. Union six days - to - show run- 'Show, Ko-Eds Too." The latter through began, it went smooth- part of that seems to be left! ly. over from the University's days' Most of the cast was in cos- of sexual segregation. tutee and this made for at least} Bianco also expresses a de- one amusingly incongruous pic- sire, to restore Musket's high ture: a maiden all dressed in reputation. Musket had a good virginal white, complete, with year last year, with snazzy pro-1 snood, sat reading Lolita. And 1 ductions of Godspell and Helloa the Arthurian shoes, made out ing years were, at best, undis- of felt, made things pretty slip- tinguished. peery on the dusty floor -- so Rehearsal began the other cast members frequently dip- night with Gallic - flavored ped their feet into an old car- warm-ups, led by Sylvia Lam-I ton for a fix of resin. "This is bert, a French - Canadian who !50 we don't fall on our little instructs in the School of Dance. pelvises," one of the dancers Lambert is choreographing told me. Camelot with Marcia Milgom One of the mven in the cast who, in addition to creating the' was especially proficient in get- dances for her fourth Musket, ting into the mood of medieval will make her debut in front baudiness. In one song he was supposed to take a maiden 's actress gave him a gentle re- handkerchief from her sleeve. primand. This fellow, however, spied an- "It was in my sleeve, you other hankie in the lady's bo-knw"serm kdadd- dice and decided the latter was= ed "Let's keep it there, buddy." clearly preferable. One wonders how an Arthur- After the number, his fellowI ian lady would have reacted. PROFESSOR JOHN NATHAN PRINCETON :UNIVERSITY and his filmt documentary FULL MOON LUNCHI Images of contemporary Japanese family~ life THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4-8 P.M. ROOM 200 LANE HAL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC INNCONCER T The Michigan Men's Glee-Club with SPECIAL GUESTS TheIlinisMen's Glee-Club S a u d y o eb r1~.H l tickets available at the H ill A ud. box office TICKETS: $2, $3, $4 - ReservedSeats $3, $4 - Gen'I. Admission $2 l I a i C J I' LA ol ~97 THINKING OF, WAYS TO MAKE MONEY? Sell commissioned subscriptions for ALL-TIME FAVORITES AETA ONE-TIMES PECIAL PRICE I COLUMBIA CLASSICAL SALE Firt Am~e c Re rn I WAAR BERMAN PLAYS BEETHMVN Sonata OQ. 57'Appassioriatd I Coil or come down WILLIAMS SIX +0 %:1 V. VIU. 5-IABOS, FIVE PRELU DES W)4 (Of I tit: WORLD'S LARGELST RAN.D ORGANS: THE W t RLITZ16 14 SIOEVAKS OF NEW YORK ASOI' N)SPEUS( I EAR 1*