The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June 10, 1978-Page 7 Wheelies' skit wits ocus on handicapped By MA TT KOPKA ticulate well due to er restrictions. They call themselves the "Witless AFTER YESTERDAY'S show, Duffy Wheelies," but they showed just how said, "It's important for handicapped clever they actually are in a series of people to get into the entertainment open-air skits, performed on the Diag media. Certainly we have talents in last Monday and again yesterday. that direction." Walter Bilderbeck, Lucy Bjorklund, Although the wheelchair is the center Tony Burdick and Yvonne Duffy, all of attention in the sharp dialogues, one-time University students, wrote the rhetoric and songs,. Bjorklund noted, show to dramatize the plight of "It's attitudes apply to anyone who is wheelchair users. handicapped." BURDICK AND DUFFY originated One of the highpoints of the produc- the program, which makes use of a tion was Duffy's recitation of a poem wheelchair, while he was her personal from "Colored Girls Who Have Con- "helper," doing the household chores sidered Suicidle When the Rainbow is which her confinement to a wheelchair Enuf," whikh harshly criticizes does not allow. Burdick was her acting "bleeding hearts" for their wasted pity coach. and demands honest attention for the All of the performers contributed to character's real needs. the writing of the show. "Tony and IN ANOTHER vignette, a "crippled" Walter and I had been working man (Burdick) is denied a job at "Big together, talking about alternate Products" by a masked interviewer theater," recalled Bjorklund of the (Bilderbeck) who uses every excuse early stage of the act. imaginable to avoid hiring him. Duffy recently sued the Theater- The show was also spiced with two Company of Ann Arbor after she was original songs, "Fixed Income Level denied admission to the company for Blues," and the close, "Open Your what she said the group called a lack of Eyes," which exhorts the crowd to in- ability to project her voice and ar- volve themselves. TONY BURDICK, Walter Bilderbeck and Lucy Bjorklund, members of the Witless Wheelies street theatre troupe, dramatize the plight of the handicapped in a noon-time Diag skit yesterday. I 111 1l)!)l 41 1GLla, a st, y Ia 41"" . WAKE UP' to IRidiigwn 0'kti1 PINBALL BOWLING & BILLIARDS We have it all together at teN UNION O PEN 1 PM St. & Sun. I LPRESSURE? HELP SOMEONE FORGET IT! I WI- PUT A PERSONAL IN THE DAILY. One Day, Up to 10 Words-$1'.15 a '7 rAdWANWi . GET INTO THE SWIM THIS SUMM KEEP INFOR w/ a Summer Subscripti Summer Subscripti ---------------I (Please Print) Last Name First Middle Initial I. D. No._Phone No._ _ Number Street Name Apt. No. City State Zip Duration: Spring [I Summer 12 Both]0 g IOFi1 ER! MED on to th on Pric $6.50 S $7.00 b $3.50 5 Summer $4.00b *Out Mu THINGS e Daily- os: pring /Summer Term (Ill) y mail outside Ann Arbor mpring (lia) --or- (Illb) Term by mail outside Ann Arbor t of Town Subscribers st Pre-poyl I