' ~ -......'..=.~ ,,,, *..-4,a..%rz'r4,t.4~*~,,z...fr ~ ~ ~.z 'ic -\S TUESDAY, MARCH 30 8:30 PM MICHIGAN THEATRE TICKETS ON SALE: Michigan Theatre Box Office, 603 E. Huron, Ann Arbor 2-6 p.m., Mon.-Sat. Hudson's, Wherehouse Records and all C.T.C. outlets. The Comic Opera Guild, 432 S. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 GOLD PRICES ARE DOWN Dear Customer, k You can now purchase your 10 karat gold College Ring ,. 4o% . f . I - m nm . ' .o . ..ori as- i3 I f p+ ARTS Page 6 Friday, March 26, 1982 The Michigan Daily 0 Clubs/Bars The Ark (1421 Hill; 761-1451) Tom Paxton performs tomorrow night only at the Ark. This witty singer-songwriter has proven he can deal musically with relevant social and political problems and write fine ballads as well. The Folktellers come to tell mountain tales and con- temporary stories tonight. Patrick Gardner and formed in 1859, is often acclaimed as the finest male chorus in the world. The Harvard Glee club, directed by Jameson Marvin, will perform selections from its upcoming tour of China. For more information, call 764-4718. Theater Prpfessional Theatre Showcase Series Program c y- tormc less;i mone~ty uuinanyou wwo naJIIve jpaY.aasi year at this time. .- TAHE6L / For more good news, all Ultrium Rings will be offered at $20.00 off the regular retail price during this promotion. K Your Herff Jones College Ring Specialist TO ORDER: Date: March 26 Time: 11-3 Place: Follett's Michigan Bookstore 322 S. State Street Deposit required: $20.00 y . ..- .4~.,E F O The Blind Pig (208 S. First; 996-8555) The popular rhythm and blues of the Blue Front Persuaders is featured tonight and tomorrow. Joe's Star Lounge (109 N. Main; 665-JOES) Tonight and tomorrow Joe's features Steve Nardella in his last Ann Arbor appearances before heading west to that eternal smog hole, Los Angeles. Rick's American Cafe (611 Church; 996-2747) Funk/reggae with Gypsy Fari from Chicago. Tonight and tomorrow. University Club (Michigan Union, 530 S. State; 763-5911) Jazz/blues artist Walter Hamilton is featured tonight. Concerts University of Michigan and Harvard Glee Clubs The two oldest glee clubs in America come together for a concert tonight at Hill Auditorium. The University of Michigan Glee club, led by Dr. Getting Out, Marsha Norman's award-winning drama about the im- pact of prison life on a young woman trying to cope with the day-to-day pressures of living on the "outside," runs through Saturday and then again next Thursday through Satur- day in the Trueblood Theatre. 764- 0450 for more information. Common Ground Theatre False Promises, a colorful musical farce written by the San Francisco Mime Troupe, runs through Sunday night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. This uproarious play takes place in a small mining town in Colorado at the.turn of the century, and the script is based on true stories of how the members of the community-chicanos, blacks, and whites-came to "common ground" in their attempt to form a union. 994- 5455 for more information. UAC A variety of original comic and satirical sketches are performed by the Sunday Funnies troupe tonight and tomorrow. 763-1107 for more in- formation. a University . of Michigan Theater Opera L. L.J Ll LJ LJ Two one-act comic operas, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, will be performed through the weekend at the Power Center. 764-0450 for more information. -compiled by Michael Huget- Daily Photo by DIANE WILLIAMS Arlene (M. J. Czernik), just released from prison, cannot forget Arlie (Pauline Gagnon), the wildcat that she used to be in 'Getting Out.' 'Getting Out' a trium...phant play 'ThFCCFhR, tltCHIlGAN 'DIR~t~bR {HARVARD~ AIVALA6LE ARCH ,2- )6 98a- 5f m HILL AUDIfORIUMA N XOFF~. By Elliot Jackson OTBTLESS VERY few people in Ann Arbor realize or care that Showcase has produced Getting Out. As is the fate of most Showcase produc- tions, it will attract little attention beyond its usual circle . of ap- peal-theatre and drama students, critics, friends, and family of cast members-and will shuffle off this mor- tal coil mostly unnoticed by the greater part of our august citizenry. And this is really too bad-in fact, this unhappy fate is almost obscenely undeserved, at least in the case of Get- ting Out, for despite such potentially crippling factors as the dreadful "im- provements" wrought in the Trueblood Theatre, Showcase has managed a tiny triumph of sensitive and passionate stagecraft. Getting Out is, unassuming and unpretentious though it is, the Theatre Department's best show this season. What has taken place with this production is that most felicitous and rare of combinations: a director has thought long and hard, and has ended up actually understanding what the play means; and a group of actors whose talents are eminently suited to successful realization of their charac- ters have been willing to take direction. The challenge central to the play-that of presenting a girl and a woman who are the same person, but played by different actresses-was met with marked success. Both M. J. Czer- nik (Arlene) and. Pauline Gagnon (Arlie) played their characters for- cefully and with conviction, and made them utterly convincing: Arlene as the woman whom prison has drained of all vitality and self-confidence, and Arlie as the uncontrollable, guileful, sassy brat who; is harrowingly vicious and pathetic by turns-at times, even simultaneously. Arlene and Arlie are two different people, but what is even more impor- tant is that they are' the same person, and the triumph of this production is that the two. actresses, individual as each of their performances were, managed so effectively to evoke and recall the other halves of their charac- ters. In Czernik's every line and gesture, we could see where Arlene had come from, and upon occasion, flashes of-the ferocity and determination that were* Arlies. . In Gagnon's portrayal was Arlie's brashness and defiance, her vulnerability, and ultimate defen- selessness and lack of certainty, in which are the seeds of the woman she becomes. Both actresses are to be commended for exceptionally distinguished performances. The other characters were for the most part as well-realized as one could dare hope for, if upon occasion a little unfathomable-mostly because the ac- tors seemed more concerned with maintaining their Southern accents than with the overall clarity of their enunciation, and so a good deal of what their characters said was open to speculation. Lucis Poirier (Mother) and Brian Colgan (Carl) were the worst offenders in this regard, which is too bad because of what these. two charac- 'ters say is at least interesting, and at most, crucial to the action of the play The only other real quibble one might'- have as far as the acting goes is that the figures of authority-the Doctor (Wen- by Wright), the School Principal (Dar- cy Gingerich), and the Warden (Robert Striker)-all were somehow ineffec- tual, lacking any vestige of menace or even the forcefulness that one would expect to find in persons of their positions. Perhaps this was a conscious See GETTING, Page 7 The Department of Philosophy The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor announces THE TANNER LECTURE PROGRAM, 1981-82 March 30 & 31 THOMAS SCHELLING The Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy The John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University The Tanner Lecture on Human Values "Ethics, Law and Policy Toward the Problems of Self-Command" Tuesday, March 30, 3:30 p.m. Modern Languages Building, Aud. 3 812 E. Washington SYMPOSIUM ON THE TANNER LECTURE Wednesday, March 31 Michigan League, Hussey Room 227 S. Ingalls 9:15 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. John Elster Historisk institutt _I