ARTS The Michigan Doily Thursday, April 6, 1989 Page~ Toups:x 0x Cliched, te stilli fun ': BY NABEEL ZUBERI LAST week, my Baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac. Wayne Toups' band were blasting on the radio. She said, "Hey good lookin', I'll racea you to the Levee and back." So I got in my Chevy and we raced over ,. there. She was fast, she was sleek and she was smooth; my Baby was pretty good too. We were really red hot rockin'. Wayne Toups and Zydecajun are the frenzied history of southern ock 'n' roll condensed into a five-piece Rh powerhouse of Dionysian delight.' Their current album Born on The Bayou is a whole mess of blues, soul and New Orleans rolling r rhythms. These Louisiana gentlemen, nudge Muddy Waters against D.L. Menard, and slide Aaron Neville be- side Van Morrison. Stax, Goldband, Ace, and Swallow would be the record labels in their collections. Hearing them for the first timeWayne Toups and Zydecajun may represent more musical cliches than you'd expect to find them at theyou can shake an accordian at, but they still promise an entertaining Apollo Theater in Harlem or somelive show. southern jukejoint, but, no, you're more likely to see Toups & Co. at So, Wayne Toups and Zydecajun a decent myth, and clich6s can be a Dingwalls in London, or in front of embody every American r'n'r clich6 lot of fun sometimes. 5,000 people in Managua. Toups is in the book and almost every ele- WAYNE TOUPS AND ZYDECAJ- probably more popular in interna- ment of the American musical UN play at the Blind Pig tonight at tional quarters than in America. myth. So what; we're all suckers for 10 p.m. Tickets are $7.50. Harold explores racism BY CHERIE CURRY TONIGHT - feel the tension that tears at a South African household in - Master Harold... And The Boys. Tonight - witness a powerful examination of racism and its human effects in -Master Harold... And The Boys. Tonght - relive the experiences of the characters in South African author Athol Fugard's classic - Master Harold... And The Boys. "A searing exploration of racism which has no na- tional boundries," is how Director Richard Klautsch described the play. "In a cruel and yet all too familiar way, racism is revealed as the inevitable product of any society in which the seeds of ignorance and intolerance are sown by progressive generations. However, Fu- gard's masterful work portrays the individual strength and dignity necessary to overcome the influence of the past." Master Harold... and the Boys centers on a white South African teenager named Hally and Willy and Sam, the two Black servants in his mother's tea room. One quiet, rainy afternoon, their long-established relationship is ripped apart when Hally vents the hatred and humiliation he feels toward his own family on the two men whose friendship has nurtured him through, his youth. Klautsch, who has also directed University produc- tions The Contrast and Talk Radio, will be one of several who will take you back to this 1950 Port. Elizabeth setting. The others include: Charles Jackson, head of the University's Black Theatre Studies Pro-., gram who played Malcolm X in last semester's The Meeting, as Sam; Scott Weissman, creator and director; of two experimental theater troupes - "Talk to Us"'M and the "Residence Hall Repertory Theatre", as Hally; and Kabin Thomas, who performed this past season in, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Trojan Women,, as Willy. The Hill Street Players' production of MASTER HAROLD... AND THE BOYS, sponsored by the B'nai B'rith Foundation and the University's Housing Division, will be performed tonight at 8 p.m., Satur- day at 10 p.m., and Sunday at 2 & 8 p.m. All perfor- mances take place in the Irwin Green Auditorium of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, 1429 Hill Street. Tickets are $6, $5 for students and seniors, and may be. purchased in advance or at the door. __; -$- $5 Revue resurrects BY AMI MEHTA FIRST it was the $3 Revue in 1981 followed by the $4 Revue in 1982, and - you guessed it - the $5 Re- vue (talk about inflation!) to the University to entertain audiences with an evening of vaudevillian-style songs and skits directed by Joan Morris, a celebrated and reknowned vocalist. This show will be presented through the University School of Music in collaboration with the De- partment of Theater and Drama, and all of the proceeds will benefit the Bolcom-Morris Musical Theater Fund. This scholarship was initiated in 1987 to help University musical theater school students. It was named after Morris and her 1988 Pulitzer A CLASS ACT I N L I N E FOR ' 8 9 The calling continues.... P dge your support when called. e egT e Senior Pledge Program *The University of Michigan Prize-winning husband, William Bolcom, with whom she has recorded 15 albums containing over 200 pop- ular American songs and has toured the U.S. and Europe. The skits, all written by Morris, are very light and humorous, even including some slapstick. Morris feels the skits are the main attraction, and calls the entire show "a cross be- tween cabaret and review. It is the same format as early minstrel-style where all of the performers are on stage at all times." According to senior Michelle Trame, who has worked with Morris and is stage managing one of the six performances, "this show is neat in a way because it is going back to a vaudeville review-type style and most people haven't really seen this. To- day, they are usually used to seeing big Broadway musicals." The students in the show, five of whom are musical theater majors and one who is a theater major, will per- form music from a diverse range of songwriters, accompanied by pianist David Kirshenbaum. The program vaudeville6" includes classical pieces from Gers4 win to older tunes like "Hey, Good Lookin"' by Hank Williams. Trame is "very impressed with the endurance of the cast members who have had to withstand four to five hours of rehearsal for Dragons and then another three to four hours for the $5 Revue." She hopes to have a good turnout as does Morris with ( small but intimate crowd for the $1 Revue, a show that is worth much more than the $5tpaid for it.r y THlE $5 REVUE will be performed tonight, Friday, and Saturday at 1 p.m. and will continue at the same time April 13-15 in the Arena Studio in the Frieze Building. Tickets arp $5. Michigan Daily ARTS 763-0379 WEEKEND MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily 763-0379 Y, - r.,_ Your Summer Job mor thn jst employment.. ce savaFamilyCam a l 1 ta ir ace St.t * IIKTERVMEW DATES* Thursday, March 30' Last Date: April 12 Sign up at C P & P THE PROCRAM IN FILM do VIDBO) STUDIES M'ESENTS S uFriedrich A New York City based experimental filmmaker who will be present as part of the Yon Barna Memorial Symposium on Avant-Garde Cinema for the screening of two of her most recent and widely acclaimed films "Ties That Bind" (1984) "Damned If You Don't" (1987) "Su Friedrich is among a handful of female filmmakers who...sought to invest the strategies of avuni-garde film-s pecifically the subjective, metaphorical cinema pioneered by Maya Deren-with feminist concerns." Lucinda Furlong The New American Filmmakers Series Thursday, April 6th 7:30 p.m. Lorch Hall Auditorium Admission is Free Film Series: Hitler and the H olocaust Some Had the Courage to Care Thursday, April67;30pm NIGHT AND FOG (NACHT UND NEBEL) ...surely the only movie to present the nightmare universe of the concentration camps without numbing its audience to horror... THE LEGACY OF ANNE FRANK A biography of Anne Frank as a symbol of all Jews who suffered the Nazi persecution. Uses newsreel, photographs, interviews, and quotations from her diary. COURAGE TO CARE Relates the stories of several non-Jews who helped during the Holocaust. Prompts the audience to ask: -Would I have helped? Friday April_L.-.7j3Opm STUDENTS AGAINST NAZIS (A Feature Film) Members: "Die Weisse Rose" - Summer 1942 Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl. Christoph Probst Tama ack sthe Jewish Resdene. 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