Roots for chutes ... Herbal Allies for Menopause offer a class on the effect of plants on hor- mones and the female body. Pre-register. At Crazy Wisdom, 114 S. Main. Free michigandaily.com /arts gkdfwm Daft ARTS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2002 5 Remembering 'Saved by the Bell' and the ten greatest episodes of all time By Luke Smith Daily Arts Editor Undoubtedly, one of NBC's smartest moves was purchasing the rights to "Good Morning Miss Bliss" from Dis- ney. The major network proceeded to reform the show and enigmatically move the majority of the cast to sunny Bayside High School in California. From here, viewers followed the cast of "Saved By the Bell" through some tumultuous and rocky times at Bayside High. Viewers smiled together when Zack Morris called his first "time out" in the "Aloha Slater" episode. They cried when Zack and Kelly crumbled because of an older man. Audiences let out a collective groan when Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani-Amber Thiesen) was zipped away for a series of episodes known simply as "The Tori Episodes." 10. Stevie : 8th Grade - Original air date: 03111/89 This episode was part of the Indiana fiasco. We saw a young debonair Zack Morris pursuing a fictitious starlet named Stevie. Stevie (a former student of Miss Bliss) is in town for an concert she's performing. She stayed at Miss Bliss' house incognito to avoid being found and forced to sign what had to be legions upon legions of scream- ing middle-school children's lock- ers. Zack ends up kissing the Stevie-in-disguise and doesn't realize it till she's long gone, perhaps in a town we can only assume is somewhere in Iowa, making nice with another boy with sandy blonde hair. 9. The Friendship Business: 9th Grade - Original air date: 11/04/89 shrewd economist beneath the surfer facade. His overwhelmingly powerful leadership eventually polarizes the gang into two factions: Friendship Bracelets and Buddy Bands. The game goes sour when some feelings get hurt, but at the end, the gang reunites peacefully, launch- ing a product that combined both pro- jects with Love Cuffs. 8. Screech's Spaghetti Sauce: 12th Grade - Original air date:f 09/19192 When the gang discovers that Screech's grandma makes a mean spaghetti sauce, Zack's capitalist urges resurface. While working on a television show in their communications class, the gang decides to market "Screech's Secret Sauce." Putting the Prego on the pasta, however, is the appearance of one time lolita Punky Brewster (Solei Moon Frye) as Screech's materialistic girlfriend. Robin is no sweetheart, and she proceeds to jerk around the brillo-haired Samuel Powers (Screech, to the fair-weather fans). Eventually, Robin gets hers, and the gang discovers that Screech's "secret" sauce was simply ripped from a cook- book, but the gang again slides by, just like the bus in the morn- ing, when the 'larm let's out a warring. "The sauce-a you can have, but the secret, she's-a mine!" 7. The Fabulous Belding Brothers: tute for the class, the gang takes an immediate liking to the free-wheeling Belding. Rod's aspirations for the group entail him taking the crew on a class trip. Rod's youthful desires take precedent over his concern for the kids, leading him away from the "Saved By the Bell" universe and off skirt- chasing after a flight attendant. The elder Belding steps in, cov- ers for his kid brother and promises to take the gang on the trip. Only then do Zack and company realize they have the "better Beld- 6. Check Your Mate: 11th Grade - Original air date: 10105191 This episode puts Screech and his beret on the cover of Chessboy maga- zine. The beret was the gift of Screech's heartthrob Violet (yes, that's Tori Spelling). When the beret is stolen by the Master twins, Screech loses his ability to play chess. Russian exchange student Peter Breznev poses a formidable oppo- nent for the feathery Screech, but he overcomes the Breznev block and regains his beret. 5. The Wicked Step- brother: 11th Grade - Original air date When Jessie's mother gets married, the hell really begins, in the form of Eric, her East Coast step- sibling. Eric terrorizes the gang, and it appeared that Zack had met his r match. However, eventual- ly the gang usurps Eric's felonious attempt at blackmail, and Eric Y returns to New York r life anti-drug spot with superstar Johnny Dakota, who claims that the stick girl is Kelly, but with "more curves." It is uncovered through the sleuthing of the gang that Dakota himself uses drugs. In the episode's climactic former NBC CEO Brandon Tarticoff makes a guest spot. 3. Jessie's Song: 10th Grade - Original air date: 11/03/90 "I'm so excited, I'm so excited. I'm so ... scared." 2. Rockumentary: 11th Grade - Original air date: 11/30191 Part two of the special hour of all-new "Saved By the Bell" episodes features a very special guest star in Casey Kasem. Kasem gives us a pre-VHl's "Behind the Music" look at Zack's band the Zack Attack. When Zack nods off, he and the gang are transported into a fantasyland where the Zack Attack have the biggest song in the land in "Friends Forever." Like all great bands, they break up and go their separate ways, only to reunite at the show's conclusion. A major highlight of this episode is Screech's marriage to a cheerleader, which is unveiled as one of the secrets to happiness by the high dork. 1. The Last Dance: 11th Grade - Original air date 9/14191 When Zack and Kelly go to the prom, it isn't for love. Instead, it is for the show's loyalists to watch one of the saddest moments in television history. Zack and Kelly slow dance to a painfully somber rendition of "How am I sup- posed to live without you," lip-synched by Slater and Jessie. The episode was fol- lowed by a series of post- breakup episodes in which we watched a defeated Zack mope and whim- per in solitude. We remember seeing the cutout Cast of HBO's version laughingly discuss Meg Ryan. Margulies''Dinner With Friends' uses convention to impress . By Rachel Lewis Daily Arts Writer Basement Arts has earned its high esteem with drama lovers on campus by fearlessly promoting all kinds of theater, no matter how experimental. Oftentimes a safe haven for the out of bounds and out of this world, the base- ment of the Frieze build- ing has nurtured student theater endeavors.with an open mind and out- stretched hand. This week- end, the legacy continues with a production of Don- ald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Dinner With Friends," but the only daring strides this show makes will be in the minds of the audience members. DINNER FRIE] Arena T Thurs.-Fri. Sat. at 2 ~ Fre Basemer anything like that before," said RC sophomore and actress behind the role of Beth, Tori Shulman. "Aging yourself is always hard." But the directors were sensitive to such issues and organized rehearsals around overcoming those obstacles. "We talked a lot and used a lot of substitution," said Henning. Substitution is the technique used by actors to transfer familiar WITH feelings into the feelings NDS they must display as a character. theatre The youth of the actors is not the only challenge at 7 p.m. of this script; the youth of &z 7 p.m. the expected audience ,e also poses a problem, but not one the actors and it Arts directors are afraid to take on. They have no fear that When Mr. Tuttle pro- 10th Grade -Orig- with his tail between his of Kelly drop down in Zack's poses a business project inal air date: legs. y room, and we remember the gang launch itself 12/09190 4. No Hope With their first kiss. From the into it full force. Zack's When principal Dope: 11th Grade - show's jump to NBC, we capitalistic urges take Richard Belding Original air date: watched Zack fall head over on this episode, allows his rogue 11/30191 over heels for Kelly and where we get our first younger brother Rod Bayside gets cho- eventually make the perfect glimpse of the Photos courtesy o c to step in an substi- sen to shoot a real couple, for the perfect show. Communiety theater shines with Burs Pak Payers new rendition of Annie t l t In many ways a more conventional show than most Basement Arts produc- tions, "Dinner With Friends" is free from any new or experimental approaches and instead depends on witty dialogue and well-developed characters for its emo- tional punch. The story surrounds two married couples struggling to come to terms with the reality of middle age and long-term relationships over lemon- almond polenta cake. The infidelity that shatters Tom and Beth's marriage also shatters best friends Gabe and Karen's ideal image of their own marital bliss. Forced to reexamine their own lives and values, the four characters lead the way for an intellectual and emotional journey the audience will never forget. Directed by LSA junior Thhaura Hen- ning and LSA freshman Jon Entis, the four-person cast has had to tackle the challenge of a script centered on divorce, a topic very far from the student con- sciousness. "At our age we've never felt college students in the audience will find it difficult to relate to the middle-aged characters. "These are issues in any rela- tionship, not just marriage," said LSA freshman Joanna Fetter. Shulman agreed, "Although it's middle-aged, it's very exciting and entertaining." LSA sophomore Ben Perry said of this weekend's performances, "It would be nice to hear people talking afterwards." And following a show that poses such personal and intriguing questions about conventional love and monogamy, there should be no shortage of conversation. With all of this cerebral controversy, per- haps "Dinner With Friends" does indeed follow in the daring Basement Arts footsteps after all. F I II 1111 t t , cpuco M t n, } faBhaa & "Par sw . "deteprssco By Joshua Palay Daily Arts Writer munity theater can shine in ways that profes- sional theater simply cannot. These are not pro- fessionals on stage but our comrades and colleagues. It is this communal In the American professional musical theater pantheon, is there no place over which Broadway does not cast a looming shadow? A show opening in Chicago or Los Angeles. is immediately scruti- nized to see if it could "make it" in a successful Broadway run. Even on Broadway itself, one might dis- sect a musical and place it under a battery of criteria to see if it is, indeed, up to snuff. The standard is very high and, for better or for worse, professional musical theatre ANNIE Tappan Middle Fri., Sat. Feb. 8 7:30 p.m Feb. 16th 41 $8 Burns Park Pla feeling that draws us into the work. Here there is no obstruction to enjoyment that can accompany E the Broadway scrutiny and study. These are our friends, children, School doctors and professors. We want th-15th them to hit that high A; we feel n. proud when they succeed; and we p.m. are hardly disappointed if they only get close. Community theater reaches levels of honesty and ayers integrity that we don't expect in professional theater. With this in mind, I whole-heartedly recom- "real" parents arrive? Only the fun-filled adventure unique to musical theater. Directed by Mike Mosallam with musical direction by Garrett Miller, "Annie" stars Lizzie Bourque as Annie and Emily Doering, Carly Herman, Hannah Swanson and Ari Tolman as her fellow orphans. Also staring Steve Clay as Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, Kristi Bishop as Grace Farrell, Janet Taylor as Ms. Hannigan, Joel Swanson as Rooster and Julie Halpert as Lily St. Regis. In addition, the show will fea- ture many Burns Park Elementary School stu- dents from grades 1-5. Choreography is by Mike Mosallam, Garrett Miller and Amanda Stanger-Read. "Annie" plays on Friday and Saturday, Febru- ary 8-9, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 14-16, at the Tappan Middle School Auditorium, located at 2251 E. Stadium Blvd. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. except for the Feb. 16 show, which begins at 4 p.m. Tickets are $8 each and are available at the door one hour before the show or in advance through Food and Drug Mart, located at 1423 E. Stadium Blvd. at Packard. All tickets are general admis- sion. I D\ %Oci/l "v vv; I -Sidi" I of -la ff o l - i cannot be watched without it. Often, this pro- vides a distinct hindrance to the enjoyment of the work. But there is a neighbor to this temple that seems to defy its rules and criteria: community theater. Despite the exact match of music and book, it would be ludicrous to apply the same criteria to both community theater and profes- sional shows. This is the very reason that com- mend the Burns Park Players production of "Annie." "Annie" is the familiar rags-to-riches tale of a poor orphan, who through luck and her wits, eludes the clutches of the evil orphanage man- ager Miss Hannigan and finds a new family with the billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. But what can happen when orphan Annie's Folk singer Seth Bernard visits the Ark By Gina Pensiero Daily Arts Writer on the "individuality" of people and snowflakes. He played everything from original waltzes with a cham- worthy were Seth's "Yeah Yeah, Baby Baby" and "Talking Blues," Robbie's "Jerusalem" and the joint finale versions of "This Land is Your Land" and "Here Comes The Sun." Maybe it's the magic of The Ark that provides joy and contentment. Maybe it's something about the crowd. I happen to think that on the first though, it was all about Seth. Yeah yeah, baby baby. Seth Bernard stole the s songs about chicken- killing children and Mother Jones. He wasn't even try- ing, it was all natural charisma. And Bernard had plenty. He seemed to an opener for two other acts, Katie Geddes and Edie From Ohio's Rob- bie Schaefer, even though sets were each 30 minutes. show with pion fiddle SETH BERNARD, KATIE GEDDES, ROBBIE SCHAEFER The Ark Feb 1st, 2002 r friend to energetic folk and a beautiful cover of "Let It Be." Although Geddes' show was not extremely noteworthy, Robbie Schaefer was also a stand out per- former. His guitar skills were a high- light and his interac- tion with Seth during jam session was quite the three the finalj humorous. LIVE AND LEARN JAPANESE. future into something fantastic: UNLIMITED The decisions you're about to make regarding your future are, in a word, huge. Is there a company that will truly encourage your ideas? Will you really be ableto get on the fast-track to success? The answers are "Yes," when you join the team at Eaton Corporation. We're an $8.3 billion diversified industrial manufacturer with 195 manufacturing plants in 24 countries. 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