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Union Opera Slated March 23, 24, 25
Show First Bright Past
Since 1941 Recalled by
Presentatioin~ Revival Try
0nce the biggest campus artistic A fascinating amost incrediblI
event of the year, the Michigan j history highlighted by pef r-
Union Opera is being revived this ances at the Wite House, the
season after a Iapse of almost Metropolitan Opera and oct
decade. Broadway, lies behind the Mich-
Casting is nearly cmplets, for igans Union 0pera.
the Opera's al -mal musical ex- Conceived in 1907 as a me ns of
'ravagaz, 'Froggy Bottom," to raising meny to build the Union,
be p'sentd on Narch 23, 24, and the 0pe'a was a success fr'om the
2 . at th Mchign Theatre. start, incr~easing in manitude
'ith each awsing year.
DAVE LEYSHON, chairman of * *
Ihe Opra Committee, has prom- T ASN19 hath pr
isdthet the ahow, which boasts a ITahe AIN19 thyrat ith opero
st of 40 actos, singers nd calle "Cotton Stockings." Taken
dancers, wv 1 equal or surpass any on the road after an euthusiaa-
of is illustr'ious predecessors. tically-receivd Ann Arbor pre-
The plot of "Froggy Bottom," mi re, the show toured he Fat,
a nausica comedy by Jim and in a one night stand at the
Wright, graduae Engli s at- 4 Me'ro oita Opera, shatterd the
dent from Flint, concerns the gosrcit eodfra m
troules f mariedstudntsateur per'formance at that instita-
living in a temporar housing tion.
project.S sac essful was the produc-
Any asImiaity btween Willow' ti n tht is cast receve sand
Tillage and he hous'ng area in , a ccpted an invitation to appear
ogy ,o in is urlyin PULC~HRITUD ON PARAE-A ar ist's conception of a sens from be Union Operas at e issue
tentional. ~~production, "Froggy Bitom," to be presen ed M ir ih 22, 24 and 25, at the c eigan Theater. 12,hwvr h eify
ing 0pera was struck a disastrous
TILE SHOW'S sparkling musica FED EANS, vsteran thestri- financia blow from which'i never
or a " 'te bysra st-ca r ducer dMi ohs I/ail O rde r T icket Sales Start feyrcvred. e ho sbe-
Jim Ebsrsols, Ted Johnson and dcinMail orders for ticket to any of the three Union opera per- New Tear's Ee in New Tork City,
Ralph Hamilton. ductions, Fog Bto, n ac 3 4 r2,aeno aig lzadsep h ra
There is a possibility that Bvans is an old-timer in show fom cee f" g Botm'o Maihc3e2poed5 Tehnw e urain blzard swet theares.
some of the music will be business, having worked with such bigacpeto revea an empty house,
played over a national radio outstanding personalities as Mike ChcsadTalodrssolaifth eirdad ca atrophe sounded the
network by the Fred Waring or- Todd, George M. Cohan, Florens hudb drse o ihgnUinO s ihgnUin desth knsll for the Opera, except
ganizaioai Ticket prices are $1.20, $1.80 and $2.40. Ordes x'ill be recorded for semi-successful revivals in
Don Craig, director of Fred Ziegfeld and George Shubert. He according to the date received and xxl '11 filled efore Monday, 1935-36 and in 1940-41. The war
Waring's Glee Club, showed great also apent five years at the Chiez March 7, when tickets go on ale in the Union lobby, sffectively crushed all hopes of a
int'rest in the Opera while in Pares, and during World War 2 Because of heasy alumni demands for tickes , student are pr nent revival engendere by
Ann Arbor last year for a per- served overseas with the U150. urged by he Opera Comanittee to place their orders immediately the 1940 show, in which Tom Har-
formance at Hill Auditorium, and Bill Zerman, "the poor man's to assure themselves of good seats, Dormitry groups desiring mon starrd and the 1941 produc-
at his request, the music is being Billy Rose," heads the Opera's a block of seats together may obtain them by ordering now, tion which featured Forres' Eva-
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