University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Top Left- Pip, played by Timothy Wahrer in the Paramount ' s Great Expectations, falls for Estella, played by Ann-Sara Matthews. Center Left: In Cyrano, Cyrano, ward-winning actor John Cullum haggles over prices with the orange girl. Bottom Left: Julian Marsh tells Peggy Sawyer how bright the lights of Broadway can shine In the production of 42nd Street. Right: Mickey Rooney does a solo dance number In Sugar Babies. Courtesy of the Performing Arts Cente Broadway to Austin

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- I f i k VL V echoes Czech life by David Eldridge After buying j lirkd, I follower arrows through a labyrinth of hallways until I finally f ,ill things, a barricade. Behind the bar- ricade stood two armed, uniformed guards. The hallway was full of smoke, and as one of the guards frisked me, the other stared intently at my ticket. A young woman in military garb shouted at me through a bullhorn. There trill hi ' n s ing in the theatre! V M .. books or other bouryi permitted in the th Finally, the two conspicuously young guards allowed me to enter the Winship Drama Building Theatre Room, where the performance of Vaclav Havel ' s A l ' iii it - View was about to take place. The drama building, by the way, was on the cam- pus of the University, not tucked away somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. The University of Texas department of drama presented the play, a satirical look at the life of a dissident in Czechoslovakia during the ' 70s, in mid-October. The pro- duction, which originated under the tion of visiting lectui Shapiro, came under fire O t when Shapiro forcibly ejected graduate drama student Jennifer Bacon-Blaine for taking books into the performance. Shapiro ' s spirited replication of the oppressive atmosphere of Czechoslovakia was a little too good because when the chairman of the drama department, Coleman Jenn- ings, heard about the incident, Shapiro was barred from any further productions of the play. The play featured a fascinating tri- ple role played by Kathy Trageser, drama junior. Trageser, playing three separate radio announcers, shifted effortlessly from a thick Czech ac- cent to a rough, twangy American dialect to a British lilt Dan Scott, drama senior, played a bewildered, idealistic playwright, and Vince Lingner, drama junior, was a Czech Yuppie. But cast member Rebecca Boyd, drama junior, stole the show with her transformation from a drunken, vulgar factory worker to a shallow and stylishly modern Czech woman. Bottom Left: Havel ' s Chechoslovakian Yuppies. Vince Lingner. drama junior. and Rebecca Boyd. drama Junior, try to convince rebellious young playwright. Dan Scott, drama senior, to change hit irjys in A Private View. Bottom KighL Hesione Hushabye (Kachrl Marker, graduate student in drama) an Incurably promiscuous married woman, breaks through the defenses of Randall Underwood (Leonard Kelly, graduate student in drama) in George Bernard Shaw ' s Heartbreak Hou.e. - 65

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Martha Swop - by Amy Kysela Start spreading the news, Broad- way and Austin have collided. The city and the University worked hand in hand engaging Broadway and regional theater tours of outstanding contemporary works in capital per- formances. Austin ' s Paramount Theatre and the GIT Perform- ing Arts Center united to present the Broadway to Austu By planning a joint season, the two theaters were able to produce Id musicals and performances in PAC and smaller, intimate show the Paramount. Another benefit of the series was the sale of just one set of coordinated season tickets, Para- mount Programming and Marketing Manager Paul Beutel said. This ticket package, he said, kept the cost of tickets down by eliminating com- petitive prices. Broadway to Austin turned out to be a positive public relations benefit for the Paramount and the PAC, Beutel said. Collectively, the two theaters sold more season tickets than either had in the past. The curtain opened on i Babies, a comedy starring Mickey Rooney. Classics such as Edmond Rostand ' s Cyrano, Cyrano ventured into days of chivalry, while Charles Dickens ' Great I ' is took viewers back to the industrial revolu- tion. Nui ' a British comedy farce, kept the audience laughing with its catastrophes. Song and dance dominated the stage of the PAC during perfor- mances of Rogers ' and Hart ' s Vou; and David Merrik ' s award-winning 42n The season ' s finale, The Lining d trew the curtain on what PAC Acting Administrative Director Jerry Harris described as a successful year for both the Para- mount and the PAC. Top: Noel Harrison hat .1 c .1. (us (horn removed as the Noict Off company provider moral support. Center: Valentin Kozloo and the company of On Your To perform the Prince Zenobla Ballet. Bottom: Don BougHton as Floyd Kink id vice tMce to Logan Houston a Graduate.