1983-11-18

              ILLINOIS WESLEYAN
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Volume 90 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, November 18, 1983 Nur
Mainstage McPherson Theatre
'Working' opens
By Deanna Jent
Studs Terkel spent three years
holding interviews which would
appear in his book Working. Dur-ing
those years, he was "con-stantly
astonished by the extraor-dinary
dreams of ordinary peo-ple."
The dreams, the work, the or-dinary
people: these are the
elements of the musical "Work-ing,"
which opens in McPherson
Theatre Thursday, Nov. 17, and
plays Nov. 18, 9, 30 and Dec. 1-3.
Adapted from the book, the
musical "Working," by Stephen
Schwartz and Nina Faso, com-bines
the straight-forward nar-ratives
of Terkel's book with
music which shows the emotions
and dreams of the characters.
Through song, dance and lan-guage,
many elements of work
and the worker come into view.
DIRECTED BY Jason Dunn,
with choreography by Sara
Romersberger and vocal direc-tion
by Catherine McNeela,
"Working" uses a 24-member
cast to play the many roles re-quired
by the script. Cast mem-bers
come from many different
majors and classes (from sopho-mores
to seniors), and also in-clude
a 12-year old boy.
The show itself is a series of
scenes in which we meet various
workers. With the show's clock (a
part of the set) at 7 a.m. the
show begins. From an opening
number where everyone is seen,
the show moves on to introduce
us to the individual workers. We
meet a steelworker (John Neis-ler),
a parking lot attendant
(James Fouther, Jr.), a cor-porate
executive (Jon Aimone),
an editor (Marilyn Berdick), a
secretary (Lisa Williamson), a
newsboy (Tommy Griffith) and a
teacher (Melinda MacDonald).
In a grocery store scene we
meet a checker (Susan Boddy)
and a boxboy (George Smyros),
as well as a migrant worker
(John Corker) who is boycotting
the store.
Next we see the antics of a gas
meter reader (Bryan Jung), fol-lowed
by a housewife (Janet
Wurst), singing about her place
in the work force. We meet a call
girl (Sara Thomas), a factory
worker (Nancy Weeks) and a
stone mason (Tom Kearns) be-fore
the show's clock reaches 5
p.m.
When the work day is over, the
workers relax and become reflec-tive.
Act one's finale, "What I
Could've Been," sung by Robin
Taylor, talks about the dreams
and realities of the average
worker.
THE SECOND SHIFT workers
come into view in Act Two. First
we meet a waitress (Sara
Thomas), followed by truckers
(Jon Aimone and John Corker),
who sing James Taylor's "Broth-er
Trucker" as they ride down
the highways. A telephone opera-tor
(Anastasia Heuvelman), a
hotel switchboard operator (Tari
Fitch) and a receptionist
(Elizabeth Grohne) talk about
the joys and pains of their jobs,
and then we meet a sailor
(Douglas Ladendorf) and a
retired man (Bryan Jung). A
fireman (William Hood), a clean-ing
woman (Cheryl Williams), a
salesman (George Smyros), and
a copyboy (Jeff Sumner) who
also relate feelings about their
jobs. Mike, the steelworker,
comes back at the end of Act Two
to talk about why he works, which
Thursday
leads into the show's finale,
"Something to Point to," which
talks about the need to have
something to be proud of.
The set for "Working," design-ed
by John Stark (who also de-signed
the lights) is a series of
levels and backdrops which fly in
and out for the various scenes.
Costumes, which are contem-porary
and mostly realistic, were
designed by Nicholas Mozak.
Stark was assisted by Jay Stou-tenborough.
The orchestra for "Working"
includes Troy Sapp on piano,
Dave Hucke on electric key-board,
Jay Stoutenbough on
guitar, John Konya on bass
guitar, Paul Rudolph on drums
and Jim Parsons on percussion.
Songs in the show come from
various artists, including Craig
Carnella, Micki Grant, Mary
Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead,
Stephen Schwartz and James
Taylor.
Tickets for "Working" are sell-ing
very well, according to the
Student Box Office Manager
Scott Karnuth. Tickets may be
reserved by calling the theatre
box office at 556-3232, or by com-ing
to the box office between
12:30 and 5:30 Monday through
Saturday.
THE PRODUCTION staff for
"Working" includes Steve White
as technical director, assisted by
Jody Loffelmacher; Deanna Jent
as production stage manager,
assisted by Chris Kawolsky; and
Cindy Gendrich as assistant
director. Daniel Cunningham is
the Master Electrician, Scott
Pannier designed the sound, Fred
Rubeck is the publicity director
and Edith Hook is the props
mistress.
Student speaks on women's rights
By Sean Fetter
Laurie Hoover, secretary of the
Bloomington-Normal chapter of
the National Organization for
Women, appeared at the David-son
Room as the featured
speaker of a meeting co-sponsored
by the Women's
The Office of Residential Pro-grams
would like to remind
those students who are desiring
to live off-campus for second
semester, and will be 21 years
of age before the first day of
classes, to pick up and fill out a
request form by the deadline of
December 1, 1983 at 5:00 p.m.
The request form may be pick-
Caucus and the Women's Affairs
Committee of Student Senate on
Nov. 9.
Hoover, a freshman English
major, reviewed the history of
NOW and discussed its 1983 Na-tional
Conference, held in Wash-ington,
D.C., Sept. 30-Oct. 2. She
attended the conference as a
ed up in the Office of Residen-tial
Programs during regular
business hours (8 a.m.-12 p.m.,
1 p.m.-5 p.m., Monday through
Friday). Students who fail to
return the request form by the
deadline of Dec. 1, 1983 will be
held to their housing contract
and billed for second semester
room and board.
delegate from Peoria, and has
worked extensively for women's
rights. Her previous activities
have included participation in
state and regional conferences,
involvement in fund-raising pro-jects,
and lobbying efforts in
Springfield for such legislation as
House Bill 606.
The bill, the Criminal Sexual
Assault Act, was signed into law
this year. It redefines and ex-tends
the concept of sexual
assault and seeks a higher con-viction
rate in cases involving sex
offenses.
NOW, FOUNDED IN 1967, is a
not-for-profit organization whose
goal is to aid women in achieving
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nber 12
William Hoods, Sara Thomas, John Neisler and Cheryl Williams
caught in the act of working. Photo by Jerry Bidle
Aids Catholic interaction
By Kathy Greenholdt
The Catholic Collegiate Organi-zation
(CCO) is a new alternative
for spiritual activity among Wes-leyan's
many Catholic students.
After a survey of the campus
last spring to determine the
degree of interest in a Catholic
organization at Wesleyan, a
meeting took place to begin lay-ing
the groundwork for such a
group. Four students, Tim
Brophy, Anne Egger, Jose
Elizondo and Barb Richter,
became the leadership team for
the new organization.
Ealier this semester, Brophy
met with Father Gerald T. Ward
of Holy Trinity Church to decide
how to get the group off the
ground. Brophy said the main
issue was "what we could do for
each other," meaning an interac-tion
between CCO and Trinity.
A meeting of students in-terested
in CCO was held at Trini-ty
on Oct. 25. The purpose was to
find out how students would like
CCO to function.
Brophy said the purpose of the
group is to accommodate those
students who want to or need to
participate in the Catholic com-munity,
but have not done so
because they are away from
home. "The parish is a big part of
this group," he said.
The goals of the group are left
up to the individual. Brophy said
the members are there to help
each other discover what oppor-tunities
are available within the
parish.
Brophy stressed that CCO
members need only be involved
to the extent that they wish to
participate, even if it involves
just being on the mailing list.
"But CCO is only for those who
are interested," said Brophy.
"We're not trying to corral
Catholic students into joining."
He stressed that CCO is "not try-ing
to flaunt" itself over Catholic
students who are not part of the
group.
As of yet, there are not set
meeting times for CCO. The next
meeting date will be publicized.
Interested Catholics should fill
out the form in this week's Argus.
Questions can be addressed to
Tim Brophy, Anne Egger, Jose
Elizondo or Barb Richter.
Inside:
Speak Easy ................. p. 3
Echo Chamber .............. p. 3
Greek Peer Counselors ........ p. 4
Nursing Faculty ............. p. 5
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