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Date: 9/29/00
Contact: Christina Chapple 52N
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FANFARE WEEK TWO FEATURES "ANGELA'S ASHES" AUTHOR MCCOURT
HAMMOND -- "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt, whose luminous memoir of
his hardscrabble Irish childhood sold more than two million copies, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize
and inspired an acclaimed film, will headline the second week of Fanfare, Southeastern
Louisiana University's annual festival of the arts, humanities and sciences.
McCourt will talk about his life, which has also included careers as a public school
teacher and an entertainer and the writing of an "Angela's Ashes" sequel, "'Tis," at 7:30 p.m.,
Oct. 12, at the Southeastern University Center. Tickets for his appearance are $15 for adults, $10
for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni, and $5 for non-SLU students.
Southeastern students will be admitted free with their university I.D.
Tickets for McCourt are also included in two special pay-one-price series. Series A,
which also includes "Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write" (Oct. 6), Linda Tillery & the Cultural
Heritage Choir (Oct. 16), Bimbetta (Oct. 24) and Irish fiddler Eileen Ivers (Nov. 1), is $50.
Series
B, priced at $45, includes soprano Danielle de Niese (Oct. 19), Quartetto Gelato (Oct. 25) and Le
Trio Gershwin (Oct. 30). A group rate (for parties of ten or more) is available for $8.
Also on tap for Fanfare's second week
Gallery Stroll, an art- and fun-filled family day in downtown Hammond, is scheduled
for 1-5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 8. The popular event begins with jazz brunches at Garrison's Global
Caf‚, Mariner's Inn and Lee's Restaurant from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.. From 1-5 p.m., artwork by
more than 40 regional artists will be exhibited in downtown stores and offices. Arts and crafts
will be on display in booths along Cate Street and jazz bands will play throughout the downtown
area. Children can enjoy hands-on art activities in a special tent hosted by Southeastern art
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education students and Charter Pipeline.
The second "Music for a Sunday Afternoon" concert series at 3 p.m., Oct. 8, at the
First Baptist Church (401 W. Morris) will feature organist Cheryl Brothers and other musicians.
The concert is free.
John Maxwell's compelling one-man show based on the life of Nobel Prize winning
author William Faulkner, "Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?" is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.,
Monday, Oct. 9, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Maxwell presents Faulkner, the writer,
the
storyteller and the man in what critics have called a "brilliant tour-de-force" and "a living tribute
to the high comedy essence of the man." Set in Faulkner's study in Oxford, Miss., the show
illustrates the famous stories associated with Faulkner's life, including his humorous experience
working in the post office, his legendary exploits in Hollywood and his sense of tragedy.
Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni and
$3 for all students. The group rate is $3.
Week two's foreign film offering, scheduled for 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10, in the
Music Recital Hall, is Germany's "Run, Lola, Run," the highest grossing film in German
history. In this rapid-fire romance, an outlaw couple has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000
marks to bail them out of a drug deal gone wrong. The film provides three different answers to
the key questions, "Can they do it?"
Southeastern Theatre will join the Fanfare schedule on Oct. 10 with "What the Butler
Saw," a hilarious British farce that provides a dark send-up of all things the British hold sacred.
The show will run through Oct. 14 at Vonnie Borden Theatre in D Vickers Hall with curtain time
at 7:30 p.m.
Directed by theatre professor Kay Files, Joe Orton's witty and outrageous farce deals with
a philandering psychiatrist and his less-than-loving wife and the wild melee of disappearances,
disguises and discoveries that result when they try to hide their wack infidelities. The all-student
cast includes Daniel Trentacosta and Katherine Duvic of New Orleans, Shane Stewart of
Greensburg, Beth Hanson of Mandeville, Ryan Perea of Franklinton and Jacob Zeringue of
Bogalusa.
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Tickets, available at the theatre box office in D Vickers Hall, are $5 general admission,
$3 for non-SLU students and senior citizens and free for Southeastern students.
Five by Design, the quintet that brought the 1940s musical retrospective, "Radio Days,"
to Fanfare 1999, returns on Wednesday, Oct. 11, with "Club Swing." Guest directed by Willis
Delony, the show documents a timeline of swing from 1937 to 1955. It is set at the grand
opening
of the nightspot in the Hotel Crosby "where the band is hot, the drinks are cool and the dance
floor is always open." From the frenetic first number Benny Goodman's "Bugle Call Rag" -- to
the blockbuster closing featuring Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing," Five by Design has created
"the quintessential swing musical." Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens,
Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for all students. The group rate is $8.
At 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct 12, at the Hammond Library (314 E. Thomas), "Miss Karen"
Plauche, children's services coordinator for the Tangipahoa Parish Library system, will make
books come alive "For Little Ones at the Library" through stories, songs and films. The event
is free.
Also making a return trip to Fanfare, Empire Brass, North America's finest brass
quintet, blends instrumental finesse and virtuosity with a disarming showmanship that P.T.
Barnum and Florenz Ziegfield might have envied. Their performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.,
Friday, Oct. 13, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for senior
citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni and $8 for all students. The group rate is $10.
E.B. White's loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray
spider named Charlotte will come to life in Theatreworks USA's version of "Charlotte's Web.
The treasured tale, presented by America's foremost professional theatre for young and family
audiences, features map-cap and endearing farm animals and explores bravery, selfless love and
the true meaning of friendship. The performance is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct 14, in
Pottle Music Building Auditorium and tickets are $5 general admission and $3 for children under
12.
Amite City's second Explosion of the Arts, scheduled for 6:30 to 9 p.m., Saturday,
Oct. 14, at the Amite Community Center (101 W. Chestnut), will showcase Cajun fiddler and
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storyteller Ann Vidrine and performances by more than 100 elementary and high school students,
singers, dancers, actors and musicians. In addition to the performing arts, the visual art work of
student artists will be on display. Sponsored by the Amite City Arts Council, the event will be
catered by local restaurants. Tickets are $5 and doors will open at 6 p.m. For additional
information, call 504-747-6000 or 748-7549.
For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information, contact
Southeastern Public Information, 504-549-2341, publicinfo@selu.edu. Fanfare information is
available online at www.selu.edu/fanfare. Tickets are on sale at Gate 1 of the SLU University
Center on University Ave., 504-549-2323, from 10:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m., weekdays.
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