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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
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    Date: 9/17/99
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   52m

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FANFARE'S JACQUES BREL OFFERS HEARTFELT SONGS
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's Opera-Music Theatre Program is
always one of the most popular contributors to the university's annual Fanfare schedule.
     It's also traditionally one of the month-long arts festival's first productions. This year,
production coordinator Scharmal Schrock and director Larry Gray have teamed up to present a
unique musical review that showcases the talents of Southeastern students and tips its hat to
Louisiana's celebration of FrancoFete, the 300th anniversary of the coming of the French to the
state.
     The Opera-Music Theatre Program will stage "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living
in Paris" Sept. 29-Oct. 2 at Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. musical
are $10 general admission, $5 senior citizens, SLU faculty, staff and alumni and non-SLU
students. Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D.
     For those not familiar with the late composer-singer Brel, Schrock explained that he was
well-known in Europe and North America for his powerful songs. First produced in 1967,
"Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" includes 25 unforgettable tunes, which deal
with lost loves, broken dreams and the humor that's part of everyday life, Schrock said.
     "Each is a complete drama of its own and the songs, with total honesty and heart-felt
emotion, reflect the attitudes of the sensitive, whimsical and wide-spirted personality that was
Jacques Brel," Schrock said..
     According to Time Magazine, "Brel's songs reach your ear, but his life reaches your
heart." Time says the musical review "is a crystalline and incandescent evening." The show has
been one of the longest running musicals in off-Broadway history and has appeared in all the 
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major American and Canadian cities and in most of the capitals of the Western World.
     A talented and veteran casts of students will perform Brel's works -- Susan Buller of
Jeanerette, Daveda Karanas of Mandeville, Ryan Lockhart of Luling, David Louviere of Baton
Rouge and James Roberts of San Diego, Calif. They will be joined on stage by dancers Greta
Goodrich of Hammond (the choreographer), Nathalie Croix of Mandeville and Sarah Burris of
Ponchatoula.
     For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information about Fanfare
events, call the SLU Public Information Office, 504-549-2341, send e-mail to
publicinfo@selu.edu, or visit the Fanfare web site, www.selu.edu/fanfare. Fanfare tickets will be
available at the Fanfare box office   504-549-2323, Gate 1, SLU University Center, 700 W.
University Ave.   beginning Sept. 20. Box office hours are 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., weekdays. All
seats are reserved. Alumni discount applies to dues-paying (active) Alumni Association
members.
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