Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 20

-V 3 B-4 Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Nov, 26, 1972 Charlie Brown' starts Friday Artrain will tour West I 5 9 Dana Blose, Jerry Bowers, Martin Bowers, Deborah Brown, Matt Frary, Lori Houg-land, Barb Kazmar, Phil Myer, Phil Scott, Karla Joanie Skidmore, Matt Wer-mer and Vicky Worthington. Musicians for the show will be Tom Case, Keric Rowley and Scott Brown. The play is being directed by Gerald E. Brown, assisted by Sandi Brininstool. Edward Musolff is stage manager for the production.

floorshow proportions and is the show's most bubbly tune. Eric Riley will play the round-faced born loser Charlie Brown. Robin Baber is cast as the crabby, self-assured Lucy; Mike Stulberg as Snoppy who lives atop his dog house; Tom Colwell as the child pianist Schroeder; Carol Lille as the blithely uncomplicated rope-skipper Patty and Chris Chase as the brilliant, sophisticated Linus. Charlie Brown's friends will be played by Lynnie Baber, themes and incidents in the comic strip. "The adventures of a group of child philosophers and their dog friend" was the way one New York theater critic described the musical.

But most of the episodes deal with the misfortunes of born-loser Charlie Brown. These include his hassles with his baseball team, kite flying, essay-writing and his efforts for self-improvement. The music and lyrics in the day in the life of the pint-sized Peanuts gang are as straightforward as the mood of the comic strip. A highlight of the show is the song "Suppertime" done by Snoopy. It's a cakewalk of Good greif grief! A happy show: That's the rehearsal reports on "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" which will open Friday at the Kellogg Community College campus theater for an eight-performance run.

The second Battle Creek Civic Theatre play this season, the show will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 7-9. There also will be 2 p.m. matinees of the show on Saturday and next Saturday, Dec.

9. Based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz, "Charlie Brown" has no libretto in the conventional sense. It's just a number of episodes characteristic of the DETROIT Michigan's Artrain will leave the state for the first time early next year for a tour of eight Western states. The trip will be sponsored by the Federation of Rocky Mountain States with a grant from "the National Endowment for the Arts.

The six-car train will display artworks and audio-visual presentations on loan from various Western state museums. Opening in New Mexico Jan. 3, the train also will roll through Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho and Montana before returning to Michigan in mid-1973. More than 250,000 persons have viewed displays aboard the train in 43 Michigan communities since the rolling art show opened in May 1971. Music Notes Famed organist to play at WMU Detroit Intimacy was the keynote when George Frederick Handel directed the first performance of Baroque opera, "Acis and Galatea," in 1718.

When the New York Chamber Soloists perform the lighthearted work p.m. Friday in the Detroit Institute of Arts, it will be close to the original style with six singers and eight instrumentalists. East Lansing- The Michigan State University Chorale will perform Handel's "Messiah" at 8:15 p.m. Monday in the MSU Music Auditorium. The chorale will perform one part of the "Messiah" the first 21 movements.

This section, which runs about an hour, is complete in itself and deals with the prophecy and birth of the Christ child. Interlochen The remainder of the preholiday schedule at the Interlochen Arts Academy will include a band concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday; a large ensembles concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. a faculty concert with guest soloist, bassoonist Larry Stewart, at 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 10 and the academy's annual Christmas concert Saturday. Dec. 16. Sen.

Ballenger honored bysfate art teachers State Sen. William S. Bal. lengcr (R-Owosso) has been honored by Michigan art teachers for "his outstanding leadership and interest in thearts." The Michigan Art Education Association, meeting in Lansing for a four-day fall conference, presented Ballenger with an original work of art done by Roy Henley, a student in the Mrs. Phyllis Conger's advanced art class at Owosso High School.

The 31-year-old lawmaker said he believes we must change the thinking of many educators and parents alike who feel that the arts are an expendable frill and need not be an integral part of the school curriculum. Through my contact with the MAEA I am more committed than ever to promoting increased exposure of all students to the arts throughout their K-12 educational When Radio City Music Hall was nearing completion, Leibert responded to an invitation to compete for the chief organist, and found himself among 13 other applicants. At the auditions, he noted the various types of selections played by other contestants ranging from Bach to Gershwin, and Leibert, who auditioned last, played a medley of all the music of the other contestants. Leibert was unanimously selected as chief organist, a position he has held for more than 20 years. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and one of his most popular compositions is his waltz, "Come Dance With Me." Leibert has appeared in concerts in most every major city in the United States and has many best selling albums to his credit inlcuding "Leibert At Home," "Leibert Takes A Holiday," "Christmas at Radio City Music Hall" and "Leibert Takes Broadway.

KALAMAZOO Richard Leibert, organist at Radio City Music Hall in New York City will present a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Miller Auditorium on the Western Michigan University campus. His program entitled, "The Glorious Sounds of Christmas," will feature music of the holiday season with many selections coming from his famous "Christmas at Radio City Music Hall" album. Leibert, born in Bethlehem, made his first public appearance as an organist at the age of seven.

At age 15, he and his family moved to Washington D.C. where he continued his study of the pipe organ and got his first professional job as a summer replacement organist at the famous Loew's Palace Theatre. Leibert continued his career as a theater organist and was heard in movie palaces in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, and finally as organist of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. On Stage Some of the hilarity of A Good Man. Charlie Brown." is evidence by this scene with Mike Stulberg as Snoopy giving a big kiss to Robin Baber.

who plays as Lucy. (Photo by Don Nelson) Ballet group gets grant of $1 million Kalamazoo Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol" will be presented Tuesday through Saturday, Dec. 12-16 by the Kalamazoo Junior Civic Theatre. There will be periormances at 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday and at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. This is the first of three Junior Civic productions scheduled this year. East Lansing The London comedy hit, "No Sex Please, We're British," will be presented at 8: 15 p.m.

Wednesday in the Michigan State University Auditorium. The show will star Tony Tanner and Maureen into a permanent cash reserve fund. Ballet Theater can use it. but at the end of the fiscal year all deficits must be met. This means that at the end of four years.

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