Waco Tribune-Herald from Waco, Texas • Page 67

Baylor Auditions Set For King and By MICHAEL SCANLON Baylor News Service The Indochina of a perhaps simpler day, and certainly a more extravagant one, will come to life as Bayior University presents the musical King and 1 November performances of the musical will be produced by the Baylor Student Union Mrs. Mathis, director of the Baylor Student Union, has announced auditions for cast and chorus to take place from a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept 15 and beginning at 2 p.m. Sept.

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Directors will come from the drama department and Baylor School of Music. Bill Cook, director of Baylor Theater, will be stage director. Dr Daniel Scott, associate professor of voice, will be the music director Richard Robinson, assistant professor of music, will be coordinating the music and Joe Guthrie, a graduate student in drama, will be working as choreographer. Dr. James W.

Swain, professor of drama, will be responsible for costuming. One of the big audience- drawing aspects of the musical is expected to be the sets that will come from Peter Wolf Associates of Dallas. is no other designer on the scale of Peter Wolf in this Mrs. Mathis said. Although the cost of obtaining sets from New York, for example, would be prohibitive, she said, the Baylor Student Union does have access to Wolfs sets used by the Dallas Summer Musicals.

Peter Wolf Associates will send a professional adviser to Baylor to work with the cast and crew during two major dress rehearsals. Mrs. Mathis said there are many all-student productions of musicals but that she believes the Baylor one is set apart by its professionalism. is better for us to go first- class and have a very professional production. We feel we should she said.

the past (referring to Baylor productions of and our sets and costumes have been gorgeous." King and its book, lyrics and music by the winning team of Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rogers, opened in 1951 and ran for 1,246 performances, making it the third longest-running musical of the New York stage when it closed three years later. Today it still ranks as 11th in the list of long- running hits. lack of romance between the two major characters (although a love story runs as the second, undergirding theme) and the death of a major character, the King, were innovations to the musical genre. Critics raved about the sumptuous costuming and the sets. Then there was Yul Brynner.

King and skyrocked him to stardom and rocked the Peter Falk Leads Poll In Popularity HOLLYWOOD Peter Falk ranks as TVs most popular personality with Robert Young a close second. according to TvQ, a personality ranking technique that's widely consulted by the networks and a syndicated service of Marketing Evaluations, Inc. of Long Island. The TvQ score is the percentage of respondents who are familiar with the personality and consider him one of their favorites. The full Top Ten of TV are because of ties 1.

Peter Falk 2. Robert Young 3. Carroll O'Connor 4 Redd Foxx and Jean Stapleton i 6. Mike Connors, Jacques Cousteau, and Brian Keith 9. Mary Tyler Moore, Jack Lord and Paul Lynde (tie).

It's worth noting that only two women appear. Jean Stapleton as Archie's dingbat is the antithesis of women's lib ideals but a public favorite Mary Tyler Moore comes as close to representing the liberated woman as TV offers. TvQ and local variations of the measurement are widely used by TV stations to appraise the public appeal of their newscasters and many an anchorman has sunk from a low news qualifications notwithstanding with the public. Likeability is the name of the news game. All-Star Tilt Tops Ratings HOLLYWOOD The All Star Baseball Game topped the 70- city Nielsen ratings for the week ending July 29, followed by of San Francisco," Jones," Fu," in the Welby," and Son," and Ranking from No 11 to 20 were CBS' movie Tyler Lucy" and Rookies." CBS led with a 14.4 average rating, followed by NBC with 14.2 and ABC with 13.3.

The College All Star Football game ranked among the lowest rated in 31st place. Watergate Tops Davtime Ratings HOLLYWOOD Watergate hearings topped the daytime ratings in early July, ranking No's 1, 3, and 8. reaching 9 and 10 pet of the homes in the U.S. Top regular show was Make A No. 2.

Second" ranked fourth followed by Newlywed Game," in My the World Turns," My and Days of Our Lives." ABC's The Girl in My Life" is a new- ideal male sex symbol as he corner- having been on air only danced his way through the part one week at the time these of the bald-headed, bare-chested, semi-barbarian King of Siam. More famiiiar, though, is his recreation of the role five years later for 20th Century-Fox film version. It won him the Oscar for best York-originated NBC-TV serial actor while the film netted six is off to the Oscars and five other nomtna- to do-some additional casting for the show. measurements. oaslward Casting NEW YORK Paul Rauch, executive producer of the New Ann Gondron Ann Gondron, Peggy Johnson Goss arid Roby Jeon Scott (not pictured) ore now associated with lake Air Beauty Salon.

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Second Balcony $1 NOTE When ordering "FOPS" tickets together with regular season tickets, you receive a discount of $1 for each POPS" ticket, except for the second balcony For further information, call (817) 7S4-0B51) Use Convenient Order Mail to Waco Symphony Association, Box 62, Waco, Texas 76703 Gentlemen; Please mail me tickets for the 1973-1974 season, Patron Tickets ------------Main Floor Seats at $10 00, $12 50, $15.00 (Circle One) First Balcony Seats at $10 00, $12 50 One) Second Balcony Seats at $5-00 and discounted "POPS" tickets: Main FloOr Seats at $2,50 Balcony Seats ot $1 SO Balcony Seats ot $1 Total Amount Enctosed- Address. 2 ip.