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II. 01 1 H'Li: rr hi i I IMl 'Great While Hope" tie unmi'G mio in nn Is a Fine Slar lave a rine nme JL. TiiUTli TRUTHS Fri 1 Mar 12 13 8:00 P.M. Vfyst Btoomfield H5 4925 Orchard Ik. Rd.

$2 50 Aduits $1.25 Students Ticket Into. Call 535-0435 Omni fame is still the no4 explosive force in jazz fittingly billed, starts its magic, which from a scientific point of view consists of playing both very loudly and very softly and knowing when to do which. A bearded white man who is in his mid-50s is moving with the music and he happens to be standing next to a young black woman, and they start dancing. Really dancing. Enough to make a dozen tables of onlookers start cheering.

Everybody is smiling, and even though the party lasts till 1 a.m.. nobody leaves. Continental Theatre Company DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS MAR. 7, 8,9 Sun 7 30 PM, Mon.lTuM 30M J5, J3 Tun. Mar.

2 PM Gtn. Adminion $3 Reierved Sealing Moll erdtri toi Tick OHict, Ofhell ImMult ol Artj, 5J00 Woodward, D. Iroil. Ml 4820? Chwki payoblt to DETROIT CITY THEATRE ASSOC. Endow lf addrttMd, ttomped enmlop.

Inlor-motion: 832-2730 Somerset Dinner Theatre Neil Simon's "LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS" Starring Pierre Turgeon Directed by Edgsr A. Guest III tvery Friday I Saturday evetwf Dmerfrom 7:30 pm -Show 8.45 Reservations 643-8865 Somerset Mall Bi( Beaver Rd. at Cooid(e, Troy for the last three years has been riding the bus as featured tenor sax with Basie. "Woody (Herman) and (Stan) Kenton and those guys One woman comes back to her table with a smile on her face, a tear in her eye and, preserved forever in her Insta-matic, a picture of the Count himself with his arm on her shoulder. SUPERSAX, the nine-piece be-bop group, is playing on the other bandstand, and one of Count Basie's trumpet players goes up to his perch in the back row and cranes his neck to get a look at their sheet music.

Then HE takes some pictures. This is all happening on Friday night, because a Detroit civic group called The Men Who Dare each year brings in one of the big bands to raise money for college scholarships. (A second Basie-Super-sax bash Saturday was sold out.) "This Is the last organized band," says Jimmy Forrest, who more than a few years BY TOM FERGUSON Fri Prtii Stiff Wrllir It's like a company picnic where the entertainment chairman has gotten a bit carried away with his budget and hired the Count Basie band. The Light Guard Armory is elbow-to-elbow with paper tablecloths, BYO hors d'oeuvres trays and the clatter of maybe 1,000 people who are meeting each other for the first time across Scotch-and-soda in plastic cups. And over In the corner, at the end of the big bandstand, the very short, very dapper old gentleman has wandered into the room unnoticed, but Just for a second or two.

There's a fair sprinkling of younger faces couples in their late '20s wearing evening clothes and blue-jeaned boys from high school bands but it's the older ones' who make the pilgrimage over to the corner of the bandstand. are always soine Into a town I 1 I'l1111 1 1 T' i and picking up new players. For Pedtly Players BY CHUCK THURSTON free Prws SrtH Writer With the "The Great White Hope," Detroit's fledgling Peddy Players show that they can turn in a commendable straight dramatic performance, even though the script is too long and peripheral actors often try too hard. Two previous Peddy efforts were original musicals itaged in the square Considine Center gym. Now the com pany has the theater in the former Jewish Community Center (the city's new Northwest Activities Center), and set designer Bob Jackson has taken advantage of the proscenium stage to build a three-level, all-purpose set.

White performers have been added to the usually all black company, with blond Laura Niesen playing Ellie, the black heavyweight champion's white lover and the reason for much of his trouble. The "Great White Hope" is based on the lire of Jack Johnson, who before World War I became the first black heavyweight champion and set the country searching for any white man who could knock him out from under his crown. Earl Fields Jr. is a theatrical find in the lead. His Jack Jefferson sinks from elation after a successful Australian fight through harrassment that included a $10,000 fine and three years in prison for violating the Mann Act, which prohibits taking a minor across state lines for immoral purposes.

Jefferson is prosecuted because of his relationship with Ellie. Finally he is cornered and broken. Fields combines an exceptionally well-muscled body with a strong voice and and complete mastery of the stage. Director Eric Dennard handles his eager characters well through several shouting matches as racial tensions mount. The long, three-act play needs trimming and the cast should be pruned, but as a first dramatic effort.

"Great White Hope" is admirable. It plays at 8 p.m. Sunday and next Friday through Sunday at Northwest Activities Center, 1 8 1 00 Meyers tt Curtis. Almost all these cats have been with Basie for at least five, six years." The average age of the faces in Basie's band is, indeed, quite a bit older than the rest of the groups on the big band circuit. xiWmm mum IB 29101 GREENFIELD at 12 MILE ROAD 557-2622 WEEK OF MAR.

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