1982_04 The Daily Collegian April 1982

              Pate 4—the Daily Collegian-April 14, lM2i
'Waltz of Toreadors' smashing success
CSUPs Experimental Theatre Company combined all the proper ingredients
and produced an evening of fantastic
stage comedy in "The Waltz of the
Toreadors." which ended its three-day run
April 3.
Produced totally by students through
ihe experimental company, "Waltz" was a
wise choice by director Marcia Morrison    husband.
- a grad student working on her Master        Fiske holds together the sense of real-
of Arts degree. ism in the play. His character is stable and
"The Waltz of the Toreadors" was lives in the present unlike his friend, the
written in French by playwright Jean General. While he has many of the same
Anouilh and translated into English by     problems with his spouse,
of Frankenstein. She is utterly hilarious.
As Amelie. she pretends to be in poor
health to acquire the sympathy of her
husband. •
In act II of the play, a startling revelation is made. Amelie has been unfaithful
to her husband during the marriage.
The General asks his wife why she never
asked for a divorce. "I love you because
you are mine, my object, my thing, my
hold-all. my garbage bin." she tells her
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The story is timely, especially c<
ing today's trends. It examines loi
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riage. and infidelity.
General Leon St. Pe is the major character in "Waltz." It is his story; about his
triumphs and defeats in love. The General
has married a woman whom he never
really loved and after she has given him
In a speech to his friend, confidant,
doctor, the General explains why he chose    awakening
deal with them.
Ghislaine. the young lady who has
waited for the General for so long, is
played by Toni Conway. With a gleem in
her eye and a rise in her brow, Conway
created a character that is both morally
upright and seductive.
Dan Farmer. Gaston, a virgin who was
raised in the chuch. listens to the advice
frequently given by the General.
"Life is one long family lunch. The ideal
is the lifebuoy. The main thing is to do the
regulation breast stroke and never let the
buoy out of your sight," the General tells
Farmer does a good job as the youth
own sexuality. He adds
he   r
:o get a divorce from his wife although    an innocent quality w
.  had   a
I 17 long years for hir
'I am a coward," he tells Doctor Bon-
fant. The doctor can't believe a war hero is
a coward and asks the General about all
his war wounds and awards.
"It's not the same. In battle it's comparatively simple. Life is a different thing. I
can't make people suffer." the General
says.
Robert Kempf turned in a great performance as the General. Kempfdrovethe
comedy and with help from other cast
members, made "Waltz" a night of enjoyable belly-laughs.
The General's ailing wife. Amelie. is
played by Penny Bradberry and the doc-
is played by Tom Fiske.
trait in his chai
i appealing
Other players in "Waltz" include
Andrea Imperatrice, Judy Young and Jill
Dudley as the domestic help and Diane
Cunningham as the dressmaker, Madame
Dupont-Fredaine.
The General's two daughters are played
by Kate McNight and Monica Silveria.
McNight and Silveria work extremely
well together, whining their way into the
theatre-goers' heart.
BaS Bissel in a very small part as the
prion Pere Ambrose, used his on-stage
tim* wisely. Bissel-entered in a drunken
stupor, wine glass in hand to tell the General about an act of providence..
From the second Bissel introduced
himself on stage to the General, the
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Ghislaine tries to comfort the General.
"You are the man I've loved all along. It's
her    you, Leon, you. Young and free, and even
more handsome than your own self." she
tells the General about Gaston.
Director Morrison not only was wise
about her choice of play but in the casting
decisions as well. She has pulled out fantastic performances from her ensemble.
The technical director and set designer.
Gwenna Merriman produced a fine set
and I feel compelled to congratulate
whoever decided to add a carpet to the set.
It wasn't quite what I had in mind as a
critic, but the effort of paintinga carpet on
the stage floor has to be acknowledged. It
was a great stage illusion.
Costume designer. James Frederick-
Baugh kept the clothing within the 1910
period setting of the play. Included within
his designs were a couple of fine, elaborate
rJ'tiSIS Zuu maiu outfits which showed
just enough cleavage. The General's cos-
Royal Military uniform
Unfortunately the only problems with
"Waltz" opening night, were two snags
with the costuming. A wig that one of the
General's daughters wore came loose in
the middle of one scene and a dress wore
by Madam Dupont-Fredaine unsnapped
during the same scene. Cunningham had
to be careful upon exiting not to lose her
"Waltz" has to be considered a smashing success. Morrison and everyone
involved in the production should be
happy. In my six years of college theatre
going. I have only witnessed one other
student production as that was as successful."Private Wars" at my junior college.
Watching CSUF's production of The
' the Toreadors" was a laughing
flight.
Correction:
Georgie Tapps will present "As long As
I Live." Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the
amphitheatre, not Friday night, as reported
in Tuesday's Daily Collegian.
Tickets are priced at $4 for adults and
13 for st udems a nd will be available at the
College Union this week or at the door.
The performance is presented in conjunction with the Arts and Humanities
Lecture Forvm.
April 14, 1982-the Daily Collegian-Page 5
Fresno debates high priced dream
Everybody loves to dream, but the
trouble is so many dreams come with
painful reality attached to them in the
form of a price tag.
That's the problem the Fresno State
athletic department faces in its continuing
quest to build a 20,000-seat on-campus
events center. Such a center is a dream
people like Athletic Director Russ Sloan
and head basketball coach Boyd Grant
have nurtured for some time. If it was up
to them, construction workers would be
leveling the ground at this very moment.
But.because of the arena's $15 - 18
million projected cost, it will take a lot of
help from a lot of people to construct it.
And before Sloan can receive that financial support, hell have to convince many
groups that an arena is worth Ihe bucks.
'The possibility of an
on-campus arena
has got the community biting at the bit.'
1 irst on his list is the CSUFstudenl body.
"The possibility of an on-campus arena
has got the community biting at the bit. 1
think the community would very much
like to move forward with the project, just
as I would," Sloan said in a recent interview. "But we are going to need some help
from the students. We are at the point now
where the student body has to show more
vision than it did with the football stadium. The students had an opportunity at
that time to help build the stadium and
they chose not to. Yet they were given
5,600 of the best seats in there. I don't
think that can happen again with a new
arena. This is a bit too expensive for the
community to do it again by itself."
For the moment at least, the only action
the Associated Student Senate has taken
on an on-campus center is to approve a
resolution to "support the research and
planning" of such a facility. A committee
has been formed and its reports will be
forthcoming, but Sloan is trying to drum
up student support now.
exceed any amount of money the students
put in, but it can't carry the burden alone."
Of course, the main motivation behind
Sloan's push for an on-campus events
center is Bulldog basketball, which has
outgrown its present home at the 6,530-
seat Selland Arena. In recent years, the
Bulldogs have had the second biggest
attendance figures in California. A new,
larger arena would accommodate thousands more fans and bring in a great deal
of additional revenue. It would also aid
basketball recruiting efforts and keep
coach Grant happy.
But the third-year athletic director is
quick to emphasize the "multi-purpose" in
a multi-purpose center.
'1 think it would be extremely shortsighted if we didn't realize what an arena
of this magnitude could do for this university and the whole community," Sloan
said. 'If we could possibly build an 18-
20,000-seat multi purpose arena, it would
be the largest indoor facility in California
and it would be centrally located.
"There's no question that basketball is
the catalyst in getting this project moving,
although it would be more than a basketball facility — that's what everybody has
to keep in mind. We'd only play basketball in it maybe 15-20 times a year,
besides using it to practice. You could also
use it to hold concerts, attract popular
speakers or put'on things like Agricultural
shows and boat shows, whatever."
"From the academic side of things,"
Sloan continued, "you could attract many
personalities who otherwise wouldn't
come here because it isn't economically
feasible. The student body could earn a
substantial amount of money to run their
operation."
As far as basketball is concerned, Sloan
said a larger arena would provide additional seating for students. Many students
have become dismayed with the athletic
If o
: poll is
mid
department in recent years because they
now have only 700 seats at Selland Arena.
"If the students contributed to the building of an arena. I would personally lead
the fight to guarantee them a minimum of
6.000," said Sloan.
Although no definite steps have been
taken. Sloan has contact^ RSG Architects of Phoenix. Arizona about designing
a multi-purpose center. RSG is currently
planning a 17.000-seat basketball arena
for the University of Oregon.
CSUF Vice President Bill Holmes has
also appointed a committee to look into
the feasibility of building an arena, and
according to Holmes, it will have a report
out in a couple of weeks.
For now though. Sloan, the athletic
department, coach Grant and the community will have to continue playing the
waiting game.
No one ever said dreams materialize
quickly.
New FSU stadium?
This drawing of a 17,000
example of the proposed
campus events center/
basketball stadium.
appear that he has a good deal of student
backing already. In a cross section survey
of 340 students conducted by journalism
professor Arthur Margosian's public relations class, the response was strongly in
favor of an on-campus events center.
Asked if there is a need for an events
center that will accommodate concerts,
sports, and lectures, 269 students agreed,
49 disagreed and 21 were undecided on the
Asked if students should provide $5 per
semester to help build the center, 183
students agreed, 113 disagreed and 44
weren't sure. The problem with that $5
figure, though, is that it falls a bit short of
the amount Sloan wants to ask for.
"I think about $25 a semester would do
it," he said. "If our student body would
agree to pay that, we could then knock off
the $10/year IRA minor sports fee (voted
in last year and set to run through the
spring 1984 semester) because we would n't
need it with a revenue-producing events
center. That would probably raise about
$800,000 a year, which would fund somewhere between $7 - 8 million in revenue
bonds, financing it probably around 30
years. The community would then be
asked to come up with the other $8 - 9
million and I think we could get the
project under way within a year. I truly
think the community would match and
UCI.SJS decide to pay pricetag
While Fresno State University has yet
to take any decisive steps toward the
construction of a multi-purpose events
center, two fellow PCAA schools have
taken action.
In recent voting, the student bodies of
both UC Irvine and San Jose State decided to devote a share of their student
fees to new'events centers on their respec-
Seventy percent of the voters at UC
Irvine OK'd a $23 per quarter fee assessment that would raise an estimated $4
million over the next 30 years for a
projected 6,700 seat center. Students rejected pther ballot options that would
have boosted fees by lesser amounts.
The exact vote was 69.8 percent in favor
of the fee increase and 29.6 percent against.
Almost 3,000 students voted, making it
the largest turnout in UC Irvine history.
The exact date of construction is not
known yet as a hefty share of the building
costs still have to be solicited from community donations.
The proposed center would be used for
concerts, speakers and popular Anteater
basketball, which has been confined to
one of the smallest arenas in the country,
1.300-seat Crawford Hall.
Meanwhile, San Jose State basketball
coach Bill Berry is smiling these days
because San Jose students agreed to raise
their fees by $10 a semester to fund the
construction of a 10,200-seat recreation
center'. After two years, the fees will
increase between $25 and $40.
The  Rec Center i
million complex, which will be paid for
entirely by student fees. Besides serving as
the host to the Spartan basketball team,
the two-building structure will provide
racquet ball courts and swimming pools in
addition to other recreational facilities.
The center passed by a vote of 1,668 to
1,165 and was a source of major controversy in the weeks before the vote.
Berry's Spartans, who have been relegated to a small 2.700-seat downtown
auditorium in the past, will make their
home in the largest indoor arena in Santa
Clara County when the center is completed.
"I'm very excited about it." Berry said in
an interview with San Jose State's Spartan Daily. "I think it is a big plus for the
university and it will help our basketball
program as well."
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