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| Vol. 19, No. 2 | Sept. 2, 1999 |
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| Vol. 19, No. 2 | Sept. 2, 1999 |
The first meeting of the University of Delaware Women's Club (UDWC) will take place at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 21, at the President's House on Kent Way and will be hosted by Louise Roselle.
Roberta Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies, will discuss how children acquire language skills, based on her recent book, Parents Do Make a Difference, by Promoting Childhood Chatter.
For information about the meeting or to request an invitation, call Susan Savini at 831-1554.
The University of Delaware's Women's Club has been in existence since 1945. When it began, the club served a social need for faculty spouses, but over the years the club has changed. Today, women from all areas of the University community--including spouses, faculty, staff, students and retirees--are welcome to join and participate in a wide range of activities. In addition to providing social opportunities, the club provides financial support and supports a scholarship.
In the coming year, the club's annual fall craft fair will be replaced with a silent and live auction, scheduled for Saturday, March 4. Anyone interested in attending, donating items or assisting should call Michele Michelson at 837-1907. 
On Tuesday, Sept. 14, the Department of Music presents the 10th annual faculty gala concert opening the new academic year. This year's concert welcomes Thomas Di Lorenzo, new dean of the College of Arts and Science.
The concert, scheduled at 8 p.m. in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building, is free and open to the public, with seating on a first-come, first-seated basis.
A meet-the-artists reception will follow the concert.
Featured artists will be baritone Patrick Evans, hornist Cynthia Carr, cellist Hekun Wu, violinist David Myford, pianists Michael Arenson, Michael Steinberg and Julie Nishimura, percussionist Harvey Price, the Taggart-Grycky Duo and the Del'Arte Woodwind Quintet.
The varied program will include works by Verdi and Paganini, a song set by Harold Arlen and a work by Daniel Dorff, commissioned by the Taggart-Grycky Duo.
For more information, call 831-2577. 
Mavor, associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of Pleasures Taken: Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs and most recently Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden.
According to Mavor, Hawarden's hundreds of sensual photographs of her adolescent daughters, taken in the isolation of her London home, prompt what Mavor sees as "a practice of adolescent reading." In Mavor's words: "Pleasures Taken was my child-book. Becoming is my adolescent reverie."
Mavor will conclude her presentation with a short reflection on Becoming, entitled "Mother Land Missed."
For information, call 831-8147.
Poet Gibbons Ruark, English, will read from his new book Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems from 2-3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
He also will be making a reading tour of North Carolina in October.
For further information on the Philadelphia event, call (215) 573-9748.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Lisel Mueller will read from her award-winning collection, Alive Together, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 24, during a free, public program in Room 127, Memorial Hall.
Alive Together, published in l997, represents more than 35 years of her writing life and has been hailed as a testament to the miraculous power of language to interpret and transform our world. Mueller was born in Germany and came to the United States in l939. Her book, The Private Life, was the l975 Lamont Poetry Selection, and in l981, she won the American Book Award for The Need to Hold Still. In l990, she won the Carl Sandburg Prize for Waving from Shore. In addition to several other books of poetry, she has written essays and a book of translations.
Mueller's works explore the intersection of public and private worlds. She is acclaimed by critics and other poets for her brilliant reflections on the everyday, on folklore and on diverse subjects.
The event is sponsored by the Department of English.
For more information, call 831-2361.
The Professional Theatre Training Program's 1999-2000 Alumni Season showcases the talent and success of its alumni.
All evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and matinees start at 12:30 p.m. Each of the eight plays will be staged in Hartshorn Hall.
In Orson, by Daniel Mark Feldman, Tim Gregory, PTTP Class of 1995, returns to Hartshorn Hall in the tour de force role of Orson Welles, one of the most multitalented performers in theatre, radio, motion pictures and television. Orson opens the PTTP season at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, Sept. 23. The play continues on the evenings of Friday, Sept. 24, and Saturday, Sept. 25, with matinee performances on Saturday, Sept. 25, and Sunday, Sept. 26.
Proceeding through a series of flashbacks, Betrayal, by Harold Pinter, examines the intricacies of betrayal buried in an extramarital triangle at evening shows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-30, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 11-12, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 16-17, and Saturday, Nov. 20. Matinees are scheduled on Sunday, Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov. 13.
From a cooking show hosted by Titus Andronicus to a football game played by the tragedies' kings, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, is a zany compilation in which three actors whip through 37 plays. Evening performances are scheduled Friday through Sunday, Nov. 5- 7, Wednesday, Nov. 10, Saturday, Nov. 13, and Thursday-Friday, Nov. 18-19. Matinees will be offered on Sunday, Nov. 14, Saturday, Nov. 20, and Sunday, Nov. 21.
Henry V, written by William Shakespeare and presented by the Independent Shakespeare Company, a group featuring PTTP alumni, is the stirring tale of medieval England's greatest triumph, the famous British victory over the French at Agincourt. Evening performances are scheduled from Thursday, through Saturday, Dec. 2-4, and matinees will be presented on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4-5.
Starting off the new millennium of PTTP performances, The Entire Contents of the Refrigerator, by Andrew Thornton, a wonderfully irreverent one-woman show, comes to Delaware for a special one-night-only performance on Saturday, Feb. 5. Casey Stewart-Lindley, PTTP Class of 1992, stars in this riotous play. The Entire Contents weaves an enchanting and poignant web around 20 wacky characters. From uproariously funny to touchingly profound, Stewart-Lindley's characters masterfully express the pain and wonder of being human.
The delightful and lively play Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty, features PTTP alumni Steve Tague and Kathleen Pirkl Tague as they provide insight into the relationship between playwright George Bernard Shaw and renowned actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Revealing in wit, charm and exuberant sparring, these two talented and impossible characters generate an intriguing relationship of letters in performances Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11.
A mélange of art, music, illusions and political radicalism, The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard, projects the paradoxical nature of romantic love between playwright Henry and his lover-then-wife Annie. As the characters search for their own version of the "real thing," Stoppard's intricate comedy of romantic delusions and theatrical illusions poses the philosophical question of whether language unites us with or separates us from emotional truth. Evening performances are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, April 13-15, Wednesday, April 26, Saturday and Sunday, April 29-30, Tuesday, May 2, and Friday, May 5. Matinees are scheduled on Saturdays, April 29 and May 6.
Written in 1732 by Marivaux and translated by James Magruder, The Triumph of Love is a timeless romantic farce that pokes fun at the pomposities of the Age of Enlightenment and points out the daft, yet dark aspects of the human libido plus a rollicking romp of folly and foolery. The Triumph of Love has evening showings on Friday and Saturday, April 21-22, Thursday and Friday, April 27-28, Wednesday and Thursday, May 3-4, and Saturday, May 6. Matinees are scheduled on Saturday, April 22, Sundays, April 30 and May 7.
PTTP offers three different ticket packages for the performances: The "Effervescent Eight Show Series," which includes tickets to all performances; the "Flamboyant Four Show Series," in which patrons chose four productions; and "The Fear of Commitment Voucher Series," where purchasers receive six vouchers valid for any performances with available seating.
Single ticket prices for weeknight shows are $16 for the general public, $14 for UD faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $10 for UD students and members of the UD Academy of Lifelong Learning. Friday and Saturday night prices are $17 for the general public, $15 for UD faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $10 for UD students and members of the Academy of Lifelong Learning. Matinee and Sunday evening performances are $14 for the general public, $12 for UD faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $7 for UD students and members of the Academy of Lifelong Learning.
For more information or to order tickets, call 831-2204.
Getting back to the grind on Mondays is never easy, but Manic Mondays are designed to aid the transition into the work week with surprise lunchtime appearances by clowns, artists and other entertainers. The specifics are not announced in advance, so you never know who will show up!
The Coffeehouse performance series, sponsored by the Student Center Program Advisory Board, features comedy acts, musical performances and special holiday events each Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Scrounge.
Beginning with a comedy night on Sept. 21, the series includes musical performances on Sept. 28 and Nov. 2, more comedy acts on Oct. 5, Oct. 19 and Nov. 9, an Open Mike Night
on Oct. 12, a Halloween event on Oct. 26, a theatrical performance on Nov. 16 and a night highlighting local bands on Nov. 23.
Bringing poetry, music and visual arts together, the Dead Poets Society holds a forum for the arts on alternating Wednesdays in the Scrounge. The society is sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English department honors society. The events, which will be announced at a later date, begin on Wednesday, Sept. 15. For more information, call 831-2361.
The distinguished theatre troupe, Acters from the London Stage, performs Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on Tuesday, Nov. 16, Friday, Nov. 19, and Saturday, Nov. 20, in the Bacchus Theatre. Tickets are $5 for UD students, $10 for UD faculty and staff and $15 for the general public and will be on sale at UD box offices. For more information, call UD1-HENS.
Easing students and visitors over the midday hump, Lunchtime Concerts, cosponsored by Dining Services, brings various musical acts to The Scrounge from 12:30-1:30 p.m. each Thursday. The Royal Palm Steel Band performs the first concert of the series today, adding a little Caribbean feel to lunch hour. The series continues with guitarist and singer Karen Goldberg on Sept. 9, a student act on Sept. 16, keyboardist Hiram Brown on Sept. 23, guitarist and singer Larry Roney on Sept. 30, Jimmie Davis on Oct. 7, folk singer Mary Arden Collins on Oct. 14, Erica Rose on Oct. 21, a Halloween party on Oct. 28, Deborah Fox & Co. on Nov. 4, a student act on Nov. 11 and the Atiba Steel Band on Nov. 18.
Updates to the events will be announced on WVUD 91.3 fm and SLTV Channel 49.
For more information, call UD1-HENS.
-Laura Overturf
The University of Delaware Opera Workshop will present The Song is You-a musical revue of songs by Jerome Kern-at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 25, and at 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 26, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for students.
Directed by Patrick Evans with choreography by Lauren Gerhart, The Song is You will feature accompaniment by jazz pianist Michael Arenson.
Kern was the first giant of the American musical theatre.
Lyricists with whom Kern collaborated include Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Parker, Johnny Mercer and P.G. Wodehouse.
In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein completely transformed musical theatre with the now-classic Showboat.
In addition to Showboat tunes "Ol' Man River," "Bill" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man," the Kern revue includes music from the early Princess Theatre shows, including "They Didn't Believe Me" and "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?," as well as songs from Kern's highly successful career in films, including "The Way You Look Tonight," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "A Fine Romance."
For information, call 831-2577.
