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Arts: Theatre
M E T R O S P I R I T
A SOLO PIANO CONCERT
J A N 2 2 2 0 0 4
West Acres Baptist Church Thursday, January 29th, 2004 at 7:30PM 555 Gibbs Rd., Evans, GA 30809
Tickets $20 in advance at Golden Harvest Food Bank. Call (706) 736-1199 ext. 208 for more information or visit our Web site at www.goldenharvest.org.
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ALL REPLIES CONFIDENTIAL
“Die Fledermaus” or “The Marx Brothers Go to Vienna” By Rhonda Jones
Production: Johann Strauss Jr.’s “Die Fledermaus.” In case you were wondering, it means “The Bat.” Company: Augusta Opera Interviewee: Executive Director Mark Flint (not “Flynt”)
His plot to lure you to the opera: “On stage it’ll look, first of all, very pretty. This is a new production that I’ve rented from the Virginia Opera. And it’s very Reubenesque – a lot of ladies frolicking with Cupid.” (Hey, ladies frolicking with Cupid. You can’t beat that. Now, is this the baby Cupid in Valentine’s Day cards or the grown-up “Cupid and Psyche” Cupid who ran home to Mama because of a little candlewax?)
Synopsis: See, there are these two guys, Eisenstein and Falke, one of which is due at the jail for a minor His other plot to lure offense, the other of you to the opera: “And which is plotting we are playing it for revenge for a practical laughs. It’s like the joke once played on Marx Brothers go to him by the other. Vienna.” Eisenstein had left him passed-out drunk in a The Tuesday’s Music park costumed as a Live connection: On bat, to be awakened by Jan. 27, at St. Paul’s the partiers in the Church downtown morning, at which some of the cast willl point Falke’s social perform Tuesday’s standing went down a Music Live. You will bit. So he persuades see Eric Van Hoven Eisenstein to accom— Augusta Opera Executive (Eisenstein), Terry pany him to Prince Director Mark Flint Murphy (Falke), Jesse Orlofsky’s ball – as Raven (Prince well as Eisenstien’s Orlofsky), Russell Joel wife, her maid, and the prison warden, who all appear in disguise. Brown (Frank, the prison warden), Eric Johnston (Alfred, Rosalind’s lover). Rosalind, Unable to recognize her, Eisenstein makes by the way, is Eisenstein’s wife. passes at his own wife, Rosalind. She takes his watch, planning to use it to confront him later on a charge of adultery. Or at least What he has to say about that: We’re going to attempted adultery. And it only gets more do some of “Fledermaus,” as well as some convoluted from there. from “Carmen” and some from popular musical theatre.” Really Interesting Tidbit: Augusta Opera’s executive director’s name is Mark Flint, not What about the artistic director? That would Flynt, and he enunciates more precisely than be John Hoomes, and this would be his third anyone I have ever met. It’s the coolest thing. production with Augusta Opera, including “Carousel” and “Tosca.” He keeps flying in from out of state, so he must like Augusta What he has to say about the convoluted Opera just a little. revenge angle: “It’s revenge within the 19th century before revenge could be taken much more easily and with other means.” And here A final ploy to lure you to the Opera: Flint suggests he laughed most chillingly. that seeing “Die Fledermaus” is a “wonderful prelude” to Valentine’s Day, and swears you will What he has to say about Junior: (Yes, Johann leave the theatre “laughing and humming.” Strauss was a junior. And apparently he knew a thing or two about composing.) “The comOther vital info: The opera takes place Jan. 29 poser is known as the Waltz King because and 31 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. at the he’s written numerous waltzes that have Imperial Theatre. If you have questions, give gained international fame, many of them in them a call at (706) 826-4710, or go find this piece.” them at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center on 13th and Greene.
“It’s revenge within the 19th century before revenge could be taken much more easily and with other means.”