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Tony winning Broadway show at Tech tonightrBy RUTH ALEXANDER Family News EditorMembers of (he Louisiana Tech Concert Association Series will be in for a treat tonight when the Broadway Musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’” will be presented tonight at Tech Howard Auditorium beginning at 8:15 p.m.The Tony Award Winner as Best Musical and recipient of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award is a musical in the truest form, with one number after the other, bringing back memories of the hits of the late 1920’s until the mid forties.■ The stage is very clever decorated with the band sitting behind a transparent curtain in the beginning and later is being moved back and forth. The setting, in red velvet, depicts a bar, but still leaves plenty of space for the constant movement of the five performers, who are on stage almost all the two hours the musical lasts.There is a kind of honky-tonk era, especialy prevailing when the musical director and pianist performs on an oldfashioned piano, always with his back to the audience. The piano is very cleverly used in changing small stage sets and in the appareance of the fivesoloists.The musical features the music of Fats Waller. Born in 1904 in Greenwich Village and reared in Harlem Fats Waller studied classical piano and played the church organ. He began his professional career as organist at the Lincoln Theatre on 135th street. He turned to jazz in 1920 and became one of the most respected musicsian in New York.Musical numbers included in the play are Honeysuckle Rose, I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling, The Joint is Jumping, Keeping Out of Mischief Now, Fat and Greasy, Black and Blue, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, and many others.A real hit with the Grambling High School audience during the matinee performance Thursday afternoon were The Viper's Drag and Fat and Greasy.Noted in the audience on Thursdayafternoon were Urambling state University . Dr. Joseph Johnson, his wife and their triplets.The show may be different from many others, but it shows perfection in every aspect of the show, in every movement of the performers and the band.Ain’t Misbehavin’ is on the road since last March, when they went to Canada and worked their way down south. They came to Grambling and Ted) from Mobile, Alabama. From here they will go to Ft. Smith, Arkansas and then for a week’s performance in Houston, Texas. St age Manager Jeff Lee said the show Is to be on the road until next August, with bookings all across the United States.Tonight’s performance at Tech Howard Auditorium shows again how lucky the people in this area should be, to be able to see a Broadway performance here in Ruston. A touch of class, displaying the versatility of each performer in a combination of singing and dancing which takes your breath away just by watching it.
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