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Fun, MusicJubilee OffersBy JOYCE MORRIS Entertainment WriterWARSAW - How do you tell a Warsaw Lion from other people? That’s easy — by the smug, satisfied look on his face after they opened their successful 13th annual show at River View High School Thursday night, which'Will run tonight and Saturday.Right from the wild shout at the back of the auditorium and men in blackface searching all over the room for “Chloe,” it was off with a bang.Minstrel-type shows sport a different brand of humor and nowhere else will you see men get up on a stage and tell risque stories in a schoolhouse and get away with it. Keeps you on your toes to catch themall, too! ^ . uEmcee Marvin Davis did one fine job keeping the show’ moving and the chorus of 40 or so voices blended well with therest of the acts.One of the interesting aspects of the Show was their use of black light/* a device•used to illuminate a fluorescent object. Also m this vein the simplicity of the one set-was well-executed by Don Fisher and Dan Baker.The Wash Tub Band, one of the highlights of the show, not only got one encore but two, and set the house to clapping and toe* tapping.Keith Carpenter joined Jessie Williamson at the piano for two four-handed numbers which were extremely well received, and well they should have been.A perennial attraction and delight, Mary Lou Kent added more laurels to her previous years’ performances with her rendition of “I Fall To Fieces ” Hits gal has one of the finer solo voices, especially in this type of music, and carries an unusual break in her voice even for country-type music, that of breaking her voice at the beginning of the note almost before the note is emitted.When Keitti Carpenter sings a song he not only entertains but makes you believethe lyrics as well. His version of My Way” gives the professionals a run for their money.Bits and pieces of the chorus actions keep it from being just a background. Such people as Anna Gayle Austin, who so obviously enjoy the whole tiling and show it throughout the entire evening, and the women who were overheard in the hall telling how they had their “waders” on to troop through this weather to participate, help to show that for a worthy cause, the ultimate is almost enough.The RVHS auditorium was roughly half full for the opening night and obviously the crowd was well acquainted with this annual offering, for tbe local humor interperasd into the show was well received.If you’ve never seen an Alabama Jubilee,” it’s a good way to spend a Friday or Saturday evening and for a good charitable cause. Showtime is 8 p.m. both nights.
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Coshocton Tribune
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 05, 1971
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