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BROADWAY BY LAKE
‘Godspell’
Is At Lake
An evening of dinner and
the theater, a pleasure once
available only in a few large
cities, is now available to
everyone this summer at the
Lake Lanier Islands.
Each Tuesday through
Sunday night through Sept. 2,
a single seven-dollar ticket
couples a top-quality dinner
at the Islands’ new beach
pavilion restaurant and a
reserved seat at the rock
musical production, “God
spell”, with no conservancy
fee required for entry to the
Islands after 5 p.m., and
convenient free parking in the
Village parking lot adjacent
to the tent theater.
The dinner begins with a
visit to the restaurant’s salad
bar, and features your choice
of rib eye steak or a seafood
platter.
The theatrical offering, a
contemporary musical
adaptation of the Gospel of
Matthew, opened to a near
capacity crowd on July 6. It
received a standing ovation
from its opening night
audience and has since been
acclaimed by reviewers in
Atlanta and Gainesville.
Alma Bowen, Family News
Editor of the Gainesville
TIMES, called it
a kaleidoscope of color, music
and, action impossible to put
into words or capture on a
photograph,” and advised
those who’ve wondered what
it is like to be involved in
theater to “...go see ‘God
spell.’ You’ll be involved.”
Calling it “amazing” that
May’s germ of an idea could
bloom in early July as “a
lively, professionally staged
production,” Helen C. Smith,
of the Atlanta Constitution,
reported that “Godspell” “...
throws away the forms and
trappings of traditional
respect for the teachings of
Christ, and in so doing, makes
them more to the point.”
She describes the con-
Hiawassee
Fair Set
HIAWASSEE - The
long-forgotten skills of the
past have been dusted off,
polished and put back into
service - at least in this
mountain community. The
24th annual Georgia
Mountain Fair will feature
these talents, demonstrated
by local craftsmen, in the
week-long festival set for
August 2-10.
Scene of the fair is the
local high school ground,
where, along with other
exhibits, a complete
mountain homestead will be
set up. Corn milling, wood
carving, soap making and
other chores of yesteryear
will be performed daily
throughout the week, and
visitors will get a first-hand
glimpse of life as it used to be
in north Georgia. A
moonshine still will also be
displayed.
Music, long an important
mountain tradition, takes
center stage. The fair kicks
off with a toe-tapping,
Nashville style country and
western show Friday night,
August 2, featuring Hank
Thompson and the Brazo
Valley Boys. Saturday
afternoon the hills around
Hiawassee will resound with
the rhythmic beat of
mountain clogging,
performed by 30 clogging
groups from throughout the
south. Sunday sees the
LeFevres and Fay Sims and
the Scenic Land Boys
perform old-time gospel airs.
A blue grass show will follow
on Thursday.
The Mountain
Home Makers shop in the
main high school building will
offer mouth-watering home
made jams and preserves and
colorful quilts and crafts for
display or sale. Home canned
foods and unusual fruits and
vegetables will be exhibited.
Antiques, as well as gems and
Indian relics will also be up
for sale in various booths.
On Saturday morning,
August 10, contestants will
vie for quarter sides of beef in
a “Hawg Rifle” shootin’
match. Featured in
Saturday’s wrap up parade at
noon are antique cars, brass
bands and old fashioned
horse drawn buggies and
wagons.
SQUALUS RESCUE
Men from sunken U.S. sub
marine Squalus were brought
to surface in rescue bell on
May 24, 1939.
frontation between Christ and
Judas in the Lord’s Supper
scene as “a supreme
moment...fraught with a
tension so intense you think
your throat will crack,” and
notes that “the upbeat feels
good” after describing the
“resurrection of hope” that
concludes the production.
Reservations for this
summer’s program of dinner
and the theater at Georgia’s
newest family fun center can
be made through the
Associated Christian Theater
ticket offices in Oakwood
(telephone 532-4622), at the
Islands (phone 945-3200), or
through the beach pavilion
restaurant (phone 945-2513).
All proceeds from “God
spell’s ” summer run at the
Islands will be invested in the
establishment of a drug
control and treatment center
for the northeast Georgia
area.
Local Band In
Georgia Festival
A country fair, a Las Vegas
entertainer, bird dogs and
beauty queens gathered in
Lenox Square, Atlanta, July
29-August 3, will give you a
taste of the best of Georgia.
During the 6th annual Stay &
See Georgia Week, sponsored
by the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce and Lenox
Square, attractions that draw
tourists from around the
country to Georgia will be on
display in the mall.
Real Pretty
No one imagined marrying
a brass section to country
music until Danny Davis
came along. Now Danny’s
done something that’s really
hard to conceive: putting the
brass sound to the hillbilly
twang of bluegrass music. But
he pulls it off in an LP for
RCA. Those who can’t stand
the hayseed clatter of blue
grass should try a Davis filter
comes out real pretty.
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The gala week begins with a
Georgia^reception honoring
the 51 exhibitors, visiting
dignitaries and members of
the press at Stouffer’s Atlanta
Inn, Monday, July 29. From
there, a parade of antique
cars will lead the way to
Lenox Square for the first big
evening of entertainment.
The opening night show at 7
P.M. on the Garden Stage at
Lenox Square will feature
recording artist and Las
Vegas entertainer, Frankie
Randall, compliments of
Hyatt Regency Atlanta,
whose recording “Atlanta,
My City” is among his most
recent releases; the
Revelation, a singing group
from the Second Ponce de
Leon Baptist Church; the
Dixieland Jazz Band and
Sunshine Season from Six
Flags Over Georgia; and The
Red Peppers Band from
Forsyth County High School.
Many other entertainers will
appear on the Lenox Square
MICHAEL HALL
staee during the week.
Throughout the week of
July 29 to Aug. 3, Lenox
Square will be teeming with
quaint scenes from a swiss
village to a country mill. Yon
will see how bird dogs are
trained and how to play a
dulcimer. You can learn to
pan gold, listen to folk songs,
buy an original painting or
pottery, or learn how a
nuclear power plant operates.
Thursday night at 7 P.M.
Miss Stay & See Georgia will
be crowned.
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Brenau College Names
New Theatre Director
Michael Hall, a native of
Ocala, Fla., has been ap
pointed theatre director for
Brenau College in Gainesville
beginning with the fall
quarter of school. Hall is
replacing Jim Propes who is
currently working toward his
master’s degree in theatre.
A graduate of the Carnegie
Tech drama school in Pitts
burgh, Hall began his
theatre career at the Ocala
Civic Theatre and launched
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This summer he is
managing director of
Highlands Playhouse in
Highlands, N.C. and
Gainesville, and Theatre
Helen where “The Sound of
Music” will continue
throughout the summer.
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SHOCKER
On Jan. 22, 1907, the first
performance of the opera
“Salome” with its “Dance of
the Seven Veils” so shocked
Metropolitan Opera directors
that they banned any further
performances.