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REVIEW CELEBRATES
50TH ANNIVERSARY
Review Author Readings and Book Signings UGA
Chapel and Vicinity. North Campus 8 am Book
Sales begin in tent outside chapel 8 30 a m
Welcome to readers and audience 8 40 a m
The Georgia Review, the prize-winning jour
nal of arts and letters, celebrates its 50th
anniversary May 15-17 on the UGA Campus. A
listing of the fine writers who have appeared in
The Georgia Review since Its Inception in 1947
proves to be space prohibitive, but they include
Eudora Welty, Seamus Heaney. Galway Kinnell,
Mary Hood. Rita Dove. Joyce Carol Oates,
William Stafford, Philip Levine. Harry Crews,
William Faulkner and Fred Chappell. The present
staff invttes you to join them in commemorating
this anniversary A complete schedule follows:
Thanday, May 15 4 p m Keynote Lecture:
Fred Chappell ‘'Not as a Leaf: Innovation and
Tradition In Southern Poetry" Ramsey Hall.
Performing Arts Center. East Campus £6 /5 p m
Public Reception Georgia Museum of Art, East
Campus 8 p m Benefit Concert: ARCO Chamber
Orchestra. Levon Ambartsumian. Conductor &
Soloist. Hodgson Hall. Performing Arts Center-
East Campus. Of all the events scheduled for
The Georgia Review Anniversary Celebration,
the only one for which a ticket Is required Is the
concert. Reserved tickets are available at the $25
or $15 level Call the box office at 1-888-2894497
(tolMree) for credit card orders. Mail orders to
UGA, Performing Arts Center, Athens, GA 30602-
I 7280. and make checks payable to the UGA
Performing Arts Center. Tickets will be mailed
until one week prior to the event; late orders will
be held at the "Will Call" window. This concert is
a joint benefit, with half the proceeds going to a
UGA Foundation Account for the ARCO Chamber
Orchestra and half being credited to The Georgia
Review Endowment Fund.
Friday, May 16 8 a m. -5:30 p.m. Georgia
Geraldine Connolly. Frank Caspar. Linda Nemec
Foster. Alice Friman 905 am Judith Ortiz Cofer
975 a m Robert Dana 9:25 a m. Doug Carlson
9:35 a m Janice Daugharty 945 am Ron Rash.
Cathy Smith Bowers, Kim Bridgford, Rick
Campbell 10:10 a m Steve Harvey 10:40 a m
Gordon Johnston 10:50 Linda Pastan II a m
Remarks by President Charles Knapp.
Introduction of current and past Georgia Review
Editors & Staff 1:00 Welcome to Audience 105
David R. Slavitt 1:15 Pam Durban 1:25 Charles
Fort 1:35 Wayne Dodd 1:45 Brad Barkley 1:55
Harold Fromm 2:10 Gary Coseri, Linda Lee
Harper. Hunt Hawkins. Gray Jacobik 235 J. Ailyn
Rosser 3:15 Samuel Hazo 3:25 Judson Mitcham
3.35 David Lavery 3:45 Brandon Kershner, Eric
Nelson, Craig Paulenlch, Arthur Smith 4:10
Barbara Haas 4:20 Pamela Kircher 4:30 Leslie
Lytle 4:40 Leon Stokesbury 4:50 Peter Meinke
5:30 Book Sales Conclude 9 a.m.-5 p m Open
House: The Georgia Review Offices, Main
Library, #230, North Campus
Saturday, May 17 8:30 a m-noon Georgia
Review Author Readings and Book Signings (pro
gram subject to change). UGA Chapel & Vicinity.
North Campus 830 am. Book sales resume 900
Welcome to Audience 9:05 Jim Peterson 9:15
Susan Ludvigson 9:25 Greg Johnson 9:35 David
TilUnghast, Carolyne Wright. Gilbert Allen 9:55
Charlotte Zoe Walker 1005 Edward Locke 10:15
Larry Baker 10:50 8 II am To Be Announced
11:10 Maurya Simon 11:20 Rebecca McClanahan
11:30 Dennis Loy Johnson 11:40 Andrea
Hollander Budy 11:50 Closing Remarks 12:30
Book Sales Conclude 2-4 p m. "Words from
Georgia Review Artists." Georgia Museum of Art.
East Campus. George Davidson, Jim Herbert,
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Trisha Ott, Mary Porter. Jessica White 45 p m
Closing Reception. Georgia Museum of Art. East
Campus
For the latest updates, call The Georgia
Review offices at 5423481, or visit f **etr website
www.uga edu/~garev
PROMISES, PROMISES
This weekend the Athens Creative Theatre
presents Neil Simon's "Promises. Promises," a
hilarious musical comedy with a unique story of
love and the corporate ladder. The show
debuted in 1968 as an adaptation of The
Apartment, a film starring Jack Lemmon and
Shirley MacLaine. Combing the clever situation
al comedy of Neil Simon and music by the leg
endary Burt Bacharach. it
has since become a land
mark of the American
stage.
"Promises. Promises”
tells the story of the
determined but gawky
Chuck Baxter (played
wonderfully by Chris
Williams), and his corpo
rate misadventures. His
upward mobility begins
when his middle-aged co
workers start borrowing
his apartment for their
extramarital flings. He‘ s
not sleeping his way up
the corporate ladder, but
providing his higher-ups
with a place to "sleep"
makes him quite the superficially popular
employee.
All the while, he tries to gain the attention of
Fran Kubelik, a confused company plebeian
played by Gretchen Van De Mark Williams and
Van De Mark work well with each other, espe
cially in their rendition of Bacharach s Til Never
Fall In Love Again." and you can't help but root
for them to find each other's arms
And don't forget: "Promises. Promises" is a
comedy. The whole cast delivers some big
laughs, especially Titus Burgess as Dr. Dreyfuss.
Baxter's riotously funny neighbor Simon's writ
ing is quick-witted and the actors pull off the
goofiness of the whole story very well Add to
the laughs the beautiful song and dance num
bers and you have quite a celebration of the
theater Who ever thought the corporate life
could make for so much fun? (Andy Battaglia)
"Promises, Promises " plays Friday, May 9, and
Saturday. May 10. at the Morton Theatre The
show starts at 7:30 p m
Dr. Hugh Kenner recently sponsored $ lecture m the UGA chapel by Joseph Btotner. biogra
pher of William Faulkner and Robert Renn Warren Bto trier's old friends Jimmy Faulkner
and James Cohrert were m attendance (l-r: Btotner. Kenner. Faulkner. Cohrert]
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