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Fine Arts Festival Opens With Musical

A highly-acclaimed Broadway
musical's road show inaugurates
this year's University Fine Arts
Festival with a performance in
University Hall tomorrow night.

The curtain rises at 8:30 p.m.
on "Man of La Mancha," which was
honored with every New York
drama award as the musical of the
year, and is being presented
tomorrow as the Artists Series'
fourth production of the season.

Unlike most road productions
of Broadway hits, the lead roles in
"Man" are being played by two
actors who also starred during the
original run: David Atkinson as
Don Quixote, and Patricia Marand
as Dulcina. In fact, the entire road
show is being produced by the same
sponsors which backed the
Broadway production.

Two Week Run

The University Union's Fine
Arts Festival will run for two
weeks, and will feature a variety of
selected artistic events, including
samplings in cinema, art, singing
and piano concerts, lectures, and
another dramatic presentation.

The production which will be
viewed in University Hall tomorrow
night has garnered praise in critical
reviews, including that of the
Syracuse Herald Journal: "the
company is not just superior to
those which have passed this way in
recent years, it is superb."

The Fine Arts Festival will
continue on Thursday evening with
"The Taming of the Shrew," the
recent Burton-Zeffirelli cinematic
production of Shakespeare's
comedy, starring Elizabeth Taylor
and Richard Burton.

Opening next Monday, March
11, the Virginia Players' production
of "Luv" will serve as the Series'
third attraction.

The three-character comedy,
which has been described as a "wild
farce satire that derides the
hypocrisy of the modern
establishment," will run the entire
week in Minor Hall, beginning each
evening at 8:30.

On Tuesday, March 12, the
fourth-year class of the University's
School of Architecture will sponsor

its annual art auction. The auction
will feature works by both students
and individuals outside the
University community.

Sesquicentennial Scholars

Two lectures, both delivered by
Visiting Sesquicentennial Scholars,
will be held as part of the Fine Arts
Festival next Wednesday and
Thursday, March 12 and 13.
Beginning both nights at 8 in the
South Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall, discussions of the "Dynamics
of Information" and "The Artist:
Prophet or Victim," will
respectively be delivered.

A choral concert of Franz
Haydn's "The Seasons" will be
given on Friday evening, March 14,
as part of both the University
Sesquicentennial celebration and
the Fine Arts Festival.

The concert will be performed
by the University Glee Club, in
conjunction with the Mary Baldwin
College Choir, under the direction

of Don Loach, professor of music
at the University.

Two days later, on March 16, an
exhibit of contemporary art works,
assembled at the University of
North Carolina under the patronage
of the Dillard Paper Company, will
begin in Newcomb Hall.

Young Pianist

Misha Dichter, a widely-hailed
young pianist of Polish descent, will
appear in concert in University Hall
on Monday evening, March 17.
Following his second-place showing
in the 1966 Tchaikovsky
Competition, Mr. Dichter has been
sought after by numerous recording
companies, and has played across
the United States, as well as in
Western Europe and again in the
Soviet Union.

The 1969 Fine Arts Festival will
conclude with the final Tuesday
Evening Concert Series production
of the season. On March 18, a
"Festival Winds With Piano"
concert will be performed in Cabell
Hall Auditorium, beginning at 8:15
p.m.