G The Daily Collegian Monday, February 14,1977
Student
By MARGARET HERRING
Collegian Staff Writer
Acting, like life itself, has challenges,
stumbling blocks and sometimes a lucky
break. Anyone wanting to be a serious
actor or actress must be able to cope
with all these factors and more. Sarah
Rush (llth-theater and film) wants to be
such an actress, and what’s more, she’s
willing to work at it.
Sarah feels that after four years of
college she’ll be ready to apply the
theater techniques she developed at
Penn State to the stage. But why go to
college for acting? Why not just go to
Plays folk, light
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By MARK KISER
Collegian Staff Writer
Students at Pehn State have various ways of
supporting themselves. Tom Breton (graduate
music), uses his musical talent for performances,
and for private guitar lessons to support himself.
Breton has performed at Skimont, the University
Club, the Corner Room and the Sheraton Campus
Inn. Until November he performed in a duo with
Peter Cavanagh, an associate professor of
biomechanics at the University. But because of a
lack of time on the professor’s part, Breton decided
to go it alone.
Breton prefers to play a misture of folk and light
rock but also has played jazz and soul music.
Breton finds the most rewarding part of per
forming is the ability to grab people’s emotions and
imaginations and communicate deep feelings. “I
want to uplift them and bring them closer
together,” Breton says.
Breton does his own arrangements. In order for a
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New York and audition for roles?
“That’s crazy,” she said.
At college, the acting student gets to
see and learn from many experts while
training. The student actor needn’t land
roles just to put food on his table, rather
to gain experience and meet people.
Often, Sarah added, the large emotional
adjustment from small-town to
metropolitan life would be impossible
without college as a transitional stage.
After her transitional period at Penn
State, Sarah hopes to become a working
actress. She said while performers used
to dream of the silver screen, “I think an
rock mixture
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previously-written or recorded song to fit his talents
and personality, Breton develops it in a different
way then it was originally done.
Although Breton enjoys singing, he prefers the
instrumental aspect of music. He has played the
guitar for fifteen years and also plays the piano and
trombone.
Breton says that the music of today is more
diversified than that of the recent past. “Today’s
music ranges from trash to well-thought-out music
with integrity,” Breton says. “AM radio generally
represents the lower spectrum of the scale: Billy
Joel, Harry Chapin and Loggins and Messina
represent some of the better, ’ ’ Breton says. .
Breton says his interest in music began when, as a
child, he was fascinated with the children’s records
of Gries, Bizet and Prokofiev. He also said that he
was influenced by the musicals he attended in New
York City and the fact that his grandfather had a
musical background.
Before coming to Penn State, Breton attended
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actor’s dream in 1977 is to be workin.”
After some vocal and dance training at
Juillard Conservatory in New York, she
hopes to work in the Big Apple. She said,
“Somebody can tell me New York is
cold; I’m sure it is,” she said. “But I
have to find that out for myself. So I just
might go and say, ‘Well, let’s try
something!’ But no matter what, I’ll be
fulfilled.”
Before an actress can go to New York,
however, she first must have plenty of
job experience. Sarah began doing plays
in third grade, continuing through high
school. She stayed with acting rather
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Gettysburg College, where he received a BA degree
in religion. He chose religion as d major because the
music department at Gettysburg trained mostly
future secondary and elemenatry school teachers.
“I liked religious thought,” Breton says.
Aside from music, Breton also has an interest in
the theater. He was an actor and dancer in Penn
State’s summer production of “Finian’s Rainbow”
and also played the role of Judas in “Jesus Christ
Superstar” at Gettysburg. Upon receiving his
degree in music composition this May Breton plans
to attend Southern Illinois University where he will
seek another master’s degree. His chosen major is,
opera-music theater.
Breton’s activities outside of Penn State include
work at the Philadelphia ’76 Folk Festival as well as
performances in rock bands.
“Playing popular music is not just a hobby,”
Breton says. “Music is my way of communicating
with the people around me.” Breton’s next
engagement will be at the Corner Room, March 7-
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from college experiences
than cheerleading because she was so
shy. “I was too embarrassed to say I was
going to be an actress, so I would say I
was going into English, ’ ’ she said. .
Nevertheless, Sarah came to Penn-
State and has since played numerous
small roles and several large ones in
“Noon,” last summer’s “Bus Stop” and
last fall’s “Scapino!’’During Spring
Term, she will portray Nora in “A Doll’s
House.” And last week, Sarah replaced
Patricia Angelin Skemp as Lucy Lockit
in “The Beggar’s Opera.” Skemp fell
opening night, receiving a concussion.
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days of rehersal, and plenty of help from
everyone involved with the musical.
Although this acting experience is
valuable toward landing future roles,
acting has other values. Sarah feels
acting helps develop personality.
“Through acting, you find yourself; you
get a kind of self-respect. People used to
push me around all the time. That’s why
I’m an actress it really helps me know
what my ideas are, what I really want in
life,” shesaid. x
But theater can also be a stumbling
block. It can be lonely for winners as
LP recreates ragtime rhythm
By 808 FRICK
Collegian Staff Writer
“Scott Joplin’’ (music by Scott Joplin,
arranged by and performed by Dick
Hyman) MCA 2098
' Music from the motion picture sound
track of “Scott Joplin,” a soon-to-be
released flick starring Billy Dee Williams,
brings well-deserved recognition to one of
the greatest ragtime composers.
This latest release from Motown does
justice to Joplin’s music, which has been
all but dormant in America since around
the time of his death in 1917.
Joplin, you’ll remember, wrote “The
Entertainer, ’ ’ which was used as the. theme
for “The Sting ” He also wrote “The Maple
Leaf Rag,” one of those familiar tunes you
often find yourself humming but are never
quite sure who wrote it.
“The Maple Leaf Rag” appears in four
different places on the Scott Joplin album
and is generally played to death. In once
version, it is heavily orchestrated, as part
of the finale along with the “Entertainer.
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MEETINGS
College of Education Student Council, 7 p.m., Room 104 Chambers.
Gamma Sigma Sigma, 7 p.m., Room 103 Osmond.
G.S.A. Council, 7 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
Penn State Folklore Society, 7:30 p.m., Room 324 HUB.
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Also, it appears in two notable versions
arranged and performed by Dick Hyman.
Hyman’s concise piano tickling and his
sparkling keyboard gymnastics do justice
to Joplin’s “Heliotrope Bouquet" (stomp
version) and an arrangement of Hyman’s
own “Cutting Contest Tune” and “The
Maple Leaf Rag.”
Some of Hyman’s arrangements,
however, are ovferdone, probably because
they were written for a movie soundtrack
or as an attempt to dress up Joplin’s
sometimes repetitious melodies.
“Weeping Willow” and “Courtship” in
particular sound more like fancy
background music than pieces arranged to
stand by themselves.
Hyman’s arrangement of “Solace”
sounds too much like a tango-complete
with castinets. “The Entertainer” is
dressed up with too many strings and is
generally over orchestrated.
For the most part, however, Hyman’s
modernization of Joplin’s tunes work well,
improving subtly on the original.
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well as for losers. ‘‘Sometimes it’s very
hard when you win a role and you know
that you hurt a very good friend,” Sarah
said.
Sarah Rush is finding out that acting is -
hard work, a challenge and sometimes
even a stumbling block. But despite her'
crammed schedule, she still has time
herself. She makes the time to teach'.
Sunday School, keep a clean house, do
her needlework and go to football games.
‘‘But,” she added, “I hate to spread,
myself too thin. I like to commit myself'
100 per cent to things.”