Collegian
February 6, 1986
Alex Cole brings high energy performance to Bmno's
Classical guitarists come to Behrend
The classical guitar duo of
Julian Gray and Ronald Pearl will
perform a recital on Feb 13, at
8:00 p.m., in Reed 117. The artists
will present music for two guitars
by Sor, Jolivet and Segovia. Addi
Psi Alpha Provisional Chapter of
KAPPA DELTA RHO
Robert Frank
Joy Jacobson
Alex Cole
tionally, their transcriptions of
piano music by Brahm,
Mendelssohn and Shostakovich
will be featured.
Based in Baltimore, Maryland
The Brothers of the
formally announce the
induction of our
Alpha Pledge Class
Honor Super Omnia
"Alex Cole is terrific, and
unless he gets run over by a
steamroller, is going to be a major
name one of these days."
That's what the St. Paul
Dispatch had to say about the
comedian following a standing
ovation from a house full of
rockers who saw Cole open for
Talking Heads recently. By all ac
counts, Talking Heads wound up
having to close the show for Alex,
whose scent lingered long after he
left the stage.
This is not unusual. Alex has
had this kind of effect on people
for some time now, opening-con
certs for name acts, appearing in
the nation's major comedy clubs,
innumerable television apperances
and at the hundreds of campuses
he's visited throughout the coun
try. (He's showcased at seven of
the duo has performed
throughout he Mid-Atlantic
region. This concert will be one of
a series they are performing in
Pennsylvania this season.
Robert Tracy
Crist Pewhey
feature
the NACA's eleven regions,..
always with twenty-five to thirty
date blocks and rave reviews from
his concerts. He's truly a campus
favorite.)
Alex Cole is a tall, muscular
child of thirty with a face of rub
ber and a continual air of playful
mischief, most of which he's been
caught at, just like the rest of us.
From a life-long persuit of ex
cellence in tom-foolery, Alex
creates and recreates colorful
characters and scenarios that will
invariable have you howling,
"Oh; Lord, I've done
that!" ...those hideous little
things that make us blush,
scream, sweat, cry, agonize, trem
ble and occasionally wet ourselves
over.
In concert, Cole is a dynamo.
Kevin O'Conuer and Bill Mettler
Comedy team, Quiet Riot
is "Out of Control"-
by Maureen Sekel
Collegian Contributing Writer
"Out of Control" was
presented by the Quiet Riot Com
edy team on Friday, Jan. 31. Ac
cording to their program the show
was "dedicated to the notion that
the human urge to control things
comes in many forms." In many
forms they indeed did come. The
Quiet Riot Comedy Team, "a
presentation of mime, verbal
comedy, dance, backlit illusion,
audience participation and im
provision" (from the Times
"Winterfest" article) toured
Behrend College Friday evening,
The Behrend Campus Ministry 6:00 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7. The
is sponsoring their fast weekend , crew returns on Sunday, Feb. 9
retreat for the weekend of around 3:30 p.m.. Interested
February 7-8 (this weekend!). The students must sign up in the Stu
retreat takes place at Camp Jud- dent Affairs office immediately if
son with Fr. George youintendtogci.
Schoonmaker. The Campus firmistry is also
Transportation is provided and providing an Ash Wednesday ser
everyone is welcome. Transports vice with Father Ron Town at
tion leaves the Reed parking lot'at 5:30 p.m. in Reed 117.
He doesn't so much use a stage as
he consumes it, and before long,
the entire room becomes his soap
box, not to mention every living
soul within the room. It's a highly
charged concert in which you
become an integral part of the
frolic.
In other words, Alex Cole con
nects. He gets us in touch with our
own fragile mortality and makes
us laugh it hurts, while
simultaniously striking deep with
a powerful sense of humanity and
joy. It's refreshingly clean, per
sonl catharsis filled with colorful
and unforgettable characters from
neighborhood bullies to killer
wasps (The Hell's Angels of in
sects) and everything in between.
Alex Cole will perform Feb. 14
at Bruno's at 8:00p.m.
sharing a refined display - of
character and eventful correspon-
ding action that set the audience
beside itself in laughter and heart
felt recognition that humor means
approaching day-to-day existance
delicately, with gust.
Bill 'Mettler and Sevin O'Con
ner set mime to music and dance
to rhyme commenting on contem
porary issues and traditional, new
and old values. They payed
tribute to great figures in history
and acknowledged applause say
ing, "Who did it?-maybe Marilyn
Monrcie, maybe Sylvester
Stallone." . _