—The Daily Collegian Friday, September 10, 1976
Livingston Taylor first
Concerts on theatre bill
The State 'Theatre, once
famous for its seething skin
flicks, may soon be known for
its concerts, if Bob Brutout of
Promising Artists
Management has his way.
The first concert, by
Livingston Taylor and
Laurel, will have shows at 7
and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Brewer and Shipley are
scheduled for Sept. 28.
The concerts will be run by
Summer Productions and
WXLR radio station. Summer
Pioductions is in turn con
trolled by Promising Artists
Management, which consists
of Brutout and Jim Sum
merson. Promising Artists
manages four or five acts,
including State College's own
Morningsong. ,
Brutout said that it is
dtatCollegian arts
Bingo barrels through baseball
By LEAH ROZEN
Collegian Staff Writer
. "The , Bingo Long
Traveling All-Stars &
Motor Kings," now playing
at The Flick, is a gentle
baseball comedy with more
than a hint of social
significance.
It's about a bunch of
black ballplayers during
the 30's, before the white
leagues discovered Jackie
Robinson and decided to
break the color line. During
this period, black 'players
had their own teams and
league.
"Bingo Long" is about a
through contacts made across
the country and in return for
favors given that he is able to
book name acts at a farily low
rate. "I toured Morningsong
with Livingston this summer,
so for what we've done for
him we were able to get him
at a cheaper price."
Brutout is working on
contracts with other per
formers, and said that if the
first few are successful,
Summer Productions will
"try to do them regularly,
even to taking the theatres
over.
"Contingent upon the
success and support of these
first concerts, hopefully by
January we can get to lease
the theatre and run five or six
acts a week not every
week, not all the time, and of
bunch of players who rebel
against the money
grubbing .owners of their
teams and set out on their
own. Bingo (Billy Dee
Williams), a star pitcher,
along with James Earl
movie review
Jones, who plays an aging
slugger, • are the
ringleaders of the black all
star team.
They . travel about . the
country taking on local
teams, mostly white,
usually beating them. At
course it all depends on the
response to the first acts."
Brutout would like to use
the State as a showcase
theatre, as well as a hall for
name acts. P -cord com
panies could test new per
formers on a concentrated
audience of prospective
buyers. As Brutout said, "For
a record company State
•College is a good trial market
'for a new act." •
If all gois well and Summer
Productions does decide to
take over the State, a major
overhaul would be necessary.
At the moment there is no
permanent stage or dressing
rooms, and power fur the
upcoming concerts is going to
have to be run in.
the same time, ,however,
they have to start indulging
in minstrel-type antics
( zany costumes, jokes,
choreography and other
trickS) to let the whites
laugh while their teams get
beaten.
Meanwhile, the black
owners of the regulation
black teams are getting
steamed-up about Bingo's
team and set out to break it
up.
Billy Dee Williams, who
is surely Robert Redford's
rival in the looks depart
ment, scores points as the
The theatre presently seats
about 600, and Brutout is
aiming for an "intimate
concert atmosphere after the
Roxy or the Main Point. It's
not a Rec Hall. Acoustically,
it's great."
Brutout is a former Inter
fraternity Council vice
president who brought
Livingston Taylor, King
Crimson, Steeleye Span and
Maggie Bell to the University
for an IFC summer concert
series in 1974.
Tickets for the Livingston
Taylor and Laurel concert
are on sale now at the Record
Ranch. Brewer and Shipley
tickets will go on sale Sept. 21
at both the Record Ranch and
the State Theatre box office.
title character. He is a very
cooly efficient actor.
James Earl Jones, with
the gap between \his front
teeth showing every time
he flashes that tremendous
grin, supports the film. His
character is a solid, decent
man, ready to stand up for
his rights and principles,
but not above having a
good time.
Richard Pryor turns up
as a black player who in
sists he is Cuban, a
nationality he plans to use
to enter the white leagues.
He is his usual uproarious
self.
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Buzzard band is ballroom funky)
with return of the rhumba beat
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Collegian Staff Writer
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