Word: rained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production also benefitted from excellent set design and lighting; set designer David R. Gammons is quite successful in creating a cemetery and an artist's studio, with rain pouring outside the windows. A moving stage keeps the scene changes smooth, and is instrumental in keeping a complex play like this as lucid as possible. Unfortunately, the sound was not up to par with the great visual scenery of the play: A few lines were inaudible, and many more were impossible to hear for those sitting in the back...
...they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there is no turning back. Everyone in Columbia, practically everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line, knows Hootie is lurking. By the time the band waits out the rain, its entrance will be about as much of a surprise...
Meanwhile, back at the Columbia festival, the rain has finally stopped. The band takes the stage to a massive roar from the crowd, a Beatles in Liverpool, U2 in Dublin, Nirvana in Seattle hometown roar. With abandon, joy and a little bit of out-of-practice sloppiness, they tear through some old songs--Hannah Jane, Let Her Cry and Time--as well as a couple of the new numbers, Sad Caper and Be the One. Rucker screams his way through that last one, pulling and pawing at his shirt as if he's about to come...
...little chilly and then it started to rain," said Betsy A. Herbin '99. "Obviously the audience was compelled, because they didn't flee at the first drops...
...Brown." Surely the more than 7,000 people who stood in line all night to walk past Brown's remains resting on the catafalque built for Abraham Lincoln couldn't be faking it as well. Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground. Jasper Johnson, who passed by the casket early Wednesday morning, cut Brown's hair every two weeks for 20 years in Shaw. It was the neighborhood Brown often frequented, where he dropped...