Shuler Hensley — Page 2

i just have a lot of friends in Atlanta, and used to travel/backpack with them around the state. i love Broad Street---is that pizza place still there? it seemed like the hangout for a lot of college kids and had a great patio out back where in the summer they'd show movies like BEACH BLANKET BINGO on the brick wall. i also remember a pretty good live jazz club downtown. Love that clock tower, and the Berry buildings, but i don't recall the Shorter campus that much (it's right downtown, isn't it?). i did see PIPPIN "back in the day" at Shorter, but i think it was staged in the TV studio and not the main theatre. i also remember reading about them doing THE GRASS HARP a while ago, a piece that really intrigues me.

The best part about Berry, if i remember right and am not confusing it with someplace else, was the mountain campus (i think that's what they called it). It had some really old stone buildings from the very start of the school, and most recently had been a private boarding high school, and then Chick-Fil-A had taken it over as a training center affiliated with the more modern Berry campus down the "hill." i also remember the college founder had a house very high on the mountain---is it called Lavender Mountain? a kind of stone cabin, but huge, that we hiked to---apparently she took donors (like Henry Ford) up there for the view and kinda persuaded them to give to her school. Her family's home is beautiful too, i remember it was very antebellum in style and had a terrific little museum of her life nearby. A pretty amazing place, overall.

i loved Rome. But i could have sworn both Shorter and Berry had music conservatories at one point, before they became departments and joined the liberal arts colleges there now. Does Berry still have the festival where the students dress in clothes similar to the original college uniforms and march down a hill?!?!?

Again, that is such an amazing part of the country, with such a rich heritage.

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that pizza joint might have been called Schroeder's. They had great sandwiches and really cheap pitchers. The Berry museum had pictures of the festival, with all these college students in pink and blue walking down the hill hand in hand.

i think i saw the Rome Little Theatre (or maybe municipal auditorium) from the outside, but didn't get to go in. Doesn't Shorter even have a recital hall?!?!? though i love black boxes. i remember the deer at the Berry campus, and also cows, and thereflecting pools in the Ford complex. i don't think they had a football team, either, but lotsa soccer fields and they were just building a baseball diamond.

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Updated On: 4/5/05 at 09:32 AM

MagicToDo82,

Could you give me some detail about Shuler's performance in POTO? I am desperate looking for this.

By the way, could you check my pm.

Thank you very much.

Sherman Hemsley was fantastic on The Jeffersons.

sanda - No worries, I really hope he does play the part sometime. I really can't think of any actor right now who'd be better.

And I really really really want to hear his Phantom too. Ever since hearing Anthony Warlow I've prefered baritones in the role, but I've never heard a bass-baritone sing it (albeit one with a huge range).