European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sarafina a simple but tragic tale of apartheid by de Reavis staff writer they loved it. They clapped their hands and stomped their feet. They cheered. Sarafina the Black South african musical thrilled the audience in Frankfurt West Germany with its dynamic premiere performance earlier this month. Politics terror and racism Are the main ingredients of Sarafina based on an idea by Winnie Mandela wife of p the african anti apartheid activist Nelson Mandela Sarafina is billed As the first Quot anti apartheid  it was written by Mongeni Ogema and scored by Hugh Masakela. The Story of Sarafina is As simple As it is tragic. Sarafina is the name of the most popular student at the Morris Isaacson High school in the township Soweto. The musical follows her and her fellow students As they become involved in the struggle for equal rights. Soweto or South West township is a giant Black ghetto near Johannesburg where the 1976 anti apartheid uprising began. Before the uprising was quelled More than 467 persons were killed. Sarafina depicts that struggle and shows the transformation of Black South african schoolchildren to militant civil rights and Freedom fighters. Their hero is the former political prisoner Nelson Mandela a co chairman of the african National Congress who has become a kind of Black Moses for Black South african Hopes and Faith in a Freedom soon to come. The stage backdrop for Sarafina evokes militant oppression with its Fence topped with barbed wire. Behind the Fence Are a tank searchlights and 10 armed uniformed soldiers who double As the band. Sarafina is imprisoned after the school is invaded by the township police and students Are shot for protesting the government decision to substitute afrikaans for English language classes. Later she is freed and returns to school not broken but steeled in her conviction to fight for the end of apartheid. She becomes the Leader of the uprising and even plays Mandela in a school play delivering one of his stirring speeches. As the students find their Way Back to their roots during the course of the musical they discard their Western style school uniforms and Don National costumes for the rousing finale Freedom is coming tomorrow. The music in Sarafina ranges from a rocking jazz reggae gospel sound to the Folk rhythms of Zulu dances. Sarafina originally opened in the Market Garden theatre in Johannesburg South Africa in 1987. A co production went on the Road while another went to new York where it has won audience and critical acclaim Over the last three years. The musical is still being staged in new York. After Mandela s recent release from prison after 27 years the musical shifted its emphasis from militant confrontation to an Appeal for finding racial Harmony in South Africa based on the slogan Quot one Man one  on june 11, the Sarafina troupe went to Bonn West Germany to support a Public rally for Mandela who came to convince the West German government not to drop their economic and military sanctions of South Africa. It was the first time members of the troupe actually saw Mandela and several of them broke Down in tears. Sarafina is playing in Cologne West Germany for the next two weeks. It will then go to Munich. Check with local tourist offices for More information. 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But is even that enough to excuse the musical mismanagement of Dick Tracy an album that seems to take special Pride in showing just How badly today a pop stars can sing the music of the 30s? although the collection in t a Complete disaster a Patti Austin does a delightful Bessie Smith in the Confidence Man a it seems better suited for laughing at than listening to thanks to August Darnell a hapless cab Calloway impression Tommy pages hopeless Rudy Vallee routine and the title tune in which ice to makes it painfully Clear Why rap records weren t made in the 30s.Johnny Gill a Johnny Gill apparently replacing Bobby Brown in new edition was t enough for Singer Johnny Gill a now he a out to replace Brown on the pop charts. And judging from the sound of Johnny Gill he a Likely to do it too. Thanks to first rate production by two top hit making teams both Jimmy Jam amp Terry Lewis and . Reid amp baby face the album moves confidently from sultry love songs like my my my to such state of the Art dance tunes As rub you the right Way. But where Gill has his greatest Edge is vocally for not Only can Gill match Brown s rhythmic insistence but his Rich throaty delivery adds the passionate soul Power of a kind of big voiced Singer like Teddy Pendergrass making this an album of unbeatable  Lynne a armchair theatre As might be expected of Quot the quiet wilbury Quot Jeff Lynne does t spend a lot of time showing off on armchair theatre a or at least not the obvious sort of showing off. Instead what stands out most about his first Solo album is its sound a densely layered pastiche of Doo Wop vocals honking 50s-style saxophones vividly modern guitar and flashy Spector esque orchestrations. It s a phenomenally baroque concoction utterly idiosyncratic and perfectly in character for the Man who powered electric Light orchestra but it works making the most of everything from luxuriously pop songs lift me up to oddball oldies september song. A . Considine Baltimore Sun the cast of the Black South african musical a Sarafina. A stripes  i zip lip i your weekly marketplace classified ads appear every week in stripes Magazine. To place an and p. Ecn.87 mail of or Money order do not Send Cash payable in . Dollars to the stars and stripes characters the stars and stripes Box 266, Apo 09211. $5.00 for 3 lines. $ 1 per additional line 29 characters and spaces per Linen maximum. Multiply rate by number of times and is to Irun. It w ii a near the deadline for each week s classified and Section is monday 4 . Ads received after monday will appear in the following week s paper. 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