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HAYLEY ROSSStaff Writer

Art is often used as a way to start a dialogue about what is happening in the world today. And at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater, Charlotte Ballet’s inventive, contemporary “Dance Innovations” will be the medium used to bring issues such as bullying, conformity, peace and other social topics to light.

SPIN RYAN PAITStaff Writer

When people think of massive ships sinking at the turn of the 20th century, their thoughts might fi rst go to the RMS Titanic, for-ever immortalized by James Cameron’s blockbuster mov-ie, Kate Winslet and Leon-ardo DiCaprio’s star-making performances and the tin whistle solo from Celine Di-on’s “My Heart Will Go On.”

With Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, au-thor Erik Larson wanted to tell the tale of another sink-ing ship: the RMS Lusita-nia, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. Larson said be-fore writing the book, most of his knowledge about the Lusitania was what “every-body kind of knows when they emerge from high school, which is that the Lusitania was sunk. And the thing you’re left with in your mind is that it brought [America] into the war.”

Larson said the sinking is often taught as the World War I equivalent of the Pearl Harbor attacks, which he says isn’t quite correct.

“It was two full years before America got into World War I, which really surprised me,” Larson said.

Larson will speak about his work on Dead Wake as part of the morning lec-ture series for Week Six, the theme of which is “Vanish-ing.” His presentation will be at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater. Larson’s book is one of two Chautau-qua Literary and Scientifi c Circle selections for Week Six, along with Héctor To-bar’s Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Bur-ied in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free.

Sherra Babcock, vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education, said she re-ceived an advance copy of Dead Wake and was ini-tially considering it as an option for 2016’s program-ming. When “Vanishing”

became the Week Six lec-ture theme, it became clear to her the novel would be a great fi t for the 2015 season. She said Larson’s book has two ties to the theme of the week, one obvious and one not so obvious.

“Certainly, the Lusitania — it just sank,” Babcock said. “But in reading the book, there’s such a strong theme of the vanishing rules of warfare that we thought would be a wonderful lec-ture for the week.”

One of those vanishing rules was the notion that civilians were generally off -limits in times of war, Lar-son said. The attack on the Lusitania changed that in an irrevocable way.

Larson to lecture on CLSC book‘Dead Wake,’ wartime vanishings

ALEXANDRA GREENWALDStaff Writer

The terms “religious” and “secular” are often presented as opposites, but according to Phil Zuckerman, that is a misconception.

“We mustn’t think of reli-gion as one thing and secu-larism as just the absence of that,” said Zuckerman, professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer Col-lege. “Secular people are not like empty vessels walk-

ing around w i t h o u t these val-ues, aspira-tions, politi-cal, agendas or goals. Quite the opposite.”

Zuc k er -man will give a lecture titled “Irreligion Rising: Why More Americans are Becoming Secular” at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.

According to Zuckerman, America is seeing the “most signifi cant increase of non-re-ligious people in the history of the nation.” Twenty-three percent of Americans today claim no religion, an increase from 4 percent who made the same claim in the 1950s.

“In no state is religion growing, and in every state it’s decreasing,” Zuckerman said. “More and more peo-ple say they’re not religious. Not all of them are atheists,

obviously, and not all of them are agnostic, though signifi cant chunks of them are. So something is hap-pening [demographically].”

A variety of factors might contribute to the rise of American secularism, such as a reaction against the reli-gious right, church scandals and anti-religious humor in popular culture, and Zucker-man said the trend is unlike-ly to be reversed.

“Most people are reli-

gious because they’re raised religious. It’s a socialization eff ect,” he said. “So, as more people stop raising their kids religious, you’re going to see even more people be-ing secular.”

Zuckerman said the rise of secularism will likely have signifi cant impacts on Amer-ican society.

“On the positive, we’re going to see an increase of women’s rights, an increase of gay rights, a more rational

approach to solving problems like global warming, and a greater separation of church and state,” he said.

“On the bad side, we’re go-ing to see decreases in social capital, heightened individu-alism, a decrease in certain religious heritage, traditions, celebrations, and we’re going to see a bit more of people not connecting with each other as much.”

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RYAN PAITStaff Writer

Recognition Day is a scene out of time. White-clad graduates march, mu-sic plays, fl ower petals drift through the air. Lewis Mill-er and John Heyl Vincent are even there.

The event serves as the culmination of approxi-mately four years of read-ing for the Class of 2015 Chautauqua Literary and Scientifi c Circle graduates. JOSHUA BOUCHER | Staff Photographer

Jeff Miller, CLSC activities coordinator, leads the Class of 2015 through the Hall of Philosophy during the Vigil Sunday night. See CLSC, Page 4

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Tradition on parade as Class of 2015 celebrates its CLSC Recognition Day

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Charlotte Ballet to showcase ‘Dance Innovations’

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At top, Chautauqua School of Dance students perform during Olio #1: Young Girls in the Meadow during Carmina Burana Saturday in the Amphitheater. Above left, Charlotte Ballet’s Sarah Hayes Harkins dances in “Veris Leta Facies—The Merry Face of Spring.” Above right, soprano Leah Wietig sings among members of the Pittsburgh Youth Chorus.

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‘Carmina Burana’ exhibits Chautauqua’s good fortune

Carl Orff knew that he had written his masterpiece in Carmina Burana and told his publisher to discard all of his earlier works. However, as

the contemporary of such composers as post-Romantic Richard Strauss, modernist Charles Ives, Impressionist Claude Debussy and 20th-century icon Igor Stravinsky, he didn’t know that this work would surpass them in popu-larity and morph into a trendy cult favorite.

In other words, if you produce it, they will come.

There was definitely a buzz of anticipa-tion in a packed Amphitheater Satruday night for the last program in Chautauqua’s three-year inter-arts collaboration initiative, the others being The Romeo & Juliet Project and last year’s Go West! Unlike those two,

Carmina was, in part, a repeat from its 1992 premiere and subsequent encore in 1999.

The original infrastructure was still there — 24 songs gleaned from 250 poems writ-ten by 13th-century monks, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (this time directed by guest conductor Timothy Muffitt), Don Kimes’ mural (stretched across the stage, but mostly hidden by the orchestra members in front of it), Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s choreog-raphy and Marty Merkley’s direction (cer-tainly a major part of the Chautauqua vice president’s continuing swan song here).

But this tale of love, lust, sloth, sorrow and gluttony was altered with the addition of medieval art and a range of flora, all splen-didly projected by designer Christopher Ash on the ceiling — a first at Chautauqua.

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‘A feat of spectacle’ ‘Orff would have loved it’

Oh, the early musicians. They are the nerds, outliers and Comic-Con goers of the classical music world, dedicated to preserving

the art of playing ancient instruments with funny sounding names like shawms, vi-elles and sackbuts. And yet, add a troupe of these dedicated artists to any otherwise traditional classical music performance and, like merry wandering minstrels, they bring the concert to life.

Carmina Burana, this year’s inter-arts col-laboration, was very much enlivened by 10 early-music specialists (generally defined as people who focus of on the music and instruments of late Middle Ages, Renais-sance and early Baroque eras). They were the smallest of eight arts groups who par-

ticipated in Carmina on Saturday night, but perhaps the most integral ensemble, pro-viding musical segues and entertaining monologues between composer Carl Orff’s massive chorales and showstopper arias, which allowed various other dancers and singers to smoothly sneak on and off stage.

The only problems with making the early music ensemble quite so integral to the per-formance — and sadly there were problems — are that replicas of ancient instruments can scarcely project in any outdoor setting, much less the 4,000-seat Amphitheater, and there weren’t enough mobile microphones to go around. Credit the audience with si-lently paying rapt attention, but a lone for-tissimo chirper of a cicada up at Bestor Pla-za could compete with a solo recorder.

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After playwright Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she said in an inter-view that she finds her charac-ters and stories in varied plac-es. Sometimes in a newspaper, “obscure historical texts” or dinner party conversations.

“[S]ome even crawl out of the dusty, remote recesses of my imagination,” she said. “Each play I write has its own unique origin story.”

Chautauqua Theater Com-pany brings forward one of those unique stories — the story of Esther, a black seam-stress, and her struggles to be loved — as Nottage’s Intimate Apparel opens at 4 p.m. Sat-urday in Bratton Theater. The play continues its run at 2:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday.

CTC Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch, who is di-recting Intimate Apparel, has had her eyes on this play for a very long time.

“Now that I see it com-ing together, the play is even more magical than I thought it was. It has a spirit and is infec-tious,” she said. “You want to go deeper and deeper into it.”

The cast includes CTC alumni Tangela Large as Esther, and conservatory actors Matthew Baldiga, Kate Eastman, Kyle Vincent Terry and Whitney White as Mr. Marks, Mrs. Van Bu-ren, George Armstrong and

Mayme, respectively.CTC set a high bar for the

season with its successful run of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. CTC Managing Direc-tor Sarah Clare Corporandy said Intimate Apparel will be a different experience thanks to Benesch’s vision.

“Intimate Apparel is visual-ly different and emotional in a different way,” Corporandy said. “Vivienne is such an ex-citing and creative spirit, and her visual standards of excel-lence are reflected when you see the piece as a whole. You look at the play through her eyes.”

ryan paItStaff Writer

Veterans always come home with war stories. Phil Klay, a Marine and Iraq War veteran, also came home with questions.

Those questions Klay had for himself are explored in Redeployment, a collection of 12 short stories that recount a number of perspectives on the experience of service-men. The book was named the National Book Award winner in 2014 and made the New York Times’ list of “10 Best Books of 2014.”

It’s also this year’s winner of The Chautauqua Prize. Klay will receive the prize and host a reading and sign-ing at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Hall of Philosophy.

Klay’s path to service was one he said was shaped by his family, which he said “had a lot of respect for the idea of public ser-vice.” When Klay was in high school, he thought he would probably end up in the Foreign Service.

But when the Iraq War began while he was in col-lege, his mind changed.

“It seemed like that was the most logical thing to do to try and be a part of what was happening, for worse or for better,” Klay said.

Klay joined the Marines

and was deployed to the An-bar Province of Iraq. While there are aspects of his per-sonal experiences in Anbar that “crop up” in the book from time to time, he said they mostly served to inform the different perspectives and situations portrayed in Redeployment’s stories.

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‘Love, sex, economy’: CTC opens ‘Intimate Apparel’

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Esther, played by Tangela Large, and Mayme, played by whitney white, embrace during the dress rehearsal of Intimate Apparel Thursday in Bratton Theater.

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george Armstrong, played by Kyle Vincent Terry, reads a letter to Esther during Intimate Apparel. The show opens at 4 p.m. Saturday in Bratton Theater. See KLAY, Page A4See IntImAte, Page A4

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Fortune brings together Chautauqua’s mu-sicians, vocalists, dancers and artists in the Amphitheater for Carmina Burana, Chautau-qua Institution’s third annual inter-arts col-laboration at 8:15 p.m. Saturday.

Guest conductor Timothy Muffitt is one of the directors responsible for coordinating the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s perfor-mance with no less than four chorus and vocal

groups — and that’s to say nothing of the intri-cate visual arts components. Ideally, he said, the

audience won’t notice that coordination.“What we want to achieve is a truly integrated

whole,” Muffitt said. “When we’ve got literally hun-dreds of people involved, that’s a lot to integrate. How

can we put all this together and really have the arts at Chautauqua firing on all eight cylinders?”Ever since 20th-century composer Carl Orff set music to the

medieval text on which the work is modeled, Carmina Burana has been one of the most popular and enduring pieces of clas-sical repertoire. Muffitt said he doubts there will be anyone unfamiliar with at least bits and pieces of Saturday’s perfor-mance, particularly the “O Fortuna” movements. If someone hasn’t listened in a concert hall, they’re likely to have caught snippets in movie soundtracks or Old Spice TV ads.

As for why, Muffitt said the easy answer is the work’s sheer enormity and sonic power. But he also said Orff wrote it in a strophic form that’s inherently appealing to the mod-ern ear with verses that are repeated and reprised — it’s ba-sically a pop song, Muffitt said.

abe KenMore & hayley rossStaff Writers

They say the third time’s the charm. That is what Marty Merkley, vice president and director of programming, hopes will be the case for the performance of Carmina Burana at 8:15 p.m. Sat-urday in the Amphitheater.

Carmina Burana is also the culmination of a three-year Inter-arts Collaboration Initiative.

For the final year, Merkley wanted to take a production in its entirety and give it what he called a “Chautauqua twist.”

Carmina Burana is a culmination of over 250 poems written by monks in the 13th century. The poems were about everything from spring to love to drinking. Carl Orff discovered these po-ems in a library in Germany and used them to cre-ate the first production of Carmina Burana in 1937. The production combines art, dance, orchestra and chorus with a cast of more than 500 performers total.

“Orff wrote [Carmina Burana] so that it could all be danced to — dance, orchestra and chorus as three equal players,” Merkley said.

The production’s twist is nine extra musical segments called “olios,” which were added to the production, along with 11 sections of dialogue, in English, to help the audience understand the poems’ meanings. A prelude was also added before “O Fortuna,” the first and last poem of the production.

Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, artistic director of Chautau-qua Dance, created the choreography for the original 1992 Chautauqua production of Carmina Burana. Although the choreography is primarily the same, the cast of dancers is completely new.

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“I asked him what was wrong, and he said the cows woke him up early in the morning. They were bel-lowing,” she said. “He went out to see what the problem was, and their water source had 10 to 12 inches of white, gelatinous gunk with a crusty, dark top.”

Dowling’s father owned 52 acres of land in Bemus Point, across Chautauqua Lake from Chautauqua In-stitution. A World War II veteran, he had refused to sell his property to oil and gas companies in the 1950s when the natural gas boom hit Chautauqua County. But the people who lived up the hill from him had sold their property.

Dowling’s father investigated the source of the material in his creek, which feeds into Bemus Creek and eventually Chautauqua Lake. At the top of the hill, on his neighbor’s property, he saw the same material spilling over the walls of a containment well and into his creek. He confronted the neighbors, who were drilling for natural gas.

“They said to him something to the ef-fect of, ‘We know we’re wrong, old man, and we’re working to fix it,’ ” she said. “They did stop it, but not until a bunch of stuff had gone down that creek.”

After that day, Dowling’s father had to get his water trucked in from outside sources and was never compensated for the harm done to his creek. Today, Dowl-ing said the creek has turned brackish and lacks the organisms it once did.

Natural gas extraction for commer-cial purposes began in Chautauqua County in Fredonia, when William Hart drilled the first successful gas well in 1821. As of March 19, 2014, the date of a Chautauqua County Legislature Meeting on natural gas drilling, there were more than 3,500 active natural gas wells throughout the county.

High-volume, horizontal hydrofrac-turing, commonly known as “uncon-ventional” drilling or “fracking,” is a new method of natural gas extraction. Conventional reservoirs tend to be more porous, which allows gas and oil to flow easily. Unconventional reserves, which have become accessible over the last 10 years due to newer technologies, are “fracked” because they have a lower per-meability and therefore more water and energy is needed to obtain the gas.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned HVHF in New York state in December 2014, but Dowling believes conventional natural gas drilling, which she said polluted her father’s creek, poses problems, too.

Dowling is not alone. Starting in the early 1980s, the county

investigated 142 conventionally drilled natural gas-related complaints, said Bill Boria, a water-quality specialist for the county, at the 2014 legislature meeting mentioned above.

“Of all of those that we have investi-gated, 21 we could say were linked to oil and gas well activity. Eleven, we’re not too sure about,” Boria said. “We needed more information to make that determi-nation. But, for the most part, if you look at how many wells are in the county, it’s a pretty good track record.”

Dowling, however, is skeptical that this is an accurate representation of the issue. Her family never complained to the New York State Department of Envi-ronmental Conservation about the prob-lem, believing they could solve the issue themselves, and she said the DEC can be slow to respond to complaints.

“I have a feeling that, if you bother to complain, you probably had a problem,” she said. “I don’t think you’d randomly complain just because.”

Tim Hull, the vice president of the Appalachian Division of Empire Ener-gy, oversees natural gas wells in Chau-

tauqua, Cattaraugus, Erie, Seneca, Wyoming and Al-legany counties. He said there have been no prob-lems with conventional drilling in his experiences and that the state has over-regulated the natural gas industry, calling the ban on HVHF a “foregone con-clusion.”

“HVHF has been done safely in other states,” he said. “The state proposed regulations that would have addressed the concerns people had [about it]. In our opinion, there was never an honest look at [uncon-ventional] fracking. There were studies done, but the studies the politicians didn’t

like, they ignored, and they took on other studies that were largely done by envi-ronmental groups or people who were opposed to hydrocarbon production.”

He said HVHF and conventional drill-ing are very similar processes.

“There’s nothing different with the fracking they banned to what has been done thousands of times in Chautauqua County with the exception of the size of it,” he said.

Glenn Wahl, a part-time geology pro-fessor at Jamestown Community College, said the risks associated with the two practices vary significantly. HVHF wells have a higher well casing failure rate, which could release methane gas, arsenic and other chemicals into groundwater, he said.

“In Pennsylvania, there have been hundreds of cases of contamination from those wells,” he said. “This new kind of fracking has had such a high failure rate, along with other issues, that it’s got peo-ple trying to do something to stop it.”

Wahl and other organizers in the area have attempted to establish local bans on HVHF because they believe Cuomo’s statewide ban is “about as tenuous as it could be.”

“We haven’t been all that successful [with bans] because we have a strong gas and oil business in Chautauqua County,” he said. “Whenever we would try to do something, the oil folks would send their employees to cause intimidation and whatnot. It took them a long time to real-ize that we’re not talking about banning conventional drilling, but about banning the new kind.”

Even though surveys indicate most New Yorkers support the ban, Wahl believes the pressure to lift it is great. There is also room for loopholes. In Tio-ga County, a group of landowners have applied for a permit to perform HVHF using pumped propane gel, rather than pumped water.

“Technically, that would be legal. It would circumvent the state ban lan-guage,” Wahl said. “And propane frack-ing has most of the same problems that regular fracking has.”

Additionally, he believes the long-term, local economic benefits of HVHF have been exaggerated.

“In order to get money from investors, you have to produce a lot, and when you produce with these kind of wells, produc-tion declines very rapidly,” Wahl said. “Whereas [conventional] wells could keep producing after 20, 30, 40 years, the new kind only produces for a few years.”

For many years, Wahl supported HVHF.

“My geology background kind of comes with the territory that you’re sup-portive of fuel extraction,” he said. “It wasn’t until I read hundreds of govern-ment agency reports that I realized frack-ing is not what the industry really says it is. There’s been a big development of propaganda that is misleading the pub-lic about what it is and what it does, that says it never contaminates water and is perfectly safe.”

NATURAL GAS A symbol of Chautauqua County

or an overvalued fuel?

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on natural gas extraction, including high-volume, horizontal

hydrofracturing in western New York state.

O ne early morning 20 years ago, Audrey Dowling received a panicked call from her elderly father.

MIRANDA WILLSON | Staff Writer

HIGH-VOLUME, HORIZONTAL HYDROFRACTURING(FRACKING)

CONVENTIONAL DRILLING

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian has some advice to those who are crit-ical of proposed Iran nuclear deal: “Be realistic.”

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the full name of the recent Iran nuclear deal between the United States, China, Russia, the European Union and Iran,

calls for a reduction of Iran’s ura-nium stockpiles in exchange for relief from nuclear-related sanc-tions. Mousavian, a former dip-lomat and Iranian nuclear nego-tiator who was born in Iran and has studied in both the U.S. and Great Britain, said it will stabilize the region and create a pathway for peace between Iran and the West. Western critics, he believes, are often too biased against Iran

and the Middle East to fully un-derstand why.

Mousavian will address the JCPA, Iran-U.S. relations and the country’s role in the Middle East at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture today in the Amphitheater. His son, Mohammad, a graduate stu-dent at the University of Pennsyl-vania, and Emad Kiyaei, the ex-ecutive director of the American Iranian Council, will join him on-

stage and ask him questions.“The JCPA is perhaps the fi rst

time the U.S. and Iran have en-gaged in high-level, direct talks,” Mousavian said. “And it has re-sulted in a major breakthrough to resolve one of the most important international security issues, the nuclear Iran case, through diplo-macy and negotiation.”

Mousavians, Kiyaei to address U.S.-Iran relations, nuclear deal

ALEXANDRA GREENWALDStaff Writer

Though the preservation and sharing of sacred space might seem to be the task of those who run churches, synagogues or mosques, Jodi Magness is responsible for the conser-vation of spaces and objects that were considered sa-cred millennia ago.

Magness is an archae-ologist specializing in Palestine and Israel and a senior endowed chair in the Department of Reli-gious Studies at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She will give a lecture titled “Sacred Space: What Makes Jerusalem Special?” at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.

“As archaeolo-gists, we not only uncover ancient re-mains, but we also are responsible for the preservation of the site,” Magness said. “Everything we bring to light is part of a shared

world heritage. Whatever archaeologists uncover, es-pecially in a case like Jeru-salem, belongs to a heritage that is shared by everybody across the globe.”

Magness has participat-ed in 20 Greek and Israeli excavations. Her current project is an excavation of Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Galilee.

The excavation of Huqoq began in 2011 and has re-vealed several late Roman-Byzantine mosaics that cov-er the fl oor of a synagogue.

Archaeologist Magness to discuss ancient Jerusalem

GEORGE COOPERStaff Writer

Every day, Chautau-quans walk the walk of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford — literally, in their footsteps, as the two were good friends and spent many hours together on the grounds. It was a friend-ship of two great — if im-perfect — people.

Both will appear through the vehicle of one man, Hank Fincken, an his-torical monactor and a per-former with a distinctively Chautauqua experience, who will bring to life Edi-son and Ford in a presen-tation at 3:30 p.m. today in

the Hall of Christ as part of the Oliver Archives Heri-tage Lecture Series.

If history were to repeat itself, it would be like this, Fincken said. For more than 20 years, he has toured as a living history performer at educational institutions, cultural events, libraries and at many Chautauquas. His performance today is his fi rst time at the mother Chautauqua in New York state.

“I am excited about this gig,” Fincken said.

Fincken prepares each of his presentations according to the interests of the group to whom he is presenting.

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In 1957, shortly before she stepped onto the stage for her second guest appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Carol Burnett learned that her New York City nightclub routine was the follow-up act to Elvis Presley. Since Presley had

recently joined the Army, Sullivan had planned a spectacular salute.

As Burnett began performing, the large marching band that had been honoring Presley and the studio audience of screaming teenage girls enamored with “The King” fell silent. In her memoir, Carrie and Me, Burnett wrote they just sat and stared at her for the remainder of the hour.

But she came back; big time. In 1962, a resilient Burnett won a Peabody “Personal Award” for her comedic performances and an Emmy for her perfor-mance on “The Garry Moore Show.”

At 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater, Burnett — the stage, TV, fi lm and voice actress, comedienne, singer and best-selling author — will present “An Evening with Carol Burnett.”

She is putting on only three such shows. Burnett’s is the only performance at Chautauqua

Institution to have sold out before the season even began.

She will use the improvised, give-and-take, Q-and-A format that Garry Moore excelled at with his audiences during the three years she appeared regu-

larly on his TV variety show. CBS Executive Producer Bob Banner pressed Bur-

nett to adopt it as the warm-up portion of “The Carol Burnett Show,” the hourlong weekly variety show comprised of comedic sketches, music, dancing and guest stars that aired from 1967 to 1978. Reluctantly, she agreed to give the intimidating Q-and-A concept a shot for a couple of shows. By the third week, both she and the audience had warmed up to it and were having fun.

Neither Moore nor Burnett used “plants” in the audience. The warm-up part of their shows was com-pletely unscripted. It still is. The diff erence now is that Burnett will talk to the audience for nearly 90 minutes.

“I’ve been doing this well over 25 years,” Burnett said. “People ask, ‘What’s Tim Conroy like in real life?’ And about Vicki Lawrence: ‘How did you dis-cover her?’ I have stories that I tell.”

She does have a plethora of tales. “I had an odd contract with CBS, where it was my

option on whether I wanted to do a variety show,” Burnett said. “They said it’s a man’s game. It’s Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Dean Martin. They wanted me to do a sitcom, and I said, ‘No, I want to be diff erent people.’ I’d learned so much working with Garry Moore.”

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