UAB Briefs: A pop legend, a Working musical and a national honor
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In this weekly online feature, we keep track of interesting people and events on campus.
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Living legend
After 55 years in show business, pop vocalist Dionne Warwick is a true music icon.
She’s put 60 songs on the charts and sold more than 100 million records.
She partnered with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David to record such classic tunes as Alfie, Walk on By, Promises Promises and This Girl’s in Love With You.
And with her smooth blend of pop, gospel and R&B, Warwick – an African American – transcended racial and musical barriers in the turbulent 1960s.
Now the artist and winner of five Grammy Awards will perform at The Alys Stephens Center on Friday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m., according to a UAB news release.
Tickets are $56, $66 and $76. Admission for UAB is are $10, and there are a limited number of $25 tickets for UAB faculty.
Call 205-975-2787 or go to alysstephens.org.
Singing the unsung
The newest show from Theatre UAB, the musical Working – based on a 1970s best-selling book by journalist Studs Terkel – will be staged in the Odess Theatre at The Alys Stephens Center from Nov. 8-11 and Nov. 15-17 at 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., according to a UAB news release.
Terkel’s book, published in 1974, offers vivid portraits of schoolteachers, phone operators, waitresses, millworkers and others and explores what the author called “the extraordinary dreams of ordinary people.”
The original production premiered on Broadway in 1978 and was nominated for six Tony Awards.
Theatre UAB will present the 2010 revised version of the show, which includes two new songs by composer Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame.
The audience meets more than 25 different characters, all played by only six actors.
The show is directed by Valerie Accetta, with musical direction by Carolyn Violi and choreography by Roy Lightner, the release states.
Tickets are $20, $6 for students, and $10 for UAB employees and senior citizens. For tickets, call 205-975-2787 or go to alysstephens.org.
For more about Theatre UAB -- including the rest of the 2017-2018 performance schedule -- go to uab.edu/cas/theatre.
Highest honors
Dr. Mona Fouad, professor and director of the UAB Division of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine — one of the highest honors given to a physician or scientist in the United States.
This honor acknowledges a lifetime of exceptional work in health and medicine. Fouad is nationally recognized as a leader in health disparities research and collaboration.
Fouad’s UAB career began in 1991 when she became an instructor in the Department of Medicine.
In 2002, she became the founding director of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center — a university-wide interdisciplinary research center.