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The cast of “The Rivals” at the Arena Stage takes a curtain call as a group of teens from Montgomery County attend a special Saturday matinee.
WHAT ONE AREA IS DOING ABOUT—
Culture Among the Teen-Agers
Someone should give the Montgomery County Arts
Center a medal for optimism.
In its second year, the center still operates without
its own home. Cultural events are held at the National
4-H Club auditorium; business is conducted through
Box 9803, Chevy Chase 15, Md.
Although preoccupied with finding a home, the
fledgling arts eenter now has taken on another for
midable task—that of bringing art to teen-agers.
Since its founding in July, 1959, the arts center, an
association of Montgomery County citizens interested
in -the arts, has sponsored dramatic and musical per
formance series for both adults and children.
Members of the rock and roll generation who may
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have been Interested were left to choose between the
adult or child-size fare, until a Chevy Chase housewife
decided to give them their own program.
“I’d thought about it for quite a while,” says Mrs.
Marsha Kunen. “I went to the county Recreation De
partment and they thought it was a marvelous idea so
we set up a pilot program.”
For the bargain-basement rate of $3, teen-agers
were offered a concert by Guitarist Charlie Byrd; a
performance of the old English comedy, “The Rivals,”
at the Arena Stage; a dance program including the ballet
and modem dance, and a concert by the Percussion Trio
of New York.
“We think teen-agers will accept culture if it’s
within their price range and if they know what’s avail-
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able,” Mrs. Kunen says. “They’re usually in such a state
of flux they don’t know what they like. After this pro
gram they’ll know what they’re after.”
The Chatlie Byrd concert, half classical, and half
jarr drew 450 teen-agers to Leland Junior High last
month. In the words of one observer, “They were
enchanted.”
Because of the limited seating capacity of the Arena
Stage only 150 teens could attend the recent matinee
performance of “The Rivals.” Most of them were sur
prised and pleased at what they saw.
“It was so much better than movies or television,
declares Liz Kear, 14, a ninth grader at Leland Junior
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