College students—Are you struggling to find something to do that is both entertaining and affordable? Do you want to go out, but realize the cash flow is low?

Students all over can be found scraping quarters and dimes together to buy a late night pizza or going dutch treat on dates.To help combat this funding dilemma, the Campus Activities Board fine arts committee has booked nine world-renowned artists which can be enjoyed on a college budget.

Jazz phenomenon Dizzy Gillespie will kick off the series in Dekalb’s Egyptian theatre. September 13 is the day he is set to voice his trumpet and deliver his on-stage antics. “We are really honored to have someone of his stature in our program,” University Programming and Activities Advisor,Steven Duchrow, said, “He’s a legend in jazz.”

Then, when the air becomes creepy and the night is fowl, the Phantom of the Opera will come to the Egyptian theatre on October (Friday) 13. This will not be the Andrew Lloyd Weber production, but an interpetation taken from the 1911 novel and produced by John Kenley & Robert Thomas Noll. There are to be 14 stage sets utilized during the show.

Names like Dizzy Gillespie and classic musical productions such as the Phantom of the Opera are likely to draw in the crowds, yet this is just a slight wrinkle in the fine arts committees’ plans. Committee chair Michael Baltasi hopes that the popularity of these names will interest people into buying series subscpritions.

When the Phantom of the Opera is done and complete, a traditional opera by the name of Madame Butterfly will come to town. Puccini’s famous story of love, trickery and betrayal will be performed by the Minnesota Opera. The work was included in the series because people should be exposed to at least one opera and Madame Butterfly should be recognizable to all, Duchrow explained.

“Spell-binding and death-defying feats” are all part of a day’s work for the chinese acrobats. This group, coming in late October, will need to muster all the precision and balance they are known for in order to execute their chair tower tricks. Members pile 17 or more chairs on top of each other while doing handstands or other stunts as part of their show.

Spoofs and comedy are used to show that ballet doesn’t have to be stuffy or high-brow in a performanace by Les Ballets Trokadero De Monte Carlo, Duchrow said. “They are the Monty Python of dance.” This all-male troup is known for their “hilarious” spoof of the classic Swan Lake, Baltasi said.

Other events include the bronze medal winner of the Van Cliburn Award, a contest that selects the brightest young pianists in the world. A showing of Dreamgirls, a story about a black singing group, Bucket Dance theatre, an Afro-Caribbean dance theatre, and also a Latin American art exibit filled with latin food and music.

Subscription prices are $20 for students, $35 for Seniors, $45 for faculty and alumni, and $55 for the general public and can be purchased at the U P & A office located on the 6th floor of the Holmes Student Center.