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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 27, 1992                   TAG: 9202270288
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Jane Powell, the Roanoke singer, has won the Jazz Artist of the Year Award from the National Association for Campus Activities for the third year in a row.

Powell, a William Fleming High School graduate, also won the association's Performing Arts-Music Award during its annual convention held Saturday at the Loew's Anatole Hotel in Dallas.

In 1990 she was chosen Entertainer of the Year.

This year, awards were given in 11 categories, according to an NACA spokesmen.

Winners were chosen by band-bookers at 1,300 colleges and universities in the United States.

Powell and her band divide their time between campus and cruise ship appearances.

Powell led the other entertainers in singing "Lean on Me" at the end of the event, said Wes Crawford, her business manager.

\ For this week anyway, the show will go on without Glenn Close.

The star of "Death and the Maiden," a new Broadway drama by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman, will miss all eight performances this week because she has pneumonia, show spokesman Bill Evans said. She also missed two performances Saturday.

Close is expected back in the show, which is now in preview performances, on Tuesday.

The three-character drama, which also stars Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman, will open as scheduled March 17 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Evans said.

In the meantime, Close's role will be played by understudy Lizbeth MacKay, who was in the original Broadway cast of "Crimes of the Heart."

"Death and the Maiden" concerns a woman plotting revenge on a man who tortured her 15 years earlier. It is a big hit in London, where it stars Juliet Stevenson.

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