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Show WBnait's gfiimg m Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. Unless otherwise noted, events listed below will take place in Salt Lake City. MOVIES -The Armageddon festival continues at the Salt Lake City Library, 209 East 500 South, with a film from French director Alain 1 (tt Resnais, "Hiroshima Mon Amour." The romance of a French actress with a Japanese man in Hiroshima is colored by their memories of World War II. The film plays on Thursday, Thurs-day, May 10, at 7 p.m. Admission is $2.50. -The Folk Music Film Festival shows two works by Les Blank. "Chulas Frontiers" looks at Tex-Mex border bor-der music and "In Heaven There is No Beer" is about the American polka tradition. It plays at 8 p.m. May 10 at the Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane, Reservoir Park. Admission Ad-mission is $2.50. Baseball and dancing join forces when the Utah premiere of Robert Redford's film "The Natural" is held Friday, May 11, as a benefit for Ballet West, RDT and the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Redford will speak briefly before the 7 p.m. Trolley Corners screening, where admission is $20. For $50, you also get a post-film buffet sponsored by Citicorp Financial Center of Utah. Tickets available from Datatix or at Ballet West. A melting-pot of cultures brews at the Blue Mouse, 260 East 100 South. In "Siddhartha," from the Hesse novel, a young Indian seeks a meaningful life. "La Traviata" is Zefferelli's recent film of the Verdi opera. And "Heartland Reggae" features Bob Marley. Jungle Fever continues at the Salt Lake City Library with "Elephant Walk," presented on May 11. Elizabeth Taylor is the bored new wife of an Indian planter (Peter Finch) who has an affair with the foreman (Dana Andrews). An elephant stampede wraps up the plot. It plays at 2 p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for 50 cents). The Utah Media Center continues with Hitchcock in his 1938 "The Lady Vanishes," as the young heroine on a European express can't convince her fellow passengers there's dirty doings afoot. With Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. It plays on May 12 (2:30 and8p.m.) and May 13 (2:30and7:30p.m.). The co-feature "Claire's Knee," is ,?irect.or Eric Rohmer's tale of a diplomat, who appreciates women intellectually, he says, obsessed by a young girl's knee. It plays on May 11 (7:30 p.m.) and May 12-13 (9:30 p.m.). Admission is $2.25 for each film or $3 for the double feature. The Media Center is at 20 South West Temple. -'mi MUSIC The Utah Opera Company ends its season with "Don Giovanni," the story of a 17th-century 17th-century womanizer (bass-baritone Marc Embree) who could have well used a pocket calculator to keep track of his conquests. It plays at the Capitol Theatre (50 West 200 South) on May 10, 12, 14 and 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the Utah Opera Box Office, in the theater. Las Vegas king Wayne Newton makes his first Salt Lake appearance in over 15 years when he plays Tuesday, May 15 in an 8 p.m. Salt Palace show. Seating is reserved for the show, with full-cabaret production and orchestra. Tickets are available at the Salt Palace and Datatix outlets. The Utah Symphony hosts a May 15 recital of past first-prize winners in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Six pianists, including the first Bachauer winner, Douglas Humpherys (1976), will play works by Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and Debussy. Ticket prices for the Symphony Hall 8 p.m. event are $6-8-10-12-25-50. The $50 ticket also affords you the after-concert buffet and admission to this year's Bachauer contest on June 20-30. Raindrops are falling at the Cherish Restaurant, 139 East South Temple, with B.J. Thomas in two dinner shows nightly, May 11-13. Speaking of rain. ..Johnny Rivers begins a run there on May 16. THEATRE Clap your hands if you believe in the Pioneer Memorial Theatre! It's season finale is reid ran wiui max nuumsuii as Captain Hook and Tracey Williams as Peter. It opens May 16 at the University of Utah. Promised Valley Playhouse presents "My Fair Lady," which opens May 10 and plays Wednesday-Saturday Wednesday-Saturday through June 2 at 8 p.m. A May 26 matinee is at 2 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the PVP box office, 132 South State, and Datatix outlets. Free performances of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" will be given at the Whitmore Library, 2197 East 70th South, on May 11 at 8 p.m. and at the First Congregational Church, 2150 Foothill Boulevard, on May 12 at 1:30 p.m. ETCETERA George Carlin appears at Sym-. Sym-. phony Hall in a May 11 concert at 8 p.m. Reserved tickets at $12.50 are available at ZCMI, Datatix outlets and the Capitol Theatre I rr- uuxumce. Laserium, at the Hansen Planetarium, presents the music of Pink Floyd in "Dark Side of the Moon." It will be shown on Thursdays (8:30 p.m.) Friday-Saturday (at 8:30, 9:45 and 11 p.m.) and Sundays (8:30 p.m.). General admission is $4, $3 for children and senior citizens. The Hansen also features the children's star show "Circus of the Stars and Planets," Saturday at 11 a.m. "Close Encounters with John Williams" continues at the planetarium on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. "A Comet Called Halley" also continues at the planetarium, 15 South State on weekdays (11 a.m., 2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.) Saturdays (2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.) and Sundays (2 and 4:30 p.m.) Monday through Wednesday, Wednes-day, the mini-star show "Sounds of Space" begins the 7 p.m. program, with "Halley" following at 7:20 p.m. And as an added attraction, the world's best commercials, commer-cials, the 12th Annual Clio winners, follow the 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday shows and the 4:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Saturday-Sunday shows. |