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Show Piiic - ( 4 I III DAILY Ml RAID, (id Away I nday, Provo, Utah, Friday. April , IVW si tih Ui: f I on Fridays and Saturday. Children are alway $8. Tickets may be obtained by calling the box office at Friday The sound of percussion receive some time in the Utah as the Symphony wespotlight lcomes young percussionist Colin Currie and conductor Mann Alsop to Abravanel Mall at 8 p.m. on Friday and UTAH SYMPHONY: 2268600. Saturday. Under Alsop's baton, the Symphony "Academic Festival Overture," Tchaikovsky's i "Symphony No. 4 in F minor" and r- - I'l t MacMillan's "Venl, Venl, Emmanuel," "Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra" with Colin Currie as soloist. Tickets for the concerts are priced from $13 to $32 and can be purat (801) 355-ART:;.) chased by calling ArtTix451-ARTor by (2787) or (888) ; ' ti visiting the ArtTix outlets at Abravanel t Hall or the Capitol Theatre. Utah ti i k Symphony subscribers and anyone I. interested in group discounts should 'in call (801) 533 NOTE (6683). This concert is sponsored by the Utah -- V.I Symphony Guild. "Mattress" will perform Brahm's Call (801) QUICK WITS: 'Quick Wits' is playing at 7:30 and 10 p.m., today and Saturday through April 17, at the Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. In the show, two teams of comedians take suggestions from the audience and create a comedy sketch based on it. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and $5 for children 12 and younger. For more information, call (801) 355-462- attend. On Friday, Jeffrey Shumway and Del Parkinson, who comprise the American iKIl' Piano Duo, will play a centennial comof Francis Poulenc, conn' memoration sisting of two Sonatas, an Elegie, riot I Capriccio and Concerto in D Minor ntiltt (1952). WS 225-256- JOSEPH AT UVSC: Four of the remaining performances of the Webber musical favorite "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcolor will be dinner theater productions, featuring a catered meal at 6:30 p.m. and the show at 7:30 p.m. All performances will be in the Blackbox Theater of the UVSC Gunther Trades building, room , ...' . .Kir ' itJ' Tickets for the dinner theater productions, scheduled for today, Saturday and Monday, are $9.50 for UVSC students and faculty and $12.50 general admission. Reservations are also suggested. However, tickets may be purchased at the door the night of the performance. Reservations for the dinner theater production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" may be made by contacting the UVSC performing . arts box office at ST 322 a A btu J;1 tuitn sunu: taster song: Musical Celebration of Creation" fea-mr t turing the combined choirs and orches- ttTrT' tras of BYU wl" be Presen,ed at 7:30 k.i p.m. today and Saturday in the de Jong itt- - - Concert Hal!. The performance will be part of a television taping to be aired in spring 2000. Because of the nature of the taping, best dress is required of the 5" ' Tickets are $5 for BYU students and faculty and $8 for general admis- or to sion. For more information .. cnase ucKeis, can na-iZd- . a. man nee will be available at 2 p.m. "(f ... M . "t "The King and I" Center " ' '. SALT LAKE MEN'S CHOIR: The 40- member choir will join with the International ' . - - , ...iJtO 1 ALPINE ART CENTER: - ' ' the RING AROUND THE ROSE Series Saturday at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City. These interactive and affordable programs for young people and their families are held the second Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to noon. Tickets range from $3.50 to $5 and are available through ArtTix BILLY JOEL TICKETS: United Concerts announces Billy Joel singing Saturday at the Delta Center. Tickets are available at SmithTix Outlets and the Delta Center by phone at (801) and (800) 467-TIX- fl p.t. i' 52 . "mvr .! 4 mM 9 ii DAN HICKS IN CONCERT: Dan Hicks and the Acoustic Warriors return to Park City after their hit concert last year. Hicks has created over four decades of sound that is extremely enjoyable and unique. The show will be at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City. Tickets are $15 In advance from the Egyptian Theatre, Orion's Music and The Inn at Prospector Square in Park City and at Acoustic Music in Salt Lake City or by phone at (888) Tickets will be $17 at the door. CATHEDRAL OF THE MADELEINE FESTIVAL: The Sprit Chorale of Los Angeles will kick off the 12th annual Madeleine Festival with a journey through the music of African-Americacomposers at 8 p.m. on Sunday at the cathedral, 331 E. South Temple St., Salt Lake City. The group, with a look and sound all their own will present a concert of 'preservation' for the Negro spiritual and a tribute to gospel and jazz music. The public is invited and the show is free of charge. Generous and accessible parking is available each Sunday. 98 DEGREES: Tickets are on sale for Motown's group 98" which will be performing at 7 p.m. Sunday at Kingsbury Hall. Tickets are $25 at the Kingsbury Hall box office, all ArtTix outlets, the Theater League of Utah box office or by calling (801) 355-550(801) 581-710- 0 or (801) 355-ART- ; iI JI f. 1 ,! Bp ' I "J" ' w0x I f i I J Hl tin. I it v (jjf' 'W i ti TP1 r GREASE ON ICE: The Pink Ladies and the T Birds of Rydell High rock the ice stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Delta Center with everything you remember and nothing you've seen before. Tickets range in price from $19.25 to $34.25 and can be purchased at all Smith's Tix outlets or by calling (800) world premiere of "Wedlocked" by Marvin Payne and Steven Kapp Perry. The musical comedy is about a frustrated wife who recklessly writes an unflattering article about her marriage for a contest in a women's magazine. Tickets are $8 for BYU students and faculty and $10 for general admission. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Fine Arts Ticket Office at (801) 378-432- - ' tu f' The Salt Lake Upcoming events MULTIMEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL: The UVSC Multimedia Department will host a Utah Multimedia Arts Festival on April 29 in the Student Center Ballroom on the UVSC Orem Campus. and students from elementary to college may enter work in graphics, animation, audio, video, multimedia titles and Web pages. There is no charge for entering or attending. Submit entries from 8:30 to Janel a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 19-2Mitchell, Room LC312A, Losee Learning Center, UVSC Orem Campus. Entrants who by April 9th For more will receive a festival 222-899or visit the info, call Festival Web site at LOCAL SOUNDS: Utah band Bentleigh will hold a CD release party at 8 p.m. on April 24 at Wrapsody, 117 N. University Ave., Provo. The band will be playing with Minds Eye and Rollercade Orchestra. UTAH SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL: The Utah Shakespearean Festival has evolved into a destination of its own. The Festival produces six plays which are performed in repertory. Monday through Saturday from June 24 through Sept. 4. The 1999 season lineup includes Shakespeare's "King Lear." "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Troilus and Cressida" and James Goldman's "The Lion in Winter" and George Bernard Shaw's timeless musical "The Compleat Works of Wllm. Shkspr (Abridged)" and "Forever Plaid" which will run Sept. 16 through Oct. 16. Also included are backstage tours and an elaborate Royal Feast. A nightly Greenshow, free to the public, offers revelry that transports you from the scenic wild west to a fantasy land of old English jest and rich theater tion. For more information to help plan your trip to southern Utah and the Utah Shakespearean Festival, call (800) PLAYTIX, write Utah Shakespearean Festival, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City. UT 84720, or visit them on the Web at www.bard.org. or contact the Iron County Tourism and Convention Bureau at BYU BALLROOM DANCE CAMP: BYU's Ballroom Dance offers a camp to beginners and veterans for a week, seven hours of instruction a day. The camp includes a talent night, banquet, awards ceremony and closing showcase in which each participant performs what they learned. Lee and Linda Wakefield, artistic directors for BYU ballroom dance company, head up the camp. For registration forms, contact BYU Restjt RO. Bo ROD STEWART: Tickets are on sale for Rod Stewart's show at 8 p.m, on April 29 at the "E" Center. Tickets are available at any SmithTix outlet, the Center box office, or charge by phone at (801) 467-849or (800) 888 8499. PIANO IN THE SCHOOLS: The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation is scheduling educational piano concerts for the 1999 2000 school year. Local artists will Introduce Interac tive selections, making students awart-o- f moods, meters, patterns, beat, rhythm and tempo. Listening techniques will be emphasized and studerv participation is encouraged. For more information or to help sponsor the schools within your district, call (801) 521-9200- . Auditions THE MIRACLE WORKER: Villa Playhouse Theatre announces auditions for "The Miracle Worker," the story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan. The auditions will be at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Call backs for those invited will be at 10 a.m. on April 17. Needed are five men, ages 18-7one boy, age four women, ages 20-60- , and one well 8 14. 10 girls, ages trained cat or dog. There is also a spe cial need for African-Americaactors, one adult man, one adult woman, one and one girl. boy Auditions will be at the theater, 254 S. Main St., Springville. Please call 489-308or 489 8873 with any ques tions. BARLOW ENDOWMENT FOR MUSIC: A $20,000 commission from the Barlow Endowment is available as reward for a new major orchestral work which will be performed by The Utah Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The winning composer will receive a $20,000 endowment to compose a work to be performed in January 2002. The work will be 15 to 20 minutes in duration and is expected to meet the highest artistic requirements http:ec.uvsc.edufestival. - - for the medium. Additional specifications will be negotiated among the Barlow Endowment, the composer and the two conductors. Half the commission fee will be paid when the contract for the commission is signed and the other half will be paid when the finished score is submitted to the endowment. There are no restrictions with regard to musical style, nationality, age, gender, race, religion or political persuasion. The only limitations are to composers that have won a prize in the Barlow International Competitions in 1997 or 1998 will not be considered and members of the participating orchestra and Barlow Boards are not eligible. All entries must be postmarked by June 1. The winners will be announced by mail before Sept. 15. For submissions, applications and inquiries, contact Lynda Palmer, admin istrator, Barlow International Competition 19992000. Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University. Provo, UT 84602. She is also available by telephone at 378-8204- , by fax at at 378 8222 or by lyndapalmabyu.edu. There is also a Web site at www.byu.edumusicbar-iow- . SHENENDOAH: SCERA announces auditions for its summer production of "Shenandoah," to be performed at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre July 30, 31. Aug. 2, 5, 6, 7. 9. 12, 13 and 14. Director Syd Riggs will hold audiApril 16. from p.m. and April 17, from 10 a.m. to noon in room Bl of the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem. All roles are available, with particular need for a young African-Americaman and a variety of adult men and women. Auditioners should be 16 and older and be prepared to sing 16 measures of a Broadway song. SCERA will provide an accompanist. tions on TECHNICIANS NEEDED: Wasatch Theatre Company is looking for individ in uals interested various areas of technical theatre including stage work, playwriting, light and sound design and administrative duties. Call (801) 973 2051 for information. Experience is not a requirement. - I fVWVWWWWWWVW1 a P 1 i l&flfu. - 3 III PROVO at former Carousel Location Superb Sondiuiches Fresh Gorden Solods Deluxe Hamburgers Located at: 2250 No. University Pkujy 4 Hours: 1 i OPN Delicious Soup Warm Atmosphere fI i0 riOUl Fair Prices v If you're planning a special event at the Monti Temple - Come vuit iu at 11-1- 1 Moo-Thu- r 11-1- 2 Fri - Sot E3 With purchase of item of equal or greater value Don's Country Village Restaurant M TW8 j- 115 U.0 m.- - i 370-205- or 374-935- Two audience favorites will kick off the Festival's inaugural fall season, Tuesday i (Prepared by Chef Lynda Bennett) "t. T it :Jr 5 call For more information, "Damn Yankees." FoopCounty! 6 S k couple. swing.timejuno.com. Sunday GROSS INDECENCY: . IT'S SWING TIME: Anyone interest ed in the latest moves to '20s through '40s tunes take Lindy Hop lessons by Swing Time. The first lessons, In a four week series, will be taught in one hour increments, from p.m., Wednesday and Thursday at Meridian Elementary School, 931 E. 300 North, Provo. Cost is $25 per person or $40 per Ballroom Dance Camp, Herman Continuing Education Building, 21516, Provo UT 84602 9951. Best Homemade t ..fv I" I ; I 888-TIX- Wednesday Pianists Dian f- DANCE THEATRE: REPERTORY Repertory Dance Theatre will host Ballet West In the seventh concert of Don's Country Village pK. 'it works by Relneke, Bach, Bizet and Schubert on a Fazloli concert grand. Tickets are available for $6 at the door. The Alpine Art Center at Sculpture Park Is located at 450 S. Alpine Highway in Alpine. For further Information, call 673-717- Baker and Eckart Sellheim will perform ." l.ifil d WEDLOCKED: This year's final performance in the Entr'Acte series at Brigham Young University will be the MAKE-A-WISThe Make-A-Wis- h Foundation's Gala Benefit and Auction will be held at 6:00 p.m. Saturday at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The evening begins with live music, a silent auction and a hosted cocktail hour, followed by dinner and a live auction. The cost to attend is $100 per person. Funds raised at the Gala help to grant wishes for Utah children with illnesses. - .y w . Blvd., Salt Lake City. Tickets for the event are $8 for students and $10 for general admission and can be purchased at the door or by calling (801) 482-SON- that afternoon. - Children's Choir at 7 p.m. Saturday at the All Saints Episcopal Church, 1710 S. Foothill Heritage Music for their grand opening to be held through April 17. The store has a new recital hall and plan to use it extensively during the bash. The store is located at 971 S. State St., Orem. Grand opening events include a number of performances. The sequencing contest listed at 4:15 p.m. on Saturday will be judged by Jim Martinez, a recording artist from California. He will also be performing will run nightly . University Ave. Tickets are $6, with $20 family tickets available at Heritage Music, the American Cancer Society Office, 286 S. 600 East, Provo, or at the door the night of the show. All proceeds will go to The American Cancer Society and the Varlin Law Leukemia Fund. HERITAGE MUSIC GRAND OPENING: For lots of great music, head to (except Sundays) through May 24. Tickets are $8 on Mondays, $9 Tuesdays through Thursdays and $11 i "The Cadillacs" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Provo Tabernacle, 100 S. Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $10 or $8 for BYU students and staff. Tickets are available at the ticket office at the HFAC or by calling 378-432- Theater, Orem continues Rodger's and Hammerstem's classic "The King and I" at 7:30 p.m. today. Based on her own diaries, it tells of how English widow Anna Leonowens travels to Bangkok in the 1860s at the request of the Siamese King Mongkut to educate his children and his court in modern "scientific" ideas. Anna and the King are the classic irresistible force and immovable object, respectably, and their progression from misunderstanding to mutual admiration and even affection is the mainspring of the plot. JON SCHMIDT AND THE CADILLACS: Jon Schmidt will team up with Theater will present Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday in the Pardoe Theatre, Harris Saturday. nfci T 488-425- BYU . THE KINO AND I: The Hale murder mystery at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the conservatory of the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, 1250 E. 1700 South, on the Westminster College campus. Tickets for this year's mystery, "The Last Train From Paris," will be $8 per person and must be reserved in advance by calling (801) MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: pur-W- t;. r o-- ! WESTMINSTER MURDER MYSTERY: The Westminster Theatre Society will present its second annual 266-760- 0 i. fT7 audience. o. i East Court. The pageant is actually a children's model search for Hawaiian Tropic models. The contestants will model their Sunday best outfits and be judged on natural beauty, personality and stage presence. Children up to 16 years old are invited to participate. Applications are available at University Mall's customer service desk. WDOG. ' .. .. .. i Saturday FOREVER JOSEPH: Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State St., Murray, is at it again. This time they've crossed wires and are featuring Donny and Marie wannabes and fabulous new quartet of "plaids." The hybrid of "Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and "Forever Plaid" is packed with the laughs. The show runs at 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Friday and at 3 p.m., 7 p.m. and at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. Call the Desert Star Box Office at to purchase tickets. (801) It is recommended for children ages 5 and older, and babes in arms are not permitted. 222-8982- rrw., LITTLE MISS AND MISTER HAWAIIAN TROPIC PAGEANT: University Mall will be the site of this pageant for kids beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday in the 225-ART- yf.rl. 1 and Monday through prices are $5 regular admission, $4 children, students and seniors and $20 per family. For reservations and group rates, call 785-118- PIANO BAR: Mulberry Street, a private club for members, continues with its New York-styl- e piano bar featuring Utah accompanists. Music begins at 9 p.m. every Friday and Saturday and will provide jazz, theatrical, standards and rock 'n' roll classics as interpreted by a rotating array of pianists and guest vocalists. Everyone is welcome to this "open mic" songfest. Mulberry Street is at 708 Main St., Park City: there is no cover charge. For more information, call (888) 627. ' Friday, Saturday May 10. Ticket continuing at 7:30 p.m. today and running through April 10 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. Tickets at $8 each (ages three and older) are available from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem, or by calling or They are also available at the door performance nights beginning at 6:45 p.m. On Wednesday, The National Association of Teachers of Singing, Utah Chapters, will present its annual honors recital, featuring winners of vocal student auditions. Names of participants will be announced later. . melodrama is filled with all the booing and hissing, aahing, and yahoos you could want. The show opens today at 7:30 p.m. at Valley Center Playhouse, 780 N. 200 East, Lindon. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. GUYS AND DOLLS: Jayne Luke stars in her signature role as the feisty and ditzy chorus girl, Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" as SCERA premiers the classic in its new indoor Showhouse Combined Choirs and Orchestra, Kevin Call director, will make a Salt Lake City stop on their Mountain West tour of Merrill Jenson's oratorio Come unto Christ. The concert will be in the Tabernacle at 7:30 p.m. . a Ij ; DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS SALOON: This old fashioned 223-407- On Saturday, The Ricks College T i - This con- cert series at the Sundance Ski Resort continues at 7:30 p.m. today with the Wasatch Symphony Brass Choir, which is composed of volunteers from all different walks of life who play together because of their love of music. The concert will be in the Sundance Rehearsal Hall. Seating is free, but to reserve comlimited. Call plimentary seating. .., tf-- a If anyone is Interested In more Information about the contest, they can contact Heritage Music. At 7:30 p.m, today, Hale Center Theatre cast members will perform excerpts from "Forever Plaid. At 8 a p.m., Vocal Point, BYU's nine-macapella group will perform. On Saturday, a five-mapiano team will perform at 1 p.m., and at 2 p.m. there will be the Jim Martinez Jazz Concert. At 3 p.m. refreshments will be served; then at 3:15 p.m., Jim Martinez will teach a jazz improvisation workshop. At 7 p.m., Michael Oman will be featured on the organ In a silent movie presentation. At 7 p.m. Monday, Mary Jane Jones will present a vocal recital. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Ellis & Franklin, a Celtic jazz ensemble, will perform. At 7 p.m. Thursday, the popular local rock band "Grain" will perform. tions. SPIRIT OF SUNDANCE: to For more for reserva- 572-414- k 1 tsiifa-rtli- 12. TEMPLE SQUARE CONCERT SERIES: Ensembles both instrumental vocal dominate the Temple Square and A i i Concert Series during the month of i I April, with performers coming from far - u'-- i. and near to present music which inclines toward the Easter season. r,Programs are in the Assembly Hall at s , 7:30 p.m., unless otherwise f noted, it. hi and are free, although children less ml than 8 years of age are asked not to w' the musical version All seats are reserved and prices are $8, adults, and $6, children under i .nil' I -Jbi.''f.f Press r?!2:cs csn fcs 717, R ,.'. " of "The Princes and the Pea.' Lady Larkln Is In a 'family way, but no one in the court has permission to marry until Dauntless is 'to the alter led.' j ) to, cutiw- - ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: Draper Art Council continues "Once Upon A Mattress" at 7:30 p.m. today at the Draper Historic Theater, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, The show closes Monday. Acting Company will present Molses Kaufman' "Gros Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde' on the Upstairs Theatre stage. It will preview today, with the press opening on Saturday and running through May 16. The play begins in April of 1895. Oscar Wilde Is at the height of his celebrity, with two hit plays running In London's West End. He is known all over the world, not only for his plays and other writings, but also for his legendary social wit. The story plots his downfall. The cast plays multiple roles, with the exception of the actor playing Wilde. Times are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Preview prices are $14.50 to $18.50, and regular prices are $16.50 to $24.50. There is no senior discount, but student rush Is $10.50 at the door one half hour before curtain with student card, If seats are available. The box office Is available by calling (801) 363 SLAC (Monday through at Friday, noon to 6 p.m.) or the Capitol Theatre (ArtTix). ifijil North Main, Manti Call for Reservations (435) 835-Foo- d) Old Fashioned IceCream... And Lots Of It! aI POOR COI |