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Show Page 16 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, February 21, 2008 I fill , f! . : briefs SCERA "Once on This Island" to infuse Caribbean flavor A clever twist on Hans Christian Anderson's version of "The Little Mermaid" will play out Caribbean style when the musical "Once on This Island" comes to the SCtRA Center for the Arts in Orem Monday through March 1. The rnulti-Tony Award nominated nom-inated musical tells the story of ! imoune, a poor peasant girl who falls in love with Daniel, an upper class boy whom she saves from certain death. She begins a fateful journey she believes is influenced by the gods of earth, water, love and death T he consequences of her chokes determine her fate. Perf ormances are 7:30 each night . All seats are reserved and tickets at $6 for adults and S4 for children (3-11), students (w.'ID) and seniors (65) are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. at the SCERA Center, 745 S. State St., Orem, by calling (801) 225-ARTS, online at www.scera.org or at , the door 30 minutes prior to performance. "1 love this show," says Laurel Lau-rel Barham, who is directing; "Once on this Island." The cast is made up of the advanced high-school age students in SCERA Youth Theatre. The group, called Acting Up, is the youth theater's audition-only premier performance and musical mu-sical theater team. "It's such a wonderful story of love, endurance and making choices. It about getting along and understanding each other without allowing differences to prohibit us from living our lives." , Under the watchful eye of the island's gods and goddesses, goddess-es, the strength of Timoune's love for Daniel is tested by villages divided by social prejudice. preju-dice. . Barham selected this show because of the cast's excellent abilities when it comes to dramatic dra-matic interpretation. She lauds the catchy pop music score of Ahrens and Flaherty as being true to Caribbean roots with its calypso flavor and an ideal complement to the story. And she considers the set, described as "very Caribbean, with the sacred reverence that is mys Caoelli mmmk products to great ha?days 1, .71 ZA t A V immtk-i. n terious when you are among ruins," as a key element in the production. Starring in the production are Paige Thunell as Timoune and Corey Furr as Daniel. Elijah Tomas is Papa Ge, the sly demon of death; Brittney Pasquale is Asake, the god of earth; Amy Kesler plays Erzu-lie, Erzu-lie, the goddess of love; McKay Heaton Ls Agwe, the god of water, and Aubrey McKay is Mama Eurlie. Assisting Barham are Heidi Vogeler, music director; Ben Tichy, choreographer; Debbie Bowman and Liz Bell, costum-ers, costum-ers, lighting and props designer, de-signer, Mike James, and David Whit lock, set designer. American Fork Arts Council American Fork Symphony presents "Great Romantic Masterpieces" Mas-terpieces" Members of the American Fork Symphony will present the third movement of Rachmaninoff's soaring Piano Concerto No. 2 along with a "selection of other pieces that evoke great emotion during its winter concert on Monday. The concert, titled "Great Romantic Masterpieces," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the American Fork High School auditorium, 510 N. 600 East, American Fork. Admission is $3 ($10 per family). Dr. Terry Hill and Alan Allred will serve as conductors. Pianist Sally Brinton will be the featured soloist during the performance of the Rach-moninoff Rach-moninoff concerto. The concert will feature a performance of "The Mol-dau," Mol-dau," the second in a suite of symphonic poems called Ma Vlast (My Country) by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. The music in this piece depicts the Moldau, a river that flows through the Czech countryside before entering the city of Prague. Also on the program are performances per-formances of the Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss, "Procession of the Nobles" by Rimsky-Kor-sakov and selections of music from all six "Star Wars" movies composed by John Williams. The approximately 70 members mem-bers of the American Fork Symphony hail from American Fork and surrounding communities commu-nities from Eagle Mountain to Payson. For more information about the symphony, visit the orchestra's Web site at www. americanforksymphony.org. O Your entire o J Use onDoe coupon oode CS517 Good o asm t: . IV V' MARK PHILBRICKNorth County Brittney Pasquale left, Amy Kesler, Paige Thunell, Corey Furr and Elijah Thomas will appear in the SCERA production of "Once on This Island" uvsc Peter Breinholt to perform at Ragan Theater Showcase Musician and songwriter Peter Breinholt will come to UVSC's Ragan Theater Friday at 7:30 p.m. to perform at this year's Ragan Theater Showcase. The performance will be an acoustic, stripped-to-the-bone concert that he is calling "more personal" than some of his other oth-er popular concerts have been. Breinholt will be awarded the Ragan Theater Showcase Merit Award at the end of his performance, which will be followed by a reception for all those in attendance. The Ragan Theater Showcase Show-case Merit Award acknowledges acknowl-edges the accomplishments of college, community and high school achievement in the arts. Breinholt, who has been performing to thousands of audiences since he came onto the music scene in 1993, has certainly cer-tainly had a lot of accomplishments accomplish-ments to celebrate. In addition to performing concerts and recording several successful albums, Breinholt has also written writ-ten and recorded many songs for feature films, including six songs for the upcoming film, "Everybody Wants To Be Italian," Ital-ian," starring Penny Marshall. Breinholt 's songs have also been heard in several movie trailers and television programs. "Peter has been very successful, suc-cessful, and is well-known in many Utah communities," said Joel Herd, assistant director of UVSC's Sorensen Student Center. "This is just a way for us to acknowledge him and recognize him for that." Tickets for the concert are $8 and can be purchased at Campus Connection in the Stu :D3i i;;2ii:;;;u u?t iotsi nxd j JJ 1. 5 WE OFFER: Superchips Nerf Bars Vent Visors Turbo & Cat Back Exhaust Kits Bed Caps 'Fender Flairs Edge Juice with Attitude! J- FINANCING t-'F t-'F AVAILABLEI C f NO INTEREST UNTtl 2008! 5 On any sale over $400 tc Sdbjec' c cnyM acorovaL ateSrT e store tor delate . Jfl through Feb, 29th .rssH f t : -.- E J: dent Center, by calling (801) 863-8797 or online at www. peterbreinholt.com. UVSC presents choral and orchestra aria concerto The UVSC Music Department of UVSC will present its third annual an-nual student choral and orchestra orches-tra aria concerto Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Ragan Theater. "Expect a showcase of seven of UVSC's finest music major students being accompanied by UVSC's symphony," said David Fullmer, professor of music. The selected seven students were chosen from auditions. UVSC students include vocalists; Joyce Jacox, from Provd, RebeKah Pettey, from South Jordaih, Utah and Juli-anna Juli-anna Bcltu, from American Fork. Harpfeoloist, Bryn Harri-sion, Harri-sion, fr$m ft-ovo, bass soloist, Beccayekih, from Sandy, and composers Nate Drew and James George, from Provo. Students will perform Shu-bert's Shu-bert's Unfinished Symphony 1 with the symphony. . The event; is free and open to the public. ' UVSC's Woodbury Art Museum Muse-um presents annual Bachelor of Fine Arts show Utah Valley State College's Woodbury Art Museum will host its annual BFA $ho beginning Friday and ruhnirighhrougr March 11. An 'opening reception will be held oh Friday at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the publis: Each'pring, the Department of Art and. Visual Communications Communica-tions 'presents an exhibition of advanced students who are candidates for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. This degree imposes a higher standard of rigor and expectation on 397 II. STATE CnEi.1 55-1140 All FIMW) itRI V' pa Nsw Mercbardlse I mmno ANY ONE Ccpon Bxpiret March ,JhB'AaBtkfK the How J7 Houre: Mon-Fri 10-6 Sat its candidates in professional development of their artwork than the normal bachelor's of arts or science degrees. This year's exhibition features fea-tures the work of Rob James, illustration; Arthur Nelson, graphic design; Brad Hoen, graphic design; Kelly Larsen, paintingdrawing; and Caleb Henderson, illustration. The Woodbury Art Museum is located on the Second Floor of the University Mall, 575 p. University Parkway, between Nordstrom and The Gap. Art Show hours are Friday through March 11, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Synergy Dance Company presents "Refract" The UVSC Dance Department presents pres-ents Synergy Dance Company's Compa-ny's spring concert, "Refract," March 6-8 in the Ragan Theater The-ater at 7:30 p.m. "Refract" is a dance exploration explora-tion into how movement can progress on a straight forward path but also possesses possibilities pos-sibilities to be tangential and "refract" off to change perspectives per-spectives and points of view. Choreography includes works from professional guest artists art-ists such as Heidi Henderson. Henderson, from Connecticut, brings with her a sense of quirky length and extension in an exploration of stopping and re-beginning time in her piece, "The Depth of Waiting." From California, Nicole Brid-gens Brid-gens creates a humorous duet of body language and miscon-nections miscon-nections in her piece, "Umm... So.. .yeah." Synergy's artistic co-director Amy Markgraf Ja-cobson Ja-cobson created a wave of high physicality and kinetic exuberance exuber-ance in her piece, "Shift." Artistic co-director Kate Monson's choreography ponders pon-ders on her physical responses to the experiences that her brother has related to her as he continues his active duty in Iraq, trying to make sense of ' the cHaos and structure that he lives in each day. The concert will also feature student choreography chore-ography from company members mem-bers as they showcase their multifaceted abilities as artists. Synergy will also include a ' performance of the sentinel modern dance piece, "A Dance for Walt Whitman," choreographed choreo-graphed by modern dance pioneer Helen Tamiris in 1958 and set on UVSC's Department of Dance students from Ballet, Modern, Dance Education and Ballroom programs as part of the NEA's American Masterpieces: Master-pieces: Dance College Component Compo-nent program. This grant was awarded to dance department faculty members Angela Ban-chero-Kelleher, Nichole Ortega and Kim Strunk. Various student stu-dent choreographed works by Synergy company members will also be included. Original cast member and Executive Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Theatre, The-atre, Linda C. Smith, worked intensely with dancers to re-stage "Dance for Walt Whitman" Whit-man" with permission from the Dance Notation Bureau. The cast of 27 includes two young "1- (tevetop lifetime Mentia Vki. pnd Personal Growth )n feach major area f your lft, " t "Spiritual, WerrtaJ, Emotional, Physical, Personal, Educational, Vocational, Financial, Health, .Social Family & Pusinejia, Avocation & Hobbies, Your Big Pream Classes begin February 5th, 2008 Mte&4e youy 4as today 1 Call 80X-615-9986 Or 801-772-0229 9b4 reserve yPXiV seating. Dzltyl ITEM ; 1 5, 20 1 104 ! Est 1986 dancers from BYITs Children's Dance Program, as well as guest dancers from the community, com-munity, tarry Harper, professor profes-sor of English & Literature will narrate. ;The music is an original origi-nal score by noted composer David Diamond. Tickets for the general public pub-lic are $10, students and faculty, fac-ulty, $8. Tickets are available at Campus Connection, at (801) 863-8797. Hale Center Theater Orem She Loves Me Hale Center Theater Orem presents the romantic ro-mantic musical comedy, "She Loves Me," which will run Feb. 14 through April 5. Performances are scheduled nightly, except Sundays. Evening Eve-ning performances begin at 7:30 p.ml Saturday matinees are scheduled each Saturday at 3:30 p.m.beginning March 15. (The theater will be dark Feb. 19, 20, 26 and 27.) Ticket price are $13.50-$17.50 $13.50-$17.50 depending on night and . seating location (Processing fee included). Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office at 801-226-8600. The theater is located at 225 W. 400 North, Orem. . The show focuses on Georg and Amalia, two lonely, feuding feud-ing clerks, toiling in a 1930's European parfumerie. Their only solace comes in the form . of anonymous, romantic letters from their lonely hearts club pen-pals. How could they have ever guessed the letters were from each other? The musical, from the songwriting team that created "Fiddler on the Roof," debuted on Broadway in the spring of 1963. Daye Tinney will do double duty 's director and choreog-raphejr,iith choreog-raphejr,iith Kathryn Lay cock Littleas musical director. Two grand pianos will accompany the cast each night. " Audition notice Hale Center Theater Orem will hold auditions for its upcoming production of William Gibson's "The Miracle Worker Feb. 21 at the theater, located at 225 W. 400 North Orem. The director, David Morgan, would like everyone to prepare a short monologue, preferably a "period" piece, for the audition. Those interested in auditioning should call the theater to make an audition appointment ap-pointment at 2263600. The theater is looking for the following age groups: Women, age 22-60; men, age 18-65; children, chil-dren, age 12-16. The play will run frorn April 11 to May 24. Lehi Arts Council Night in the Museum Museum Mu-seum staff and docents at the Hutchings Museum in Lehi are hosting a "Night in the Museum" on Feb. 22 from 5:30-8:30 p.m The museum is a wild place full of historic and entertaining characters and animals as the sun sets and the exhibits come to life. Come experience the adventure of a "Night in the Museum." 1 sB j : M SWKSj ( psws . fmn "!r Mr- I 1 J |
