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Show J :.. Page 16 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS . Thursday, February 2 h 2008 41. w y ,v 1 JY.'. v F, A. r ' ,4 rv ;:- f SCERA K "Once on This Island" to infuse Caribbean flavor A ' 'Clever twist on Hans Christian . V , Anderson's version of "The Little Mermaid" will play out -Caribbean style when the ; ' musical "Once on This Island comes to the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem Monday through March. I. The multi-Tony Award nom-inated nom-inated musical tells the story of ? Timoune, 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. The consequences of her , choices determine her fate. . ' Performances are 7:30 each night. All seats are reserved and tickets at $6 for adults and $4 for children (3-11), students (wID) 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. "I 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 v group, called Acting Up, is the youth theater audition-only .. . premier ,pserformance and musical mu-sical theater team. .It's'quch 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. jUnder the watchful eye of the island's gods and goddess-' 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 r Sis calypso flavor and an ideal ; complement to the story. And x j she considers the set, described as "very Caribbean, with the sacred reverence that is mysterious mys-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- In 15 ow Opon our 2nd location Lehi Barber Stylist 197 East State Street Lehi, Utah Call Diane for your appointment at 367-5073 Your Home Loan Spec ialists I wvw. ASKNMm.avn r hi 30 yr. Fixed Rates Have Dropped Below 6.00! Buy a home. Change your ARM to a Fixed Mortgage Consolidate your Home Equity Line and high interest credit cards into one loan. Refinance to remove mortgage insurance. Call us today to apply. Find out why our past clients think wt are the best. fc1 Wtlxm fcruc Hennkn, wm Over 50 years combined lending experience 250 West Main American Fork 756-7434 pMrctiaMRefinajice lie, the goddess of love; McKay Heaton is 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 Whitlock, 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. uvsc PwUr 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 oth- MG SHOP business since 1 980 Off All Wigs In Stock ' 3 - - - - " i p "y y 5 ? ' ' v - v. . i - f m - ft, i m- , ,v V ' , -, ' V ' ' , ' 1 . Brittney Pasquale left, Amy Kesler, Paige Thunell, Corey Furr "Once on This Island. " 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 j school achievement in the arts. Breinholt, who has been ' performing to thousands of audiences since he came onto i the music scene in 1993, has certainly had a lot of accom- , plishments to celebrate. In addition ad-dition to performing concerts and recording several success-, ful albums, Breinholt has also written and recorded many songs for feature films, including includ-ing six songs for the upcoming film, "Everybody Wants To Be Italian," 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 Student Stu-dent Center, by calling (801) 863-8797 or nline 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. 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UVSC students include vocalists; Joyce Jacox, from Provo, Rebekah Pettey, from South Jordan, Utah and Juli-anna Juli-anna Boultur, from American Fork. Harp soloist, Bryn Harri-sion, Harri-sion, from Provo, bass soloist, Becca Welch, 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 Show beginning Friday and running through March 11. An opening reception will be held on Friday at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Each spring, 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 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 E. University Parkway, between Nordstrom and The Gap. Art jr1 Western Community Bank Life's needs. Life's bank; W&TEnNCOMMUNITVHANKCOM A DAY, v FfllBNDiM I Children's Programs Adventures in Odyssey M-F 6:00 p.m. A Sat. 8 a m. & 8 p.m. Down Gl lead's Un Saturdays 7:30 a.m. ft 7:30 p.m. CIH Storytlm , M-f4p.m. F 1 . Fn Fsnannlt RADIO t I vtda M Crtmto y i4S0 JElHt FT il 'III fRlj!TlTlT7TTirn and Elijah Thomas will appear in 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." Frpm 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 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 dancers from BYU's Children's Dance Program, as well as guest dancers from the community. com-munity. Larry Harper, professor profes-sor of English & Liter&ture.will ,;narrate; The music is 'ah otigi- .nal score by noted composer David Diamond. Tickets for the general pub DENTAL Family Dentistry I -. .. " 7TT 11 P&t2ED mam aai After Hours & Same MARK PHILBRICKNorth County the SCERA production of 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.m. 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, feud-. feud-. ing clerks, toiling in a 1930's European parfumerie. Their K 6ny solace'comes in the form , 0f anonymous, romantic letters ; from their lonely hearts club . pen-pals. How could they have ' eVer guessed the letter? were from each other? The musical, from the songwriting team that created "Fiddler on the Roof," debuted on Broadway in the spring of 1963. Dave Tinney will do double duty as director and choreographer, choreog-rapher, with Kathryn Laycock Little as 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, di-rector, David Morgan, would like everyone to prepare a short monologue, preferably a "periodT'piectei for the audition. Those interested'! auditioning should'call th theater to make an audition appoihtment at 226-8600. v' f ! The.f heater is (joking for the following age groups: Women, age 22-60; men, age 18-65; children, chil-dren, age 12-16. The play will run from 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" Mu-seum" on Feb. 22 from. 5:30-8:30 p.m. '. , The museum is a wild place l(;ifufl of litetoric nd entertaining .characters aifd animals as the i sun Sets. arid tile exhibits come to life. Come experience the adventure of a "Night in the Museum." . Dr. Nick Groneman DMD 801-756-5136 186 South 1100 East American Fork, UT 84003 1-4 Day Emergency Care mm in |