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Show Page 14 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Thursday, August 7, 2008 briefs Pleasant Grove Players "Bithe Spirit" Auditions Pleasant Grove Players will be holding auditions for their upcoming production of the Noel Coward comedy, "Blithe Spirit." Howard and Kathryn Little will be directing. Auditions will be Aug. 20 and Aug. 21 from 7-9 p.m. in the Keith Christeson Theater The-ater on the first floor of the Pleasant Grove City Public Library, 30 E. Center St., Pleasant Grove. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. No appointment is needed. "Blithe Spirit" tells the story of novelist, Charles Condom-ine. Condom-ine. who invites into his placid country home an eccentric lady medium in order to learn the language of the occult. Little does Charles or his lovely second wife, Ruth, dreani that the seance staged by the medium medi-um will summon back Charles' first wife, now "passed over" for seven years. But the lady from beyond, still handsome, still mischievous, appears and torments Charles by reminding him of their life together and plotting ways to reunite them with hilarious and haunting results. Needed are two adult men and five adult women, ages 20-60. Performance Dates are Oct. 10-27 on Friday, Saturday and Monday evenings. There will also be Saturday matinees on Oct. 18 and 25. LDS music festival LDS music festival Spring-ville Spring-ville and Pleasant Grove will be the sites of the annual LDSmu-sicians.com LDSmu-sicians.com music festival. On Aug. 15 and 16, the Springville Arts Park will be home to three concerts, a dance, and a variety of music performances from a host of independent aAa toss tares HeaSi 1 Lit taxe Fmrna) Services 801 763-8887 359 E. Main St. Suite 2 'American Fork hi-PhASE EIectric We Proudly Salute Our Hardworking 4Hers Competing at the Fair American Fork (801) 756-6008 Heritage Cure Center Come Support the 4Hers 756-5293 350 E.300 N. 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Saturday, Aug. 16, starting at 10 a.m. is an all-day event including free open jam sessions ses-sions in the morning, open mic session and songwriter in the round in the afternoon, two concerts in the evening including the highlight a live concert starting at 8 p.m. featuring Sam Payne and Alex Boye. Admission is $7 per person and $20 per family for the main Saturday concert, but the rest of the Saturday event is free and open to the public. During the day, there is also an opportunity to hear and buy new music from both well-established well-established artists as well as hear music from brand-new artists that are still relatively "undiscovered." On Sunday evening, the Grove Theater in Pleasant Grove will hold a devotional to highlight the sacred and inspirational music performed and written by members of the LDSmusicians.com group. This is an opportunity for those members of the group who write inspirational and sacred music to share their talents. LDSmusicians.com is an Internet In-ternet e-mail group started in Mountain Air Heating & Cooling Duct Cleaning Available For your Heating & Air Conditioning Needs, Give Us A Coll 226-1180 Back Home A 19!)!) by a handful of kindred spirits that got together to discuss, as the Website says, "opinions and resources on making music in an LDS context." con-text." It has since burgeoned into a veritable army of musicians musi-cians from around the world over 500 members strong and includes members as far as Finland, Brazil and Great Britain Brit-ain and as close as Springville, Provo and Highland. Details about the fest can be found at www.ldsfest2008. bravehost.com. Hale Center Theater Orem The Hasty Heart Hale Center Cen-ter Theater Orem's production of "The Hasty Heart" will appear ap-pear through Aug. 1 through Sept. 13 at the theater located at 225 W. 400 North, Orem, with performances nightly except ex-cept Sundays. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees are scheduled for Aug-. 30 and Sept. 6 and 13 at 3:30 p.m. The theater will be dark August 5, 6, 12, and 13. Ticket prices range from $11.50 to $15.50 depending on night and seating seat-ing location. Tickets may be purchased bv calling the box office at 226-8600. The play is directed by veteran vet-eran actordirector Maureen Eastwood. Set in a makeshift British Army Hospital in Burma during dur-ing WWII, its tale of a fiercely proud and independent Scot who discovers he is dying and finally is able to make friends with other inmates is told with compassion, humor and sensitivity. sensi-tivity. SCERA Symphony to perform Aug. 18 A lively concert that includes in-cludes fanfares, marches and big band sounds is in store at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre The-atre in Orem Monday, Aug. 18, when the Utah Symphony performs under the stars and baton of assistant conductor David In-Jae Cho. The evening will begin with an American Salute by hFork in Span's Utah ,.,.,.......4 I I fct-.-.-.44.lv..:-...j MttAXVifrfrii&i kUmtockShow'4-HDisplays 'Carnival W Demolition Derby 'Entertainment Family fun East American Fork would you Gould followed by Williams' "Cowboys Overture," Gershwin's Gersh-win's "Strike Up the Band" and Woody I lermann's big band sounds. Also planned are variations on a Shaker melody by Aaron Copland, Bagley's "National Emblem March," Anderson's An-derson's "Jazz Pizzicato" and "Bugler's Holiday," Williams' "Liberty Fanfare," an Armed Forces salute and Herbert's "American Fantasie." General admission tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are $10 for adults, $8 for children (age 3-1 1), seniors (65) and students (wID), available from 10am-6pm weekdays at the SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 South State. Orem, by calling call-ing (801) 225-ARTS, online at www.scera.org or at the Shell gate beginning 90 minutes prior to the event. Patrons may bring blankets or rent a first -come, first -serve chair for $1. The Shell is located in the center of SCERA Park at 6!)!) S. State, Orem. "Pride and Prejudice: A Musical" Musi-cal" to make world premiere Jane Austen's beloved novel is presented as a new musical in the SCERA Shell Outdcxjr Theatre The-atre world premiere of "Pride and Prejudice: A Musical" now thrugh Aug. 16. The adaptation of Austen's popular book appeals ap-peals to directors Jerry Elison and Robert Barham, in part, because be-cause of its "wonderful wrfting and lovely staging." The musical plays Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. in the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre, located at 699 S. State, Orem, in the middle of SCERA Park. General admission tickets are $ 10 for adults and $8 for children (age 3-1 1), students (with ID) and seniors (65 and older). Patrons may bring blankets blan-kets or rent a chair for $1.00. Reserved seating areas range from $ 12 to $ 14 for adults and $10-$ 12 for children, students and seniors. Tickets are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. at the SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State St., Orem, by calling (801) 225-ARTS, online at www.scera.org or at the Shell gate one hour prior to 801 785-9961 "The Best Clewing Your Carpet HasEmSeeorit'sFREE" Steam- cean'n'yotir me nuuny C!iMKC?5!E, INC AUGUST 13th-16 WillmarJN County Mitchell Owned and w-.-i .... A" . w your Automotive Repair Needs (801)373-3253 33 N. 800 W. Provo each show. SCERA's production of "Pride and Prejudice: A Musical" Musi-cal" will travel to Provo for several performances at BYU Education Week. Pinnacle Security Gymnasium Orem Team dancers auditions Auditions for the 2008-2009 Utah Flash Pinnacle Dancers are scheduled for Saturday at the Pinnacle Security Gymnasium, Gym-nasium, 1290 Sandhill Road in Orem. There is an audition judging fee of $15. The Pinnacle Dancers will perform at all 26 Utah Hash home games and be required to perform at special community and sponsorship appearances throughout the season. Registration begins promptly prompt-ly at 8 a.m. Saturday and the auditions begin at 9 a.m. Dancers are required to be 18 years of age by Aug. 9, be a high schx)l graduate, have an athletic physique, as well as be energetic and motivated. A non-returnable 5x7 photograph must be brought to the audition. audi-tion. Dancer's attire should include in-clude dance pants and fitted top, non-marking dance or athletic ath-letic shoes, performance ready hair and make-up. Brigham Young University Mahonri Stewart's "Prometheus "Pro-metheus Unbound" The Brigham Young University Experimental Theatre Club's world premiere of "Prometheus "Pro-metheus Unbound," will run through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelke Theater of the Harris Fine Arts Center on BYU's campus. Seating will begin at 7 p.m. Derived from a long tradition tradi-tion of plays about the Greek Titan Prometheus, national award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart taps into the traditions of Aeschylus and Percy Shelley. Stewart's story, however, uniquely follows a group of heroes recruited by a temple aide claiming to Orem Mo Electric Repair For All Your Electrical Needs! We Also do AC Service Honoring the 4H Participants 785-5033 275 W. 200 S. Pleasant Grove auuwxs Alpine Valley Care Center In Pleasant Grove Supporting ffie Utah County Fair 25 E.Alpine Drive 785-3568 f 1 195 S. (801)492-9400 62 N. 600 W. Fl American Fork (801)224-4520 University Mall Orem Garage West Side Auto Proudly Saluting Our 4Hers (801)229-9076 1180 N. Geneva Rd. Orem Operated li nee 1943 advertise? have received a vision that will guide their quest to free the titan. This marks the first major collaboration between the ETC and students from neighboring Utah Valley University. Students Stu-dents from both universities are involved with all levels of the production: directing, stage managing, costumes, lights, acting and producing. Tickets are $8 for pre-sales through the BYU ticket office at (801) 422-4322 and www. BYUarts.com. Tickets may also be purchased the night of the performance for $10 (cash) at the door. The show is directed direct-ed by Penny Pendleton and is sponsored by the BYU Theatre and Media Arts Department. For more information, visit byu-etc.com. UVU Leonardo Da Vinci at the Woodbury Art Museum The Da Vinci Experience, an international in-ternational traveling exhibit based on the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, will be featured at UVUs Woodbury Art Museum at the University Mall now through Oct. 4. The exhibit consists of working mechanical mechani-cal models based on the drawings draw-ings found in Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks. Admission will be $14 for adults, $ 1 1 for seniors (65) and $6 for students (wID), active military and their family members mem-bers and children (ages 5-18). Family group rates are available avail-able for immediate family for $28. Children age 5 and under are free. Group rates are offered with a minimum of 15 people, $3 per person for student groups, $4 per person for youth groups and $7 per person for adult groups. The Woodbury Art Museum is located on the second floor of the University Mall in Orem in the southeast corner just west of Nordstrom. The exhibit is open Monday noon to 9 p.m. and Tuesday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturdays, the exhibit is open from 11 am to 6 p.m. For more information on the exhibit, visit www.uvu.edu museum. Saluting the 4H Youth Timnannfffifi Inn 768-1400 850 East Lehi MR.MAC Enjoy the Fair! 2aUi)iBmttfr www.heraldextra.com |