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Show Getaway Theater Actress Claire Bloom will Review Hale Center Theater Orem's "Nunsense" is pleasingly distasteful. C5 perform two Ij one-wom- shows at BYU this weekend. C2 THE DAILY HERALD (www.heraldextra.com) F.. HI, ' Uugh2K SALT LAKE CITY 01 OJJJJ 1 I Off Broadway Theatre presents "Quick Wits" today through Jan, 22. Hours are 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The Wits square off to see who can make the audience laugh most. Two teams create comedy sketches based On audience suggestions and see which gets the biggest laugh. Local improv comedians include Eric Jensen, Bob Bedore, Russell, Peacock, Robert Bogue, Mark Probert, Melissa Porter, Cody K. Carlson, Zac Zumbrunnen and Laura Bedore. The theater is located at 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City. For reservations call (801) ' . 355-462- 8. "-- in Free symposium rrTT.. 378-698- Olympian hosts Women on PARK CITY is Heidi hosted Voelker, Wednesdays by Deer Valley's ambassador of skiing, three-tim- e Olympian and former member of the U.S. Ski Team. Women can learn in an atmosphere of support and camaraderie during the Wednesdays of January. Instruction includes clinics and activities designed io meet the needs of women skiers of all levels. Cost is $380 and space is limited. 'For reservations, call (435) or (435) . Ti - '. ...j "'k ,!fMkiiM s .i. OJtliJ A BYU symposium titled, "Christ, Savior, Son of God," finPROVO ishes today and Saturday. Speaking at 7 p.m. today in the Provo Tabernacle is Robert Matthews. Speaking at 8 a.m. Saturday in the Conference Center, room 2258, BYU campus, is Robert L, Millet. Matthews is former dean of religious education and the first president of the IDS Mt. Timpanogos Temple. Millet is dean of religious education at BYU and director of the Religious Studies Center. For more information, call r - ... ..." i ' ' imbw.i HOI - ri ?4""""""T. i Jms mm ir 0j . .. mm TM Trucks promise destruction, power 12-ye- 645-664- 8 754-847- Folk concert By ERIC D. SNIDER The Daily Herald Now SALT LAKE CITY that the fearsome monsters of Y2K have proven to be no threat, Utah has a new demon to face: monster trucks. This weekend, the Delta Center will be the site of engine-rewing- , excitement as the U.S. Hot Rod car-crushi- SPRINGVILLE Henry Gonzalez, folk musician, plays at 7 p.m. today at The Red Leaf, 164 S. Main, Springville. Gonzalez has been influenced by ; classic rock icons, legendary folk gurus and local musicians. For more information, call , 489-139- 'V , ,'' ., .' Swingfn' singles Adults Singles Night is PROVO every Saturday, beginning Jan. 15, at the Club Omni, 150 W. 100 South, frovo. ... Four floors of the dance and social V club include: Top-4- 0 dancing with tousic from the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s; social, Latin and swing; all '80s and karaoke. ; LDS standards apply (no smoking, drinking). For more information, call access www.Club Omni.com or clubomnijuno.com. ' Association (USHRA) deliv- ers the Monster Jam. The featured "performer" is Grave Digger, billed as the world's most popular monster truck and certainly one of the most successful in recent competitions. Dennis Anderson first designed and built the $250,000 behemoth in 1981 after, as one magazine article put it, "he learned he had a gift for destroying motor vehicles." What: Delta Center Monster Jam When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; also at 2 p.m. Saturday Where: Delta Center, Salt Lake City for Cost: $12-$1for children adults, $8 , info: Caii for 325-SEA- tickets. Also available at all Ticketmaster outlets, including Fred Meyer and Graywhale CD truck-tumblin- ; stores. He and his truck are now the biggest names in the monster truck industry, with Anderson's tt I g antics making him the big name wherever the show travels. Monster-trucfans don't to usually pretend come to the shows for anything OTHER than the crashes, k v Courtesy phoco in will two Jam at Monster featured be are of trucks Pictured the the that above derby: on is of one most and the the Delta Center. The Grave Digger, pictured powerful top, popular trucks on the tour. Below is the Carolina Crusher, v Crash-u-p and Anderson rarely disap- points. Not only will his Grave Digger run over cars like tin cans, but the Grave Digger itself has been known By ERIC D. SNIDER IF YOU GO The Daily Herald (a Is it too WEST VALLEY call "Cash on early to Delivery" at Hale Centre Theatre West Valley "the funniest play of the year'? I guess we still have 51 weeks for something to top it, but whatever show tries to be more frantic, witty, absurd and hysterically funny than "Cash on Delivery" has its work cut out for it. The show is a full-ofarce, complete with slamming doors, dead bodies, mistaken identities and men dressing as women. It only slows down occasionally, preferring t instead to run at almost the entire time. Eric Swan (Cody K. n ! 'd, U: : y'o3 vArf v ; is y.- .r t V r, it it '")-.and r t cf ( r itjries T . $ 't r.-- (:;Gl) n K rr; J3 . ax ''io to take a spill or two every now and then. Other monster trucks will join Grave Digger in running courses that have them 'Cash on delivery' thrives off its absurdity 375-001- 1, 1 vSj 6 full-til- What: "Cash on Delivery" When: 8 p.m. nightly (except Sundays) through Feb. 5; additional noon and 3:30 p.m. matinees on Saturdays Where: Hale Centre Theatre West Valley, 3333 S. Decker Lake Dr. for adults; Cost: $12.50-$15.5the night prices vary by 0 Info: Call $9-$- ll for children; 984-900- 0 Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes, including one Intermission Carlson) lost his job a couple years ago and, unable to find new work, was delighted when a Social Security check for Rupert Thompson, a former tenant, came in the mail. The tenant had moved away, so Eric cashed the check himself and assumed his identity, at- least as far as the govern ment was concerned. Unfortunately, d British government is r ot cuitent to just give out Sooial Security. When it learned Rupert Thompson had the gout, it began providing him with disability money. Soon, Eric had other alter egos, too, each of them unemployed, dis abled, or in some other way eligible for government assistance. His wife (Rashell P. Ainsworth), of course, had no idea, anything was going on. The trouble begins when a welfare agent (Ray Jensen) shows up to havfalupert Thompson and his landlord, Eric Swan, sign a form. The two men are one and the same, of course, which means Eric has to find someone to pretend to be him, since he's already pretending to be Rupert Thompson. His slighttenant, ly dim real-lif- e Norman McDonald (Justin Bruse), whom the government believes to be dead (Eric told them that'in an effort to stop the flow of dirty money), is wrangled into the See CASH, C8 smashing junked cars in their pursuit of the finish line. Each truck produces . See POWER, C8 ft if: f v. . Courtesy photo Living with lies: Hale Centre Theatre West Valley presents "Cash on Delivery," starring, from left to right, Alisha Jacob, Ray Jensen, Rashell R Ainsworth and Cody K. Carlson, below. |