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Show Trockcderous . it rajsV7 rAAway7) I I Men in tights: Like ballet? Check out these guys in tutus. Movies 1 Check out the latest movies showing locally throughout the 7 C8 valley. C5 THE DAILY HERALD a mam iBTl an - WMMWUI Mhi Cteuntensttes start season UTAH VALLEY The Chauntenettes, a women's singing group under the direction of Maurine Madsen, are available to sing at church or community events free of charge. Anyone interested in scheduling a performance for an organization may call Connie Bahr at (801) 225-049- 4. The Chauntenettes welcome new members but must limit new memberships to start in January or September. There are no tryouts, but members must commit to regular practice on Wednesday nights. Rehearsals are held at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at Canyon View Junior High School. Dues are $45 per year. For more information, call Pat Nadine Koyle at (801) Mathie at (801) or Madsen n Lone punks: In the comedic story SLC Punk!" Stevo 756-940- 756-557- at (801) (Matthew Lillard), left, and his best friend, Bob (Michael 6 225-132- jf -- Young Ambassadors PROVO . II i) ' 1 Goorjian), are the only two dedicated punk rockers in tail y BYlTs Young Ambassadors present highlights from their repertoire at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are $7 for BYU students and faculty, $9 for general admission. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (801) 4 I conservative Salt Lake City in f 378-432- Irish danct party Festival. JC BRADY Sony Pictures Classics SALT LAKE CITY Families are welcome to the Celtic Ceili or Irish dance party at 8 p.m. tonight at St. Ann's School, 500 E. 2100 South. Admission is free; donations are accepted. For more information call (801) 489-105- 5 or (801) Film delves into Utah's punk culture of the '80s The Daily HerakT CITY Evening in Vienna SALT LAKE CITY The Salt Lake Symphony hosts it annual Evening in Vienna concert at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 29 in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Led by music director James Michael Caswell, the symphony will perform numbers by Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini. Bite of Westminster SALT LAKE CITY The taste of different cultures will be savored from p.m. on Saturday at Shaw Center on Westminster College campus, 1840 S. 1300 East. Entertainment includes Polynesian fire dance, an Egyptian cabaret, Middle Eastern belly dance and martial arts. Tickets available at the door are $5, adults; $3, children and free with a Westminster College I.D. For more information, call (801) 6:30-8:3- 0 464-431- Poetry series SALT LAKE CITY Jorie Graham is reading her poetry at The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at 8 p.m. on Feb. 13 at the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, 1250 E. 1700 South, Westminster College. it's edgy, it's anarchical and By RANA LEHR 756-914- it won't turn your hair blue He to Salt Lake when he was a PARK By RANA LEHR The Daily Herald never felt like he fit in this Disney World city for the Saints, so he rebelled by entering the punk scene. Here's the question: Are we talking about James Merendino, the director and screenwriter of "SLC Punk!," or are we talking about his main character, Stevo? Merendino said in a telephone interview he can't write about something of which he knows nothing. So yes, he definitely included some autobiographical elements in this film. The director and screenwriter moved from New Jersey to Salt Lake City when he was 7. He graduated from Judge Memorial High School and -' later got out of Utah the movie screams anarchy: the punk movement's message. Stevo and Heroin Bob don't like the world, so maybe they'll change it by rebelling against it. Conservatives in Salt Lake City don't think these punkers are capable of changing any- . Standing out: fctor Matthew lillard, place he never could call home, like the protagonist r is Stevo, to go to law school in order to be an. influence for change. The point isi what is a croiner to do ' oeruv o o Stem Bob (Michael Goorjian) and Stevo (Matthew Lillard) escape the nerd label by becoming punks before it was fashionable. They are the first two punks in SLC, and the last two to realize that embracing anarchy won't change the system they are rebelling against. Somehow the two best friends get through college and refuse to get a job or contribute to a society they feel has shunned them. Even though Stevo is following in his father's footsteps of rebellion (his father was a Harvard hippie), his father can't understand his son's method of rebelling. thing but their hair color. Stevo's is a beautiful electric blue. James Merendino's "SLC Punk!" offers a revealing look at being different and growing up in the land of Zion in Their world the can be hilarious, sometimes violent, poignant and intro- in "SLC Punk!" Like the character, walking around with blue hair? Merendino'8 He realizes that parents are FILM FESTIVAL anarcr ' is divorced. And " i 1999 impossible. You like Stevo, the can't have a col- screenwriter lection of it's a anarchists doesn't want to be part of he said. negation," the system. V: Stevo eventually decides See PUNK, C2 DQooaun mid-1980- s. spective. From the opening song of n "Sex and Violence" and anti-Reaga- paraphernalia to thrift store costumes and edgy camera angles, the , See REVIEW, C2 Love it or hate it, 'Sweeney Todd' teaches as it entertains r By ERIC D. SNIDER ' ; Daily Hqld Correspondent) r 4 , h t- of $3, UVSC students fl, seniors, students; 3, general air1- Cs It shoulo fee nptediright off that "Sweeney Todd& opening" at UVCa' Itagan' Theatre D tonight, is a musical about a man who slits men's throats and then has them baked into . meat pies. It should also be noted that "Sweeney Todd" is widely t regarded ai one of the best musicals of the last 30 years. ;. "It's one of my favorite said director musicals," Susan Whiteknight. "People either love it or they hate .it;. ' there's no middle' ground, and ' that is exciting in art." . ; The reason for the wide variance ' s', of opinions, Whiteknight said, is the title . with . j J. kj. 30vith a mati-- IX w 2;Z3 p.m. on Jan. ROn Theatsr; : . Tickets are available at the doot, or ceM (801) . The character of Pirelli (James Mangan) offers a a close shave during a scene of "Sweeney ToddV a customer UVSC on Monday. at production A fta) trim: ' ' . If I 4 ' set-up- ," u " s ... - - T nl character is not exactly someone you want to supporLi "When you go into a play, you recognize the protagonist and the whole she said. "And this, play, at the start, is no 'different. But then his hatred wives him mad, so the audience is forced to reassess who they'll get behind." When we first meet ti?t t&; slon.- - " 1LC )R COPY the early '80s. The world premiere of the film happens tonight as part of the 1999 Sundance Film 222-8932- .,' Sweeney Todd, he is returning to,. London after having been wrongfully ' imprisoned for ' many ; years. In his absence, his beautiful wife: and daughter have been taken from him by the evil Judge Turpin. We sympathire with Sweeney; we'd be upset, too. Sec SWEENEY, C2 |
