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Show The Salt Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday, L 10, 1995 @ From previous page OT into an abandoned abbey and goes in search of new necks to bite. Cast members include Scott Holman as Dracula with Normaa Plate as Renfield. The melodrama will be followed by “At the Hop,”an olio showcasing songs from the 50s and '60s directed and choreographed by Danny Thompson. Performances are Thursdays and Mondaysat 7 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets, available at the theater, are $8 to $10 for adults and $6 to $8 for children 12 and under. Performances are recommended for children over 5. Babes in arms are not permitted. o GREEK SHOW The University of Utah’s Classic Greek Theatre Festival opens its 25th anniversary with an outdoor performance Saturday at $ a.m. in Moab of Euripides’ tragedy “The Bakkhai.” The production will take place in the Sand Flats area at the head of the Kokopelli bike trail east of town. Tickets are $5. Director Kenneth Washington is using a modern American translation by poet Robert Bagg. The play, Euripides’iast, was first produced posthu- mously in Athens in 405 B.C. The tragedy deals with the homecomingof the god Diony- sus whenhereturns to Thebes and takes revenge on his teenage cousin Pentheus. Washington’s production will use song, dance, mime, masks and costumes to present the mythic and human aspects ofthis oftproduced, highly theatrical Greek tragedy. Original music has been composed by University of Utah graduate Brian Hulse. A pre-play orientation lecture by U. of U. professor James Svendsen wiil be offered Friday at 7 p.m. at the Helen M. Knight Middle School, 175 W. 400 North, Moab. Theproduction then tours to nine locations in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Califor- nia. It will be presented at Salt LakeCity’s Red Butte Garden Sept. 23-24, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. For further information, contact the Pioneer Theatre box office, 1340 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City. — Nancy Melich R.L Burnside and Fat Possum Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan wili play Thursday at Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium. MUSIC HOEDOWN This week's country-music offerings at the Utah State Fair will include performances by Dan Seals and Daryl Singletary, today; John Barry, Monday; Martina McBride, Tues- day; Confederate Raiiroad, Wednesday; Bellamy Brothers, Thursday; George Ducas, Friday; and Toby Keith, Saturday. Showtimes are 6 and 9:15 each night. Tickets are $22 for reserved seats and $17 for general admission. Cost of the tickets goes up $3 on the day of the show. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Utah State Fair, from Smith’s Tix outlets or by calling 538-STAR. Oo GRAND FINALE Richard L. Elliott, one of three full-time organists at the console of the world-famous 206-rank Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Sait Lake 'Tabernacle, is fifth guest artist at tonight’s concluding concert of the annual Eccles Organ Festival at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City. The & p.m. eventis free. Elliott will perform on the Salt Lake City landmark cathedral’s 77-rank Kenneth Jones instrument, the largest mechanical-action organ in the In- termountain area. His program includes works of Bach, Wagner and Duruflé. He will perform Sigfrid KargElert’s “Fuge, Kanzone und Epilog” featuring violinist Michael Judd Sheranian and the womenof the Cathedral Choir, and contemporary American composer Dana Lockiair’s “Rubrics.”” Anativeof Baltimore, Elliott studied at Peabody Conservatory, Catholic University of America, the Curtis Institute of Music and Eastman School of Music. His first solo compact dise, “In the Shadowofthe Everlasting Hills,” recently was released on the Pre Organolabel. a ON THE SQUARE Three free concerts are scheduled this week at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City. All begin at 7:30 p.m. and are open to those age 8 and older. On Wednesday,the six-voice Coventry ensemble joins pianist Margot Hoviey andflutist Cathie Nyboin an eclectic program of song spanning eight centuries. Ensemble members are Michelle Cox, Kristy Hov- ley, Carlynn Jones, Angela Mecham, Kathleen Newton and Jeannie Perrington. On Friday, Dustin Gledhili, Another $20,000 winner. Mary Lou Deritis, from Layton, considers the State Line Casino “her home away from home.” After playing a $25 cash machine, once, and winning $20,000,she'll probably start spending even more lime at her Wendover, Nevada home. WEAVETHEBIGGESTWIMNERSWENDOVER! _@tate]ine "ROTEL CASINO CONVENTION CENTER @ See next page Thursday, watch this energetic and extremely popular eroupoffriends enjoylife, liberty and the happiness of pursuit. jriendsKSL TVa |
