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Show Visitors touched during U.S.tour ofVatican exhibit THEATER OPENING: “BROADWAY REVUE” DINESH RAMDE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Featuring music from “Guys & Dolls,”Aida," “Wicked,” “Funny Girl” and “Chess,” among others. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Center Street Musical Theatre, 177 W. Center St., Provo. $7 adults, $5 students, seniors and children. Dinner option available for $10 more. Call 764-0535 for reservations. www.csmtc.com. | “JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH” — Based on the beloved book by Roald Dahl, this playtells the story of two hideousaunts, a boy named James, charming insects and a giant traveling-peach.7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, March 3 and 10, 1 and 4 p.m. Feb. 25, March 4 and 11, The Children’s Theatre ofSalt Lake, 638 S. State St., Salt Lake City. $9. No babes in arms. (801) 532-6000. www.childrenstheatresl.com. MILWAUKEE — Among the priceless Vatican artifacts now at the Milwaukee Public Museum are a diamond-encrusted golden chalice and the oldest known imageof the face of Jesus. But one of the exhibit's most stirring worksis also oneofits simplest. Near the endofthe exhibition is a bronze cast of Pope John Paul II's hand, made in 2002. More than 1 million people have touched the hand, reaching out symbolically to aman who touched the world. * “It’s not uncommon to see people in tears here, or deep in meditation,” said Jeffrey Wyatt, the executive producer of the exhibit, as he stood in front of the sculpture. “Even for schoolkids and other people, regardless of their religious affiliation, there’s a ee of respect.” The bronze hand is one of more than 330 artifacts on display, many of them from permanent collec- tions of the Vatican museums andreleased only for the North America tour, which began in 2003, making stops in Houston,Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Cincinnati, San Diego, Montreal and San Antonio. The exhibit will be on view in Milwaukee through May 7 before returning to the Vatican. The exhibit arrives at an op- portunetime for the cash-strapped museum.Last year, museum executives — who havesince departed — came under fire after an audit revealed years of excessive spend- ing and questionable bookkeeping thet left the museum almost $29 million in debt. The museum expects about 120,000 visitors during the exhib- it’s three-month run, which would be the museum’slargest crowd since almost 180,000 people visited its four-month Egyptian exhibit in 2004, said Jan Nowak,the museum’s director of marketing and communications. But even a strong turnout won't be a magic bullet for the museum's ongoing financial woes, said museum president Dan Finley, who took overin August. “This will be a wonderful addition to the museum'sbottom line, but there will still be a ways to go,”Finley said. Heestimated the museum's shareof revenue from the exhibit will be about $1 million after expenses. The exhibit traces thousands of years of papal history but includes artifacts used as recently as several months ago. Wyatt said people who followed Pope Benedict XVI's inauguration after Pope John Paul II's deathin 2005 will recognize some of the pieces. For example,the display includes canisters that were used to produce the black smokethat first indicated that no successor had been selected and the white smoke that later heralded the inauguration of Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope. The exhibit also features robes and headwear from popes dating back to the 1800s. Wyatt said countless artifacts from the papal treasuries werelost over the centuries to foreign invaders, soa number of the surviving relics date Ainerican Fork Ais Council Presents €merican Fork Symphony Mostly popular works is the Mandylion of Edessa, a faded face on linen ina frame of gold and jewels that dates back tothethird tofifth century. The face is said to be that of Jesus, which would makeit one of the oldest representations of Christ. Whenthe art exhibit stopped at the Cincinnati Museum Center in 2003-04, the 185,000 people it drew made it “far and away the most highly attended exhibit ever to come to Cincinnati,” said Charlie Howard, the museum’sseniordirector for marketing. Howardsaid one of the most popular pieces was a ceremonial hammerused until 1903 toverify a pope’s death. “It’sa little golden hammer, and in the old daysthey’d tap it on the headof a deceased pope to make sure he was deceased. That artifact was really popular with the schoolkids,” he said. Additional pieces are ofhistoriéal if not religious significance. There's a replica of the scaffolding Michelangelo used to paint the Sistine Chapelceiling, and gifts that dignitaries from Napoleon to the Dalai Lama bestowed upon popes. The Rev.Steven Avella, an associate professor of histery at Marquette University, expected that even non-Catholics would be fascinated by the exhibit. “If you seriously study Western civilization, the office of the papacy has played significant defining role in the evolution of culture,” he said. Movies ® &® Daily Herald, Thursday, February 23, 2006 Dr Terry Hill Piano Soloist Sally Brinton performing Rhapsody in Blue By Gershwin Viola Soloist David Griffith performing Romance By Bruch Program Monday, Febuary 27, 2006 7:30 p.m American Fork High School 510 North 600 East Admission: $3 donation Cosi FanTutte..... Romance... aWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) senses Max Bruch (1838-1920) David Griffith, viola soloist Polovisian Dances... .. Alexander Borodin RhapsodyIn Blue .. (1883-1887) Gershwin (1898-1937) Sally Brinton, piano soloist The Cowboys. John Williams www.cougarbiue.com |