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Show ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT JANUARY 16, 2008 DIXIE SUN - 9 of La Mancha tells story of Don Quixote ylan CONTRERAS (MELlSSA " his family, according to an article titled "SGMT Director Keeps 'The VSunJStaff Writer the through diffi-o- f Impossible Dream' Alive" by Cami Cox in the Dixie everyday life one's ,nding the .jth to dream dream is the ;e0fSt. George pro-- ' al Theaters of La an of "Man Weekly News on Dec. Having "Man of La Mancha" performed in St. George is essentially a tribute to the man who became an exceptional performer and father. Lead actor Roger Dunbar, who plays Don Quixote, said having the ability and resources to have this musical performed here really does touch home for Wiest and SGMT. Dunbar also said the story of Don Quixote is a story of faith. "Life can be hard at times, but faith can help you achieve a lot by bringing you to realize the reality of things around you," Dunbar ;ha- are Later-goer- s mvit- - the story ,, discover com-:man and his who journey 'jahlife, said Gary n property -- The yiT master musical at performed 'be College's ; State Theater o Stage :jgh Feb. 16. . ,ian of La Mancha is jy within a play set 'ng the Spanish d. and reveals a J1Sition a tax collector, .about author, Cervantes, and .assistant, Sancho, are thrown into )nwith bloodthirsty and ;1er said. de 4 That is really what the story is about: a man who believes there is a 5 greater power that peo- pie do not express but have within them to s overcome the obstacles I they face. "Man of La Mancha' Don Quixote, played by Rodger Dunbar, left, and Sancho, played by Steve Campbell, right, rehearse lines for Man of La Mancha." The will be showing at the musical is currently playing on the Eccles Main Stage and will be at DSC through Feb. 16. Eccles Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $15 for to her side. Dr. Carrasco Quixote left his family Broadway, continued to appearance to the and set out along a highadults, $13 for seniors run, and eventually arrives, but Quixote is Inquisition. and students, and $10 for climbed to 2,328 per"Man of La Mancha" way. Aldonza (Dulcinea), misguided and thinks children under 12 years it the an easygoing woman him to be the Great formances, making premiered old. The curtain goes up on Nov. 22, 1965, at the housed at an inn with Enchanter, a dangerous longest running musical at 7:30 p.m. for weekly Anta Washington Square of the 1960s. hard drinkers, catches enemy. Quixote battles shows. Saturday matinee show is directed The to he his with and and Theatre, Quixote's eye, according opponent . shows are $10 and have defeats him. When by Juli Wiest whose immediately believes he show times at 2 p.m. and The production was such actor father, Robert Cervantes ends his story, has found his true love. 7 p.m. For more informaa success in New York it Peterson, used to perthe stunned prisoners Aldonza is brutally tion about this show and then on form to the his transferred Broadway, hand back possesharmed, and thus, others, call moved to Utah to raise Martin Beck Theatre on Quixote and Sancho rush sions just before his murderers. inmates Cervantes' and es in prison, some of ,e sessions, but he conges them to return his "sessions by winning :m over with a story. Cervantes puts on a iinatic performance of who "over--.elme- d by evil... man, puts insanity," his de wording to www.imagi-rio- n and sets out the world as a ght, Don Quixote Man La Mancha, "champion com, :o www.imagi-nation.com- oppressed and wrongs." He :gms by telling that Che ititer of eact,I insider ditated 628-875- George museums entertain, educate As strike strangles TV season, industry frets over its future it. insider itathiHungofSt comes to rnnd for most is hot weath- eorge.wnat ,stlce (..h Dixie State College, and national parks, uld like le neart,y taken ut St. George is also home lurder ;two unique museums. Rosenbruch World ilife Museum, invention to nome 1835 Center Drive, more than 300 poodle' of animals from round the world, includ-i-g the plains of Africa, the rests of North America, or, ndthe :ecies hardl; mountains of Asia, ccording to www.rosen-tnsel- f fuch.org. Museum urator Dustin Hammer there are only 29 pecies of large mammals aid 1ort1 America, so the isition d Bust Bsl ccessr majority of animals museum dont come rom in ? No iter eaded the hunting adven-Hpn-t animals, was orn and raised in the rea an(d now maintains a e m Santa Clara, 'or lres sited House ared the fmmer said. Rosenbruch jirof W his animal turn ere inuan uiit wanted to collection m st. George, so he a museum and donat-ciT the animals to it, animer said. Most of the pubuT! pmals m the museum I from his family. a cloS' lme it's L TT can't le or quick Lt full-siz- y this continent. Rosenbruch family "ns the museum and is ram St. George. Jimmie Iwenbruch, who spear-wa- r prove: The And i Besides the portion of the museum, there is also a Kids Interactive Room. This e room contains a treehouse, reading nook and puzzles as well as about a dozen exotic animals to touch, and animal pelts and antlers to feel. While this room is geared more toward children, adults will also find this room to be interesting and informative. Another feature is the Exotic Insect Gallery. The insect collection is extensive and displays unimaginable creatures from around the world. The brightly colored butterflies are beautiful while some of the other bugs, including gigantic spiders, roaches and beetles, will leave many with creepy-crawlfeelings. Hammer said the museum is a good place for college students to become more educated about the animals around the world because they aren t things found in zoos or foreign cities. The museum is educational as far as biologica.1 and history standpoints, Hammer said. It also represents things from other countries that I would dare say 90 percent of the population would never see, and that thats including people to travel a lot. You'd have walk-throug- h "he T e Lgton ' hat, spend time in remote parts of the world to see these animals; they dont live in zoos. Also included in the museum is an art gallery. There are a variety of artists with their works displayed in the room for purchase. The gift shop also has a wide variety of wildlife inspired gifts and souvenirs for purchase. Ticket prices are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $4 for children 12 and younger. The museum is open Mondays noon to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and closed Sundays. For more information, visit www.rosenbruch.org. The second museum in St. George sure to spark an interest is the St. George Art Museum. The museum, 47 E- 200 North, was originally built in the 1930s to store beet seed for a sugar beet factory. After the sugar company closed in 1979, the building was vacant until 1997 when community and city officials decided to make it the home of the St. George Art Museum, according to www.sgcity.orgarts Now the biggest art museum in St. George, the museum continues to be a cultural and historical landmark for all people. Frankly I think culture is important to all people, ) $ esidef to troof' ado ut it"' ad. 3 O or5 gln: '' thro" e wot most be ive aj ine I:'. Currently there are three different exhibits being shown in the museum. All of the current exhibits in the art museum have water as their component, Reeder said. A new Main Gallery exhibit opened Saturday called Bear River: Last Chance to Change Course. The photographer, Craig Denton, was interested in documenting Bear River, e which is a long river that doesnt go to the ocean. Reeder said the photos are beautiful as well as documentary. The exhibit will show through March 8. In the Mezzanine Gallery, the new exhibit showing is A Reflective Nature. The exhibit is from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin. Reeder said the exhibit is a show of 48 paintings of water birds. The exhibit will show through March 500-mil- 22. Showing in the Legacy Gallery is another new exhibit called Legacy of Water. Reeder said it contains various images that include water. All of the pieces come from the A J a colorful jun- Sbruch Wildlife Museum, located at 1835 Convention CenTer Drive Ste. B, provides atmosPhere for visitors. col- lection. The exhibit will also be shown until March 22. Reeder said: The museum certainly gives people a chance to ponder the importance of water in the West. We only have so much water and we need to be very careful with it so that our descendants have some. Ticket prices are $2 for adults and $ for children 11 and younger. Student memberships are $15 a year. The museum is open 3 Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except for I tim'd Tuesdays when admission is free and the a museum is open from 10 5 a m. to 9 p m. For more information, visit www.sgci 1 a're 1 r W- LCUlt Museum Curator Deborah Reeder said. It was one of the early markers of what made us humans. The impulse to either create or be part of something creative is inside all of us, and this is a chance to go explore that. museums permanent niM a,ve 27. ty orgartmuseum. MCT - Like mutilated corpses on ''CSI" or "Law & Order," the victims of a television writers strike are starting to pile up: Last week's People's Choice Awards. Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony. The rest of this TV season-an- d very soon, Hollywood insiders say, next season as well. Although the increasingly bitter strike is in its third month, a stockpile of completed shows kept it largely invisible to TV viewers until the replacement of Sunday's glitzy Golden Globes ceremony with a dry, celebrity-frepress conference. (Things aren't looking so hot for the Globes' big brother, the Oscars ceremony, either.) But the backlog of finished programs is about to run dry. And industry players say the refusal of writers to produce scripts has made it impossible not only to resume this TV season, but to plan the next one. The strike, they say, has quietly strangled the pilot season, when network executives order sample episodes of proposed new shows for next fall. Even if the work stoppage were to be resolved tomorrow-an- d nobody expects that-tTV networks would have trouble stitching together a fall season. "I don't think it's going to end anytime soon," says one network official. "I don't know what scenario the worst-casis, but none of it's good." The strike has inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, thrown thousands of stage hands, technicians, teamsters and production personnel out of work, and sent economic ripples through every segment of Hollywood, hurting everyone from caterers to agents. e he e "Do you remember the alligator and the boa constrictor that died in each other's arms in the Everglades a couple of years ago while they were eating one another?" asks Lima, who teaches in the University of Miami's film department. "That's what I think is happening-- a murder-suicidpact on the part of the producers and the writers. It's so counterproductive and polarizing, I don't see how it will end well." Because the backlog of original programs kept network schedules relatively normal through December-an- d Nielsen ratings typically dipsea-during the Christmas is no son anyway-the- re evidence yet of a massive desertion by the TV audience. But there are signs that viewers are restless: The Internet video site YouTube's audience has jumped 18 percent in the past two months. Crackle.com, a Web site that offers short scripted shows, more than doubled its hits in November and December. "If the television viewing experience is altered negatively by the strike, it makes sense that people are going to try another platform," says Josh Felser, the former Fox executive who founded Crackle. Adds Jim Louderback, chief executive officer at Revision3.com, another website with a billowing audience: "Once they've seen us, will those people spend as much time watching TV? Not if we 'll do our jobs find some of our shows e video-sharin- g right-they- addictive." ABC's fading news show "Nightline," competing only against reruns talk shows, of late-nigscored its best ratings in ears and finished ahead see WRITERS page 10 |