Show Vocal dynasties bring string of hits to Logan The Coasters Drifters and Platters will share same stage Oct 4 Still reigning aupreme ai rock and roll's premier vocal groups The Goasten Drifters ft Flatten will be performing ie conceit at 8 pm Saturday Oct 4 at the EUcaEcdea Theatre in Logan The Coeaten are the aupreme comedians of rock and roll Their fint record Down in Mexico was recorded in the spring of 1936 and propelled The Coasten to fame That hit was followed with the double-tide- d million seller smash Searching on the A aide ’ : and Young Blood on the B aide In 1938 they recorded two more big hits Yakety Yak and Charlie Brown and from then on success was a given On Ian 21 1987 The Coasters became the first vocal group to be inducted into the Ron and Roll Hall of Fame They have appeared in six major movies and have amassed over 100 million record sales in their career And to this dale their act is one of the liveliest and funniest in show business Some of the Coaster's million selling hit songs include Poison Ivy Charlie Brown Zing Went The Strings of My Heart Searching Love Potion No 9 end Down in Mexico The Drifters are truly unique in today's world of ever fluctuating popular music group Ron their very first release on Atlantic records There Goes My Baby they were bound for stardom with under their a two million-sellbelts in their fint try One important reason for the Driften success is their er relationship with the greatest aangwriten of their time and the great Driften hits were written by such song writing legends as Burt Bacharach Carole King DoC Fomas and Lieber and Stroller Still today the group includes original members The current act blends n tasteful mixture of their million sdlen with contemporary itandardi These songs of the Driften coodnue to be favorites: This Magic Moment Up Oh the Roof Under the Hall of Fame where they so Boardwalk Save the Last Dance rightly belong For Me and There" Coes My These bit songs of the Platten Baby will be played and remembered In 1933 the Flatten recorded for years to come: Only You The the ballad Only Yon and this Touch You’ll Never Never Magk recording was the beginning of Know Smoke Gets In Your Eyes stardom for the group that was to become the most popular vocal Ebb Tide and i’ll Never Smile Again group of die 1930s Tickets for the Coasters The Platters had four No 1 A Platten go on sale Drifters 16 and records most gold songs of which can still be heard oo any Monday Aug 23 at the Ellen easy listening or oldies station Eccles Theatre box office at 43 S Main Street Logan or by calling throughout the country today Among their over 20 movie 7324)026 Ticket prices are $21 appearance is Rock Around The $18 $13 I i t i ! s I r i Ocas genre performing artist Gaiy Morris will take the stage at 8 pm Saturday Oct 23 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre 43 S Main Street Logan Tickets are $19 $22 and $23 For ticket infor6 mation call or visit the Ellen Eccles Theatre bon office As a country singer Morris has to his credit five No 1 singles and 11 Top 10 singles — all within a span of six years As a tenor he has performed with some of America’s top symphony orchestras He has also performed for Queen Elizabeth and for every American president from Gerald Ford to Bill Heritage Community Theatre 2302 S Highway 89 in Perry will hold auditions for She Loves Me at 6:30 pm Sept 24 and 23 and at 9 am Sept 27 Performances will be staged at 8 pm Mondays Fridays and Saturdays with a 2 pm matinee Dec 5-- 732-002- 20 Dec 13 Audition requirements include reading from a script and singing 16 bars of an upbeat tong Partkn- will also learn a dance com-:io- n and need to bring an accompanist or recorded accompaniment Curing requirements include: 10 men age One man age 9 20-6- 5 and six women age 20-6All characters are all must sing and dance Staff requirements include stage manager violinist bass violinist and technical crew A tentative rehearsal schedule has been set for Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings For more information about auditioning call Colette at K niiitiM Morris has also filled staring Broadway roles in La Boheme and Les Miserables and has appeared in more than a handful of television series including The Colbys Another World Mike Hammer Jack h Place and as leading man in the big screen movie A Place to Grow TV Morris is also host of his own show The North American Sportsman In addition he continues to work as a songwriter a music publisher and a record producer For the past six yean Morris and Us band have presented a series of colorful and elaborately staged Christmas concerts around the country The 1994 holiday tour was filmed and recorded for a television special and live album Gary Morris appears at Logan's Ellen Eccles Theatre to open the new season for the Capitol Arts Alliance Other upcoming shows include: Gala 98 featuring Crystal Gayle Zabava Folk Ballet of Russia old time rock and roll with the Coasters Driften and Platten and Celtic Night featuring the Cassidy Brothers 18-2- 3 high-ener- gy long-runni- v in I! 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SI h o Auditions open for Heritage’s ‘Loves Me’ Versatile Gary Morris to play Logan 5 t i Clock Tonight end The Girl Cant Help It In 1990 the Platten were inducted into the Rock and Roll top-ielli- ng 782-87- Shows on tap for the company’s 1998 season include TWelve Known as a eounby singer a Broadway tenor and entertainer to heads of atalB Gaiy Monte wMpartoim at Mm Elen Eodes Theatre In Logan at 8 pm Saturday Oct 25 Aniry Jurors Barefoot in the Park Big River and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ‘Belonging to the West’ photo exhibit opens Sept 29 at WSU The Weber Stale University Ait Gallery win open Monday Sept 29 with an exhibition of photographs by Eric Paddock Titled “Belonging to the West” the 49 color images document the landscape that is contemporary Colorado The exhibition continues through Friday Oct 24 “My pictures" wrote Paddock “concentrate on JiwMcspesftMUcJb0Neettlta extremes jof wilderness and metropolis — places moat of us overlook because they are loo familiar or because they do not fit conventional standards of worthwhile scenery Natural beauty and human intervention sometimes seem to balance in landscapes such as these if only briefly" Writer and photographer Robert Adams hM3iiiuTnMittyHiqwxtkt Paddock is contributing the old neglected vital encouragement of art Hia pictures are evidence that life is still coherent still remarkable still something about which we can and nuist care" Coloradan Eric Pad-doA was born in Boulder in 1934 He graduated from the Colorado College ia 1976 and received an MFA bom Yale ck University ia 1982 He has worked as a nurseryman printer and newspaper reporter and since 1982 as curator of photography at the Colorado Historical Society ia Denver He has taught extensively and hia photographs can be found in the collections of the Bibliotfaeque Nationals Sec WEST an Page 11 r |