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Show (Bqpnimg CDim Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. Unless otherwise noted, events listed below will take place in Salt Lake City. IIAN&E : u The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company presents "Transformations," an evening of choreography with Tandy Beal. The program will be held at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Nov. 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. For more information, call 538-2253. MOVIES - This month, the Salt Lake Library is presenting a festival featuring the films of French director Alain Resnais. The film scheduled for Nov. 21 is "Life is a Bed of Roses," which is described as a "parable of the chaotic state of the human spirit." It stars Vittorio Gassman and Geraldine Chaplin. The film plays at 7 p.m. Admission is $2.50. The library is at 209 E. 500 South. In its Rex Harrison series, the library presents "Unfaithfully Yours" Nov. 22. Harrison stars as a jealous symphony conductor who thinks his wife (Linda Darnell) is two-timing him and fantasizes ways to kill her off . The film plays at 2 p.m. for 25 cents and 7 p.m. for 50 cents. At the Blue Mouse: "Eraserhead" is an indescribable science fictionfantasy; fic-tionfantasy; "Harold and Maude" makes its regular appearance; you can cry for our heroine as she is pursued in the silent film "Trapped by the Mormons" ; and "Diva" is a beautiful, indulgent film about an opera singer, the youth who adores her and a drug ring that accidentally gets mixed up with them. The Mouse is at 260 E. 100 South. The Utah Media Center continues to survey the favorite films of Salt Lake movie critics. "Heartland" is a low-key story about a farm couple (Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell) in 1910 Wyoming. It plays Nov. 22-23 at 7 : 30 p.m. and Nov. 24 at 5 : 30 p.m. "Choose Me," perhaps one of the best light comedies of the '80s, mixes a group of romantically confused characters, including a repressed radio psychologist (Genevieve Bujold), a wanderer who sounds like a pathological liar (Keith Carradine), a bar owner (Lesley Ann Warren) and a barfly (Rae Dawn Chong). The film plays Nov. 22-24 at 9:30 p.m. And finally, Danny Kaye spoofs Robin Hood in "The Court Jester," one of the best Hollywood comedies ever. The film also stars Basil Rathbone, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury, Mildred Natwick and John Carradine. And, of course, don't forget that "the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle ..." It plays Nov. 23 at 5:30 p.m. and Nov. 24 at 7 :30 p.m. The films play in the auditorium of the Salt Lake Art Center, 20 So. West Temple. For further information, call 534-1158. MUSIC : The Utah Symphony, with guest conductor Catherine Comet, presents a program of Mozart, Schubert, Bartok and Tchaikovsky. The concert takes place Nov. 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. at Symphony Hall, 123 South . Temple in Salt Lake City. -w - --' ' ' ' " THEATRE " . '. ?.'. " Look out, brothers and sisters! "Saturday's Voyeur: Christmas '85," the sequel to Utah's most notorious play, will be presented by the , Salt Lake Acting Company at 168 W. 500 North on various dates through Jan. 4. Call the company at 363-0525 for exact dates, times and prices. --"Idioglossia" is about a female hermit who has devised her own language and is examined by three scientists. It receives its world premiere at the University of, Utah's Babcock Theatre (downstairs from Pioneer Memorial Theater) . It plays Nov. 21-23 at 8 p.m. A Nov. 23 matinee is 2 p.m. The University of Utah Young People's Theatre presents "The Adventures of Hucklebery Finn' ' at Theater 138, at 138 So. 200 East on various dates through Nov. 23. For information on exact dates, times and prices, call 581-6961. "The Other Wise Man" and "The Littlest Angel" play at Plum Alley in Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 So. State, Thursday-Saturday through Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees are 2 p.m. No performance perfor-mance is scheduled for Thanksgiving, but a Nov. 26 performance is at 7:30p.m. , - The Hale Center Theatre (2801 So. Main, Salt Lake City) presents "The Babysitters" on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. through November. "Sleeping Beauty" is presented at the theater on Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. Admission is $3. In "Drew: Reflections in a Summer Pond," three men reflect upon their failures, sitting by a polluted Wisconsin lake. It plays Thursday-Saturday Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Lab Theatre (Performing Arts Building) on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake. A Friday matinee is at 5 p.m. General admission is $3.50. ETCETERA A quartet of painters Rick Lamphere, Abbi Marchesani, Melanie Brittain and Peder Johnson share the honors in an exhibit of their work at the Kimball Art Center through Nov. 28. For more information, call 649-8882. United Concerts will present humorist Bill Cosby at the Marriott Center at BYU in Provo Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets, at $10 to $15, are available at Datatix outlets and the Marriott box office. The Hansen Planetarium (15 So. State) presents "A Comet Called Halley" and "The Last Time I Saw the Comet" Monday-Saturday at 4 : 30 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 4 : 30 p.m. On Saturdays, the Hansen presents the childrens' star programs "The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket" at 11 a.m. and "Adventures Along the Spectrum" at 2 p.m. "Laser Vision," featuring Top 40 rock, plays Thursday-Saturday at 8:30 : and 9:45 p.m. The Eagles hockey team hits the ice Nov. 21 against Toledo and the Utah Jazz face Chicago on Nov. 27. Both games are in the Salt Palace arena on West Temple in Salt Lake. The Westin Hotel Utah presents the Camay Nouveau Wine Festival on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Prices range from $30 for the festival to $60, which includes a night's lodging and Sunday brunch. GENERAL INFORMATION DATATIX outlets are at all ZCMI stores, the Salt Palace, the BYU Marriott Center, the University of Utah Special Events Center, the Triad Center, Disc Jockey Records and Tapes in Salt Lake and at Budget Records in Logan. |