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Show Wlnaitt's gDIimg DQ 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. Ir-'-V- DANCE -"Konservatoriet," presented this weekend by Utah Ballet, began as the first act of a 19th-century 19th-century ballet. It shows students in a ballet studio coached through their moves by Alexis, me uance ? master. The program also includes three premiere pieces. It plays on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus. 3 t" W J MOVIES The Art Barn (54 Finch Lane, Reservoir Park) is host to a three-part Folk Film Festival. The first program (Thursday, May 3) features "Wasn't That a Time? The Weavers' Reunion Concert. It s an award-winning portrait oi me group which first popularized folk in the early 1950s - and then was overwhelmed by the witch hunts of the time. A shorter film, "To Hear YourBanjo Play," examines the history of folk, including Pete Seeger and Burl Ives. Admission is $2.50. Showtime is 8 p.m. It's sponsored as a benefit for the Folklore Society of Utah. The Salt Lake City Library continues its Armageddon Ar-mageddon series on May 3 with "The World, the Flesh and the Devil." Inger Stevens, Harry Belafonte and Mel Ferrer play the only three people in a post-holocaust post-holocaust city. Tickets are $2.50 for the 7 p.m. show. The library is at 209 East Fifth South. Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, and Eric Rohmer, a student of romance, are featured in the two festivals this month at the Utah Media Center. Hitchcock opens with "Notorious." Ingrid Bergman plays a woman who poses as a wanton character to penetrate a Nazi spy ring. This entangles her between the spy she married (Claude Rains) and the spy she really loves (Cary Grant). It plays on May 4 (9:30 p.m.), May 5 (2:30 and7:30), and May G (7:30). Rohmer's "Chloe in the Afternoon" is the story of Fredric, who fantasizes a life of freedom with Chloe, a girl he met in the city. It plays on May 4 (7:30 p.m.) and May 5-6 (9:30). Admission is $2.25 for each film or $3 for the double feature. The Media Center is at 20 South West Temple. The Blue Mouse jumps from Spain to Australia. "Walkabout" shows the encounter between two upper-class upper-class English children and an aborigine. "Carmen" intertwines in-tertwines the legendary story with a modern tale of a choreographer looking for his Carmen. The Mouse is at 260 East 100 South. Those drums! Those drums! It's Jungle Fever at the Salt Lake City Library. The first film, on Friday, May 4, is the 1950 version of "King Solomon's Mines" with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr venturing into in-to darkest Africa. It plays at 2 p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for 50 cents K - Documentary-maker tony : Buba looks at ' the " citizens of his hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania. He will appear at the Utah Media Center Wednesday, May 9, to show a group of his films. Showtime is 8 p.m. MUSIC The Salt Lake Symphony plays May 3 and 4 at Temple Square in a free program with violinist Daniel Heifetz. The program, starting at 7:30 p.m., will include Grieg, Copland and ueeinoven. Danny Kaye's anything-goes concert with the Utah Symphony is reportedly sold out. The program, Saturday, Satur-day, 8 p.m. at Symphony Hall, begins with Charles Ketcham leading the orchestra in Strauss' overture to "Die Fledermaus". After that, Kaye takes over and the management takes no responsibility for what follows. The concert is a benefit for the Symphony's retirement fund. THEATRE Shaw's "Arms and the Man" is presented by the Denver Center Cen-ter Theatre troupe on May 6 at the Davis Middle School auditorium in Evanston, Wyoming. The nlav ookes fun at 19th-century notions of heroism and romance. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for studentst eniors. "The Wake of Jamey Foster," Beth Henley's dark comedy about the funeral of a rural alcoholic, plays Thursday-Saturday through May 19. The presentation at Theatre 138, 138 South Second is the sixth annual Acting Ac-ting Emphasis Showcase production of the University of Utah. "The Little Prince," a fantasy play, is presented in the Lab Theatre of the Performing Art Building at the U. of U. It plays Thursday-Saturday with a Friday matinee at 5 p.m. Caryl Churchill's "Cloud 9" is an absurd comedy of sexual role-playing and role-switching, presented by the Salt Lake Acting Company (168 West Fifth North). It plays Thursday-Saturday through May 11 at 8 p.m. A Sunday, May 6 performance is at 7 p.m. Ronald Ribman's "Journey of the Fifth Horse," from the New Shakespeare Players, is based on a work by Turgenev. The two central characters are a dying man questioning the meaning of life, and a timid publishing-house lackey who later reads the dead man's diary. It plays at the Ladies Literary Club (850 East South Temple) Thursday through Saturday through May 5. Curtain is at 8 p.m. ETCETERA -"A Comet Called Halley" plays at the Hansen Planetarium , 15 South State on weekdays (11 a.m., 2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.) Saturdays Satur-days 2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.) and V aim t.ou p.m.; Monday through Wednesday, Wed-nesday, the mini-star show "Sounds of Space" begins the 7 p.m. program, with "Halley" following at 7:20 p.m. And as an added attraction, the world's best commercials, the 12th Annual Clio winners, follow the 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday shows and the 4:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday shows. |
