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Show WDositt's Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record, entertainment critic Rick Brough. Ulasle San Francisco's bizarre and eclectic rock group, The Tubes, will play at the University Univer-sity of Utah Special Events Center, Thursday at b p.m. Tickets are $10 available through Datatix outlets, Special Events Center, Cosmic Aeroplane and Toad Tape. -It's time for another classical-music opening, as the Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra opens its 1983-84 1983-84 series with a Friday (Sept. 30) performance at the Ogden Hilton and Saturday (Oct. 1) in the Salt Lake. The performance will feature concerto works by C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Martinu, and Ramiro Cortev under un-der the baton of Associate Cohduclor Charles Jfet-cham. Jfet-cham. Tickets for the season are on sale at the Symphony Sym-phony box office in Salt Lake (533-6407), all Datatix outlets and at the Ogden Symphony-Ballet Association (399-9214). The Collegium Musicuum plays at Kingsbury Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 4. According to Boosters, this 50-piece amateur orchestra is possibly the finest is Europe. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $2. -Diana Ross plays the Salt Palace on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Reserved-seat tickets for $12.50 are available at the Palace and Datatix. -Rocker Rick Springfield appears with Quarter-flash Quarter-flash at the Dee Events Center of Ogden's Weber State College. Showtime is 8 p.m. Theatre Those famous existentialist existen-tialist bums, Vladimir and Estragon, are "Waiting for Godot" at the Art Barn, Reservoir Park and Finch Lane. A six-day run begins from Oct. 2. For further info, call 531-8766. Two David Mamet plays appear on the Salt Lake scene. 'Duck Variations" is presented by the New Shakespeare Players, Friday through Sunday. Shows are at 8 p.m. at the Utah Artists Guild, 1988 So. 11th East. Mamet's "The Water Engine" plays at Theatre 138, Wednesday through Saturday through Oct. 15 at 8:30 p.m., 138 So. 2nd East. Walk-Ons presents Tennessee Williams' famous tale "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The classic play runs Wednesday through Saturday through Oct. 15. Showtime is 8 p.m., at the Shire West Theatre, 915 W. 1st South. "Barnum," the musical about a master flim-flam man, plays at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre nightly, except Sundays, through Oct. 5 Showtime is a 8 p.m. Authors are Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh and Michael Stewart. Matinee Saturday at 2 p.m. "Annie," by Charles Strouse, Thomas Meehan and Martin Charnin, has plenty of tomorrows at the Promised Valley Playhouse. It runs Wednesday through Saturday through Oct. 22 at 132 So. State. Movies The Leslie Howard Festival concludes this Friday, Sept. 30, at the Salt Lake City Library. In "Intermezzo," "Inter-mezzo," Howard plays a married musician who falls in love with a younger girl played by Ingrid Bergman in her first American film role. This 1939 romantic-drama will be shown at 2 p.m. (for $.25) and 7 p.m. (for $.50). The library is located at 209 E. 500 South. The Utah Media Center (located in the Salt Lake Art Center) begins two new film series for the month of October. A collection of movie ghost-comedies is designed for Halloween. These play every Saturday and Sunday through the month at 7:30. The second festival highlights the films of Akira Kurosawa. These films play the same days at 9:30. The first "ghost" film (set for Oct. 1 and 2) is the well-known 1939 comedy "Topper." Cary Grant and Constance Bennett play married socialites killed in a car crash who decide to redeem themselves in the afterlife af-terlife by teaching stuffy banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) how to have some fun. The Kurosawa film (on the same dates), is "The Seven Samurai," the famous story of a band of outcasts out-casts who protect a village from bandits. The film later inspired the Yul Brynner-Steve McQueen film, "The Magnificent Seven," not to mention the Marlboro Man. Admission for each film is $2.25, and $3 for the double feature. The center is located at 20 South West Temple. The films at the Blue Mouse this week are all set in the great outdoors, but their styles range from the political to the way-out. "Sundaggers," a documentary narrated by Robert Redford, examines a struggle over the environment in the Four Corners area. "Swept Away," by director Una Wertmuller, shows the class-war class-war between a Marxist sailor (Giancarlo Gianninni) and a socialite (Mariangelo Melato) stranded on a desert island. And "El Topo" is Jodorowsky's wildly surrealistic, bad-taste Western. The Mouse is located at 260 E. 100 South. ; Miscellaneous Comedian Steve Lan-desberg Lan-desberg appears at the University of Utah on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Oct. 5. Landesbera and his various characters (including Barry White and Gregory Peck) appear at Kingsbury Hall at 8 p.m. Tickets are $4 for students and $6, general admission. -The Kimball Art Center continues its exhibit of Utah Designer Craftsman in the Main Gallery. The Lower Gallery display is devoted to watercolorist Carleen Jiminez. The main space also features Sharon Shepherd, Harold Larsen, and Daniel Gelakoska. The exhibits run through Oct. 14. . The amazing and colossal Ringling Brothers Barnum Bar-num & Bailey Circus continues through Thursday and Friday (at 4 and 8 p.m.) Saturday (n a.m., 3:30 and 8 p.m.), Sunday (2 and 6 p.m.) and Monday- (4 and 8 p.m.), at the Salt Palace. The laser light show "Close Encounters with John Williams" plays at the Hansen Planetarium on Sundays Sun-days (3 p.m.) Fridays (7 p.m.) and Saturdays (3 and 7 p.m.). "The Dawn of Astronomy," at the Hansen Planetarium, 15 South State St., continues Sundays at 2 and 4 p.m., weekdays at 11 a.m., 2, 4 and 8 p.m., Saturdays Satur-days at 2, 4 and 8 p.m. On Saturday at 11 a.m., the Planetarium features "Circus of the Stars and Planets," a show designed for children under 12. |