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Show 1 "Wltafflit's- Looking for something different to do this ekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. Music -The Utah Symphony gives its : second program of the new season, sea-son, in four performances sche- A duled over the next week. The -concert includes the overture to "King Lear " by Berlioz, The Sympnony wo. l by Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn's themes from Midsummer's Mid-summer's Night's Dream"-Nocturne, Scherzo, Intermezzo In-termezzo and Wedding March. The Symphony gives the first of its Matinee Rehearsals, Rehear-sals, a new series concept, on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 2 p m in Symphony Hall. It moves that night to give an 8 p m. performance at Ogden's Browning Center. The orchestra returns to Salt Lake for concerts on Sept. 23 and 24. For further information, call the Salt Lake box office, of-fice, 533-6407, or the Ogden Symphony Association, 399- Q9!14 Theatre "Barnum," the musical i about a master flim-flam man, ' plays at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre nightly, except Sundays, through Oct. 5. Showtime is 8 p.m. Authors are Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh and Michael Stewart. "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. 2, at 132 So. State. The ladies are "pregnant again" in the spoofy Utah musical "Saturday's Voyeur," Wednesday through Saturday through Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. Seating is limited on the Nancy Borgenicht-Michael Buttar play, presented as an annual benefit for the Salt Lake Acting Company. 168 W. 5th North. Two David Mamet plays make their appearance on the Salt Lake Scene. His "Duck Variations," presented by the New Shakespeare Players, is a two-character two-character study about a conversation on ducks that leads into 14 short scenes. This week, it will be presented presen-ted free at Liberty Park in the Children's Yard (north of Tracy Aviary). The run is Thursday through Saturday Satur-day at 7 p.m. Theatre 138 performs another Mamet work, "Tlje Water Engine," a surrealistic story that takes off from a '30s radio drama about a idealistic young inventor beset by evil forces. The show runs this week Thursday through Saturday at 8; 30 p.m., 138 So. 2nd East. Walk-Ons Inc. presents Tennessee Williams' famous tale of the tortured Brick, frustrated Maggie, and powerful Big Daddy. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" plays this week on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. At the Shire West theatre, 915 W. 1st South. Ballet West begins an "All American" program on Sept. 28-30. Dance works include Bruce Marks' "Songs of the Valley," inspired by Aaron Copland's songs; Helen Douglas' "Mistress of Sorrows," based on the legend of Medea; and a Sousa tribute "Stars and Stripes," by George Balanchine. At the Capitol Theatre. For further information, call 533-5555. jfiovies The Leslie Howard series continues at the Salt Lake City Library with "Pygamlion" on Friday, Sept. 23. In the movie 4 version of Shaw's play, Howard is v rotessor Henry Higgins, and Wendy Hiller is his unwilling un-willing pupil, the Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle. Most people know it better with music, as "My Fair Lady." Howard also co-directed. The film plays at 2 p.m. (for 25') and 7 p.m. (50') at the library, 209 E. 500 South. The Utah Media Center concludes its series of romantic hazes (with Tracy and Hepburn), and school dazes. In "The Desk Set," Hepburn plays the head of a television research department that is threatened with automation. She proves to Spencer Tracy that clearly no machine is a match for her. The film plays at 7 : 30 on Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25. The second feature this weekend is "If ..." one of the most surrealistic, incorrigible films to come from the rebellious '60s period. Malcolm McDowell, in his 1969 film debut, leads the students in the most savage revenge ever on a prep school! It plays the same days, at 9:30 p.m. The cost is $2.25 for each movie, or $3 for the double feature. The Media Center is located in the Salt Lake Art Center, 20 South West Temple. -The Blue Mouse features two cult films and an old classic this week. "My Dinner With Andre" is a fascinating restaurant conversation between an eagerly experimental visionary (Andre Gregory) and his more pragmatic friend (Wallace Shawn). In the eccentric, ec-centric, stylish "Man Who Fell to Earth," David Bowie plays an alien whose earthly mission to save his planet is distracted by the strange corruptions of our world. Bergman's "Seventh Seal ' is an eerie, unforgettable classic about a medieval world ravaged by decay and an implacable Death. The Mouse is located at 260 E. 100 So. Miscellaneous The Kimball Art Center continues con-tinues its exhibit of Utah Designer Craftsman in the Main Gallery. The Lower Gallery display is devoted to water- colorist Carleen Jiminez. The main space also features Sharon Shepherd, Harold Larsen, and Daniel Gelakoska. The exhibits run through Oct. 14. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Cir-cus begins an amazing, colossal stupendous run next . Wednesday at Sept. 28, with a 7:30 p.m. show at the Salt Palace. Tickets are on sale at the Salt Palace, all ZCMI ; stores, and can be reserved by phone, 363-7681. There she is, Miss UtahUSA. The winner of the . competition, scheduled for the Salt Palace on Satur- , day, will go on to the Miss USA pageant. The World Championship Draft Horse Pull brings top teams from the U.S. and Canada to the Salt Palace on Sept. 23-24. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Also on Sept. 23 is , a weigh-in at the Utah State Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. to , noon. . ' "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., Satur- ! days at 2, 4 and 8 p.m. On Saturday at 11 a.m., the ' Planetarium features "Circus of the Stars and j Planets," a show designed for children under 12. |
