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Show 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. DANCE -The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company presents "Mosaic," a collection of original works, on April 27 and 28. Included are "It's the Rage," a funny look at high fashion, and "Future History," with lawn-sprinkler pipes used as props to look at primitive ritual. It plays at the Capitol Theatre, 50 West Second South, at 8 p.m. Tickets ($8-10-15) are available at the usual Datatix outlets and the Capitol Theatre box office. The LDS Dance Festival appears at the Salt Palace, April 30 to May 3. MOVIES "That's Armageddon," a film series, continues at the Salt Lake City Library, 209 East 500 South. This week, "Dr. Strangelove" presents the Failsafe Fail-safe plot of accidental war, only with black humor. It stars Peter Sellers (in three roies), George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden and James Earl Jones. If you've never seen it, you've gotta answer to the Coca-Cola Company! It plays at 7 p.m. on April 26. . At the Blue Mouse: "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" examines British POWs held by Japanese, with David Bowie and Tom ("Reuben, Reuben") Conti as prisoners. The rest of the week is taken up with wacky comedy. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" asks the age-old question "What is your favorite color?" And "Animated Anarchy" looks at the cartoons car-toons of Walt Disney, Hanna and Barbera (who did Tom and Jerry), Bob Clampett (Bugs Bunny, Tweety Pie), and Chuck Jones (Road Runner). The Mouse is at 260 East 100 South. "Bugsy Malone" is a musical gangster story done with children! So why is it included in the "British Musical" series at the Salt Lake Library? Maybe because it's directed by Briton Alan Parker. It stars Scott ("Happy Days") Baio as Bugsy, and Jodie Foster as the moll. It plays at 2 p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for 50 cents) on Friday, April 27. -The Utah Media Center, at 20 South West Temple, concludes its Jack Nicholson and Julie Christie series. In "The Passenger," Nicholson plays a reporter in North Africa who impulsively changes identities with a casual acquaintance who has just died. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, the film plays on April 27 (9:30p.m.) and 28-29 (at7:30p.m.). The second film is "Don't Look Now" with Christie and Donald Sutherland as a couple, shaken by the death of their child, who are plunged into a world of spiritualism in Venice. It plays April 28 (2:30 and 9:30 p.m.) and 29 (only at 9: 30). Admission is $2.25 for each film, or $3 for the double feature. , Also at the Media Center is the documentary "The Good Fight." It's the story of the Abraham Lincoln Bridge 3200 U.S. citizens who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. Studs Terkel narrates this story of the first Americans to fight the Facist menace. It plays April 27 (7:30 p.m.) and 29 (2:30p.m.). MUSIC Charlie Brown's friend Schroeder should be in Salt Lake when the Utah Symphony gives an all-Beethoven concert, the last of its '83-84 season. Conductor Varujan Kojian returns to guest ' jP .1 with the Symphony for the Lenore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 7. The "Emperor" Piano Concerto No. 5 features pianist Andre Watts, also making an encore appearance. The program will be given Thursday, April 26, at Weber State's Browning Center in Ogden, and in Salt Lake's Symphony Hall (123 West South Temple) on April 27 and 28. All times are 8 p.m. Salt Lake ticket prices are $10-13-15-19-22-50-25. You won't need a new drug when Huey Lewis and the News appear at the Salt Palace on Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m. Three Dog Night appears at the Cherish Restaurant, 139 East South Temple, in the new Celebrity Showroom. The group plays two shows nightly from Thursday through Saturday. You got a friend when James Taylor appears at the Dee Events Center at Weber State in Ogden Wednesday, Wed-nesday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. tickets, at $12, are available avail-able at Datatix outlets.. A THEATRE -"THIS is the Place" is Park City's centennial musical written by locals David Fleisher, Katherine Janka Reynolds and Michael Phillips. The play shows Park City through the eyes of a naive Mormon missionary. "Place" is presented on Friday and Saturday Satur-day through April at 8 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, 649-9371. . The songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are saluted in "Rodgers and Hart: A Musical Celebration" at the BountifulDavis Art Center, 2175 South Main. The revue plays Wednesday - Saturday through May 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for art center iiiciuuci a seniorssiuaents. 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.) Satur- fJ days 2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.) and Sundays (2 and 4:30 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. Laserium, at the Hansen Planetarium, presents the music of Pink Floyd in "Dark Side of the Moon". It will be shown on Thursdays (8:30 p.m.) Friday-Saturday Friday-Saturday (at 8:30, 9:45 and 11 p.m.) and Sundays (8:30 p.m.). General admission is $4, $3 for children and senior citizens. |