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Show f WDnait9 gnnnng Dun 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 t nlnre in Salt Lake Citv. DANCE 1 i I "Swan Lake," staged for Bal- i let West by Louis Godfrey and Denise Schultze, begins a nine- i performance run at the Capitol I Theatre the last until the 1987- ii I '88 season. The Swan Queen is played, alternately, by i Lee Provancha Day, Odette Millner and Stacy Swaner. I The ballet will be performed on April 13 and 14, 17-21 and 23. Curtain is 8 p.m. An April 21 matinee is at 2 I p.m. Tickets are at the Capitol Theatre box office (50 West Second South) and ZCMI Datatix outlets. I The University of Utah Children's Dance Theatre will present its annual spring concert April 13 and 14 in Kingsbury Hall at 8 p.m. An April 13 matinee at 10 a.m. t will be presented for school-age children, the elderly s and handicapped. Tickets on sale at the Tanner Dance Studio and Kingsbury Hall. I MOVIES "Oliver," which won a Best Picture Oscar in 1968, plays at the Salt Lake City Library in its April series of British musicals. A scowling Oliver Reed leads the cast as Bill Sikes, with Ron Moody as Fagin, Mark j. Lester as Oliver, Shani Wallis as Nancy and Jack Wild i' as the Artful Dodger. It plays on Friday, April 13, at 2 i p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for 50 cents). The library is located at 209 East 500 South, i The Blue Mouse features two Australian films I and conversely Woody Allen, whom you'd never find in the outback. "The Road Warrior" continues the post-$ post-$ nuclear adventures of Mad Max (Mel Gibson) and "We I of the Never Never" details a woman's adventures in s the aboriginal wilderness. Also, on April 14, the Mouse I will show "America From Hitler to MX" as a benefit I for the "Utah Freeze" group. The Mouse is at 260 East 100 South. The Utah Media Center continues to highlight Jack Nicholson and Julie Christie. You can see Jack Nicholson's Nichol-son's first Oscar performance in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," with Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson as Chief Broom, Scatman Crothers, and "Taxi's" Danny Chief Broom, Scatman Crothers, and "Taxi's" Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd as inmates. It plays on April 13 at 9:30 p.m. and April 14-15 at 7:30 p.m. As for Julie Christie, she also won an Oscar for the 1965 film "Darling," as an amoral, ambitious model. With Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, directed by John "Midnight Cowboy" Schlesinger. It plays at 2:30 p.m. (April 14) and9:30p.m. (April 14and 15.) Admission is $2.25 for an individual film and $3 for the double feature. The Media Center is at 20 South West Temple. ... , .. .,. , -The City Library (209 East 500 South) begins a "That's Armageddon" series with Japanese monster "Rodan." No need to be alarmed! It plays on Thursday, Thurs-day, April 12, at 7 p.m. The Media Center presents the Utah premiere of "Grenada: The Future Coming Toward Us." The documentary on Grenada, pre-invasion, contends that Maurice Bishop's government was helping people to take control of their lives. It plays on April 13 (7:30 p.m.) and April 15 (2:30 p.m.). MUSIC -"Merrily We Roll Along," by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, is a musical adaptation of a Kaufman-Hart play. Moving backwards in sequence 30 years, 7 it tells of the frustration of youthful ideals. t piays April 13 and 14, then Thursday-Saturday through May 5. It's presented by the Walk-Ons Company at Shire West Theatre, 915 West First South. Curtain is 8 p.m . "The Yearling," the story of a boy's tragic love for a deer, is presented in a musical version at the Little Bowery theater of Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 South State. It plays on April 13 and 14 at 7 p.m., then Thursday-Saturday through May 5. A May 5 matinee is at 2 p.m. -"THIS is the Place" is Park City's centennial musical written by locals David Fleisher, Katherine Janke Reynolds and Michael Phillips. The play shows Patk City through the eyes of a naive Mormon missionary. "Place" is presented on Friday and Saturday through April at 8 p.m. -"On Golden Pond" was a popular movie, but it began as a play. It will be presented at Pioneer Memorial Theater nightly except Sunday through April 25. Showtime is 8 p.m. An April 21 matinee is at 2 p.m. 1 THEATRE -"Shenandoah," by Gary Geld and Peter Udell, is a musical about a family trying to avoid the violence of the American Civil War. It will be presented at the Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 South State, wea-nesday-Saturday through April 14. Shows at 8 p.m. ETCETERA . -"A Comet Called Halley" plays at the Hansen Planetarium, 15 South State on weekdays (U a.m., 2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.) Saturdays Satur-days (2. 4:30 and 7 D.m.) and Sundays (2 and 4:30 p.m.) Monday Jhrougn Wednesday, Wed-nesday, the mini-star show "Sounds of Space beg ns the 7 J.m. program, with "Halley" following at 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 Satur-day -Sunday shows. ' 19 t -The Utah Jazz take on San Diego on April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salt Palace. -The "Show Me How" Fair takes place at the Salt Palace, April 13-15, sponsored by Ernst Home Centers. |