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Show (BdDnimg (Dun 1 iS3B H B Looking for something different it do'Jhis weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. Unless otherwise noted, events listed fcejpw will take place in Salt Lake Citv. y V(s V ' DANCE . " g3 Two' versions of "The Nutcracker" open this week. First, the Salt Lake Chamber Ballet presents the famous tale at Mount Jordan Middle School (9360 So. 400 East) Dec. 13, 14 and 16 at 7 p.m. A Dec. 14 matinee is 2 p.m. Tickets, at $3, are available at Sandy City Hall and Beesley Music in Union Square in Sandy. Then one of Utah's biggest Christmas events, Ballet West's "The Nutcracker," Nut-cracker," opens Dec. 18 in the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South) with the Utah Symphony Orchestra. For ticket information, call 533-5555. MOVIES i The June Allyson festival continues, at the Salt Lake City Library ' with "Little Women," a 1949 version of the Louisa May Alcott novel. ' The four sisters are played by Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh t and Margaret O'Brien. Thefilm plays on Friday, Dec. 13, at 2 p.m. fot ! 25 cents and 7 p.m. for 50 cents. The library is at 209 E. 500 South. At the Blue Mouse: If .you're not a Talking Heads fan, you miiy 0 become one if you see their concert film, "Stop Making Sense," directed 1 by Jonathan Demme ("Melvin and Howard") ; in "Paris, Texas," German Ger-man director Wim Wenders works in an American setting in a story of a vanished drifter (Harry Dean Stanton) who reappears and searches for f the wife (Nastassja Kinski) and child he left behind. The Mouse is at 260 j E. 100 South, phone 364-3471ijaqf,lV : 1""! -vJi ,bhio!U. IhMMI j ; h n.ij , 1 ""I I I' MUSIC O O Handel's "Messiah" receives two treatments this week. The Ralph Woodward Chorale presents the program at Temple Square's Assembly ; , Hall on Friday, Dec. 13. The 7 :30 p.m. concert is free. .., "Messiah". also will be presented by the Oratorio Society of Utah, . with William Noll conducting the Utah Symphony Dec. 14 and 15 a 8 , p.m. in the Tabernacle of Temple Square. Tickets, ranging from $5 to $10, are available at the Symphony box office at 123 West South Temple. THEATRE : v - U u-iJti iV j -fiJ "''iy-ai ' lic-mrn :-. ! t Neil SimonJs I'.'piazat Suite'I wlll be preseftiedtfO'Paf kflCfty Performances Perfor-mances at the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street Dec. 12-14 at 8 p.m. For tickets, call the Kimball Art Center (649-8882) or the Egyptian Theatre (649-9371). Grouprates are available. Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" will be presented at Pioneer Memorial Theatre at the University of Utah nightly, except Sunday, through Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. A Dec. 21 matinee is at 2 p.m. Look out, brothers and sisters! "Saturday's Voyeur: Christmas '85" will be presented by the Salt Lake Acting Company at 168 W. 500 North in Salt Lake City on various dates through Jan. 4. Call the company com-pany at 363-0525 for exact dates, times and prices. -"The Other Wise Man" and f'The Littlest Angel" will play at Plum Alley in Promised Valley Playhouse,, 132 So. State in Salt Lake City, Wednesday-Saturday through Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees are 2 and 4 p.m. Also, there will be 6 p.m.- performances on Dec. 13, 20 and 23. ' The playhouse also will present "The Snow Queen" Wednesday-Saturday Wednesday-Saturday through Dec. 21 at 7:30 pint 'Shows on Dec. 27 and 28 will be at 7:30 p.m. Matinees will be oil Dec, 14 and 24 (2 p.m.) and Dec. 23 (6 p.m.) v' ,-'r;' "Amahl and the Night Visitors" will be presented at the playhouse Wednesday-Saturday through Dec. 21 at ? :30 p.m. in the Little Bowery. A Dec. 21 matinee is at 2 p.mr , . . ,4." Rhe musical, "Scrooge," will be presented in the Triad Center's Dickens Building (50 So. 300 West, Salt Lake City) Tuesday-Saturday through Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees are at 4:30 p.m. Theatre 138 presents "The 1940s Radio Hour" Wednesday through Saturday through Dec. 21. Showtime is 8 p.m. The theater is at 138 So. 200 East. ' . r ETCETERA i .':; ti- ? An exhibit of the work of landscape artist Richard Murray will be featured at the Kimball Art Center through Jan. 2. The Lower Gallery features the Christmas Boutique. For more information, call 649-8882. The Hansen Planetarium (15 So. State, Salt Lake City) presents "A Comet Called Halley" and "The Last Time I Saw the Comet" Monday-Saturday Monday-Saturday at 4 : 30 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 4: 30 p.m. A new star show, "Star of Wonder" plays Monday-Friday at 8: 15 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 'at '3: 15 and 8!15 p.m. On Saturday, the" planetarium presents the qnfldren's star' program "The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket" at 11 a.rij. Adventures Along the Spectrum" is at 2 p.m. "Laser Vision" plays tWM Rock at 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. "Laser Magic" play&cWsical to light rock on Thursday, Friday Fri-day and Saturday at 9:15 p.m. jMiW " "Ramses II: The Pharaoh tadHis Time" will run through April 25 at the Monte L. Bean Museum of Brigham Young University. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for childrenstudentssenior citizens. Hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday Fri-day and Saturday. 2. ii :v GENERAL INFORMATION DATATIX outlets are at all ZCMI stores, the Salt Palace, the BYU Marriott Center, the University of Utah Special Events Centerthe Triad Center, Disc Jockey Records and Tapes in Salt Lake and at Budget Records in Logan. |