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July 9, 1992 St. Cloud (Minn.) Times 13D What's happening in the Twin Cities Cable will get to it on Flamboyant comic and cult-hero host of the cable-access talk show "Get Down With Fancy Ray McCloney has been described as a cross between Little Richard and Ethel Merman. For three years, McCloney has been putting on his TV show for anyone willing to watch, and to anyone connected to Minneapolis Television Network (the show isn't seen in St. Paul). For his third anniversary, Fancy Ray is celebrating in his own indomitable manner: He's taking over Comedy Gallery Minneapolis on Monday nights, beginning Monday and continuing through Aug.

3. Monday's show is being taped for future broadcast on "Get Down With It!" The remaining dates on the Monday night performances are reserved. Fancy Ray figures he's about to make a break as a bona fide media star, and what's lacking in his profile are great comedy routines. Indeed, as much as the master at self-promotion claims that he is a comedian, Fancy Ray's true calling is as an interviewer. He's sensitive, prepared and interested in what other people have to say.

"Get Down With It!" has had its share of remarkable shows, such as the one when Fancy Ray visited with three Minneapolis prostitutes out on the streets, or the time he got Minneapolis City Council member Brian Coyle to dance on the show. "Get Down With It!" turned out to be one of Coyle's final public appearances; he died of AIDS complications a few weeks after the taping. Fancy Ray McCloney's Monday night shows are at 8 in Comedy Gallery Minneapolis, St. Anthony Main. Call 331-5653.

Down to earth Another cable-TV star goes before a live audience this week Joel Hodgson brings a theatrical version of his celebrated "Mystery Science Theater 3000" to Uptown Theatre Friday at midnight and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. A staple of Comedy Central network, "MST 3000" started on local TV station Channel 23 before being picked up by the national comedy channel in 1990. For those unfamiliar with the show, it centers on a janitor (Hodgson) in the Gizmonics Institute Satellite who watches science-fiction movies with his robot pals to pass the time. But Hodgson and company can't keep their traps shut, SO viewers of the show not only see the sci-fi flick, but get to hear this crew's witty asides. comic down stage Best bets By D.L.

MABERY Special to the Times Coming up Summer's best Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday for Lollapalooza '92 Aug. 28 at Harriet Island, St. Paul. Acts include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

Tickets also go on sale at 8:30 a.m. Monday for the Guns N' concert Aug. 5 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis. Call 253-3131 for both shows.

buddies Crow (a grasshopper-looking thing) and Tom-Servo (a talking gun ball machine) will be on the stage as the movie theater screens "World Without End," the 1956 movie starring Rod Taylor in which scientists break the sound barrier and end up in the 26th century. Why go live with a show that has more than 70 episodes on television? Two reasons, says Hodgson. One is a way to get immediate feedback. "We've always had to depend on what we thought was funny," he says. The other reason is to see if some version of "MST 3000" could be made into a touring production.

Ticketmaster has tickets. At the Uptown, Hodgson and his Out and about Mr. Elk and Mr. Seal's "The Cavalcade of Excitement" comedy variety show has been extended through August at the Padded Cellar in St. Anthony Main.

Playing Wednesdays through Sundays, the show features Elk and Seal's witty songs, guest stars and videos by local demi-celebrities like Dr. Sphincter and Michael Sommers. Call 331- 5653 for ticket information. Playwright and actress Kim Hines brings her one-woman show, "Who Was I the Last Time I Saw to the Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. Minneapolis, today through Sunday and July Saddle up for the championship rodeo Friday through Sunday night at Corcoran Lions Park, Hamel.

16-19. The play looks at the lives of four different black characters, from a 10-year-old girl living during the dawn of the Civil Rights movement to an 80-year-old woman who has outlived her husband. Call 340- 1725. Music notes Walker Art Center's Movies and Music in the Park series starts Monday with folk-rock band Trova performing at 7 p.m., followed by a free screening of "The Wizard of Oz" at 8:45 in Loring Park, across from the Walker. Ifit rains, the event is canceled and will not be rescheduled.

Oklahoma banjo master Alan Munde brings his band, Country Gazette, to the Cedar Cultural Centre, 416 Cedar Ave. Minneapolis, tonight. Call 338-2674. Sweet Honey in the Rock performs at the State Theatre, Minneapolis, Sunday. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

Canadian From Halifax, Nova Scotia, comes singer Sarah McLachIan, who will perform one show at The Guthrie at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Sarah McLachlan, who became a the Guthrie Theater Monday. Call Twin Cities sensation when she per- 377-2224. formed at the Fine Line Music Cafe Warren Zevon performs Tuesday in April, returns to the Cities to play at First Avenue.

Call 338-8388..