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The Spectrum D9 Friday, February 19, 1999 Southwest Living's DATEBOOK New directors combine talents for 'The Tempest' Smr.r-" I 7 'Sa I audience to be prepared for some creative and imaginative involvement during the show. One of the most interesting sets Ross has designed was for "Kindcrtransport," a Jewish Holocaust production at USU. Powell, hired at Dixie College for one year while Paula Trimpey is on sabbatical leave, and her costume crew are also having a lot of fun building the costumes to coordinate with Ross' stylized and imaginative set. The costumers are using the deep vibrant red, purple, green and blue colors of the newly painted floor and creating several glitzy fairytale-like costumes with Elizabethan-style silhouettes. Powell loves Dixie College and feels being here is a great opportunity for her and it gives students a chance to work with and get ideas from different people.

Besides her talents in costumes and hats, she enjoys making quilts and puppets and doing cross-stitching. Of the 90 shows to her credit, her favorite costume designs were for "The King and "Fiddler on the For The Spectrum Two recently hired theater designers, Mark Ross and Louella Powell are combining their background talents and creative imaginations to produce the set design and costuming for the Dixie College production of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Shakespeare's play," adapted by director Brent Hanson, will be presented at 8 p.m. in the Arena Theatre of the Graff Fine Arts Building Thursday to March 6. Ross, a Utah State Master of Fine Arts Theater Design and Technology Major, was hired winter semester by Dixie College to take Boyd Wolz's position as set designer and technical director. With a background of experience doing seven musicals in eight weeks with the "Music Circus" in Sacramento, Ross brings to "The Tempest" set a circus-like atmospnere comoinea witn tne aesen.

island motif. According to Ross, he and the theater students are having a lot of fun creating the mystical set with special lighting and sound, and warns the Student Tasha Wright and costume designer Louella Powell coordinate costume designs and fabric for the upcoming production of "The Tempest" starting Wednesday in the Arena Theater, Graff Fine Arts Theatre at Dixie College. Roof," "Man of La Mancha," "Royal Hunt of the Sun" and "She Stoops to Conquer." For tickets to the Feb. 24-27, and March 1, 3-6 productions, contact the Dixie College Theater box office in Snow Canyon High holds Concerto Night ST. GEORGE The Snow Canyon High School Orchestra will present their annual Concerto Night in the historic -St.

George Tabernacle, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free of charge. The orchestra will feature French horn soloists Amanda Dabney and Brooke Callahan playing Mozart's "3rd Horn Concerto." Then trombone soloist Casey Kirkham will perform the "Concertino pour Trombone" by F. David. This is an exciting romantic work which displays the full range of the trombone.

The orchestra will then feature four violinists playing the Vivaldi's "Concerto in Minor." The soloists are Annaca Cope, Abby Forbes, Cassidee Frei and Chelsa Gentry. The orchestra will play the "Overture to Don Juan" by Mozart to begin the concert and the evening will conclude with selected movements from Hayden's "Symphony No. 94." For information, contact Terry Moore at (435) 634-1967. The Spectrum For A Limited Time Only. Bluegrass Bash picking on the Mesquite Star the Avenna Center, (435) 652-7800, Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cost is $7 per adult, $6 per senior and $3 per youth 5-17. No children under the age of 5 are requested. rv fill For The Spectrum NevStar Gaming and Entertainment Corporation announced The National Bluegrass Bash is to be held at its Mesquite Star Hotel Casino in Mesquite, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21, 1998. Three of the top, Grammy Award winning bluegrass bands in the la.

lummy iu (jiiuiiii iiiwuuv. The New Traditions with over 20 bluegrass awards including Year. Laurie Lewis and Grant Street, four-time Grammy winner. The Shankmans, Grammy nominated as Emerging Artists of the Year. In addition to the National Bluegrass Bash, there will be banjo, fiddle and mandolin competitors from all over the country pickin' and strummin' for cash prizes and awards.

Sunday the public is welcome to take part in a Pro-Am Horseshoe Tournament where each amateur will pair up with a National Horseshoe Pitchers Association (NHPA) sanctioned pro and pitch shoes for cash and awards. Mesquite Star has constructed NHPA regulation horseshoe courts for the event and- preparation-of- die -National If Ycy Ci I WHAT: Bluegrass Festival and Horseshoe Tournament WHEN: 10 a.m. Saturday- Sunday, Feb. 20-21 WHERE: Mesquite Star Hotel and Casino, 333 Sandhill Mesquite COST: $10 per category INFO: (702) 346-1 177 NHPA event scheduled in April 1999 Mesquite Star general manager, Tim Barnett said, "Mesquite is becoming known for national special events such as the Running of the Bulls held last July, which will be repeated again this July. Our hotel casino intends to bring quality special events like the National Bluegrass Bash and Pro-Am Horseshoe Tournament to Mesquite for the enjoyment of our customers and to help create a resort casino destination for Mesquite." Michael Signorelli, CEO of NevStar, said, "Our Mesquite Star Hotel Casino continues to grow through a strategic marketing plan including special event activities.

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