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Wednesday. Apr! 21. 1993. Orangevaie News 13 i Great America opens new Top Gun' roller coaster i 1, Lib PV. r- 'Indian Summer' will be converted to The Paramount, and will offer the feature presentation, "Paramount on Paramount movie and television characters will mingle with guests; the former Snowshoe Saloon will be transformed into Busy Town, a themed restaurant based on the fiction of popular children's author, Richard Scarry; movie music soundtracks will play throughout the park; and souvenir shops will offer an enticing selection of movie memorabilia.

"As we see it, 1993 is only the beginning," said Paramount's Great America executive vice president and general manager Jane Cooper. "We've always been committed to adding new attractions to this park annually. "Our new affiliation with Paramount Communications simply means that what we install in the future will be bigger, better and more exciting than ever." Cooper notes that as Paramount Pictures holds a vast motion picture library, the possibilities for future ride themes are endless. Paramount Parks, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, operates three other regional theme parks in the United States: Paramount's Kings Island, Cincinnati, Ohio; Paramount's Kings Dominion, Richmond, Virginia; and Paramount's Carowinds, Charlotte, North Carolina. Paramount Parks also has a 20 percent ownership in and manages Canada's Wonderland, Toronto, Ontario.

Paramount Communications is a global entertainment and publishing company. The Company's entertainment operations include: motion picture and television production and distribution; video marketing; broadcast and cable television; theatrical exhibition; sports and live entertainment presentations; as well as regional theme parks. In addition. Paramount is a leading publisher, producing and distributingbooks and supplemental materials for the education, consumer, and business and professional markets in the United States and internationally. From Staff Reports Paramount'! Great America, formerly Great America, will be reintroduced to fans this season as a facility which blends movie magic with theme park thrills.

Paramount! Great America was purchased in August 1992 by Paramount Communications and became part of the Company's newly created Paramount Parks division. Leveraging its unique entertainment assets. Paramount announced plans to integrate themes from its entertainment and publishing operations into exciting new park attractions. These broad resources now available to Paramount's Great America will gradually add an exciting new element to the park Northern Californians have come to know and love. The drama began to unfold on March 20, 1993, when Paramount's Great America opened its gates for the new season.

The park presented its premier movie themed attraction Top Gun a mind-boggling inverted roller coaster themed to the Paramount Pictures smash hit film of the same name. Critics called Top Gun" the movie a must see and, similarly, Top Gun the ride will be a must ride. Guaranteed to elicit the adrenalin rush felt by naval fighter pilots, the Top Gun roller coaster is 2,260 feet of full throttle thrills. Guests fly through a breathtaking tangle of steel track while seated in a floorless coach. If that's not enough, the coaster coach is suspended below the track, rather than riding on top of it.

Some of the elaborate Top Gun themed elements include: a ride approach which will be enhanced by audio and visual effects; a loading platform which will recreate the deck of an aircraft carrier; and a corps of ride attendants who will be turned out in naval aviator flight suits. Elsewhere within Paramount's Great America, additional changes will be evident. The former Grand Music Hall When eight friends reunite to commemorate the final season of Camp Tamakwa, the summer camp where they came of age, director Unca Lou (Alan Arkin, right) challenges his former charges by placing the camps future in their hands, in Touchstone Pictures' new ensemble comedydrama 'Indian Summer," starring (left to right) Kimberly Williams, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kevin Pollak, Julie Warner, Vincent Spano, Elizabeth Perkins, Bill Paxton and Sam Raimi. "Indian Summer" opens Friday, Apr. 23, at Century Theatres, Cinedome and the Sacramento Drive-In.

CSUS slates variety of musical events French hornist Pete Nowlcn will be featured in recital on Sunday April 25, at California State University, Sacramento. The program, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. in the CSUS Music Recital HalL will include works by Beethoven, Strauss and Brahms. Violinist Elizabeth Field and pianists Marilyn Swann and Kathleen Foster will also perform in the program, which is being sponsored by the CSUS Department of Music Admission to the recital is $5 general and $3 for students and seniors. Nowlen teaches French horn at CSUS and performs in the Faculty Woodwind Quintet.

Last year he was a prize winner in the International Competition for Solo Horn at the Castle of Duino, Italy. A 1984 Pi Kappa Lambda graduate of Northwestern University, he has played with the Sacramen at 7 p.m. in the CSUS Outdoor Amphitheater across from the Music Building. The concert is part of the University-wide Festival of the Arts scheduled for April 30 and May 1. The Sacramento Pops Orchestra is will known to Sacramento residents who enthusiastically attended its outdoor concerts on the CSUS campus in past years.

This concert will feature a variety of works, including songs from movie scores, military marches, and jazz standards. Talented CSUS Voice major Bonnie Boles will be the featured vocalist. Ample free parking is available for all these events in the multilevel garage adjacent to the Music Building and across from the tennis courts. For a complete schedule of Festival of the Arts events, call the CSUS Music Department at 278-6514, or the Office of University Affairs at 278-6156. to Symphony since 1987.

Nowlcn is also Co-Principal horn of the International Orchestra of Italy and has recorded with the orchestra for Alfa Records. The recital kicks of the first "Horn Day at CSUS." Following the recital, CSUS students and other Horn Day participants will have the opportunity to perform. I lorn players who would like to participate are asked to call Nowlen at 452-8958. The newly reconstituted CSUS Faculty Woodwind Quintet will perform its debut concert on Monday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in the CSUS Music Recital HalL The program will include Schul-lcr's Suite (for woodwind quintet), Thuille's Sextet (for woodwind quintet and piano), Concerto "after" Vivaldi, by J.S.

Bach, arranged by Rechtman, and Bozza's Scherzo. Around Talking" The Street Theatre, 2711 Street, Sacramento, presents the third and final play in its current three-play series, "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking." through May 8. Tickets are priced at $14 (Tuesday-Thursday) and $18 (Friday-Saturday). Special two-for-one matinees will be held on Wednesdays. Call 443-5300 for information.

"Alice in Wonderland" "Alice in Wonderland" will be presented by the Storyteller Actors, family theatre presentations, at the Street Theatre, 4623 Street, Sacramento, on Saturdays at 11 a.m., Apr. 24 and May 1, 8 and 15. Tickets are $4 per person. Call 277-6095 for information. "Evita The Music Grcus Broadway Scries present "Evita, through Apr.

25, at the Community Center Theater. Tickets range from depending on day and time of performance. Shows are at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

Call 557-1999 for information. At Caesars Tahoe Country star Billy Dean appears at Caesars Tahoe one night only, May 15. Anne Murray is scheduled for performances, May 28-30. For ticket information and show times, call Caesars Tahoe at (800) 648-3353, or BASS ticket centers at 923-BASS. ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR The new quintet is composed of Laurel Zucker, flute; Ben Glovin-sky, oboe; Deborah Pittman, clarinet; Peter Nowlen, French horn; and Susan Wiloughby, bassoon.

Sacramento pianist Betty Met-zger will join the Quintet in the performance of the Sextet by the 19th Century German composer, Ludwig Thuille. The concert is being sponsored by the CSUS Department of Music as the last in the 1992-93 Faculty Artists Concert Series. Proceeds from the series concerts benefit the Music Department Scholarship Fund. Admission is $5 students and seniors. The Sacramento Pops Orchestra, sponsored by the CSUS Department of Music, will perform in a free outdoor concert on Friday, April 30.

The Orchestra, directed by Herb Harrison, will begin playing At Harrah's Lake Tahoe Johnny Mathis appears at Harrah's South Shore Room, May 7-10. Tickets are $35 and $40. Greg Thompson's production of "Broadway" will run through June 3 (excluding (May 7-10). Ticket prices range from For reservations and more information, call (800) 648-3773. MUSIC Coffee Republic Appearing at Coffee Republic, Folsom-Auburn Road at Greenback in Folsom: Apr.

23 Anthony, 8 p.m.; Apr. 23-24 Anthony, 8 p.m.; Apr. 25 -Moises, 10:30 a.m. Call 987-8001 for information. CSUS Festival of the Arts A special performance by internationally acclaimed El Teatro Ca-mpesino, an outdoor SAC-POPSjazz concert and free performances by Jazz-ee and other Sacramento dance troupes will be among more than two dozen events filling a special two day festival at CSUS, Apr.

30-May 1. Call 278-6156 to obtain a schedule of events. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the "Choral Symphony," at the Community Center Theatre, 1301 Street in Sacramento, on Friday, Apr. 30 and Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m.

Tickets range form $6 to $25 and can be purchased by calling 264- adventures spectacular stage shows ever produced at Disneyland. Starring the lovely Belle and her giant-but-gentle Beast, the musical is performed five times daily during the summer season, June 18, through Sept. 12, continuing weekends only throueh the The ever-popular Main Street Electrical Parade will again daze guests with more than a half-million twinkling lights throughout the spring and summer. Showcasing beautifully illuminated parade units and electronically synthesized melodies, the cavalcade is an amazing sight to behold, depicting memorable moments from such Disney film classics as "Cinderella," "Peter Pan" and "Alice in Wonderland," COMEDY nut, ttSIALHANT 1A1 1 5 FtL-UT. Tl I (fcM I MJOTk) VINCE champ nun ray RAYEK5AN i AM TtCCTTMOlDflW CAU KM TABIC MMiWATONfr mm TCKrra at au AM OUTLET MCIUDMQ TOW A A WNEHEMOUM A AT DOOM.

CHANdt HHiWN AM) MW lUt Pit tmnct CHAMML I BMW Will A OVtll, REAM IB. KOUMT 0. me new rooo fnesh '1 1 IE New Disney An exciting host of features awaits visitors to Disneyland this spring and summer, highlighted by the new Mickey's Toontown, Aladdin's "Royal Caravan," the "Beauty and the Beast" stage show, the nighttime Fantasmic! spectacular and much more. The Magic Kingdom recently unveiled its newest themed land, Mickey's Toontown, home to Mickey Mouse and his Disney animated friends, but other new entertainment attractions abound in the park, as well. Walt Disney Pictures' acclaimed animated feature, "Aladdin," takes to the streets of Disneyland when the all-new Aladdin's Royal Caravan gets underway, twice dairy throughout the spring and summer.

The Caravan depicts the prince's grand entrance into the city of Agrabah as onlookers make way for Prince Ali and a host of spectacles: golden camels, acrobats, scimitar tossers, snake-charming harems and other jewel-enshrouded mystical characters; a towering cold-air inflatable version of the Genie; Prince Ali and Princess Jasmine on their Magic Carpet atop a larger-than-life elephant followed by Jafar reluctantly bringing up the rear with a "honey bucket." Another beloved Disney animated feature, "Beauty and the Beast," comes to life at the Park by way of an exuberant musical presentation on the Vidcopolis Stage. This extravaganza conveys all the emotion and charm of the motion picture in one of the most 5181 or at all BASS ticket centers. Call 442-4135 for additional information. MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS Russian art show The Village Gallery, a new fine art gallery in Fair Oaks Village (10219-B Fair Oaks presents The Russians Are Here" featuring oiL watcrcolor and gouache paintings by Lcnningrad artists Fourkat Rassoulou and Pctr Davidtch-enko. The art will be on display through Apr.

30. Call 966-4322 for information. Music on the Green The Auburn Civic Symphony will be featured at the 13th annual Music on the Green, Saturday, May 8, at the Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for senior, and $3 for students. Children under 12 are free.

Hhat in the World? What in the World? A Weird Wild and Wonderful Exhibition will be on view at the Crocker Art Museum through June, 1994. What in the World? features objects dating from 2350 BC to the 20th century, a span of nearly 5,000 years. Admission is $3 for adults, $1.50 for ages 7-17. Ages six and under are fee. For information, call COMEDY Laugh's Unlimited Now appearing at Laugh's Unlimited, 7630 Greenback Lane, Citrus Heights, through Apr.

25, is Jeff Jena. Bruce Baum is set for Apr. 27-May 2. Call 969-1076 for reservations. Punch Lint Comedy dub Vince Champ, Matt Riedy and Ray Engan will appear at the Punch Line Comedy Club, Restaurant and Bar, 2100 Ardcn Way, on Apr.

21-25. Ken Sonkin, Mike "Boats" Johnson and Chris Hobbs are set for Apr. 28-May 2, and Steve Kravitz, Johnny Ray and Tony Camin will appear May 5-9. Ticket prices vary depending on day of show. Call 925-5500 for information.

ON STAGE "A Thousand Cranes' A play using traditional japancs puppets, "A Thousand Cranes," will be presented at California State University, Sacramento, Apr. 23-May 9. Tickets are $8 general admission, $5 for students, children and alumni. For more information, call 278-6604. 'The Pain of the Macho" The Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 II Sacramento, presents Rick Najcra's The Pain of the Macho" on Fridays and Saturdays through Apr.

24. Tickets are priced at $15. For further information, call 443-6722. A Coupla hnitt Chicks Sitting I.