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PageT wo I used to cry when I listened to Robert Johnson when I was about 19 1 understand why I was so inarticulate and insensitive compared to what I heard coming out of my phonograph Rock singer Robert Plant on the legendary blues artist from Knight Ridder Newspapers 12 Sunday My 5 1998 wwwkcstarGomfyifyihtm Sunday Arts Calendar Sam Shepard Sam the Man and The most intriguing playwright of his generation is the subject of Shepard: Stalking a Great Performances broadcast at 8 pm Wednesday on KCPT Channel 19 For this show the author of Tooth of West" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning agreed to his first-ever television interview and reads from his own prose and plays Among those interviewed: Gary Sinise John Malkovich Ethan Hawke and Ed Harris The program also includes performance excerpts from of the Starving Tooth of and Immediately following the show at 9 pm will be the 1984 television production of an award-winning Shepard play depicting the bizarre relationship between two brothers an aspiring screenwriter (Sinise) and a shiftless petty criminal (Malkovich) and how their roles gradually reverse as they struggle to write a script together Robert Trussell ETIENNE GEORGE Frances McDormand (left) arid Hatty Jones star in which opens Friday FRIDAY Eye of the beholder The Japanese cinema came of age in 1951 with the international success of director Akira Kurosawa's brooding meditation on the murder of a feudal nobleman and the rape of his wife The film examines the incident through the experiences of several witnesses including the bandit (Toshiro Mifune) accused of the crimes and the ghost of jthe murdered man only to find that all got different versions of A restored version of opens Friday at the Manor Square Theatre Robert Butler Quentin Tarantino might have done it Action figures with military microchips go on a rampage declaring war on mankind Features one of the last film performances by the late Phil Hartman directed by Joe Dante (Audience rating: PG) CLOSING THIS WEEK THEATER AMERICAN Political comedy by Wendy Wasserstein 3 pm July 5 Unicom Theatre 3828 Main (531 -PLAY) GRAND Comedic look at Hollywood icons all-male cast 8 pm July 6 Alanz Theatre 624 63rd $995 (444-2288) GRAND NIGHT FOR Bell Road Barn Players 8 pm July 9-11 closes July 11 Jenkin and Barbara David Theater Park College $8 (587-0218) LOVE YOU PERFECT NOW Comedy about relationships 2 pm July 5 American Heartland Theatre Crown Center (842-9999) Musical based on Charles Schulz's characters from the comic strip Peanuts 10 am July 7-8 10 am and noon July 9 10 am 1 and 7 pm July 10 Theatre for Young America Mission Center Mall 4881 Johnson Drive $6 (831-2131) ART PAINTING EXHIBIT BY AMANDA THWEATT: Opens July 7 reception 7-11 pm July 10 1-5 pm Wednesday-Saturday and by appointment closes Aug 1 Michael Cross Gallery 527 39th (753-0606) STILL LIGHT II: JOAN BACKES SUZANNE CHAMLIN AND YVONNE ROSSER: Opens 5-9 pm July 10 1-4 pm July 11 1-4 pm Saturdays and by appointment closes Sept 8 Jan Weiner Gallery 4800 Liberty (931-8755) STILL RUNNING NEW THIS WEEK THEATER Fats Waller musical Opens 8 pm July 10 8 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays 2 pm Sundays 11 am and 1 pm some Wednesdays 2 and 4 pm some Saturdays closes Sept 6 American Heartland Theatre Crown Center (842-9999) Musical about PT Bamum Gladstone Theatre in the Park Opens 8:30 pm July 10 8:30 pm July 11-12 closes July 12 Oak Grove Park 76th and North Troost Free chairs and blankets may not be placed in park before 3 pm (436-2200) THROUGH THE DECADES: SONGS OF THE Opens 8 pm July 8 3 and 8 pm Saturday-Sunday 8 pm Monday and Wednesday-Friday closes July 26 Quality Hill Playhouse 303 Tenth $17 (235-2700) ON THE Broadway musical Opens 8:30 pm July 6 8:30 pm July 7-11 closes July 12 Starlight Theatre (363-STAR) Musical revue of popular show tunes by composers from abroad Bam Players Opens 8 pm July 10 8 pm July 11 and 16 3 pm July 12 closes July 19 Shawnee Mission East High School Little Theatre 75th and Mission Prairie Village (381-4004) Collection of scenes and one-acts Maple Woods Community College Theatre Program and Circle of Greater Kansas City 8 pm July 10-11 closes July 11 Little Theatre Penn Valley Community College $5 at door (942-1126) SUNSHINE Comedy by Neil Simon Excelsior Springs Community Theatre Opens 7:30 pm July 10 7:30 pm July 11 closes July 19 Wyman Place Theatre 108 Dunbar Excelsior Springs (637-ESCT) CLASSICAL MUSIC FREE ORGAN RECITALS: 3 pm daily during July Weekday recitals at RLDS Temple Weekend recijals alternate even-numbered dates at Temple odd-numbered dates at RLDS Auditorium Independence (833-1000 Ext 56) SUMMERFEST CONCERT: SCARS AND SCRAPES FOREVER: Friends of Chamber Music 5 pm July 5 St Episcopal Church 13th and Holmes (561-9999) KANSAS CITY FLUTE ASSOCIATION RECITAL: 7:30 pm July 9 Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 13th and Broadway Donations requested reception follows (339-6822) SUMMERFEST CONCERT HOT DOGS AND APPLE PIE: Friends of Chamber Music 7:30 pm July 11 5 pm July 12 St Episcopal Church 13th and Holmes (561-9999) POP ROCK JAZZ ETC YOUNG AUDIENCES FAMILY ARTS FAIR: Red White and Bluegrass with The Plaid Family The Wilders The Etcetera String Band and Spontaneous Combustion 11 am-3 pm July 5 City Market Fifth and Walnut Free (531-4022) NINTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND REGGAE WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL: Featuring Ziggy Marley the Melody Makers Hugh Masekela Reggae Cowboys and 22 other bands Noon-11 pm July 5 Liberty Memorial Mall Penn Valley Park (960-3400) PLAZA Outdoor music series Penguin Courtyard Nichols and Pennsylvania: Lawrence Wright and the Outlets 2-5 pm July 5 BCR 5-8 pm July 9 Green Card 2-5 pm July 11 Mermaid Courtyard Nichols and Broadway: Marimba Yajalon 2-5 pm July 5 Tom DeMastersMo PaufeaAd 58 pm July 9 KC Brass and Electric 2-5 pm July 11 (753-0100) RED WHITE AND BOOM NO 3: Sister Hazel Meredith Brooks La Bouche JJsa Loeb Tonic Color Me Badd Billie Meyers Jortny Lang and Five 3 pm July 5 Sandstone Amphitheatre (576-7900) OVERLAND PARK CIVIC BAND CONCERT: 7:30 pm Sundays through July 19 Santa Fe Commons bandstand 80th and Santa Fe Free lawn chairs and blankets suggested (765-6200) MUSIC IN THE PARKS: Dixie Cadillacs 7-9 pm July 5 Minor Park 111th and Red Bridge Concert series continues through Aug 30 Free (871-5770) CLOCK TOWER CONCERT SERIES: Vince Bilardo and Friends 11 am-l pm 'July 8 Steve Miller Cabaret Show with Rosetta Robinson 10 am-noon July 1 1 Clock Tower Pavilion between 79th and 80th on Santa Fe downtown Overland Park Free (642-2222) KLAMMIES SUMMER CONCERTS: Connie Dover Ida McBeth 5:308:30 pm July 10 City Market Fifth and Walnut Free (561-6061) STEVIE NICKS: With Boz Scaggs 8 pm July 11 Sandstone Amphitheatre (576-7900) AN EVENING OF GOSPEL JAZZ: Featuring Barry Russell and the Jericho Homs benefits mission trip to jungles of Peru 7 pm July 11 Shawnee Church of the Nazarene 5539 Quivira $10 (631-5555) DANCE ON THE KAW IV Dances of India Spain and Egypt Gaziyeh Enterprises 8 pm July 11 Lawrence Community Theater 1501 New Hampshire $5 (785-842-3010) ART OIL AND WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS MIXED MEDIA WORKS BY JEAN MUMMA PEGGY SLENTZ AND AMY HARVEY and WOOD SCULPTURE BY STEVE JANESKO: 11 am-4 pm Thursday-Saturday and by appointment closes July 11 Images Art Gallery 520 Pennway (221-2006) GREGORY ELTRINGHAM: NEW WORK: 1-5 pm Saturday-Sunday and by appointment closes July 5 The Late Show 4222 Charlotte (531-8044) JESSE SMALL: MAY DAY and MICHAEL KENNA: PHOTOGRAPHS: 1-4 pm Saturdays and by appointment closes July 8 Jan Weiner Gallery 4800 Liberty (9318755) MOVIES Opening Friday FRIEND OF THE Depressed by capitalism a Russian intellectual hires a hit man to kill him Then he falls in love but cancel the contract This from Vyacheslav Krishtofovich stars Alexandre Lazarev (Audience rating: R) HANGING A gay prodigal son finally returns home in this black comedy from Canada it's told with an eye-popping blend of ashcan realism and high-blown surrealism (Audience rating: R) WEAPON Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back as half-action half-comedy police dealing with an Asian crime lord (Audience rating: R) You know that girl from all those books who resides in a boarding school presided over by a nun (Oscar winner Frances McDormand) (Audience rating: PG) Revival of Akira 1951 masterpiece about the murder of a feudal nobleman and the rape of his wife the incident is related by several witnesses all of whom have a different story to tell The film made Toshiro Mifune an international star (No MPAA rating) the way Toshiro Mifune (left) and Machiko Kyo in THEATER SATURDAY TO STAR Mardi Gras Murders 7 pm Fridays and Saturdays closes Aug 8 Mardi Gras Cafe 418 NW Englewood (452-1144) HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: Comedies Lost" 8 pm July 5 7 9 and 11 for Measure" 8 pm July 8 and 10 closes July 19 Southmoreland Park 47th and Oak Pre-show family activities begin at 6:15 pm on Green Show stage introductory Shakespeare lecture at 7 pm on Stage Free donations accepted (889-7827 Ext 5011) MARTIN CITY Original vaudeville revue with romance and spirit of Florenz Ziegfeld creator of The Ziegfeld Follies 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday 4:30 and 8:30 pm Saturday 3 pm Sunday closes Sept 6 Martin City Melodrama 13440 Holmes (942-7576) MUSEUMS Gypsy woman i Of all the recent come-backs in pop music none been bigger or more surprising than that of Stevie Nicks Thanks to The immense popularity of the Fleetwood Mac re-' onion tour Nicks has the chanteuse emeritus among a wide circle of contemporary performers everyone from Courtney I Love to Sarah McLachlan Nicks performs Saturday night at Sandstone Amphitheatre Another 1 970s pop singer Boz Scaggs opens at 7:30 pm Reserved seats cost $3950 lawn seats cost $21 50 All tickets are available I' through Ticket Central (576-7900) Timothy Finn SHARON LOCKHART: PHOTOGRAPHS (doses Aug 23) and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: FIGURES AND ABSTRACTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION (closes July 12): 10 am-9 pm Fridays 10 am-5 pm Saturdays 11 am-5 pm Sundays 10am-4 pm Tuesdays-Thursdays Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Design 4420 Warwick Free (753-5784) HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOT WHEELS (closes Aug 29) and PARTNERS IN ART FEATURING THE WORKS OF RHETT AND KELLY JOHNSON (closes Oct 31): 10 am -4 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays 1-4 pm Sundays Toy and Miniature Museum 5235 Oak (333-2055) Compiled by Cathy Ibarra Stevie Nicks STARTING TOMORROW Farmland Pnmd to be farmer SATURDAY JULY 18 8PM FRIDAY AUGUST 14 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF ICC PRESENTS SEE Theodore Bikel DDLER Fddk tlontiig: JETHRO TULL SUNDAY AUGUST 16 8PM KANSAS wik KC SYMPHONY FRIDAY AUGUST 28 8PM TORI AMOS SPECIAL CUEST-THE DEVLINS THE STYLISTICS THE DRAMATICS CHI-LfTES MAIN INGREDIENT THE DELFONICS MORE! FRIDAY AUGUST 21 8PM Aft GarfunU: SEPTEMBER 3 8PM BONNIE RAITT SPECIAL M0 I ALL SHOWS ON SALE NOW UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED! GORDON LIGHTFOOT FRI SEPT 11 (816)576-7900 Tickets a 1 iStftl' IRewfwd Mol totals avuiiatie at al TICKET CENTRAL outlets including ervw 30 Kansas City metro am Tiooe 9m Mvto and te tat0itT)Mfln Bax OfSca (Morsfri 9a5p) To charge by pta 24 tousiiiy at (H)PV7WeMouldihmr)MicilH7n Txtot outfMi Kapt aaftony Tdwts may sutojact to a convenient chaige Special slanca needs cal (913)721-3400(wolc) or (913)721-2230 (T GBiidwvistr 4 concert si nir PRODUCtD BY CONTCMPORARY WITHOUT THE ROOF Starlight Broadway comes home to Starlight Theatre with on the Roof" starring Theodre Bikel Seats available from $8 to $40 Don't miss the show sure to bring down the house If there was a house 363-STAR r'-nRrmtvn STAR TWA.