Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 28

vm up i wni ww iTiiiwwini" 2C Abilene Reporter-News Sunday April 2 1995 Tickets for sale OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOcD Claaoical pianist Dental Erieourt In recital 8 pm Tuesday in Abilene Christian University's Cuban Auditorium $7 adults or 84 students at ACU Music Department office Las WNte Music Company or at the door the night of the concert (subject to avaHabHky) call (815) 674-2199 for additional Information Brooks 8 Dunn-Davld BaB-lhe Tractors concert 7:30 pm May 4 at the Taylor County Coliseum $1950 for reserved seats on sale Monday at Expo Cantor general office Farm Ranch Western Wear locations KDXE in Brawnwood or Dyosa AFB community center Or charge on credit card (9l5) 677-4378 Dental Ruotllgsr presentation on Thursday April 13 at Moody Coliseum Abilene Christian University $5 for adults and $4 for students in advance at Abflone Cantor for NonproM Management 600 Chestnut Suita 1511: Girl Scouts CouncH 3105 27th and all throe universities Tickets $6 and $5 at the door Reception tickets are $15 (915) 677-0166 and Wallace a Hardin-Simmons University second season (student produced) oomedy directed by Sarah A Minth in van EMs Theatre Thursday Friday and Saturday 8 pm $5 adults and $3 students 915) 670-1405 and the Amazing Technicolor Abilene Christian University's Spring Dinner Theatre production Friday and Saturday also April 14-15 $18 for dinner (6:45 pm) or $7 show only (8 pm) also showonly 14-15 818 for dinner (6:45 pm) Second Season at HSU The Hardin-Simmons University Theatre 1 Second Season production of the comedy and by Jonathan Marc Sherman opens a short run Thursday (see Second Season includes student-produced plays is a serious comedy about a swung man who learns how to deal with life and women after his director Sarah A Minth Her cast includes Rudy Seals in the title role Tiffany Boot as his mother Janet Packer as VictoriaWendy Melissa Black as SarahNma Blandi Thomas as the PsychiatristLili and Lana Lyon as Grandmother Thursdays (915) 674-2739 10 am-noon and 2-5 pm weekdays Loves Opal" at Rooooo Dinner Theatre Thursday Friday and Saturday also April 27-28-29 6:45 pm dlnn and dessert $12 show only $8 (915) 8704)149 CJC slices CISCO Cisco Junior College presents as its spring dinner production this week a feast of show ever wanted to said director Caroll Brown have a lot of talent and everyone wanted to do something different this she said we decided to do a little bit of several of them That way everyone got to try different styles and numerous plays heard of but do There are slices from more than a dozen diverse productions including Diary of Anne Frank" Streetcar Named Desire" and Mother" in addition to several dance and vocal numbers The first two nights beginning Tuesday are show-only Dinner shows begin Thursday (see Room" drama with oomedy at McMurry Ryan Fine Arts Canter Little Theatre at 8 pm Thursday Friday and Saturday $5 adults and $2 students A benefit performance tor Big Country AIDS Support Group wM be held Thursday with a apodal reception starting at 7:30 pm Call 891-6302 weekdays 1-6 pm the nter tickets $1) and Thursday Friday and Saturday (7 pm dinner shows $10 defeats) (817) 442-2589 tor reservations Jerry Jeff Walker and hta band Thursday 7:30 pm the final Paramount Performing Arts Series ooncert $18 on the floor and lower balcony and $10 tor second and third balcony (915) 677-1161 Big Band Spring F8ng featuring BA Wattrip Hie Trumpet and Hta Big Band with Hottys Yatae 8-11 pm April 15 and the Abilene Civic Center Conference Center individual tickets In advance are $10 ($12 at the door) or tables $80 at the Paramount Center 1292 1st (North 1st and Hickory streets) (915) 673-3091 And They Wore Singing" a papa conceit and the final regular season im tor Abilene PhHharmonic under Shinik Hahm's baton and featuring soprano Kathy McNeil tenor Karl Dent and base Charles Nelson with the Abilene Christian University AcappsSa Chorus Mlchsel Scarbrough directing program of Broadway show music and Vend opera arias $18 to $7 with 10 percent discounts for active military and children 12-under April 22 8:15 pm at Ihe CMc center Tlckats available at all Security State Bank branches in Abilene or the Philharmonic offloa at 310 Wilks Suite 106 (915) 677-6710 (weekdays 9 am-l pm) a tares comedy at Granbury Opera House Fridays 8 pm Saturdays 2 and 8 pm and Sundays 2 pm through April 23 $14616 with senior youth and group discounts (817) 5736191 or 573-3779 daily except Mondays HSU to do and Hardin-Simmons University will present the popular musical comedy and next fall as its Homecoming Musical The school of music and the department of theatre will Join efforts to present the Frank Loesser musical based upon the stories of Damon Runyon and first played on Broadway in 1950 later was a hit motion picture and last year eiyoyed a revival as a stage show on Broadway HSU dates will be Nov 2-3-4 at 8 pm and Sunday Nov 5 at 2:30 pm in Behrens Chapel Dr James Ivey will be stage director assisted fay musical director Dr Jaynne Middleton Conductor will be Dr Loyd Hawthorne Cindy Mundschenk will choreograph the show Larry Wheeler will design the scenery and lighting posters available Posters titled "Heroes of Yesterday Today and are now on sale at $10 each benefiting the Sheriff John Middleton Memorial Scholarship Fund Pamela Gilbreth drawings as posters are available at Dollar Western Wear Western Wear Lone Star Western Wear Jackson Brothers Feed ACCO Feeds Donnell Ag Key City Vet Clinic Bar-B-Q Cahoots Restaurant The Pbst Restaurant Royal Inn Steak-house and Steakhouse in Buffalo Gap Watkins said proceeds go toward a scholarship for higher education in law enforcement Additional information is available fay calling (915) 572-3478 AIDS Support benefit performance of at McMurry University will be a benefit for the Big Country AIDS Support Group The bittersweet comedy plays at 8 pm in Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Center through Saturday A reception Thursday at 7:30 at the Little Theatre will be in conjunction with the benefit performance Artist writer lectures at McM Fort worth artist Beatrice Proctor will give a lecture with John Shipley a Fort Worth writer at noon Thursday in Ryan Fine Arts Building The public is invited to attend at no charge and also to bring a sack lunch Beverage is provided The two have collaborated on illustrating characters in stories They will discuss the creative expressions of painting and drawing and of translating creative ideas into visual and literary art OwM EwtnaffWportf Ww Wallace (Rudy Seals) begs Sarah (Melissa Black) for a second chance in and Gerald EwingRaporter-Newa This work by ACU senior Darren Davis is on display through today at the Virginia Shore Art Gallery on the campus of Abilene Christian University in Granbury Marquee deadline Do you hare an arts or entertainment-related item for Marquee? Send (PO Box 30 Abilene TX 79604) or Fax (915-673-1901) ao that it will reach ua by noon on the Wednesday prior to the Allowing Sunday Be sure to include your name and phone number Call Bob Lapham 673-4271 ext 391 if you have a question McAlexander at the keyboard Dr Dan McAlexander will present a Hardin-Simmons Univer-Z sity faculty piano recital Monday 8 pm in Woodward-Dellis 1 Recital Hall McAlexander associate professor of piano and theory will perform next week at Erskine College in South Carolina His program Monday will be in Op 10 No by Beethoven Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel and Sonata in minor by Chopin The recital is open to the public at no charge Dancer is Aspen-bound Rebecca Cutbirth has been selected for the DanceAspen Summer School 1995 workshop to be held in Aspen Colo beginning July 9 1 She was selected via nationwide auditions earlier this year 2 DanceAspen is designed to challenge gifted pre-professional students of ballet Cutbirth 13 is a Lincoln Middle School student and a member the senior company of Abilene Ballet Theatre under the artistic direction of Nancy Gore and Mary Milstead CCA opens Clevenger show 2 The Center for Contemporary Arts will feature recent paint- ings by Sarabeth Clevenger in Gallery I beginning Tuesday and lasting through May 5 The gallery has held over through Saturday its popular exhibition of Southwest UJS desert photography taken from the 2 air by professional pilot Adriel Heisey Beginning April 11 landscape photos by George Lauterstein of Wimberley will take over Gallery An opening reception for the Clevenger-Lauterstein shows will be April 13 The force comedy has opened a run at the Granbury Opera House The story involves three couples who live in uncomfortable proximity to each other in a fashionable 1917 apartment house The innocently stumble into wrong beds hide in closets and hampers and must exist with a hostile maid (See KTAB does well in ratings KTXS reaps media awards By BOB LAPHAM ArtsEdNor Tuba soloist presents instrument in new light By BOB LAPHAM ArtiExMor completes a decade of being No Ron Jones KTAB sales manager ART auditions Auditions for Abilene Repertory next production by Larry Shue will be held Monday and Tuesday 7-9 pm at Round Theater in Rose Park 801 Mockingbird The comedy will be directed by PJ Brown and will require two women ages 15-25 and 30-plus and five men ages 15-50 It will be presented May 18-19-20 and 25-26-27 Technical and other backstage workers are being sought Also volunteers are invited to participate in regular Sunday afternoon between performance runs Review smallest orchestra call of the season too Its number varied from just over 40 to about 46 until topping 50 for the finale the exciting fiill-of-sound of by Ottorino Respighi Clearly a particularly exciting performance came on Argentine composer Alberto unusual Variacionet Coneertantee Op 23 in which various orchestra principals have solo passages featuring their instruments They ranged from the obvious horns violins cello and woodwinds to the less frequently featured contra bassoon and bass The latter as it did on the opening movement with the cello had the harp dueting The 12th and final movement on Style for was extraordinary As is his habit for classical programs Maestro Hahm selected an opera overture Carl Maria von to open the program He penciled in an encore from Several hundred classical music fans have a new appreciation today for the tuba Thanks to Brett Alan Stemple the gallant among symphony instruments was presented in aU its mellow vibrating glory Saturday night as the Abilene Philharmonic closed its classical season Stemple the principal tubist was guest artist on Ralph Vaughan in Minor for Bass Tuba and The piece composed in 1954 played much like the film score from a CinemaScope outdoor adventure epic during the era Music director Shinik Hahm and the Philharmonic have one more regular season date a family pops April 22 featuring local vocalists program at the Civic Coder mirrored a small city with its special events stretched mighty thin With the Railroad Festival and other go-ings-on Hahm and his musicians played before the smallest audience of the season Ironically enough it was the Continuing a trend through the 1990s KTAB news telecasts wound up on the long end of the Nielsen's for annual month while rival KTXS took critical acclaim via the Texas Associated Press Broadcast awarda for the year 1993 weekday NewaTab at 6 pm overall had a 28 rating and a 46 share in complicated measures compared to 9 and 15 for KTXS and 6 and 10 for KRBC NewaTab at 10 pm won overall with a 23 rating and a 41 ahare of TV homes KTXS was 1424 and KRBC 712 KTAB also won weekend nights handily completes a decade of being No 1 at both 6 and 10 said KTAB sales manager Ron Jones are gratified that viewers continue to make us their first choice for added news director Bob Bartlett who anchors the weekday telecasts with Loren Halifax KTXS general manager Jackie Rutledge preferred to look at which indicated to her that numbers are She said the 18-49 and the 25-54 age groups which seen! to mean considerably more in advertising dollars that 55-over are close with KTAB having a much smaller edge gaining each Within the statewide broadcast awarda in their class there was virtually no contest KTXS won six firsts two seconds and three honorable mentions (third) compared to one second and one third KRBC is not affiliated with AP thus not judged KTXS firsts went to its entirt 6 pm weekday newscast of Nov 15 1994 anchored by Crystal Wolf and Wayne McCormick with news director Paul Brown in charge: Kria Davis-Jones for best general assignment Josh Stephen for individual photo-journalism former news director Peggy Carpenter apd Stephen for best spot story Gary Stricklin Steve Strain ana Neftali Gonzalez beat sports story and KTXS in general for best station photo-journalism I CHS senior wins art award Emily Carr a senior at Cooper High School has been selected to receive the McMurry Art Department Perry Bentley Award for 1995 The faculty made the selection after viewing a number of works of art fay high school students portfolio jlmUl impressionistic paintings declared unanimous recipient and figure drawings She was.