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Pittsburgh Posl-Cazrlle: June 14, 1985 W-3 Opening night It's opening night for "The Pirates of Penzance," one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best-known works, at the South Campus Theater of the Community College of Allegheny County. The musical will run Fridays and Saturdays Keep on trucking The Greater Pittsburgh truck Show will take over the Monroeville Expo Mart, William Penn Highway, from 1 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow. The show is being sponsored by the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association.

Outdoors, there will be tractors, trailers and trucks. Inside the mart, vendors of tires, lubricants, parts, accessories, uniforms, computers. Insurance and other services, will display their wares. Admission is free. at 8 p.m.

through June 29. Anna Singer and Brian Mahan are featured. The theater is at 1750 Clairton Road. West Mifflin. Iris at Mosque1 "No Muss, No Fuss" is the title of latest album from Connie Iris and the Cruisers, but that label won't apply to their concert at 7:30 tonight at the Syria Mosque.

Opening the show will be Bon Jovi. Tickets are $1 1.75. 'La Cage' rolls "La Cage aux Folles." winner of six Tony Awards last year including Best Musical, concludes its run at the Civic Light Opera this weekend. Show times are 8 p.m. today, tomorrow and Sunday, with 2 p.m.

matinees tomorrow and Sunday. Peter Marshall, former host of the game show "Hollywood Squares," plays Georges, the owner of a lavish St. Tropez nightclub. Keene Curtis is Albin, his mentor and the club's flamboyant star. Tickets range from $35 to $24.50 and can be bought at the Heinz Hall box office, Kaufmann's, Donnie Iris, Syria Mosque.

Tickets available in all sections for tonight's 7:30 performance Call: 321-9800. "La Cage aux Folles," Heinz Hall. Gallery seats available for tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow Seats in all sections for matinees tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m. Limited seating for Sunday night's performance at 8 p.m.

Call: 392-4900. "Private Lives," Pittsburgh Public Theater. Limited seating available for performances tonight at 8, tomorrow and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

and 7 p.m. Call: 321-9800. "Romeo and Juliet," Three Rivers Shakespesare Festival, Stephen Foster Memorial. Tickets available in all sections for performances tonight at 8, tomorrow and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Call: 624-4101. Tears for Fears, Syria Mosque. Tickets available in all sections for tomorrow's concert at 7:30 ($1 1.75). Call: 321-9800. Herbie Mann who spilled over into the mainstream and gained a wider audience even though the music elitists might cringe." But disco music is not on the agenda Sunday "The music will be sort of a fusion of Ravel and Marvin Gaye with a Brazilian beat, all laced with a few synthesizer-type sounds done by humans." Confused? You've got to be there to understand.

new Hartwood season of music, dance I rv quo Gimbels, Home's, Tix Booth, or by calling 392- 4300. 4' -tft Tt buritzans, Sept. 2. The festival is presented by the Allegheny County Bureau of Cultural Programs and is sponsored by Pittsburgh National Bank. ft unhappy with my approach to music; I was unhappy with their approach to my approach.

So we split." That didn't mean he'd heard the last from Atlantic. "I did a demo tape and sent it to all the major labels. The only one that responded was Atlantic." He's not optimistic about getting re-signed, however. Mann, 55, started performing in the early '50s, and quickly became a favorite of jazz aficionados. He later incorporated rock flavorings into his music, which made some jazz purists cringe.

The crushing blow came when he cut a disco record at the height of the dance craze. "Hijack" became a Top 10 hit. He was instantly accused of selling out. He bitterly disagrees: "My other choice was to play formula fusion music to a limited number of people. There are a lot of jazz purists out there with a bebop mentality, who'll never be happy in the mainstream.

"I say 'Hurray' for people like George Benson and Herbie Hancock, By Mike Kalina Post-Gazette Staff Writer When it comes to flaunting the jazz flute, there's only one main Mann Herbie. The renowned flutist will appear with his trio, the Family of Mann, Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Hartwood Acres to start its 1985 Music and Dance Festival. "I played at Hartwood two years ago," said Maim on the phone from his Manhattan apartment. "My trio and I were about to play with a big band there but the concert was called because of rain.

I told the promoters I spent a lot of money on the big-band arrangements for that concert, and I'd like to come back some day and use them." Mann once was a much-recorded artist, having cut close to 100 albums for labels ranging from Blue Note to Atlantic. But he's been without a label for five years. That's when Atlantic Records and he decided to part company. "They were unhappy with me; I was unhappy with them. They were The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO), Aug.

25. The Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Sept. 1. The Duquesne University Tarn-.