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Saturday, November 7, 2009
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THE ARTS
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Emotions are sometimes so intense that cast members are exhausted at the end of rehearsal.
You wouldn’t think that would be the case. They are actors, after all, stepping into someone else’s story. Someone else’s life. Leaving it behind should be easy, right?
People didn’t talk about things like this in 1939. Well, that’s not entirely fair. As long as there are people, there will be gossip, and you can bet people talked about this kind of stuff. Just not openly. Not in a play. The Baton Rouge Arts Market will celebrate its 11th anniversary 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Nov. 7, at Fifth and Main streets. The name has changed, but the event is still the same. In the past, Baton Rouge Center for Contemporary Art’s annual live and silent auctions took on a theme. The LSU School of Art is collaborating with the Capital Area United Way, LSU’s Readers and Writers series and the LSU Student Union Art Gallery Committee in a series of exhibition events dealing with Invisible Populations Friday, Nov. 6-Dec. 4. Nov. 1-7, 2009 Maybe she was too busy putting the show together to stop and think about it. Drum Dances isn’t premiering only in Baton Rouge. No, the Saturday, Nov. 7, opening of this show will mark its world premiere. You’ve heard Frank Sinatra sing it. You’ve heard Judy Collins sing it. Even Kenny Rogers has made a recording of it. But now you’ll get a chance to hear Stephen Sondheim’s showstopper “Send in the Clowns” in its original setting. Somebody’s going to ask the question, so may as well get it out of the way. Haven’t they done this already? You know, Macbeth. Didn’t Baton Rouge Community College perform William Shakespeare’s classic last fall? The Cangelosi Dance Project Company, led by artistic director Kris Cangelosi, will present a 40-minute choreographic work Glass Ceiling at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, on Baton Rouge Little Theatre’s Second Stage, 7155 Florida Blvd. Tickets are on sale for Chinese Culture Night, set for 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd. Tickets are on sale for Ascension Community Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, set for Thursdays through Sundays, Nov. 5-8 and Nov. 12-14, at the Pasqua Theatre, 823 Felicity St., Gonzales. The play will be directed by Heidi Alford Frederic. Thursday through Saturday shows are at 7 p.m. Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. They call her … well, they don’t really call her anything. She’s just a child, the perfect child. Menacing, in fact, in her perfection. “Well, she’s not evil from my point of view,” Colleen King said. You’d think that the prospect of dancing in Louisiana wouldn’t seem so exciting after performing on the Great Wall of China. Or even in the Kremlin in Moscow. “We had to have our green cards with us at all times in the Kremlin,” Marty Dowds said. A dramatic display of bird art, Mostly Birds, at Caffery Gallery grabs and holds the attention of fascinated viewers. “Antigone,” which opened Monday at LSU’s Shaver Theatre, is a fresh yet mostly conventional telling of a classic story, once you get past the outfits, musical interludes and the spiky, technicolor hair. OPELOUSAS — They’re music teachers, they’re unmarried, and all four spinster sisters — who happen to be witches — are purt-near nutty in “Bats in the Belfry,” a comedy-mystery-fantasy play appearing at the Opelousas Little Theater at 7 p.m. today. The LSU School of Music has several events planned this week. Linda Pereksta will perform a guest flute recital at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at St. Albans Chapel, 618 LSU Place. The recital is free. The LSU Chamber Singers will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Wesley Foundation Chapel, 333 East Chimes St. Cali McQueen is the conductor. The concert is free. They were angry, they were bored. And the combination was potentially explosive. “They’d get so bored that they’d just bang their heads against a wall,” Kaitlyn Stockwell said. “Can you imagine that? Being that bored?” He remembers his grad school days, when his artwork occupied one gallery and his wife’s the other. His room was filled with interesting paintings, but people were more attracted to the next room, the one designed to look like a theater highlighting unusual objects. Geometry and artistic talent travel hand in hand in the photographic collage works created by David Carlysle Humphreys, displayed in a show at Ann Connelly Fine Art Gallery, 4221 Perkins Road, through Oct. 31. Sometimes Prince Charming is the last thing on a princess’ mind when she’s trying to achieve the American dream. Then again, Billie Jean never laid claim to royalty. She just wants to go to college and earn her degree in dance. That’s the kind of salvation she seeks. No pumpkins that turn into carriages, no fancy palace balls, no fairy godmothers. This will be different from other concerts, where the LSU Symphonic Winds takes the stage in front of a quiet audience. The audience may not be so quiet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, and that’s the point. Because the LSU Symphonic Winds will expect audience participation and interaction when it takes the stage at First Baptist Church, 529 Convention St. Baton Rouge native Katie East will be teaching improv workshops for teens and adults on Thursday, Oct. 29, and Monday, Nov. 2, in the Runnels High School Theatre. Cost is $20 per person for a three-hour session. The intersection of faith and reason has seen its share of tragic collisions. A theatrical version is “Agnes of God,” now playing at Baton Rouge Little Theater’s Second Stage. It’s a play that asks more questions than it can ever answer, which isn’t everyone’s cup of communion wine, but this cast rewards those in the mood for pondering difficult issues. Timothy Muffitt, conductor and music director of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, said Monday he is looking at music that costs less to produce in order to help overcome the financial hit the organization took from the Stanford Group scandal. Auditions for Baton Rouge Little Theater’s production, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, will be 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, with callbacks at 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the theater, 7155 Florida Blvd. Evillene is supposed to represent fire, hence the fire engine-red boots. The fire-engine red boots with the zipper that ends at mid-thigh. The fire-engine red boots with 5-inch heels. Al Lavergne, former head of the Southern University Art Department, will present a virtual tour of the historic panels he designed for the façade of the Louisiana State Archives building 10-11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at the Archives, 3851 Essen Lane. Ten of the 29 made a point to stop by the gallery between classes on this particular morning. Most are seniors with a couple of sophomores and juniors sprinkled in the mix. And all are majoring in fine arts. She’s only 19, so no one’s going to listen to her. Of course, she hasn’t really tried getting someone to listen to her because, well, she’s only 19. Who knows? Someone might take seriously Ghrai DeVore’s choreography ideas. That is, if she’s ready to reveal them. The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra will perform an evening of thrills and chills in the second concert of its 2009-2010 Entergy Masterworks season at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the River Center for the Performing Arts, 220 St. Louis St. An exotic and colorful flower, the Bird of Paradise, gives painter Carol Hallock the basic form and varied hues to all but dominate the group display in Elizabethan Gallery, 680 Jefferson Highway. The LSU Department of Theatre will present a Lab Theatre production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest Tuesday-Sunday, Oct. 13-18, in the Reilly Theatre on Tower Drive on the LSU campus. Baton Rouge Community College will host LA Theatre Works’ performances of two radio dramas The War of the Worlds and The Lost World at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the college’s Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion. |
