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Take away the elaborate costumes and familiar music, and the story is a simple matter of basics.
When Anna wants to buck the system, she manipulates The King into thinking it’s his idea.
She plays him. Simple as that.
SUNDAY, JULY 5
Imagine a toy shop where the toys don’t want to be adopted. Leonide Massine and Ottorino Respighi did exactly that when their ballet La Boutique Fantasque debuted June 5, 1919, in London’s Alhambra Theatre. The LSU School of Art’s eighth annual Summer Invitational Art Exhibition opens with a reception 7-9 p.m. Saturday, July 11, in the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Gallery in the Shaw Center of the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. The show will run through Aug. 2. The Biedenharn Museum & Gardens in Monroe has made this month’s edition of Southern Living magazine. An article in the travel section calls the attraction “the best garden you’ve never heard of.” Author Ellen Gilchrist will be in New Orleans for a book event at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12, at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St. John Updike has been such a powerful and prolific voice in American writing for so many years that you can’t really expect a little thing like death to slow him down. We’ve been treated to a posthumous collection of his poetry, and now comes a short story collection that demonstrates once more his mastery of that form. “It’s all about the art,” Chris Brooks said of the 6th annual Art Melt at the Shaw Center’s Brunner Gallery. Brooks is a member of the event’s sponsoring organization, Forum 35, group of young leaders dedicated to building a better and more progressive Baton Rouge. The third annual Bastille Day Celebration will be 6-9 p.m. Saturday, July 11, in downtown Covington. The St. Tammany Art Association and Covington Association of Retailers sponsors this event, which is filled with art, culture, music and shopping with a French flair. Let everyone else complain; Wess Anderson doesn’t mind the heat. And he’s especially looking forward to the 90 degree-plus temperatures Friday, July 10, when he plays his saxophone on the bluff. That’ll be the first concert in the Southern University’s new summer outdoor concert series, Classical Jazz Concerts on the Bluff. PORTLAND, Maine — Maine is well-known for its lobsters, but it won’t cost you a claw and a tail to visit Portland and the state’s southern coast. There are plenty of things to do on the cheap in Maine’s largest city and the surrounding area. And the award for best musical goes to … All Shook Up. No. We’re not talking Tony Awards here. This may be better, a consensus among students at Center Stage Academy for the Performing Arts. They’re among the up-and-coming in musical theater. Zowie! He can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Wait a minute. That’s mixing Batman terminology with Superman’s, isn’t it? Can’t think of a single time Superman said “zowie.” The rabbi was able to fit all of his worldly possessions inside a briefcase. Lorna Culmone Bourgeois should be impressed. Or so it would seem. Instead, her shoulders raise, then drop to release a heavy sigh. No need to say anything. Alex better be careful what he labels old, especially when it comes to music. The warning is issued by one of his fellow dancers, maybe two of them. Identities aren’t so clear now, because faces are somehow blurred by a flurry of giggles. Heck, it’s understandable. Everyone here falls between the ages of 14 and 24, so disco naturally will sound like an ancient subject. Looking for a short holiday jaunt that won’t keep you on the road all day and run up your gas bill? Want to go someplace and enjoy good music, hot dogs, fireworks and old-fashioned pie-eating contests? Independence Day events are plentiful in areas just a short drive away from Baton Rouge. The next Baton Rouge Arts Market will be 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 4, at 5th and Main streets. Four new artists will make their debut at the market: Barbara Clark, Baton Rouge, handmade wool pillows with original designs; Skip Goldstein, Prairieville, kiln-fired glass; Ann Mulkern, Baton Rouge, hand-knit/felted handbags and accessories; Joan Murray, Gramercy, hand-crocheted jewelry with gemstones and found objects. It’s nice to stage a theme show every once in awhile. HAMMOND — Brandt Blocker’s eyes light up when he talks about Peter Pan. It brings out the kid in him. So who better to direct the Southeastern Louisiana University Opera-Music Theatre Workshop’s summer production of the timeless classic? Louisiane-Acadie, a relatively new organization based in the Acadiana area, has applied to be host for Congrès Mondial 2014 (2014 World Acadian Congress). Every five years, Acadians from throughout the world gather in different locations in North America. This year’s event is in New Brunswick, Canada, in August. There’s a lot of talk about callings here. Mahalia Jackson’s calling to perform gospel music and LaNea Wilkinson’s calling to portray the singer. But Wilkinson isn’t the only one here who felt called. There’s a lot of talk around here, remember? And there are also a lot of cast members of UpStage Theatre’s upcoming musical production of Tom Stolz’s Mahalia!, which runs Friday and Saturday, June 26-27, at the Louisiana State Police Training Academy Theatre. If you suddenly found out your father wasn’t really your father, that wouldn’t be so unusual. It happens all the time. If you also found out that your biological father was another member of your family, your uncle say, that wouldn’t be rare either. But if you found out your uncle had contributed the sperm that had been used to artificially inseminate your mother, that would probably be quite rare. And here we have the Edwardian Matron. She models a no-label purse from the early 19th century, its handle detailed with art nouveau etching. There’s a new way to get your events information listed in the Magazine section calendars such as The Week in Arts and Book Events. You can do it all online at the newspaper’s Web site, http://www.2theadvocate.com. A recent episode of Law & Order comes to mind. A new episode or a rerun? It doesn’t matter. It just aired on a Monday night, and police were investigating what looked to be the murder of an elderly woman killed during a robbery. But something about the crime scene wasn’t quite right. Helping Hydrate Others, called H2O, will perform the play Speak Truth to Power at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 26-27, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at Church of the Highlands, 17240 Perkins Road. Season tickets are on sale for the Louisiana Sinfonietta’s 2009-2010 season. Tickets are $70 for adults and $60 for seniors and students. Single concert tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and students. All seating is general admission. Well, at least she had to create only one costume for The Mouse. OK, make that two, because there has to be a costume for The Mouse and one for his reflection. Suzanne Chambliss’ story is different when it comes to Rob Van Dam. He’s a wrestler, which means he’s a big guy. Now, if you give a mouse a broom, chances are the Manship Theatre stage won’t be enough for him. A broom won’t be enough, either. He’ll have to have a mop and brushes on his feet so he can glide across the front lobby in the Shaw Center for the Arts as he’s doing now. Or she. Auditions for New Venture Theatre’s upcoming production Dearly Departed are 2-5 p.m. today, June 14, at Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd. In these tough economic times, what traveler wouldn’t want to be pointed in the “free” direction? Just in time for summer day-trips, the Web site NewOrleansOnline.com has compiled a list of 50 free things to do in New Orleans. The list is, of course, as varied as the colorful city itself, from window shopping on Magazine Street, to watching the swans from the Peristyle in City Park. Neil White didn’t have it all growing up in Mississippi. He sure had most of it though. He went to Ole Miss, joined a fraternity, dated beauty queens and came to believe he was God’s gift to journalism. After school, he married a lovely woman, had two beautiful children — the requisite boy and girl — and started up his own newspaper, Oxford Times, in Oxford, Miss. Things came easy for White, so it’s no surprise he had an easy come, easy go attitude about money — his own and his investors’. “My name is on the book, but it’s a collective effort,” Neil White said by phone from Arkansas June 5. He is on a signing tour for his book, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts. White said the stories in the book are from the inmates he met at Carville, both prisoners and Hansen’s disease patients. On the back jacket of this book is a color photograph by Henry Georgi of a man tossing a young boy high into the air. The child is a toddler, maybe 3 years old, and the man is obviously his father. Sit back, and journey through time with Native American storyteller Grayhawk of the United Houma Nation. Tweens and teens will be guided through the past with Grayhawk’s interactive storytelling and traditional stomp friendship songs. They didn’t paint the town on their girls’ night out; they photographed it. Painting would come after discovery of the other girls, those standing in the shop window frozen in time and space. Literally. The story is almost like a movie plot, where mannequins somehow come to life. And life, in this case, emerges in bright watercolors. That’s when shop girls take on expression and attitude, when they appear to be of the world, not just merely in it. The display space at Elizabethan Gallery, 680 Jefferson Highway, seems almost endless, as many artists show groups of paintings, like mini-surveys of their work, which gives the show depth and meaning. The gallery has recently been renovated, you guessed it, to provide more display space. Two artists of six stick around on this Saturday while gallery staff readies the back lawn for the first installment of its Movies and Music on the Lawn series. This will be their premiere, too. Not a world premiere, but a first-time showing at Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art . Sometimes it’s easy to forget that you’re supposed to be a street urchin. That doesn’t sound too inviting, does it? Street urchin. Aren’t they uncomely types, always up to no good? That’s how they were when the Artful Dodger introduced Oliver Twist to his gang of street urchins. It’s not unusual for a single tragic event to spawn more than one book offering at the same time. Look at the piles of books that came after Sept. 11 and Katrina. It’s rare, though, for something that happened almost 143 years ago to be treated in two books simultaneously. That Dixon and Sallenger both chose the 1856 Isle Derniere Hurricane for their subject speaks to the historical importance of that event. Roy Acuff was 71 when he introduced Mark O’Connor at the Grand Ole Opry. So, at 71, Acuff had been a professional fiddle player for at least 40 years. Well, he was more than that — he was already a country music legend by that time. Join Louisiana writers John Biguenet and Tim Gautreaux at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13, for a panel discussion at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St. in New Orleans. There’s still time to register for Baton Rouge Little Theater’s summer camps and workshops. The first camp, Musical Production, will be Monday, June 8, through Friday, June 19. The camp is for students in the sixth through 12th grades. Participants will learn about musical theater by rehearsing and performing in a musical. Baton Rouge Little Theater honored its numerous volunteers and the top actors from its 63rd season at the annual Beaux Arts Ball June 6. |
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