Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 12, 1993 TAG: 9302120275
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
THE TIPOFF
SLEDGE-A-MATIC: Gallagher, a wildly inventive comedian you may have seen on the Smothers Brothers TV show a few years ago, will perform Sunday night at 8 at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium.Unless he has changed his act, he'll demonstrate his array of odd toys and other contraptions designed and built with laughs in mind. Only a few tickets are left.
They run from $16.50 to $22.50, available at the box office or at TicketMaster locations.\ \ PRETTY SLICK: The Ice Capades, that mingling of music, color and physical prowess, will fill the Roanoke Civic Center coliseum Wednesday through Feb. 21. The cast includes Olympians Christopher Bowman and Cathy Turner, and the price range for tickets is $8.50 to $11.50. The box office number is 981-1201. \ CLASSICAL SAX: The Chamber Orchestra of Southwest Virginia will present concerts Saturday night at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 3 in the Squires Recital Salon of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Saxophonist David Jacobsen will be the featured player. James Glazebrook will conduct.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for Tech students and senior citizens. Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.\ \ NOISE, SMOKE, DIRT: Ruff trucks, monster trucks, cycle wars, quad wars, Dynamite Lady and Fire Fall - with a lineup like this, it can only be the U.S. Hot Rod 10th Anniversary Thrill Show Spectacular and Monster Truck Challenge.
The motorized extravaganza will take place tonight and Saturday night at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Roanoke Civic Center coliseum.
Reserved seats are $10. Tickets are available at the civic center box office and at TicketMaster outlets.\ \ BLUES BELTER: De'Shera Rainey and the Performers of Norfolk State University will present a theatrical interpretation of "God's Trombones" on Saturday night at 7 in Dillard Theatre of Lynchburg College.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students. Call (804) 522-8431.\ \ SUMPTUOUS SINGING: Soprano Daisy Newman will present a free concert Wednesday night at 8 in Snidow Chapel of Lynchburg College.
Newman received acclaim for her portrayal of Bess in "Porgy and Bess" at Radio City Music Hall. A reception will follow her performance. For information, call (804) 522-8431.\ \ YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY: Hypnotist and comedian Tom DeLuca will entertain in Burruss Auditorium of Virginia Tech on Thursday night at 8. Tickets are $5 for the public, $3 for Tech students. Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.\ MOUNTAIN STORIES: Folk artist Anndrena Belcher will present a family program Tuesday night at 7 in the Lexington headquarters of the Rockbridge Regional Library. It's free.
Belcher's "Stories from Home" blend music, dance and audience participation into tales from the Old World, from the Appalachian Mountains and from contemporary times. She lives in Scott County.\ \ TIX PIX: Thinking about going to the Travis Tritt/Trisha Yearwood/Little Texas concert set for Thursday at the Salem Civic Center? Hope you have your tickets, 'cause it's a sellout.
A good many seats remain for Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Quartet in at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. They're $22.50 apiece.
And about 1,000 seats remain for the March 4 show from Neil Diamond, one of humorist Dave Barry's least-favorite musical stars. Tickets are $25, and they'll go.\ \ RESURRECTED: Canceled in August because of a financial crunch, the monthly planetarium and observing program known as SkyWatch resumes tonight at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke.
The first part of the event will begin at 6:30 in Hopkins Planetarium with "Visible Planets in Your Back Yard," a review of Mercury, Venus, Mars and other objects in the night sky.
It will be followed by the locally produced planetarium show, "Jewels of the Night." Admission to the 6:30 show is $1.50; it is free to museum members.
Afterwards, weather permitting, people will caravan to Green Hill Park in western Roanoke County for the outdoor program, beginning around 8. The museum's 17-inch Coulter Dobsonian telescope will be available for observing, and members of the Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society will bring their 'scopes to help with the overflow.
For information, call 342-5710.