Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 11, 1994 TAG: 9403120005
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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Tickets cost $9.50 to $14. They're at the Salem Civic Center box office and Ticketmaster locations. Senior citizens and children age 12 and under pay $2 less. Call 375-3004 or (800) 288-2122.
HOW TO DO IT: The Southern Living Cooking School will come to the Roanoke Civic Center today and Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon with a full plate of door prizes, Southern recipes, entertaining secrets and fabulous dishes. Admission is $4, and the first 1,500 in the door will receive a free gift bag. The school takes place during the American Women's Show, which runs from noon to 9 p.m. today and Saturday and noon to 6 on Sunday.
For information, call 366-6679.
LAUGH AND CRY: ``Reverend, I'm Available,'' a gospel play by Rodney L. Clark, will be presented at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m. It is set in a Southern black church whose minister has been widowed and who finds himself auditioning candidates to be his new wife.
Hester Dean, Tyrone Wilkerson and evangelist Janet Edd are the stars. Tickets are $15.50 for the Saturday afternoon performance and $17.50 for Saturday and Sunday nights. Call 981-1201.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN: A touring production of ``The Wizard of Oz'' will visit Burruss Hall at Virginia Tech on Wednesday night at 7:30. Dorothy and her famous friends head off to find adventure and run into flying witches, dancing apple trees, those winged monkeys and a full-blown tornado.
Tickets are $16 for the general public, $8 for children age 12 and under. Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.
READING AND WRITING: Mary Gaitskill, the feminist author who has lately been in the limelight, will read from her fiction Saturday during the 34th Literary Festival at Hollins College. It begins at 9:30 a.m. with registration and coffee in the Main Building. The first reading will be at 10:30 in Babcock Auditorium.
Henry Taylor will read from his poetry and Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn will read from her fiction, as well. In the afternoon, selected poems will be discussed by R.H.W. Dillard, Jeanne Larsen and Henry Taylor.
Admission is free.
GO NOW: The Moody Blues will perform in concert with the Greensboro (N.C.) Symphony Orchestra on Thursday night at 7:30 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Tickets are $24.50, plus service charge. Call (910) 852-1100.
HELD OVER: ``To Kill a Mockingbird'' has been extended through March 18 at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke's Center in the Square. Harper Lee's classic story is presented at 7:30 on Wednesday and Thursday nights, 8 on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Tickets cost from $12 to $18. Call 342-5740.
Mill Mountain will re-present ``Katie & Josh'' at Wednesday's Centerpiece, starting at 12:15 p.m The one-act reading was held in January, but icy weather made seeing it a problem. It concerns a mother and son who both have AIDS. Ernest Zulia directs. Admission is free.
OPENERS: ``Once on This Island,'' a musical inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's ``The Little Mermaid,'' is under way at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center. Performances will be tonight, March 18 and 19 at 8 o'clock and Sunday and March 20 at 2 in the afternoon. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens and $7 for students and children.
``Aladdin'' is the center's Kids' Stuff offering Saturday at 10:30 in the morning and 1:30 in the afternoon. It's presented by the North Carolina Theatre for Young People. Tickets are $4. Call (804) 846-8451.
by CNB