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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 28, 1994                   TAG: 9402030005
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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THE TIPOFF

TUNE HIM IN: Adam Sandler of ``Saturday Night Live'' will show his comedy style tonight at 8 in Preston Auditorium of Radford University.

Sandler is best known for his character, Cajun Man, who is a guest commentator on the show's Weekend Update segment. Tickets are $10 for the public. Call 831-5420.

PART TWO: The Audubon Quartet will present the second of its six concerts of the complete Beethoven string quartets Saturday night at 8 o'clock and Sunday afternoon at 3. The place is the Squires Recital Salon in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech, where the group is quartet-in-residence.

The program will consist of Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2; Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74; and Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132.

The musicians are violinists David Ehrlich and David Salness, violist Doris Lederer and cellist Clyde Shaw.

Tickets might be scarce, so call quickly. The number is 231-5615, and the price is $7, or $5 for senior citizens, students and youth.

SOMETHING TO CHEW ON: ``Russia's Past, Russia's Future'' will be discussed Tuesday night at 7:30 in the Sutton Student Center Ballroom of Roanoke College in Salem.

R. Dan Richardson, professor of history at the school, will be the speaker in this, the first in a series of free lectures on the Second Russian Revolution. Richardson will discuss the same topic Feb. 3 at 11:15 a.m. as part of the college's weekly Convocation Series.

YODEL-LAY-EE-AY: Jim Tippie, a guitarist and singer who brings Hank Williams to mind, will perform Saturday night at 7:30 during the Virginia Opry at the Stonewall Theatre in Clifton Forge.

Tippie used to operate the Fort Bend Opry near Houston.

Also appearing will be the Rebels of Rhythm, an all-female clogging troupe, Shelly Cole and Kim Cahoon, comedian Vivian Pendleton as the character, Bibbie June.

Other singers inclsude Joey Robinson, Teddy Stone, H. Ray Tucker and Tippie, who will emcee most of the 1994 shows.

Adult tickets are $6 in advance, $8 at the door. Tickets for students and children age 12 and under are $3. Call 862-7407.

ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT: ``A Sleep of Prisoners'' is the offering tonight and Saturday night and Feb. 4-5 at 8 p.m. at Scott Shipp Hall of Virginia Military Institute. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for those under 18. Call 464-7389 or 464-7326.

``Endgame,'' Samuel Beckett's metaphoric vision of a world winding down, will be presented at Randolph-Macon Woman's College tonight, Saturday night and Monday night at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 2. It's in the Thoreson Theatre on the campus in Lynchburg. Tickets are $8, or $6 for senior citizens and students. Call (804) 947-8562.

``Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein'' continues at Blacksburg Presbyterian Church tonight and Saturday night at 7:30 and wraps up Sunday at 2:30 in the afternoon. It's from Playmakers & Co., and tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens.

IN THE MOOD TO SWING AND SWAY: It's not Glenn Miller and it's not Sammy Kaye, but the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra brings a legend of its own when it plays in concert Wednesday night at 7:30 at Burruss Hall of Virginia Tech. Trombonist Jim Miller directs this ghost band. Tickets are $14 for the public, $7 for children under age 12. Call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.

AT THE BOTTOM: The UVa Jazzfest III kicks off tonight with a performance from Richard Davis and Friends in Culbreth Theatre at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

The activities will continue through Sunday afternoon. The bass is the place this time around. Performers besides Davis include the Milt Hinton Trio and the Dave Holland Quartet. Sunday afternoon at 3, Charlie Haden will play in two settings, first with a quintet and then with John Dearth and an orchestra put together to play works by the Liberation Music Orchestra. For ticket info, call (804) 977-6582.



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