Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 13, 1994 TAG: 9405130075
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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Bennett's lengthy career has been boosted of late by his appearance on MTV's ``Unplugged,'' an unlikely venue in any but these unlikely times. Tickets to his show are $39.75, $32.74 and $24.75. They're available at the civic center box office and at TicketMaster outlets.
OUT THERE: If you're looking for a bit of excitement in a small place head down to Cripple Creek, near Wytheville, for its fifth annual Homecoming Celebration Day on Saturday. It begins at 10 a.m. with a parade and continues through 8 p.m. with clogging, a fishing rodeo, gospel and country music, kids' games and a horseshoe tournament, plus plenty of home-cooked food. Take a lawn chair.
To reach the festival, take U.S. 21 south from Wytheville, go left on Virginia 690 and right on Virginia 602.
HISTORICAL: Virginia Heritage Tourism will be celebrated in Newbern in Pulaski County on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Craft demonstrations, flint knapping and American Indian weaponry and jewelry, long rifle and black powder tactics and techniques will be featured. At 1 p.m., Newbern residents will present a drama about pioneer life and the events that made the town what it is today. It's at exit 98 off I-81.
LEARNING LINES: ``The Foreigner'' opens tonight at 8 at the Little Town Players of Bedford. It continues Saturday night and May 20, 21 and 22 at the Elks National Home Theater in Bedford. Call 586-5881.
``The Country Wife,'' a classic comedy, continues at Life Arts of Charlottesville tonight and Saturday night and Wednesday through May 21. Shows are at 8 p.m. and tickets are $8 and $6. Call (804) 293-7595.
``A Killin','' by Pat Ramsey, is the one-act drama that will be presented Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. as Mill Mountain Theatre's Centerpiece staged reading. Ernie Zulia directs, admission is free.
TIME WARP: It's a Mozart opera in the Art Deco period of the 1930s. It must be Opera Roanoke's production of ``The Marriage of Figaro,'' which opens Thursday and continues May 21, 23 and 25 at Olin Theater in Salem. Curtain time is 7 p.m. The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Craig Fields directs and Victoria Bond conducts. Rod Nelman, who impressed audiences as Leporello in ``Don Giovanni,'' plays Figaro. A pre-opera Italian buffet begins at 6:15 in the theater lobby prior to each performance for $12.50 per person. Reservations are required. Call 982-2742.
HARD TO HANDEL: Parts II and III of Handel's ``Messiah'' will be the program of the Bedford Choral Society tonight at 8 at Main Street Methodist Church in Bedford. Earl Goodwin conducts. An offering will be taken. Call 586-0231 or 587-9296 for details.
FUND-RAISER: The Kandinsky Trio will perform in ``A Celebration of Mental Health and the Arts'' on Sunday afternoon at 4 at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in downtown Roanoke. The chamber trio's program will feature works by composers who struggled with mental illness, and proceeds from the $10 tickets will go to the Mental Health Association of the Roanoke Valley. A reception will follow the performance.
Call 344-0931.
INAUGURATION: Thomas Baugh will perform an inaugural recital Sunday afternoon at 4 on the newest organ in the Roanoke Valley, a 1,300 pipe instrument from the Noack Organ Co. of Boston. It's at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem. Baugh will present works by Handel, Bach, Schumann and others.
by CNB