ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, January 10, 1997 TAG: 9701100128
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ALMENA HUGHES
ROCKY RIDING: The Nabisco-Kroger Championship Rodeo will run tonight at 8, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center. Tickets will range from $10.50 to $13.50, with some afternoon-performance discounts for children and seniors and special $9.50 bargain prices for tonight's show. Call 375-3004.
ART TALK: Artist Antoinette Hale - 1996 Sidewalk Art Show "Best in Show" award winner - will give a gallery talk Saturday at the Art Museum of Western Virginia in Center in the Square. Hale is noted for her paintings, which reflect the warmth and vitality of her family and friends within Roanoke's black community. The free lecture at 2 p.m. is part of the museum's Docent Guild educational program. Call 342-5760.
FAMILY TIES: The "Wherever You Are Tour" at Oakland Baptist Church, 7 p.m. Saturday, will feature music by several siblings: The dynamic harmonies of the Martins, 1996 Dove Award winners, will headline the evening, and triplets Common Bond will show the talent that earned them a New Artists of the Year award. Anthony Burger, a regular performer with Bill and Gloria Gaither, will perform piano renditions of inspirational songs.
Tickets to the concert at 3623 Roundhill Ave., Roanoke, cost $10.50 in advance or $12.50 at the door. Call 366-5861.
VICARIOUS VACATIONS: Visit 20 of America's most popular vacation spots with explorer and film maker Ed Lark, as he presents a live narration of his film, "America's Favorite Places." Among the sites seen will be Washington, D.C.; Florida's theme parks; Yellowstone National Park; and the Grand Tetons.
Proceeds from the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke Travel and Adventure Film Series benefit various community service projects. Tickets range from $2 to $4 for the show Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Patrick Henry High School Auditorium. Children 12 and younger are admitted free. Call 857-3109.
WAR LORE: Robert Meadows of Virginia Tech Extension Service will discuss the role of "Petticoat Spies" in the Civil War. The free lecture, sponsored by the Roanoke Civil War Roundtable, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Friendship Hall of Friendship Manor on Hershberger Road. Call 297-2980.
TICKLISH TIMES: David Ives' six witty one-acts that make up "All in the Timing" will run Thursday through Jan. 26 in Mill Mountain Theatre's Theatre B. The quirky, contemporary works include three chimpanzees who'd write Hamlet if they had the time; a couple who can commit no conversational gaffs; a fellow who locates the loopholes in a place where you can't get anything you ask for; and 10 variations on the last day of the revolutionary Trotsky's life.
Theatre B is at 20 Church Ave. in downtown Roanoke. Tickets will cost from $10 to $14. For performance times, reservations and other information, call 342-5740.
THE "MAME" GAME: Morgan Brittany of "Dallas" fame (and more recently "Melrose Place" and "The Nanny") will on Thursday portray the eccentric Auntie Mame whose adventures teach her 10-year-old nephew some valuable lessons about love and life. The lighthearted musical, on its 30th national tour, is one of the longest running in Broadway history.
Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. performance in the George Washington Auditorium, 107 Broad St., Danville, will cost $24. Call (804) 792-6965.
OFFBEAT OPERA: The not-so-fat lady B.J. Ward will on Jan. 17 and18 sing the hilarious repertoire that comprises her critically acclaimed one-woman takeoff, "Stand-Up Opera." The Jan. 17 performance will include cocktails at 7 p.m., dinner at 8 p.m. and the show at 9 p.m., with the $75-per-person admission fee benefiting Opera Roanoke. The Jan. 18 performance, at 8 p.m., will cost $18. All events will be held in Fitzpatrick Hall, Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave. Call 982-2742.
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