THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, February 3, 1995 TAG: 9502020128
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E3 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 66 lines
WEEKEND
WHOEVER SAID Maynard, Texas, doesn't have range? There's a hoity-toity country club, and a rowdy roadhouse named Angel's.
Experience Maynard from the male side of things, and then the female side in ``Lonestar'' and ``Laundry and Bourbon,'' companion one-act comedies by James McLure opening tonight at 8 at the Virginia Beach Center for the Arts.
The Beach-based Actors' Theater is producing the plays, which have more than a town in common. Two of the guys in ``Lonestar'' are married to two of the women in ``Laundry.'' The shows also share an era, the '70s, and a 1959 pink Thunderbird. The actors are pictured here, appropriately enough, at the Fifth National Banque Country and Western club.
The center is at 2200 Parks Ave. Performances continue 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, plus 8 p.m. Feb. 10 and 11, and 2 p.m. Feb. 12. Tickets: $5 to $15. Call 557-0397.
- Teresa Annas
TONIGHT
ONE GOOD THING about video is getting the chance to see something you missed the first time. With Tuesday's release of ``Color of Night,'' that goes double. A director's cut restores the footage that threatened the Bruce Willis thriller with the dreaded NC-17 rating. Translation: More of Bruce and Jane March in the buff. Caveat: The movie drew universal hoots from the critics. Willis plays a shrink who thinks one of his patients murdered a colleague.
Craig Shapiro
SATURDAY
VOICES ALONE are more than enough. For more than 25 years, the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble has explored music ranging from the Renaissance to rock 'n' roll. They have taken their six-part a capella harmonies around the world and into the films ``Koyaanisqatsi'' and ``Candyman.''
Saturday at 8 p.m. the group will sing at Portsmouth's Centenary United Methodist Church. Their visit to the College of William and Mary a few years back was one of the more enjoyable concerts of recent seasons. Expect nothing less this time. Tickets are $15, but for $5 more, you can attend a
reception with the group. The church is at 3312 Cedar Lane. Call 484-5051 for more information.
- Mark Mobley
TUESDAY
This courtroom is a long way from O.J. In fact, ``The Advocate'' is set in a legal world a few millenium back, when a lawyer might be called on to defend a pretty odd class of clientele. We won't give away the secret here, but suffice to say that this case makes the doings in L.A. look almost tame. Colin Firth (``Valmont'') plays the Parisian lawyer. Also opening are ``Boys on the Side,'' a road movie with Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore, ``In the Mouth of Madness,'' a chiller from John Carpenter (``Halloween'') and the play-within-a-play, ``Vanya on 42nd Street.''
- Mal Vincent ILLUSTRATION: Color photos
LAWRENCE JACKSON/Staff
Photo taken at the Banque in Norfolk.
Jim Turner and Greg Silva star in ``Lonestar,'' one of two one-act
comedies opening tonight at the Virginia Beach Center for the Arts.
by CNB