Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 2, 1990 TAG: 9003022834
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Both performances will begin at 8 p.m. and tickets are $12 for both shows. For information about the Lexington concert, call 463-9670. For the Blacksburg facts, call 231-5615.\ PIONEER PROVOCATEUR: Rock singer Alice Cooper will bring his latest show to the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium Wednesday night at 7:30. About 1,000 tickets, or less than half the house, have been sold.
Cooper was a giant in his time, as well known for his stage antics as his music. Tickets to his concert are $17.50. The number to call is 981-1202 or (800) 543-3041.\ SPOT NEWS: The Ink Spots, a group with a venerable name and noble heritage, will perform at the "opening" of the Plaza of Roanoke-Salem tonight and Saturday night.
Other music, from Cimmaron and the Bob Clay Trio, has been part of the picture. And Saturday, Washington Redskin linebacker Monte Coleman will sign autographs.\ ROAD WARRIOR: Bill Monroe the bluegrass star will perform Sunday afternoon at 2 at Appomattox High School auditorium.
Joining him will be Jim and Jesse, the Bluegrass Boys and the Virginia Boys. Proceeds will help finance the 1990 Historic Appomattox Railroad Festival.
Tickets are $10 at the door. Children under 12 pay half price.\ CIRCUIT RIDER: Folk musician John McCutcheon will play a benefit concert for the New River Free Press tonight at 8 in the Donaldson Brown Center at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
McCutcheon plays original and folk songs on fiddle, banjo, guitar, hammer dulcimer and piano.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for those with low incomes.\ SPRING IS HERE: Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" will be featured in concert Saturday night at 8 in Lee Chapel on the Washington and Lee University campus in Lexington.
The University-Rockbridge Symphony Orchestra will do the playing. The concert will open with Symphony No. 5 by William Boyce, an English composer of the 18th century. And "Overture on Hebrew Themes," by Sergei Prokofiev, also will be performed.
The orchestra is conducted by Barry H. Kolman.\ THE DRAMA CLUB: That's what the Iroquois, the Roanoke night spot, will be for the next two weekends as the Acting Company of Roanoke Valley moves in to present the play called "Five of Us" by Len Jenkin.
The play will be presented tonight through Sunday night and March 8-10. Each night, art by Name Pending, a new organization, will be shown, and rock bands will play following each performance.
Tickets are $5. Reservations are available from 344-9575. Curtain time is 8 each night except for Sunday, when it rises at 2 in the afternoon.\ JUST OPENED: "Burn This" is the latest offering from Showtimers of Roanoke. It's "a love story with a jagged edge" (aren't they all?) by Lanford Wilson. Jeff Berger directs. The play runs tonight through Sunday night, March 8-12 and 15-18 at the Showtimers Studio on McVitty Road.
Call 774-2660 for further details.\ READY TO ROLL: Mill Mountain Theatre opens "The Glass Menagerie," the Tennessee Williams classic, tonight on its main stage at Center in the Square.
Tickets are $10 and $12. Call 342-5740.\ NUMBER 10: The Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual car show reaches the decade mark today through Sunday at the Roanoke Civic Center.
The hours are from 5 to 11 tonight, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $5 for adults, $1.50 for children ages 6-12.
Race cars, street machines, pickups, four-wheel drives, vans, antiques, muscle cars and more will constitute the gleaming scene.
Call 772-3237.
by CNB