Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 6, 1990 TAG: 9004060055
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
He's a cheerful sort, a little wooden in manner, with a tendency at times to stretch the truth. If he'd been born in a different era he might've gone into politics.
His story presumably has delighted the young for years. You and your young may choose from performances tonight at 7:30, Saturday at noon, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 and 4:30 p.m.
Tickets are $8 and $10.50. Information is available from 981-1201.\ ANOTHER FIRST: Those people classed as professionals young and old will gather again after work today for the season's first First Fridays at Five celebration at Century Square in downtown Roanoke.
It's an interesting word, professional, once used to draw distinctions between groups of say, amateur and paid wrestlers, or to set physicians and lawyers off from their fellow men. Now, though, it has been broadened to mean white-collar people, without, one hopes, implying a certain vague superiority.
Today's get-together will feature the Ross Humphries Trio, playing jazz tunes, and a variety of beverages on sale.
Admission will be $1, with the proceeds going to local charities. If the weather is bad, everything will be moved to the third floor of the Market Building.\ A HOMECOMING, OF SORTS: Christine Schadeberg, a soprano, will sing Wednesday night at 8 in Lee Chapel of Washington and Lee University in Lexington.
Her appearance is part of this season's Rockbridge Concert-Theatre Series. She has been praised by well known music critics for her vocal talents and expressiveness.
More than that, for those interested in local color, she considers Rockbridge Baths her home, because her parents retired there in 1976. Schadeberg lives in New York City, which makes up in career advantages for what it lacks in natural beauty.\ A BRUSH WITH THE ARTS: The Brush Mountain Arts and Crafts Fair is under way today through Sunday in Blacksburg. Sponsored by the Voluntary Action Center of Montgomery County Inc., it is in Rector Field House on the Virginia Tech campus today from 1 to 9 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Admission is $1 for adults, with children 12 and under admitted free.\ AS MIME GOES BY: Mark Jaster, a mime, will conclude this year's Rainbow Splashes children's series with a performance Saturday morning at 10 at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke's Center in the Square.
Tickets are $5. The series has been presented by the Arts Council of Roanoke Valley with grant assistance from Dominion Bank, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.\ KEY CONCERT: Pianist Panayis Lyras will join the Audubon Quartet for a concert Saturday night at 8 at Blacksburg Presbyterian Church.
The program will be "Langsamer Satz" by Webern and Quartet No. 3 by Bartok. Tickets are $5 at the door, $3 for students and senior citizens.\ NO PICNIC: Actress Lee Meriwether will star in Radford University's theatre production of William Inge's "Picnic," a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a widow's difficulties in bringing up two teen-age daughters in a midwestern town.
The play will begin Monday night at 8 and continue through Saturday, April 14. It will be in Porterfield Theatre on the Radford campus.
Meriwether is best known for portraying Buddy Ebsen's daughter-in-law on TV's "Barnaby Jones. She was Miss America in 1955.
Tickets for the play are $3.\ FIDDLERS FOUR: The Dominion Bank String Quartet will perform Sunday afternoon at 4 at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke.
The concert will include works by African American composer William Grant Still.
Children not only are welcome but are encouraged to attend the event. A reception will follow it.
The quartet consists of James Glazebrook on first violin, Rudy Hazucha on second violin, Charles Pencoff on viola and Laura Stanton on violincello.
All are members of the Roanoke Symphony.\ SENSITIVE PRODUCTION: Athol Fugard's "The Road to Mecca" is the production under way in the new Theatre B of Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, and it has received praise for its power of its words and its emotional content. It's a three-character play set in a village in South Africa in 1974 - complex and compelling in the area of motivation.
The play runs through April 22. Information is available from 342-5740. 3 1 TIPOFF Tipoff
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