Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 15, 1990 TAG: 9006150019
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
There will be plenty of daytime performances, as well.
For the participants, the show is a test of equestrian skills. For the spectators, it's a mix of sport and entertainment rife with action, color and interesting people.
Evening admission for adults is $5 Monday through Thursday. Children age 12 and under get in free with a paying adult on Monday. Their tickets cost $3 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
On June 22, as the action heats up, adult tickets rise to $7 and children's to $5. On June 23, the cost is $8 for adults and $6 for children.
The daytime price is $2 for everyone early in the week and $3 later on.
\ GREATEST HITS: The Salem Buccaneers return to Municipal Field in Salem tonight for a three-game series against Kinston. Saturday evening's game will begin at 5, so the Carolina League hit-makers can finish in time for some other hit-makers - the Platters and the Drifters - to put on a concert.
Groups bearing those names had a lot of hits a couple of decades ago, including "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Under the Boardwalk."
General admission tickets are $3.50. Reserved seats are $4 and box seats cost $4.50.
The team's telephone number is 389-3333.\ \ FLESH AND BLOOD: The Founding Fathers were much like you and me, only greater. That point is driven home in "1776," the latest production of Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. The irreverently funny musical opens tonight and runs through July 8 at Center in the Square.
Tickets are $12 for the Tuesday through Thursday evening performances, $15 for Friday and Saturday nights. Matinees are $12.
By the way, the theater is presenting a Centerpiece on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. It is Joan Vail Thorne's "Tree House Gang," about three old friends who meet to play canasta and gossip in a tree house.
Mary Best-Bova directs the staged reading. The audience is invited to bring lunch.\ \ YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN: Mary Draper Ingles demonstrates this truth in "The Long Way Home," the outdoor historic drama which depicts her capture by the Shawnee Indians at Drapers Meadow in 1755 and her subsequent escape and return.
The play opens Thursday night and will be presented Thursdays through Sundays at 8:30 through September 1.
The place: The Ingles Homestead Amphitheatre at Interstate 81's exit 34 at Radford.
For information call 639-0679.\ \ MOUTHFUL: The U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Command Brass Quintet will play pretty for the people Sunday afternoon at 4 at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church.
Admission is free. The quintet's repertoire ranges from works by Bach and Handel to the lively compositions of Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton.\ \ MIME AND MUSIC: The Seattle Mime Theatre brings a mix of comedy, clowning and dance to Lime Kiln theater near Lexington tonight and Saturday night to complete its first American Movement Festival.
Sunday night at 8, The Bobs, a new-wave a capella group from San Francisco, perform at the Kiln. Tickets are $14. And on Wednesday, hammer dulcimer master John McCutcheon will entertain. Tickets are $12.\ \ ALL-STARS IN THE EAST: The Hampton Jazz Festival will take place June 22-24 at Hampton Coliseum, and another stellar lineup is promised.
George Benson, McCoy Tyner, Regina Belle and Patty Austin are among the opening-night performers.
Roberta Flack will lead the performers on June 23. The Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra also will blow that night.
On June 24, Patti LaBelle and the Four Tops will put a pop flavor into the proceedings.
For ticket information call (804) 838-4203.\ \ WORTHY CAUSE: Family Service of Roanoke Valley is having its annual "Fun Raiser" Saturday night from 6:30 to 9:30 at the Roanoke Airport Marriott.
Three acts from the Roanoke Comedy Club will be the highlight of an evening's worth of light food and drink. Tickets are $20 per person. The number to call is 563-5316.\ \ FESTIVAL CALL: Lynchburg has its Festival by the James today and Saturday. Batteau rides, music of many kinds, children's activities, storytelling and such will prevail.
Pearisburg is having its Festival Around Town Saturday with antique cars, arts and crafts, lots of music, sports and games and a dance for teens.
And Pulaski is having its annual Model Railroad Day Saturday from 10 to 4 at the Old Passenger Station in downtown Pulaski. Call 980-8343.
***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on June 20, 1990\ Correction
Singer, storyteller and comedian Gamble Rogers will perform tonight at 8 on the lawn at Lime Kiln Theatre near Lexington. Tickets are $12. Because of a reporter's error, the concert was listed incorrectly in Friday's Tipoff.
Memo: correction