Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 5, 1993 TAG: 9303050054
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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THE TIPOFF
TWO TALENTS: Paul Reisler and Martha Sandefer will sing Saturday night at 8 at the Third Street Coffeehouse in Roanoke.They're both members of Trapezoid, the acclaimed, folk-based quartet which Reisler co-founded. Together they blend Reisler's songwriting and instrument-playing skills with Sandefer's voice and guitar to create entertainment that excites and soothes.
Randy Walker will open the show. Tickets are $8 in advance, $9 at the door. Call 342-4268.
\ FAMOUS NAME: Lynn Redgrave, the actress, will present a one-woman show called "Shakespeare for My Father: the Life and Times of an Actor's Daughter" on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in George Washington High School auditorium in Danville.
Her father was Sir Michael Redgrave, distinguished author, actor and director.
The performance will include her reminiscences of family friends like John Gielgud, Richard Burton and Sir Laurence Olivier, plus portrayals of some of Shakespeare's most famous stage characters, notably Hamlet, Juliet and Puck.
Tickets are going fast at $20 apiece. Call (804) 792-6965.
\ LOVE OBJECTS: More than 90 vehicles will be displayed at the Muscular Dystrophy Association Car Show starting this evening at 5 at the Roanoke Civic Center.
Custom cars, street rods, race cars, antiques and classics, plus pickups, vans, muscle cars and other wheeled wonders will be featured.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $1.50 for children from 6 to 12. Children under 6 get in free. The show continues Saturday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
\ FROM DOWN UNDER: The Australia Ensemble will present chamber music works by von Weber, Bartok, Haydn, Bach and Brahms when it appears in concert Monday night at 8 in Olin Theater on the Roanoke College campus.
Tickets to the performance, sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Chamber Music Society, are $11, or $7 for students. The box office is open weekday afternoons from 3 to 6. Call 375-2333.
\ UNCAGED: The Mosaics will be the band for Saturday night's Mardi Gras benefit for Roanoke's Mill Mountain Zoo. It will be from 8 to midnight at the Roanoke Market Building. Tickets are $3. They'll be sold only to people who are 21 or over.
Call 345-1316 for details.
\ LOOK: Two exhibits of note at the Art Museum of Western Virginia. "William Eggleston: Focused on the South" opens today and continues through May 5. A lecture reception will be tonight from 5 to 7. Fay Gold, from Atlanta, will speak.
Eggleston, a pioneer of color photography, is known as one of the most inventive and radical photographers of this century.
Also on display: "Gari Melchers: An Impressionist in Virginia." The museum is in Roanoke's Center in the Square. It's open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5. Call 342-5760.
\ CENTERED: "The Last High Lonesome Ride," a one-act drama by James Himelsbach, will be presented as a staged reading Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke.
It's another in the Centerpiece series, to which admission is free.
\ DANCE: The Ishangi Dancers of Ghana, West Africa, will present "A Journey to Africa" tonight at 7 in Clara Black Auditorium of Patrick Henry High School.
It's sponsored by the school's African-American Culture Program. Tickets are $5, or $3.50 for students and senior citizens. Call 981-2604.