Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 19, 1993 TAG: 9303190015
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SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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THE TIPOFF
THEATRICS: Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor" will come to Whitman Auditorium at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke on Wednesday night at 8 in a production from the Barter Theatre in Abingdon.Tickets are available at the college bookstore for $5. Call 857-7334.
The same show will be presented Thursday night at 8 at Covington High School. Tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for those 18 and under. Call 962-6220.
"On Golden Pond," the famous play about aging, wisdom and cross-generational communication, opens tonight at 8 at the Elks National Home Theatre in Bedford. The production, from the Little Town Players, continues Saturday night and March 26-27 at 8 and March 28 at 2 in the afternoon. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children. Call 586-5881.
Michael M. Martin will appear as the title character in "Poe, In His Own Words," a one-man show, tonight and Saturday night at 8 at Dudley School in Wirtz. Tickets at the door will be $5 for adults and $2.50 for students. The show is sponsored by the Smith Mountain Arts Council.\ \ BURIED: Last week's little snowstorm postponed the first weekend of the Highland Maple Festival in and around Monterey. It will be this weekend and March 27-28, with great food, craft exhibits, music, clogging, storytelling and more. Call 468-2550 for the scoop.\ \ IMPRESSIONS: Combining images from French impressionist painter Edgar Degas with music from Chopin, the Roanoke Ballet Theatre will present "Degas in Motion" tonight and Saturday night at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Hollins College Theatre in Roanoke.
The production will illustrate the making of a ballet from classes to rehearsals to backstage before a performance. Guest performers will include former artistic director Diana Gonzalez and seven members of the Lynchburg Regional Ballet.
Tickets in advance are $7 for adults and $5 for students. At the door they are $9 and $7.
Call 345-6099 or 890-6870.\ \ GROOVIN': The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra presents "Shades of Blue," the commissioned jazz work from David Baker, Monday night at 8 at the Roanoke Civic Center.
Awadagin Pratt is the featured soloist. Two Beethoven works will fill out the program, which opens tonight at Wilson Hall of James Madison University and continues Tuesday night at Burruss Hall of Virginia Tech.\ \ THREE PLUS TWO: The Kandinsky Trio and clarinetist David Niethamer and violist Randy Fisher will play in concert Sunday afternoon at 3 in Olin Hall at Roanoke College.
Mozart's Duet No. 2 in B-flat for Violin and Viola will open the concert. Bela Bartok's "Contrasts" will follow. Works by Rachmaninoff and Mozart will wrap up the show.
Tickets are $7. Call 375-2333.\ \ MORE STRINGS: No Strings Attached, a hammer dulcimer band, will play tonight at 8 at Talmadge Hall of Hollins College to raise money for Community School of Roanoke.
Tickets are $5.\ \ UNCOMPROMISING VISION: Holly Near, a pioneer of the women's music movement, plays Wednesday night at 8 in the Old Dominion Ballroom of Virginia Tech's Squires Student Center. Tickets are $6. Call 231-7615.\ \ STEPPIN' OUT: The fledgling Roanoke Valley Chapter of the United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association will hold a dance party Saturday night from 7 to 11 at the Star dance studio in Vinton.
Formal instruction will be offered for an hour. Admission is $5 for members and $8 for nonmembers. Beverages will be provided.
For information, call Hilah Terry at 344-5620 or Edith Nichols at 774-0608.
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