October 12 - October 18, 1995
Thursday 12
A WOMAN'S PLACE. Bloodhut Productions has been wowing
audiences with stirring, insightful and entertaining theatre for
a few seasons now; and I Know An Old Woman may be their
best work to date. This touching medley of real-life character
sketches, both staged and improvised, combines music, voice, dance
and dramatic American Sign Language interpretation into a script
that is both well-written and spontaneous. Regardless of whether
you caught one of the sold-out performances this summer, this
is a night at the theatre that will only improve with age. I
Know an Old Woman continues with performances at 8 p.m. through
October 14 at PCC Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets
are $8 in advance from Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave., Fit
to Be Tried and the West Campus Cashier's Office. Tickets will
be $9 at the door. Call 884-6458 for reservations and information.
OUTOBER FESTIVAL. Kick-off a full weekend of "Outober"
festivities with Tucson's gay and lesbian community by attending
the opening of the first annual Tucson Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,
with three screenings starting at 7 p.m. tonight at The Screening
Room, 127 E. Congress St. Two full-length features, Only the
Brave (which sounds like a lesbian Thelma and Louise,
Aussie style) and Playing the Part (a long-distance coming-out
story), will be joined by a short film dealing with the morning-after
dilemma as faced by two women. See Film Clips for a complete listing
of this weekend's screenings; or call 624-1779 for information.
Single tickets are $5, $16 for a festival pass for all screenings,
available at Wingspan, 422 N. Fourth Ave.
Friday 13
TROVATORE AMORE. If you did your homework by attending
Say Hello to Opera's preview a few weeks back, you're polished
and ready to enjoy Arizona Opera's season opener, Il Trovatore,
Verdi's tragic tale binding a gypsy woman's vicious past to the
unbridled vengeance of her son, unleashing a downward spiral into
tragedy and destruction. And you thought opera was boring. Tonight's
performance will feature world-class artists Eduardo Villa (as
Manrico), Pamela Kucenic-Motisi (as Leonora), Jai Whan Lee (as
Count di Luna) and Carol Kirkpatrick (as gypsy-mother Azucena).
Performances are at 7:30 tonight and Saturday, October 14, at
the TCC Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. A Sunday matinee is offered
at 2 p.m. October 15. Tickets range from $14 to $56, available
at Dillard's and the TCC box office. Call 791-4836 for tickets
and information.
True fans can mingle at Arizona Opera League of Tucson's "Toast
to the 25th" pre-show party, an optional black-tie affair
from 5 to 7 p.m. October 14 at the Fremont House (on the southwest
side of the TCC). Tickets are an additional $35 per couple. Call
293-4336 for information.
HERITAGE EXPERIENCE. T.H.E. Festival may be the
place to be this weekend, as a cornucopia of Tucson's finest talent
turns El Presidio Park, Court Avenue and Alameda Street, into
a teeming throng of dancing, feasting, storytelling and generally
grooving poblanos. Sure the Tucson Heritage Festival is a fountain
of hedonistic pleasures, but this is a wholesome weekend of family
fun, sponsored by every arts and community organization you can
name and then some. Dance ensembles from the Ukraine to West Africa,
music from every continent, more ethnic foods in one place than
L.A. and New York City combined, and cool folk arts, including
the most innovative uses of rawhide and peach pits you ever imagined,
promise a fun-filled weekend of sensory overload. Festival hours
are 5 to 10 p.m. tonight, 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 7
a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free, with parking available
for under $5. Call 624-0595 for program information.
Saturday 14
BOLA-TIE BALL. If there's any local organization that
knows about the importance of planning, it's Planned Parenthood
of Southern Arizona. So you can bet their gala Bola-Tie Ball fundraiser
has been brought forth into the Old Pueblo with an abundance of
care and advance preparation. Tonight's festivities will feature
live music, fine art, roving performance artists and great food,
along with plenty of entertaining ways to contribute much-needed
funds for the Henry Quinto Educational Endowment Fund, providing
workshops on HIV and AIDS prevention, Youth-at-Risk after school
sexuality programs, "Healthy Foundation" training for
pre-school and child-care center staff and teacher training for
sexuality education.
The festivities begin at 6 p.m. at Westward Look Resort, 245
E. Ina Road. Tickets are $50--a small price to pay for a top-notch
night on the town and a good cause. Call 624-1761 for reservations
and information.
SILENCE TO CELEBRATION. More than 3,000 people turned out
last year for the "Outober" festivities at Reid Park,
corner of 22nd Street and Country Club Road. Today's outstanding
line-up of performers promises one memorable day in the park for
all: Singin' the blues will be Lisa Otey and Them Girls, an acoustic
duo from Phoenix; followed by the "alternacoustic" Riverpoets
from Santa Cruz, California; funk/disco with LeeAnn Savage &
Her Dyn-O-Mite Party Band; a female impersonator show including
the crowning of Miss Gay Pride; a theatrical piece by Invisible
Theatre's Stuart Moulton; Tejano and country oldies by the Latina
band Rare Breed; choral presentations by Desert Voices and Reveille
Gay Men's Chorus; a leather fashion show by Hydra Leather and
More; and political speakers including UA law advocates and Mayor
George Miller. Events are free and will continue from 8 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Call 622-3200 for information.
Sunday 15
JAZZ SUNDAE. This year's Grammy- winner for Latin Jazz
Recording, Arturo Sandoval, headlines the Tucson Jazz Society
and Tucson Parks and Recreation's free Jazz Sundae event at 11
a.m. at the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center in Reid Park.
See Yvonne Ervin's article in the music section for a profile
of this talented Cuban expatriate. Jazz Sundae provides Tucsonans
with a taste of Dixieland, jazz classics, and Latin Jazz from
Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Americas. Food fare from corn-on-the-cob
to specialty items by restaurants including Mina's Thai, Ventana
Grill, Delectables and Gallery of Food will be offered, along
with plenty of beer and soda. Load up your chairs and blankets
and take advantage of the shuttle service available from 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m. in Foley's parking lot at El Con, 3435 E. Broadway.
Call 743-3399 for information.
ANOTHER COURTROOM DRAMA. For those whose lives have lost
focus and meaning since the Simpson verdict was passed down last
week, we humbly suggest an evening at the theatre for your transitional
period: The Execution of Justice will give you a new set
of questions to ponder as Emily Mann's multi-award winning script
leads you through the actual words spoken in the highly controversial
1982 court trial of Dan White, convicted of killing San Francisco
Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay activist.
The play focuses on White's methods and motivations, and how this
double homicide ended in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter,
in large part due to the "Twinkie Defense," which argued
that White's ability to reason was diminished due to the ingestion
of junk foods. Is this country for real?
Execution of Justice previews tonight and tomorrow
at 8 p.m., with select performances through October 29. All preview
tickets are $7, with regular ticket prices ranging from $10 to
$14. Call 621-1162 for reservations and information.
Monday 16
DANCING ON THE IVORIES. Nohema Fernández continues
the Faculty Recital Series at 8 p.m. in UA Crowder Hall, south
end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue.
Compositions include selections from Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, Albeniz,
Chopin and Debussy, as well as works by Mozart, Schumann and 18th
century Spanish composers. Tickets range from $3 to $8. Call 621-1162
for advance tickets and information.
WEEK WITHOUT VIOLENCE. A variety of community organizations
have conspired to create A Week Without Violence, to promote awareness
and prevention of violence against children and the elderly. Free
ice- and clay-sculpting, "paint your message" board
and "non-competitive games to promote good communication
and peaceful solutions" will be offered from 2 to 6 p.m.
in Armory Park, south of Broadway between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
Call 770-8702 for information on the rest of the week's events.
Tuesday 17
OHIO BALLET. Experience the world-renown artistry
and contemporary choreography of one of the nation's finest professional
ballet companies in this single Tucson performance at 8 p.m. at
UA Centennial Hall. In addition to presentations of works by master
choreographers George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Kurt Joos and
Paul Taylor, the Ohio Ballet has earned a reputation for "high
performance standards, lean contemporary style and on-stage vitality
and enthusiasm." Tickets range from $18 to $28, with discounts
for seniors, students and children. Call 621-3341 for reservations
and information.
Wednesday 18
SUICIDE GUIDE. Jeffrey Eugenides, authsor of the acclaimed
novel The Virgin Suicides, changes the pace in the UA Poetry
Center's fall series with a free reading from his recent prose
at 8 p.m. in the Modern Languages Building auditorium on the UA
campus. Eugenides, who Programs Coordinator Karen Falkenstrom
says is "really hot in NYC," has received more awards
than you can shake a noose at, with The Virgin Suicides dropping
the jaws of audiences worldwide with translations in 12 languages.
Reading is free and will be followed by an informal reception.
Call 321-7760 for information.
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