BRLT Will Stage Reader’s Theatre Version of Mockingird at Library
By ANNE PRICE
A Reader’s Theatre performance of the classic story To Kill A Mockingbird will be presented by Baton Rouge Little Theater at 7 p.m. Monday, March 26, at the Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.
Mike Graham will portray Atticus Finch, Olivia Moppert plays his daughter, Scout, and Matt Rist plays Dill. Nancy Litton narrates the production as the adult Jean Louise. Members of the supporting cast include Derra Howard, Carolyn Bowman, Rozanne Acampora, Becky Moppert, Arielle Sutton, Ron McConnell, Warren Frasier, Davis Hotard and Rob Bigalke.
The event is part of the Big Read, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
The production is free and open to the public. For more information, call (225) 231-3745.
True story in play
A production of Waiting to Be Invited by S.M. Shepard-Masset will stage its final performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. today, March 25, at UpStage Theatre, 1713 Wooddale Blvd. in the Midcity area of Baton Rouge.
The play is based on a true incident in Atlanta in 1960, when the author’s grandmother was one of four middle-aged black women who went by city bus to a downtown whites-only lunch counter in a department store to test their newly acquired civil rights.
When an obnoxious white woman gets on the bus, the four women struggle to sustain their courage in the face of real fear.
Ava Brewster-Turner is director and a member of the cast. Other cast members include Keyonate Hamilton, Tana Boudreaux-Allen, Jason James, Sue Lincoln and Lindsey Smith.
Tickets are $10 and group rates are available. For more information, call (225) 924-3774 or go online at http:// www.upstagetheatre.biz.
Cleanup Day
Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful will do its part for the Great American Cleanup on Saturday, March 31, when volunteers are welcomed and asked to roll up their sleeves and dispose of trash on the streets and sidewalks.
Designed sites for proper trash disposal are downtown Baton Rouge on Florida between Third and Lafayette; Dr. Leo S. Butler Community Center, 950 E. Washington St.; Delmont Service Center, 3535 Riley St.; CADAV/Scotlandville CDC, 1920 Goudchaux at Scenic Highway; Goodwood Village Shopping Center, 711 Jefferson Highway; Baton Rouge High School, 2825 Government St.; Nicholson Drive north of LSU, West McKinley and West Roosevelt streets; and Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center, 4000 Gus Young Ave. Trash bags and gloves will be available at each site.
For more information, call (225) 381-0860 or go online at http:// www.kbrb.org.
Army Band plays today
The United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C. and the Soldiers’ Chorus will perform a concert at 3 p.m. today, March 25, at the F.G. Clark Activity Center on the Southern University campus.
Two local vocal groups, Heritage and the Zion Travelers Spiritual Singers will appear with the soldiers’ ensembles.
The 65-member band will present a program of marches, popular music and patriotic numbers, with vocal and instrumental solos highlighting the concert.
Soloists will include Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Garcia, mezzo- soprano, and Staff Sgt. Christopher Sarangoulis, euphonium.
“The Spirituals of Moses Hogan” will feature the Soldiers’ Chorus and Heritage and the final number will be “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa.
The Field Band has performed at presidential inaugural parades, the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, nationally televised broadcasts on Memorial Day and July 4, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Band members are selected by competitive audition.
The concert is free but tickets are required and are available at the door and at both locations of Zeagler’s Music, Baker Music Center and the West Baton Rouge Parish Library, 830 N. Alexander Ave. in Port Allen.
Double bass recital
A double bass guest recital will be presented by Satoshi Okamoto at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, at the LSU School of Music Recital Hall.
Pianist Yung-Chiao Wei will perform with Okamoto.
The event is part of the Manship Guest Artist Endowment series of musical recitals at LSU.
Okamoto will give a master class at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 29, at the recital hall.
Okamoto was assistant principal double bass in the San Antonio Symphony for eight years and a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra for a year before joining the New York Philharmonic in 2003.
Yung-Chiao Wei is a female bassist and pianist from Taiwan.
The program will present works by Handel, Beethoven, Hindemith and Reinhold Gliere.
The LSU Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the recital hall and also free to the public.
Recitals at LSU
The Pentagon Winds, a quintet of musicians from the U.S. Army Field Band, will present a recital at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at the LSU School of Music Recital Hall.
The Army Band performs today, March 25, at Southern University.
Kimberly Houser, a new member of the LSU School of Music faculty, will present a harp recital at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at the recital hall.
Houser has been playing the harp since she was 4 years old, and has studied at the University of Arizona where she earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees on full scholarship. She has also studied in Europe with the principal harpist of the Paris Opera, Catherine Michel.
Her varied program will include works of Marcel Grandjany, Elias Parish Alvars, Felix Godefroid, Franz Liszt, Marcel Tournier, Enrique Granados, Carlos Salzedo and Henri Mancini, as well as her own composition, “Three Dances.”
Outdoor film screening
An outdoor screening of the film Casino Royale will be presented at 9 p.m. Thursday, March 29, on the LSU Parade Ground. The film is a James Bond thriller, starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green and Judi Dench.
The film is free, sponsored by the LSU Union Program Council, and popcorn and drinks will be served. For more information, call (225) 578-5118.
In BR, Lafayette
One of the great artists in the world of jazz, Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson, appears in Baton Rouge and Lafayette this week.
Anderson will join New Orleans vocalist Stephanie Jordan for a performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at the Manship Theatre.
Tickets are $26.50 and available by calling (225) 344-0334 or going online at http://www.manshiptheatre.org.
Anderson will play again at 8 p.m. Friday, March 30, at The Ballroom in downtown Lafayette.
Anderson is a Baton Rouge resident who began playing the saxophone at age 14 in Brooklyn. He studied with Alvin Batiste at Southern University, and in 1988 became a member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet. From 1992 to 2005 he was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
A mix of New Orleans jazz and blues has made him a favorite around the world.
Tickets for the performance are available at the door and are $20 for bar stool seating, with a $5 minimum drink or food purchase required, and $30 for table seating, with a $10 minimum purchase.
Trivia contest for kids
Children 7-11 will participate in a trivia contest based on the Lemony Snicket novels at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31, at the Jones Creek Regional Branch Library, 6222 Jones Creek Road.
Registration is required and limited to 15. For registration and more information, call (225) 756-1160.
Harp program
Students of the Harp School, Inc., directed by Ashleigh Dellafiora, will perform a program, Noah and the Ark, at two libraries on Saturday Saturday, March 31. Narration of the story has interludes played by harp students who range in age from 9 to adult.
Performances will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Bluebonnet Regional Branch Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd. and 2 p.m. at the Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.
For more information, call (225) 231-3760. Registration is not required.
Civil rights program
Rachel Emanuel, director of publications and electronic media at Southern University, will present the documentary Taking a Seat for Justice; The Baton Rouge Sit-Ins at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, with guest Donald Tibbs at the Scotlandville Branch Library, 7373 Scenic Highway.
She also give the program, with guests Jewel Prestage and Mechelli Ghetti at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at the Bluebonnet Regional Branch Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd.
The program includes rare recordings of archival footage of Southern University president Felton G. Clark, the U.S. Supreme Court and Baton Rouge sit-in participants.
For more information, call (225) 231-3745.
Grant Institute
A professional grant proposal writing workshop, The Grant Institute, Grants 101, will be conducted Thursday-Saturday, March 26- 28, at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.
The workshop consists of three courses: Fundamentals of Program Planning, Professional Grant Writing and Grant Research.
Tuition is $597, including all materials and certificates.
The workshop focuses on funding sources and basic social science research, and teaches students how to use research as part of a grant acquisition effort.
Eunice Players Theatre
Tickets for the 38th season of Eunice Players’ Theatre are now available, and the first show of the season, Misery, will run through Saturday, April 21.
Subscription tickets are $20, which entitles the holder to three shows, guaranteed reservations, voting privileges and an invitation to the Irving Awards.
For more information, contact Joan Kerstein at (337) 457-3330 or any Eunice Players board member.
In New Orleans
The American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and Stars will present a program at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 30-31, in the Dixon Hall Recital Room on the Tulane campus.
The 12-member company of young dancers will also be artists-in- residence for one week before the main stage performance, giving master classes, lectures and demonstrations in the community.
The program is presented by the New Orleans Ballet Association.
The Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, presents a dinner theater production of Boys Next Door, directed by Perry Martin. The show tells the story of four mentally handicapped men who live together under the care of their young social worker and find both humor and drama in their lives.
Performances are at 5:30 p.m., dinner and 7:30 p.m., show, Friday and Saturday through March 31 and noon, lunch and 2 p.m., show Sunday through April 1.
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