ENTERTAINMENT NOTES : Holocaust exhibit at ASU; opera will stage dinner
Posted on Sunday, July 6, 2008
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“Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings,” a traveling exhibition from the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, is on display through July 27 at the Dean B. Ellis Library, Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.
Library hours are 7: 30 a. m.-10 p. m. Monday-Thursday, 7: 30 a. m.-5 p. m. Friday, 10 a. m.-6 p. m. Saturday and 2-10 p. m. Sunday.
The exhibition examines the steps the Nazis took to suppress freedom of expression in Germany in the 1930 s, the response it provoked in the United States and how the book burnings continue to affect public discourse.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Lawrence Salinger, assistant chairman of ASU’s criminology, sociology and geography department, will give a presentation, “Survivors of the Shoah: Ursel Salinger,” at 5: 30 p. m. Tuesday in Room 118 of the library.
The presentation will include tape of a 1998 interview with Ursel Salinger, the professor’s mother, who grew up Jewish in Nazi Berlin, from the University of South California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
Admission is free. Call (870 ) 972-2766. An online version of the exhibition is available at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Web site, www. ushmm. org / museum / exhibit / online / bookburning. Improv finale
ImprovLittleRock will close its 2007-08 season with four performances in three days at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock:
7: 30 p. m. Thursday: longform and short-form comedy with the adult troupe and special guests Armadillo Rodeo, a group of teenage improvisers from across central Arkansas. 10 p. m. Friday: world premiere of ImprovLittleRock’s new long-form show, Rock Opera: The Rock Opera ! including the Public Theatre debut of Arkansas’ first comedic improvisational orchestra, the ILR Tasty Experience — Katie Gorton and music director Buddy Habig on keyboards (Gorton will also play oboe and accordion ); Jason McHughes on drums; and Ivan Yarborough on bass. 7 and 10 p. m. Saturday: longform and short-form improvisation double-header.
Admission is $ 7. Call (501 ) 374-7529 (PLAY ). Wine, dine and song
The young artists of Opera in the Ozarks will perform for the third annual “Taste of the Opera: Wine, Dine and Song” musical dinner, 5: 30 p. m. Wednesday in the Crystal Dining Room of the Crescent Hotel and Spa, 75 Prospect Ave., Eureka Springs.
The event, which includes a wine tasting and a four-course meal, raises scholarship money for student performers at Opera in the Ozarks, which puts on three productions in repertory each summer at Inspiration Point on U. S. 62 West in Eureka Springs.
Tickets are $ 35. Call (479 ) 253-9766 or visit the Web site, www. opera. org.
The remaining schedule: Puccini’s La Boheme, Tuesday, July 15 and 18; Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, today, Thursday and July 16; and Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, Wednesday, Friday and July 17. The company will also take a performance of La Boheme to the Arend Arts Center in Bentonville on Saturday. Call (479 ) 255-8595 or visit www. opera. org for ticket information. Trio of auditions
The Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre will hold auditions for three fall productions — Treasure Island, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson; Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, musical by Joan Cushing, based on the book by Barbara Park; and The Toymaker’s Apprentice — at 6 p. m. Saturday at the Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 10 th and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
Auditions are open to ages 6 and up and require no preparation. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes that allow freedom of movement. Be on time; enter through the south (Children’s Theatre ) entrance.
Production dates for Treasure Island are Sept. 19–Oct. 5; for Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Oct. 24–Nov. 9; and for The Toymaker’s Apprentice, Nov. 28–Dec. 21.
Call the audition hot line at (501 ) 975-5909 or (501 ) 372-4000 or visit the Web site, www. arkarts. com. Edinburgh bound
Seven Hendrix College students and three faculty members will travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 2-12 to perform an original production, Burn Out Macbeth: A Southern Gothic Tale, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Hendrix seniors Justin Warren, Michael Goodbar, Sarah Johnson, Lizzie Dunnet and Junia Massey and juniors Derek Easttom and Brett Carr will join Hendrix theater faculty members Danny Grace, Ann Muse and Connie Campbell to write the script over two weeks at the end of July.
The play will be loosely based on Shakespeare’s Scotland-based tragedy, but with a focus on traditional hill country feuds of the rural Southern United States.
The play will run Aug. 4-8 at the Annex Studio of the Vault theater in Edinburgh. Admission is free.
The students will attend other festival productions and plan to make a documentary about their experience on their return to Arkansas. The Murphy Away Programs, a grant of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, is financing the trip.
The festival started out at the “fringe” of the fairly straitlaced Edinburgh International Festival in 1947 and has grown to become the world’s largest arts festival.