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Thursday, August 7, 2008

THE ARTS

 
Laura Duplechin will be the guest speaker for the Monday, Aug. 4, meeting of the Denham Springs Fine Art Association. Duplechin will speak about the color pallet.

The title is more practical than biblical. For this is a case where Noah’s lesson isn’t about taking instruction from God to build an ark, then load on animals two-by-two.

Arlo Guthrie, High School Musical and a tribute to The Beatles are just the beginning of what’s in store this season at the Manship Theatre, the Reilly Theatre and the LSU Union Theater.

He savors the stories behind those told in the photographs, his stories. Because he didn’t mean to include the London Lodge’s television antenna in the composition. Well, there was really no thought to composition at all.

Louisiana Songwriters, featuring Tab Benoit, David Egan, Benjy Davis and Maggie Warwick, will take the stage at the Manship Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, the Saenger Theatre's dusty glass doors are still locked, its gilded plaster proscenium arch and Italianate decor off-limits to the public. Two theaters across the street are for sale; one is boarded up, the other posted by the fire department. But eight blocks down, Southern Repertory Theater is starting a season of premieres.
•Audio slide show: Post Katrina Theater

Baton Rouge Gallery, 1442 City Park Ave., will feature work by artist members Cody Bush and Preston Gilchrist beginning Sunday, Aug. 3. There will be an opening reception 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6. The exhibit will continue to Aug. 28.

How do you follow up playing Jesus? For Collin Cleary, it’s by taking on the role of Troy Bolton, male lead in High School Musical, the Ascension Community Theatre’s summer musical production.

With forgiveness comes peace, but forgiveness for what? Bringing them into the world, then letting them go one by one? That’s what painters do if they’re blessed with an audience, collectors who seek out their work. Michael Crespo has been so blessed by the mysterious art gods. Mysterious, not mystical. It’s how he sees his creations, how he looks at them now sitting in this far corner of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum’s downstairs gallery.

The St. Francisville Transitory Theatre’s composition team has drawn from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to come up with something new, What Alice Saw There.

Auditions for Baton Rouge Little Theater’s upcoming production of Chicago will be Monday-Wednesday, July 28-30, at the theater, 7155 Florida Blvd.

She was Homer’s muse, the inspiration for the Iliad and the Odyssey. Those are pretty big shoes for the Louisiana State Museum-Baton Rouge to fill. Still, it’s snobbish to assume that Calliope works only with legendary authors of epics. She is, after all, the muse of poetry, known as the beautiful-voiced in Greek mythology.

Brunner Gallery, 100 Lafayette St. in the Shaw Center for the Arts, will feature sculpture and installations by Steven Durow and Babette Wattigny beginning Saturday, July 26. The show will continue to Sept. 27.

It’s as if a carpenter wanted to show off his handiwork and all he had to display was a handful of nails. Photographer Donn Young lost his life’s work in Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 when his studio in the Lakeview section of New Orleans was flooded.

Theater can happen anywhere. On a formal stage. On a street corner. Online. The evening before the 4th of July, theater was unfolding in the sanctuary of Luke 10:27, A Community of Faith Church in Denham Springs. Budding thespians were rehearsing their roles for the upcoming production of Looking Glass Land.

A summer evening of fine wine and hors d’oeuvres comes to the Reilly Theatre stage on the LSU campus at Swine Palace’s first Wine Tasting fundraiser 7-9 p.m. Thursday, July 24.

Thinking back, baseball season is the most ironic part of all. That’s when Zwolle High School lost to Runnels 12-3 in the Class B state championship. Jonathan Mayers noticed the headline, not for Zwolle but because his alma mater beat this town with the strange name in baseball.

Calling all kids – this is your chance to create your own fashion label. Well, all right. This thought isn’t much in the way of cool for boys, so let’s reword it for them.

Groupings of several works by well known local artists give the big show at Elizabethan Gallery, 680 Jefferson Highway, visual importance.

You can’t say I wasn’t prepared to be impressed. Fellow Advocate reporter Robin Miller’s July 6 advance on the Center Stage Performing Arts Academy’s “Crazy for You” left no doubt about her enthusiasm for the local production that runs Thursday through Sunday on the Dutchtown High School cafetorium stage.

This story is merely an observer’s notes. For an observer has to look through the eyes of another to see cityscapes in a computer board, an armoire among the angles, even a flawless hope chest somewhere deep within the grains of Nigerian walnut.

Tickets are on sale for the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre’s fundraising gala Tutu Groovy Two — The Original ’60s Bash, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Dancers’ Workshop, 10745 Linkwood Court off Bluebonnet Boulevard.

July 13-July 19, 2008

The Elizabethan Gallery, 680 Jefferson Highway, will host the annual show and sale of new artwork by members of the Associated Women in the Arts, beginning with a reception 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 17. The show will continue to Aug. 25.

“Totally HOT and still Knockin’ ’em DEAD,” the subtitle screams. Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? And it is to some degree.

To say last Thursday was big for Baton Rouge Little Theater is an exponential understatement. Being the first amateur company in the world to stage “The Producers” had to get theater-goers’ attention.

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