Pianist Robert Thies, winner of Russia's prestigious Prokofiev
Competition, will make his Pasadena Symphony debut performing Dohnanyi's
popular Variations on a Nursery Tune on at 8 tonight at the Pasadena
Civic Auditorium.
Music Director Jorge Mester of Montrose will also conduct Rossini's
William Tell Overture and Shastokovich's Symphony No. 15, which quotes the popular Rossini work, among others. Musicologist Nancy Fierro will
present the pre-concert lecture at 7.
Performing in the orchestra will be Burbank resident Peter Doubrovsky
on string bass.
Tickets are available at the box office and range from $10 to $64 and
$5 for children ages 5 to 17. The Pasadena Civic Auditorium is at 300 E.
Green St. in Pasadena.
Doll club sponsors
Doll Show and Sale
Jewel City Doll Club will sponsor its 24th annual Doll Show and Sale
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Glendale Civic Auditorium, 1401
Verdugo Road.
There will be antique and collectible dolls and accessories, paper
dolls, old toys, bears, miniatures and related books.
Participants can have their picture taken for free with their favorite
doll or dolls.
There will be free doll identification provided by the doll club's
members.
Special guest is Patricia Schoonmaker, noted doll book author.
For dealer reservations or more information, call Dene Alcott at
248-4862 or Jan Drugan at 957-2732.
THEATER ARTS
Colony's 'Side Show'
extended to April 20
The Colony Theatre Company has extended the Broadway musical "Side
Show" until April 20 and added two more performances 8 p.m. Thursday,
April 18, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at the Burbank Center Stage. There
will be no more extensions to the show.
It relates the true story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, twins joined at
the hip, who became the toast of the vaudeville circuit during the
Depression. Misty Cotton and Julie Dixon Jackson star as the twins.
The role of Jake will be played by James Black for the performances of
the extension only. Black was most recently seen as Jim in Deaf West's
award-winning production of "Big River" and in Reprise's production of
"Hair."
Show times during the extention are 8 p.m. today, Thursday, Friday and
April 20 and 2 p.m. April 21. Tickets range from $25 to $31, and can be
reserved by calling 558-7000. The Colony Theatre Company makes its home
at the Burbank Center Stage, 555 N. 3rd St.
Improv company supplies laughs with one-act plays
The Really Spontaneous Theatre Company, an improvisational theater
