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The Gay Agenda
11Friday
Despite the fact that it’s. faintly misogynistic and almost laughably obsolete in its politics, Barefoot in the Park sure is a hoot and a holler to watch. The jokes about the joys and strains of newfound connubial bliss are funny, sure, but watching a man verbally browbeat his new wife into submission really isn’t. Some things, I guess, haven’t changed since Shakespeare’s. day: when Petruchio tells Kate that the moon is the sun, she damn well agrees with him. Who’s. Neil Simon to quibble?
Tonight and Sat. at 7pm, matinee Sat. at 2pm, Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $15 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is one of the nation’s. most innovative dance companies, creating contemporary ballets that consistently delight and amaze audiences around the country. The company—made up of eleven of the best dancers the ballet world has to offer—will bring a program of astounding beauty and invention to Salt Lake tonight.
Tonight and Sat. at 7:30pm, Sat. at 2pm, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South. Tickets at 355-2787 or arttix.org
12Saturday
If I had my own personal Jesus, I’d promise never to swear or kill anybody as long as he let Depeche Mode keep making records and touring. Well, continue making good records, anyway. Anyway, these guys are still at it after 19 albums and over 20 years, and tonight they’ll be doing “Everything Counts” and the sublime “Blasphemous Rumors” here in the City by the Pestilent Sea™. Nineteen albums and their still selling out huge arenas? Take that, Men at Work!
8pm, E. Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City. Tickets $25–46 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com
13Sunday
By now, you’re sick of hearing my claims that Stephen Sondheim is the only human being in the last 50 years to create musical theatre that is truly art and not just tuneful schlock. If you still don’t believe me, check out the Babcock Theatre’s. production of Assassins—a musical which journeys through the hearts and minds of nine presidential killers or would-be killers. While the notion may sound faintly ridiculous, the show will prove otherwise: the penultimate scene, in which John Wilkes Booth convinces Lee Harvey Oswald that he should shoot President Kennedy, is better than Oliver Stone on his best day.
2pm today, Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 7pm, matinee Saturday at 2pm through Nov 20, Babcock Theatre, lower level of Pioneer Memorial Theatre on the University of Utah campus. Tickets $12, $6 for University students, at 581-7100.
15Tuesday
Mamma Mia!—where every homo in the city will be for the next two weeks. For further convincing, see story, page 17.
7:30pm Tonight through Thur., 8pm Fri. and Sat., Sunday at 7pm, Monday Nov. 21 and Tuesday Nov. 22 at 7:30pm. Matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2pm, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South. Tickets $30–70 at 355-2787 or at arttix.org
For those of who you who prefer their theatre less….schmaltzy, I offer Salt Lake Acting Company’s. latest, Man from Nebraska. This Pulitzer-prize finalist was originally produced by Chicago’s. storied Steppenwolf Theatre. It tells the story of a simple Midwestern man and his profound crisis of faith. No singing or guys in wet-suits, but there’s. more to theatre than deafening renditions of seventies pop hits. No, really, I promise. I have a degree in this stuff, trust me.
Tonight at 7:30pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm and 7pm through December 11, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North. Tickets $18—33.50 at 363-SLAC or saltlakeactingcompany.org
17Thursday
As the ubiquitous ads in the print media and all over downtown have declared unto you, the bitch is back. And we here at the Metro couldn’t be happier—not only will Aaron Swenson and Jeanette Puhich be reprising their award-winning 2003 performances in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but enterprising theatre producer/savior of lushes Jerry Rapier has arranged to sell BEER in the LOBBY of the THEATRE. Alas, this truly is a miracle.
Tonight through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm, Friday and Saturday Nov. 25 and 26 at 8pm, Sunday the 27 at 7pm. Matinees Sat. and Sun. at 3pm, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 139 W. Broadway. Tickets $25 (students two for one) at 355-2787 or at arttix.org.
Recently returned from his sojourn as a crazy person in Africa (verifiable by the fact that he walked away from one of the funniest television shows ever produced), Dave Chapelle has chosen…to play Salt Lake City. I’m not judging him, people, but let’s. face it, this guy is friggin’ nuts. Bitch.
8pm, Huntsman Center, 450 S. 1950 East, University of Utah. Tickets $41.50–49.50 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com
18Friday
Everything you ever wanted to know about modern dance but were disinclined to ask: why read dusty dance tomes or review grainy old films when Repertory Dance Theatre can do it all right in front of you? Time Capsule, the company’s. latest concert, will take you on a whirlwind tour of one hundred years of modern dance history. Become an instant expert without having to listen to any dreary lectures: where was RDT when I was taking Trig?
8pm tonight, Nov. 25, and Nov. 26, pre-concert lectures at 7:30pm, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $25, $15 for students and seniors at 355-2787 or www.arttix.org
On the other end of the spectrum, we have Wasatch Dance Collective’s. Raw Material II, a showcase of brand new work from local musicians, filmmakers, and dancers. The artists will debut bite-size portions of new pieces in an evening designed to whet audience’s. appetites for the fully realized projects.
Tonight and Sat. at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets at 355-2787 or arttix.org
Or if you can’t hang with the Dance, why not stroll over to the Art Access Gallery? The Annual Holiday Exhibition will bow tonight, featuring jewelry, oil paintings, glass vases and bowls, block prints, glass stars and ornaments….have a cup of cheer at the opening reception and do your shopping for the artsy types in your life.
Opening reception 6–9pm, regular gallery hours Monday through Friday 10am to 5pm, special holiday hours Saturdays 10am to 3pm through December 20, Art Access Gallery, 339 West Pierpont Avenue in ArtSpace. Admission is free, information at 328-0703.
19Saturday
Paradigm Dance Project, a fully professional dance company, has collaborated with students from SLCC to create an evening of thought-provoking dance. God help me, I’m bound and determined that you bunch of philistines are going to see a dance concert this weekend. Try it ... I promise you’ll like it.
7:30pm tonight, SLCC Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State Street. Tickets $5–8, half price with donation of two non-perishable food items at 957-3322.
The Royal Court brings you the game show we’ve all been waiting for... How Gay is That?! Contestants vie to represent their respective bars for a final game show that will happen in spring to designate the gayest bar in Utah. Hosted by Lucky Charms and Patrick and judged by a panel of celebrity judges (at tonight’s. show our esteemed editor and publisher Michael Aaron will help judge), this half hour show is well worth getting to the bar early.
9pm sharp, MoDiggity’s., a private club for members, 3424 S. State Street. rcgse.org
For the sports enthusiast, join the Pride Community Softball League at a Utah Grizzlies game. Keep in touch with the league over the winter months when it’s. too cold to play with balls.
7pm, The E.-Center, 3200 Decker Lake Dr. Tickets $8 through Daniel Montoya at 631-4698 or by emailing KAOS168@yahoo.com
23Wednesday
There’s. a place on Ocean Avenue where I threw up after hearing Yellowcard’s. insouciant hit single for the 47,850th time. Oh, who am I kidding? They’re hot and they write catchy tunes. Come to the show tonight to check them out…if you don’t enjoy the music, you’ll have fun watching all the awkward adolescents making their first tenuous steps into the world of love. Little bastards.
7pm, Lo-Fi Café, 166 S. West Temple. Tickets $20 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
If you see only one film before the end of the year, make it…..Good Night, and Good Luck. No, make it Rent. No, make it Harry Potter. No, make it The Squid and the Whale, a poignant new comedy starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney that has garnered universally rave reviews. It’s. high time we started giving the Salt Lake Film Society a little love in these pages, kids—see this movie and you’ll be as grateful as I am that we have them to bring quality moving’ pictures behind the Zion Curtain.
Salt Lake Film Society’s. Broadway Center Theatre, 111 E. 300 South. Showtimes at 321-0310.
Just a reminder that today, once again, the Center holds free HIV testing.
6–8pm, GLBT Community Center of Utah, 355 N. 300 West. 539-8800.
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