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When she arrives, having undergone a profound change, friends and family all have to adjust as Duke adjusts to her new life. The play shows at 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday and 2 p.m. Sunday through June 11, at Ashland Middle School Commons, Walker Avenue, Ashland. This play contains situations that may not be suitable for children. Tickets cost $15 general admission and $12 for seniors and students. Call 840-1527 and leave a message for reservations and information. AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER: Camelot Theatre Company's production manger Bob Herried directs Wendy Wasserstein's story of politics, power and the media when the president appoints the daughter of a senator to a cabinet position. The show runs at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays through June 11. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. Reserved seats are recommended and cost an additional $2. 101 Talent Avenue at Main Street, Talent. Tickets are available through the box office from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Call 535-5250. TICK, TICK, BOOM!: Oregon Cabaret Theatre presents the biographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the creator of "Rent." The show focuses on the main character's questions and doubts as he turns 30. The story is told with humor and contemporary rock-influenced music. It runs at 8 p.m. Thursday-Monday, with brunch matinees at 1 p.m. Sunday through June 4. Tickets cost $17-$24. Gourmet dinners and desserts are available by reservation. First Street and Hargadine, Ashland. Tickets are available at the box office. Call 488-2902 after 11 a.m. Closed Tuesdays. BUS STOP: William Inge's down-home drama plays in the New Theatre, directed by Libby Appel. When a group of passengers on the midnight bus to Topeka take refuge from a snowstorm at Grace's Diner, the locals and their guests get to know each other and themselves a little better. The play runs through Oct. 29. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Street, Ashland. See osfashland.org on the Web. Call 482-4331. Advertisement THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK: OSF Associate Artist James Edmondson directs Wendy Kesselman's unflinching adaptation of the Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich classic. The drama sheds new light on Anne and her fellow refugees, revealing them in all their humanity as they hide from the Nazis. The show runs through July 9 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Street, Ashland. See osfashland.org on the Web. Call 482-4331. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: Directed by Peter Amster, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room play in which John Worthing and his friend Algernon Moncrieff fall in love with two young ladies who have their hearts set on marrying men named Ernest. In response, the two men engage in an elaborate deception featuring a fictional wayward brother and an imaginary invalid. The show runs through Oct. 28 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Street, Ashland. See osfashland.org on the Web. Call 482-4331. INTIMATE APPAREL: Directed by Timothy Bond, Lynn Nottage's play visits the world of Esther Mills, a hard-working, independent black seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, who crafts exquisite undergarments for ladies. The play won five major awards, including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the Best Play of the 2003-04 Season. The show runs through Oct. 18, at the Angus Bowmer Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Street, Ashland. See osfashland.org on the Web. Call 482-4331. UP: Michael Barakiva directs Bridget Carpenter's bittersweet family portrait of love, longing and dreams unfulfilled. Walter Griffin once managed to float above the earth in a lawn chair suspended from weather balloons. Sixteen years later, Walter is still tinkering with ideas for inventions, while his 16-year-old son languishes, and his wife dutifully supports the family. The show runs through June 23 in the New Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Street, Ashland. See osfashland.org on the Web. Call 482-4331. THE WINTER'S TALE: Directed by OSF Artistic Director Libby Appel, Shakespeare's play explores the consequences of the poisonous jealousy of King Leontes. Only the passage of time and the loss of some of his dearest loves can bring forgiveness and reunion. The show runs through Oct. 29 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Street, Ashland. See osfashland.org on the Web. Call 482-4331. THE MEMORY OF WATER: Oregon Stage Works presents Shelagh Stephenson's play, named "Best British Comedy" in 2000. It tells of three sisters who reunite for their mother's funeral, bringing long-held recollections, yearnings and resentments with them. The show runs at 8 p.m. Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays June 2 through July 3. Tickets cost $17, general and $10 for students at Grocery Outlet, Medford and the Music Coop, Ashland. The theater will offer a special discount on Friday, June 9 to all seniors 65 and over. 191 A Street, Ashland. 482-2334. THEatersports: The Oregon Stage Works Academy Improvisers and Free Range Theatre formerly, Second Saturday Players present an Improv Theatersports Event at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 4. Two teams will compete in comedy improvisations with the winners decided by audience participation. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for students. 191 A Street, Ashland. 482-2334. a funny thing happened on the way to the forum: Pat Patton directs Southern Oregon University's production of the Broadway musical comedy set in ancient Rome with music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim. The show plays at 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, through June 4, at the Center Theatre. Tickets cost $17 for adults, $15 for seniors and $5 for students at the door. Dorothy Stolp Theatre Building, SOU campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. 552-6348. saving grace: Robert Watt directs Stardust Theatre's production of Jack Sharkey's comedy about a warmhearted young woman who mistakes a telephone repairman for a burglar and tries to convert him from his life of crime. She ends up having to pretend he's her husband, dismaying her strait laced sister's evangelist fiance. The show plays at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 2-17. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and children 12 and under. 424 S.W. Sixth St. Grants Pass, between I and J. Reservations are recommended. 472-9614. glen moore duo: For its final concert of the season, the Siskiyou Institute will present acoustic bass player and composer Glen Moore with his Portland-based trio, featuring pianist Dan Gaynor and drummer Tyson Stubelck, at 8 p.m. Friday, June 2, at the Old Siskiyou Barn, Ashland. Tickets cost $20 and student discounts are available. There will be a workshop for students, teachers and the general public focusing on techniques for improvising and composing as well as learning more about Moore's tuning for the bass from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 3. Workshop tickets cost $10 for the general public and $5 for students and teachers. For reservations and directions call 488-3869 or e-mail [email protected]. sou percussion ensemble: The Southern Oregon University department of music Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Terry Longshore, will present "Strings Attached" at 8 p.m. Friday, June 2, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. Tickets cost $8 general admission, $6 for seniors, and students are admitted free. Call 552-6101 or see www.sou.edu/music on the Web. vocal recital: Susan Sawatzky, soprano, will present a farewell recital in Celebration of Old Friends and New Friends, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Rogue Valley, 87 Fourth St., Ashland. Laurie Hunter, Piano, will accompany. The program will include music by Bach, Purcell, Strauss, Debussy, Barber, Mozart. Donation requested. Saturday, June 3 sou faculty brass: The Southern Oregon University department of music will present the SOU Faculty Brass Quintet Concert in "Brass Blast" at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 3, in the Music Recital Hall, at Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. The quintet will be joined by brass players from the southern Oregon region, including the SOU Student Brass Ensemble, the Ashland Middle School Horn Club, the Rogue Tuba Quartet, plus a trombone ensemble featuring community performers along with the Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon trombone section. Tickets cost $12 general admission, $9 for seniors, and students are admitted free. Call 552-6101 or see www.sou.edu/music on the Web. The Old Time Fiddlers: The Old Time Fiddlers Association is having an open jam on aturday, June 3rd. from 1-4 PM at the Fruitdale Grange, 960 Rogue River Hwy. Grants Pass. The public is welcome and acoustic musicians of all ages are invited to sign up to play. Call 734-2023 for more information dance concert: Ashland-based Dancing People Company will perform three premiere dances and three repertory classics at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4, at Ashland High School's Mountain Avenue Theater, Mountain Ave., Ashland. Tickets cost $15 and are available at Paddington Station, Ashland and Bad Ass Coffee Shop, Medford. Call 482-2124 or see dancingpeople.com on the Web. the DREAM BALLET: The Hyrst Foundation, Ballet Class and Ballet Rogue will present a new ballet "The Dream," at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at the Crater High School Theater, 4410 Rogue Valley Highway, Central Point. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $7 for children. Reserved seats cost $2 extra. Tickets are available at Dance and Beyond formerly Tights & Tards, Medford; Sweet Pea, Jacksonville, and Small Change, Ashland. Call 840-5281. johnny winter: Texas blues guitarist Johnny Winter will play at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at Rogue Theatre, 143 S. E. H St., Grants Pass. Tickets cost $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Call 471-1316 or see roguetheatre.com on the Web. Sunday, June 4 senior RECITAL: The Southern Oregon University Department of Music will present a free student recital by Bobby Stewart, composition, at 8 p.m., Sunday, June 4, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. Call 552-6101. siskiyou violins: The student ensemble, Siskiyou Violins, under the direction of Faina Podolnaya will perform a recital and concert titled, "Siskiyou Violins: In Solo and Ensemble" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Temple Emek Shalom, 1800 E. Main, Ashland. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for students at the door. beth baker: Vocalist Beth Baker will perform in concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater, 23 S. Central, Medford. The event will be the third annual benefit concert for the Rogue Gallery & Art Center. Baker will be joined by eight backup singers and a four-piece band including Brent Olstad on Piano, Theresa McCoy on drums, Jeff Addicott on bass, and Al Dinardi on guitar. The evening will include selections of blues, jazz, classic gospel and Broadway songs. Tickets cost $25, $20 and $15. There will be an after-concert event with wine and appetizers and a complimentary compact disc featuring Baker's latest recordings for an additional $25. Call 779-3000. dance demonstration: Ballet Workshop and Oregon Chamber Dance Company will present their annual student demonstration at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Kid's Unlimited, Main 1, 821 N. Riverside, Medford. Students from beginning to advanced levels will perform. The event is free. Donations for Kid's Unlimited will be accepted. Call 899-3914. Monday, June 5 sou faculty recital: Southern Oregon Music Department will present Terry Longshore in "Child of Tree," a faculty solo recital at 8 p.m. Monday, June 5, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. The recital will feature music by John Abergamo, John Cage, Kyong Mee Choi, a new piece by Todd Barton and new arrangements of Samuel Barber with Christine Williams, soprano. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $ $9 for seniors. Students admitted free. Call 552-6101. Tuesday, June 6 s. or. concert band: Southern Oregon Concert Band's annual free concert at Lithia Park will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, at the Butler Band Shell in Lithia Park, Ashland. The program, "Concert Band Favorites in the Park," will feature a selection of concert works, Lerner and Lowe pieces, tunes from the musical "Oklahoma!" and a variety of other audience favorites. See socband.org on the Web. peace songs: Miriam Ahuvatel-Iron will perform devotional and peace songs from Jerusalem at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, at Havurah Shir Hadash, 185 N. Mountain Ave., Ashland. Tickets cost $7-$15 sliding scale and are available in the Havurah office. Call 488-7716. Ashland High School choirs: The choirs of Ashland Hogh School will present their annual Awards Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 6. in the school's Mountain Avenue Theater, Mountain Ave., Ashland. Nineteen seniors will participate in their final concert at AHS. The program will feature American music from folk, jazz, musical theater, film and classical roots. The concert is free. classical guitar: Paschal Winery will host an evening of classical guitar music from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, at 1122 Suncrest Rd., Talent. The event costs $5. Call 535-7957. Wednesday, June 7 music of india: Southern Oregon Music Department will present a concert of music from Benares, India at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. Featured miusicians will include Pandit ShivanthMishra and Deborat Mishra, sitars. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $9 for seniors. Students admitted free. Call 552-6101. rogue valley jazz: Paschal Winery will host an evening of jazz music performed by local artists`1from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, at 1122 Suncrest Rd., Talent. The event costs $5. Call 535-7957. Thursday, June 8 sou symphonic band: Southern Oregon Music Department will present the SOU Symphonic Band at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 8, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.Tickets cost $8 for adults and $6 for seniors. Students admitted free. Call 552-6101. Friday, June 9 sou jazz ensembles: Southern Oregon Music Department will present the SOU Jazz Ensemble in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, June 9, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $6 for seniors. Students admitted free. Call 552-6101. chamber music: Oboist Kenton Gould presents An Evening of Classical Chamber Music, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 9, at the Rivergate Church, 188 Garfield St., Ashland. The concert will include a variety of instrumentations including works for oboe and piano, solo harpsichord, oboe and continuo, English horn and string trio, and oboe and string trio. Also performing will be Russian pianist and teacher Galina Kistanova. Tickets cost $10 general admission, $5 for students and are available at the door. For more information call: 482-0437. britt opens: Country-music singer/songwriter Deana Carter will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 9, at the Britt Festivals,Jacksonville. Junior Brown opens. Tickets cost $43, $40 reserved; $25 lawn and $17 for children 0-12. Call 773-6077 or see brittfest.org on the Web. Saturday, June 10 walker t. ryan: Blues musician Walker T. Ryan will perform Saturday, June 10, at Mojo Rising, 140 Lithia Way, Ashland. Call 324-7044. ramsey lewis: Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and his trio will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at the Britt Festivals,Jacksonville. Junior Brown opens. Tickets cost $44, $41 reserved; $26 lawn and $187 for children 0-12. Call 773-6077 or see brittfest.org on the Web. BENEFIT PIANO CONCERT: There will be a fundraising piano concert featuring Alexander Tutunov and Kristina Foltz at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at Crater High School Performing Arts Center, 4410 Rogue Valley Highway, Central Point. The concert will officiallyconclude the project designed to provide Crater High School with a concert grand piano. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the door or in advance by calling 261-0628. Alisa Fineman: Folksinger Alisa Fineman will perform with Kimball Hurd at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at Temple Emek Shalom, 1800 East Main Street, between Walker and Tolman Creek, in Ashland. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for children, 12 and under, in advance at Temple Emek Shalom and the Music Coop, Ashland. Tickets are $3 more at the door. Call 488-2909. jazz choir: Southern Oregon Music Department will present The Jefferson State Choral Coalition jazz choir at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, June 10, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. Featured miusicians will include a capella jazz group Just 4 Kicks. Tickets cost $15 for genral admission. Call 552-6101. classical duo: The duo Chanson du Soir, Chelsea Camille, soprano and classical guitarist David Issacs, will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at the Eagle Point Branch LIbrary, 239 W. Main St., Eagle Point. Call 826-3313. Sunday, June 11 rcc orchestra: The Rogue Community College Orchestra will prsent its final concert of the season at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 11, in the Rogue Building on the RCC Redwood Campus 3345 REdwood Highway, Grants Pass. The free concert will feature music by Mozart and his contemporaries. choir concert: Southern Oregon Music Department will present the SOU Chamber and Concert Choiurs in a Mozart Birthday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 11, in the SOU Music Recital Hall, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $6 for seniors. Students admitted free. Call 552-6101. Call 552-6101. Singing it her way Beth Baker is up front about benefit concerts. "I'll never strike it rich. That's only the big time, and I'm too old now," the 48-year-old singer says. "After years of being angry about that, I've concluded maybe I'm supposed to use my gift to help others." Baker will perform in a benefit for the Rogue Gallery and Art Center Sunday night at the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater. She will be joined by eight backup singers and a four-piece band of area musicians Brent Olstad on piano, Theresa McCoy on drums, Jeff Addicott on bass and Al Dinardi on guitar. Baker promises to explore musical territory from blues and jazz to gospel to Broadway show tunes. It's the only major one-woman show she plans in Southern Oregon for the rest of the year. For an extra $25 concertgoers can join a party after the show with wine and appetizers, a complimentary CD and the chance to schmooze with Baker and her band. The decision to do the show was a natural, Baker says, since her dad, Charley, used to be on the gallery's board, and she's on it now. "She does so many benefits for so many causes," the Rogue Gallery's Judy Barnes says. "She's bringing all these people. It's going to be outrageous. She's going to mix it up." Baker, of Medford, has a resume that lists 30 years of stage work from California to New York. In the 1980s her amazing voice caused a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle to write, "Baker at full throttle is an inspiring thing to behold." In 1995 she moved to New York City and wound up working as a cabaret singer, causing Backstage Magazine to comment, "She's as much Broadway baby as sensitive chanteuse." Baker moved from New York City to Medford in 1999 to be with her father when he was dying of cancer. She has continued to perform occasionally, opening once for the Smothers Brothers at the Britt Festivals and another time for Burt Bacharach, singing with the Dixie Fat Cats at the Medford Jazz Jubilee, doing the occasional benefit including a recent one that raised $7,500 for Magdalene House and releasing two CDs, 2005's "The Other Side of Me" and 2002's "I've Got To Sing My Song." As a girl growing up in San Jose, Calif., Baker had art lessons to go with her music studies. She is today a professional painter in addition to her singing, painting murals on commission. "I'm afraid of really big," she says. "I do the medium things, doctors' offices, people's bedrooms." But there was a time when she wanted very badly to make it on Broadway. There was no doubt she had the voice. "I did some Broadway auditions," she says. "I was about 30, kind of late in life. An agent told me he'd open some doors, but it turned out his door-opening ability had expired and he didn't know it yet." After that she got an agent, the famed Johnson Liss Agency "Les Miserables," "Cats", which led to auditions all over Broadway. "Vinny Liss loved my voice," she says. "One day he called me in and said, 'I really want you to work,' but he said I was too old for the ingenue, and too young for the character parts. And I didn't fit in the chorus. He said I had too much color in my voice. He said, 'The right person will take you,' and then he died. "I went away and listened to Broadway albums and thought, 'I've spent 35 years trying to find out who Beth is, and now I'm too much Beth. Everybody who was doing Broadway hated it, and they said the same thing, it was just a paycheck. "So I decided to do my own show." She worked up a cabaret act and put big, soulful gospel tunes right in the middle and wowed New York audiences for four years, until her father's illness brought her to Medford. She's a big believer in the Rogue Gallery, which has represented area artists for four decades and counting and faces the endless money crunch all arts nonprofits struggle with. "We don't have as much art as Ashland does," Baker says. "It's important to not let it slip through our fingers. It reaches out to the people here." Some artists take a big fee for performing benefits. Baker plans to give 75 percent of the proceeds to the gallery. "There's some wonderful art that goes through the doors," she says. "It does amazing things every day. It's worth supporting." She's even found a measure of redemption in small-town life. "I was here when my dad died," she says, "and I was very close to my mother the last six years of her life. I wouldn't trade that for more dollars in the bank." Mail Tribune Home | Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life | Opinion AP News | Archives | Site Map | Community | Classified Copyright © 1997-2006 Mail Tribune, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Website Feedback online casinos news Home Security Systems Online Casino Reviews Trunks, Footlocker Fundraisers UK Homeowner Loans Casinos Canada Cord Blood Banking Discount Hotel Reservations Texas Electric Choice Compare Electric rates in Texas Windermere Van Vleet Men's Clothing Debt Help New Hampshire Primary Advertisement s Advertisement