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DRAMATIC FLOURISH. To inaugurate its new permanent digs in the old a.k.a. Theatre on Congress Street, Damesrocket Theatre Company is firing up a full production of Caryl Churchill's provocative Top Girls.
But her dilemma hardly occurs in an historical vacuum, evidenced by the guests at her promotion party. The eclectic crowd includes a 13th-century Japanese concubine and a Buddhist nun, a female pope, a Chaucer lady, the model for a Breugel painting, and a Victorian adventuress. Each offers a different take on women's universal drive for maturity and maternity, and the true cost of rising from the unwashed masses to the executive suite. Top Girls stars Molly McKasson as Marlene. The cast also includes Jodi Cuneo, Kyley Jones, Cynthia Meier, Joy Lynn Pak, Toni Press-Coffman and Katie Rosenberg. Tonight's preview is at 8 p.m. in the Damesrocket Theatre, 125 E. Congress St. Evening performances and Sunday matinees continue Thursday through Sunday through March 28. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors, students and artists, available by calling 623-7852. WORKING STIFF. What happens when a regular Joe investigates a murder and falls in love with the victim? These days, you might answer, "A spot on Montel Williams." But this sleuth explores the volatile elements of love, obsession, murder and mystery in Quintessential Productions presentation of Laura, written by Vera Caspary and George Sklar. Set in 1940s New York, the taut tale captures that period with sharp dialogue, distinctive characters and intense, often electric relationships. Laura stars swing daddy vocalist-turned-actor Paul Elia, Scott Terrell, Phillip O'Hern, Gary Tarrantts, Bella Zweig, Alyce Porter, Tim Trojac and Laura Ann Herman. Tonight's opening performance is at 7:30 p.m. on the Quintessential Stage, 118 S. Fifth Ave. Performances continue at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday through March 28, with 4 o'clock matinees on March 15, 21, 22, and 29. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors, students and military, available by calling 703-1543.
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HOMESPUN GENIUS. She's been labeled a "homespun genius"; and Merle Haggard calls her "the best singer I ever heard."
Performance is 8 p.m. in UA Crowder Hall, located in the Music Building at the south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway, east of Park Avenue. Tickets are $12 and $14, available at Hear's Music, Antigone Books, or by calling 327-4809. CREATIVE DUO. Alice Stepanek hails from Germany, Steven Maslin from London. Together, they've spent more than a decade creating highly detailed landscape paintings, and now their work comes to Tucson with a new exhibit at Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art. Combining formal and conceptual practice, these works are aesthetically pleasing while also stretching the theoretical boundaries of contemporary art. "In their generous accessibility, the paintings of Stepanek and Maslin represent elegant images of fragmented exterior views," says European critic José Lebrero Stals. "They are common places, encountered as an indicator of and testimony to central European urbanity, meticulously reconstructed through painstaking execution and highly finished detail." Exhibit runs through May 2, with an opening reception from 7 to 9 tonight, in Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, 437 E. Grant Road. Regular gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. For details, call 903-0577.
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PEDAL-FEST. The Greater Arizona Bicycling Association brings out the goods and kicks off Bike Week '98 with another legendary Bicycle Swap Meet. Score some great shift levers, seat posts, or just decent chow and lovely March sunshine at this buy-sell-trade extravaganza. Swap meet runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the PCC West Campus parking lot, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Admission is free. For details, call 323-9020.
CARROT CALL. The Irish American Gaelic Society is inviting all carrot tops and their tempestuous kinfolk to the annual Redheads of Tucson Family Potluck/Picnic. Auburn action will include the "Famous Redhead Lookalike" contest, and judges will include redhead Colleen Bagnall of Channel 9, and County Supervisor Ray Carroll. There will also be juggling clowns, animal balloons, face-painting, kids' games, "red" raffle prizes and tons of chow. Attendees are requested to bring a side dish or dessert. Event runs from noon to 5 p.m. under Ramada No. 2 in Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Road. Requested donation is $2 per person, or $5 per family. Call 748-1407 for information. MELODIC REMEMBRANCE. Reveille Gay Men's Chorus will present Prayers for Bobby: For Love and for Life. This powerful choral work, based on Leroy Aaron's best-selling book of the same name, tells the true story of a young gay man named Bobby Griffith. Coming out to his conservative, very religious family at age 15, Griffith committed suicide five years later. The book and music are based upon his journals, and conversations with his mother, who eventually became a gay-rights activist.
Performance are at 8 tonight and
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THUMBS UP. The Tucson Blues Society salutes women musicians of southern Arizona with A Tucson Cabaret Evening in the Boondocks Lounge.
Free concert is 5 p.m. in the Boondocks Lounge, 3306 N. First Ave. For information, call 623-9533. DOUBLE CHORDS. The Arizona Repertory Singers combine chords with the St. Gregory Singers and the Palo Verde Christian School Mixed Ensemble for a night of fine vocalizing. The concert will feature separate performances of madrigals, spirituals and light classics by all three choral groups. Then they'll join forces to perform works by Beethoven, Brahms and Offenbach. Performance is 3 p.m. in UA Crowder Hall, located in the Music Building at the south end of the pedestrian underpass at Speedway and Park Avenue. Tickets are $5, $3 for students and seniors, and available at the door. For information, call 792-8141.
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CELESTIAL PASSAGE. His head's in the stars, his heart's in his hands, and he's unexpectedly falling for a flamboyant young woman. In locations conjured within his memory and set against the night sky, Toni Press-Coffman's Touch traces an introverted young astronomy student's precarious journey back from great loss, and his re-connection with humanity.
Reading is 7:30 tonight in Damesrocket Theatre, 125 E. Congress St. Tickets are $4, and available at the door. Call 623-7852 for details. SLEIGHT HANDERS. Tucson's top-shelf tricksters are back for An Evening of Award-Winning Magic. The show stars Eric Buss, who was named the International Brotherhood of Magician's top stage-magician in 1996. Also featured will be Adrian VanVactor, winner of the Melbourne Christopher and Lance Burton International Award for most promising young magician. Both Buss and VanVactor will present their acclaimed acts and new routines. Rounding out the show will be the comedy magic antics of Brian Moore. Tableside performances start at 6 p.m., with the main show beginning at 7 p.m., in The Gaslight Theater, 7010 E. Broadway. Tickets are $7.50, available at Williams' Magic. For information, call 886-0543. HEADIN' SOUTH. "Truckers, drug dealers, cowboys and artists: the stories they tell are strange, painful, amusing and true." That's a precise assessment of Maeze Hickey and Lawrence Taylor's book, The Road to Mexico. See the review in this week's Books section for more information. Taylor will sign and discuss the book from 7 to 9 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 7325 N. La Cholla Blvd., in Foothills Mall. Event is free. Call 742-6402 for details.
Tuesday 17
BIG TALKERS. Tall tales are on the table when a gathering of storytellers gets underway at St. Philip's in the Hills Church. Old pros and rookies alike will have a chance to spin yarns, with the informal meeting open to anyone with ambitions to strut their narrative stuff before an audience. Free event runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in St. Philip's Meditation Room, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Call 326-8966 for information. SPIRITED IMPORTS. You might have caught their stunning vocals on Paul Simon's Graceland, or heard their rendition of the South African National Anthem when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated. They've also appeared in countless venues ranging from Sesame Street to Broadway.
Now the powerful African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo
comes to Tucson for one performance only, at
Wednesday 18
VISIONS REVISITED. For the second time, Bero Gallery features the works of Cynthia Laureen Vogt and Alis Cummings. Both Cummings' photographs and Vogt's handmade books tap images that investigate alternative perceptions of time and experience.
Exhibit runs through April 11 in the Bero Gallery, 41 S. Sixth Ave. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 2 to 7 p.m. Thursday, and during Downtown Saturday night. For more information, call 792-0313. MIDDAY MELODY. The Tucson Jazz Society and the Tucson Parks and Recreation Department team up to deliver a series of free, downtown lunchtime concerts, continuing today with the Primavera Jazz Band, featuring piano paramour Lisa Otey, Mary Redhouse Hauer on bass and vocals, and Carla Brownlee on saxophone. Performance runs from noon to 1 p.m. in the Main Library plaza, 101 N. Main Ave. For information, call 743-3399. TAX TRIM. Discover ways to gussy up your tax return--and reduce your bill to Uncle Sam--with the Pima Association of Taxpayers' workshop, How to Become More Appealing. Randy Roberts, author of Property Value Appeal Guide, will explain how to appeal your property valuations and lower your taxes, sharing methods he's successfully used himself. Attendees should bring their latest property valuation postcard from the county assessor, along with a pen, paper and calculator.
Free workshop runs from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Woods Library, 3455
N. First Ave. Call 887-0112 for details.
City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Tim Vanderpool. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc. To have material considered, please send complete information at least 11 days prior to the Thursday issue date to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 2429, Tucson, Arizona 85702, or fax information to 792-2096, or email us at listings@tucsonweekly.com.
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Margaret Thatcher's London is the ironic backdrop for one woman's
timeless struggle: Marlene, feeling her oats as newly appointed
managing director of a large employment agency, also finds herself
wrestling with questions of class, power and unfettered ambition.
Now Kansas City songbird Iris DeMent brings her stunning vocal
stylings to Tucson for a single, captivating performance. Accompanying
herself on piano and acoustic guitar, DeMent belts out gems ranging
from the political to the highly personal and passionate. Among
them is "Letter to Mom," a poignant ode to child abuse
appearing on her latest album, The Way I Should.
Bike-related events continue through next week, including the
Commuter Non-Polluter Race on Tuesday, March 17; Bike to Work
and School Day, Wednesday, March 18; UA Bike Registration Day,
Thursday, March 19; and the Citizens Bicycle Parade on Sunday,
March 22. For details on Bike Week '98 events, call 791-4372.
The top-notch line-up of female performers includes New York
cabaret veteran Naomi Alexander, Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association
impresario Elise Grecco, Sierra Vista jazz-blues talent Terri
Marie, the Bay Area's Lori Davidson, and 
Presented as part of the Damesrocket Theatre Company's new play
reading series, Touch is directed by Molly Scholen, with
a cast that includes Patrick Burke, Jonathan Ingbretson, Katherine
Kellner and Caroline Reed.
Vogt uses textural dialogue to show the engagement between reconstructed
past and fabricated future. With figures performing acts both
mysterious and banal, the artist intends to depict parallels between
photography, crime, theatre, and her own relationship with the
audience. By contrast, Cummings' photos--representing the face
of a memory--are transformed through circular dialogue. The series
aims to question the intangible influence associated with remembrance
and possession.
