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This week: Pinellas

By Times Staff Writer
Published February 25, 2005

"SUGAR BABIES,' a tribute to burlesque, opens today and continues through April 3 at the Show Palace Dinner Theatre, 16128 U.S. 19, Hudson. Shows are at 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and March 3, 17, 24 and 31; 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturdays; and 3 p.m. Sundays. Doors open two hours before each show for buffet and cash bar. Dinner and show, $39.50; show only, $28.45; ages 12 and younger, $21.95 and $16.95; all plus tax and tip. Call 863-7949 in west Pasco; toll-free elsewhere at 1-888-655-7469.

"HIGH SOCIETY,' a musical, continues weekends through March 13 at Richey Suncoast Theatre, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. Shows are at 8 p.m., except Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, reserved seating. Box office is open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and an hour before each show. Call (727) 842-6777.

SINGERS JAMIE PERLOW, JOHN TIMPANELLI AND LEESAH STILES will perform at 8 p.m. today at the Center for the Arts at River Ridge, Town Center Road, New Port Richey. Tickets are $15, of which $3 per ticket will be donated to Gulfside Regional Hospice. For tickets, call (727) 849-3758.

THE RIVER RATS musical, variety and comedy show will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pasco-Hernando Community College Performing Arts Center, 10230 Ridge Road, New Port Richey. Tickets are $13-$17. Call (727) 816-3707.

HERNANDO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will present "Songs Of the Nation" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hernando High School Performing Arts Center in Brooksville. The program will include guest soloists Victoria Lim (piano) and Elaine Chipurn (French horn), plus the Hernando Symphony Clarinet Quartet. Single tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling (352) 683-4404.

ACTOR MICHAEL YORK and pianist John Bell Young will perform the melodramatic story Enoch Arden, about a shipwrecked sailor who struggles to return home (Tom Hanks' Cast Away was based on this), at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St., Tarpon Springs. Tickets are $40 adults; $20 students; $30 center members and members of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art. Call 942-5605.

THE MOVIE "LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY: South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation' will be shown at 6 p.m. Monday at the New Port Richey Public Library, 5929 Main St., New Port Richey. The film focuses on four cases that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission examined that showed speakers from both sides of the apartheid question . The film is part of the Human Rights Video Collection being shown throughout 2005 at the library and at Pasco-Hernando Community College. A discussion will follow the movie.

SINGER/VENTRILOQUIST Mikki Taylor will perform country and western, Broadway and pop music at 7 p.m. Monday at the Jewish Community Center of West Pasco, 9841 Scenic Drive, Port Richey. Admission is $4.

CHASCO FIESTA opens Thursday and continues through March 13 in downtown New Port Richey. Highlights include American Indian night with recent Grammy winner Bill Miller (Cedar Dream Songs) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the American Indian festival with dance competition, instructional demonstrations, educational wildlife displays, American Indian artists and craftsmen throughout, the giant street parade at 1 p.m. March 5, a boat parade on the Cotee River at 1 p.m. March 12 and the country concert with Phil Vassar at 7 p.m. March 12 (advance tickets are $12. Call 877-424-2726.

THE THURSDAY MUSICALE, a nonsectarian chorus of 50 women, will present a concert at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Living Word Church, 5151 Rowan Road, New Port Richey. Guest artists are the 2005 scholarship winners, Leticia Thompson, Lindsay Riveia, Devon Page and Trisha Diemect. A donation will be requested.

WEST PASCO ART GUILD's watermedia show continues through Tuesday at the gallery, 6206 Jefferson St., New Port Richey, from 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

"THE SENSUAL GUITAR,' an exhibit of photography by Emanuel Pontoriero, concludes Saturday at the Pasco Arts Center. The center is at 5744 Moog Road, Holiday. Watercolors by Sharon Curtis and drawings by Sarah Cheney are on exhibit in the center's Upstairs Gallery through Monday. Viewing hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.

ARTISTS SCOTT SPILLMAN, Wil Dawson and Nina Winters continue their exhibit through Saturday at Progress Energy Art Gallery, 6231 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. Viewing hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

"ONE VIEW/TWO VISIONS: PLEIN-AIR PAINTINGS' by Josette Urso and Peter Schroth continues through March 6 at Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, 600 Klosterman Rd., Tarpon Springs. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays; and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors and free to students and children. Sunday is free to everyone.

RICHEY SUNCOAST THEATRE will hold auditions for the musical Honk! at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the theater, 6237 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. The show is based on the Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale The Ugly Duckling. About 30 roles for adults and children ages 6 and older. Director is Marie Skelton. Production dates are May 12-29. Call (727) 842-6777.

GREATER NEW PORT RICHEY MAIN STREET is taking applications from experienced outdoor mural artists who can work from a scaffold and can prepare the mural wall to withstand heavy weather. E-mail resumes to info@nprmainstreet.com or call Jeannine Humphrey at 727 815-8176.

SINGER SUSAN FALCONE will be guest performer for the Richey Community Orchestra's concert, Broadway Divas, at 3 p.m. March 6 at the Center for the Arts at River Ridge, 11646 Town Center Road, New Port Richey. Ms. Falcone will sing songs from Brigadoon, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma and Showboat. The orchestra will perform tunes from Gypsy, Mame, Hello, Dolly! and Funny Girl. Tickets are $10. Call (727) 919-3866.

THE IRISH ACOUSTIC GROUP LUNASA will perform music with a distinctively Irish flavor, but with touches of jazz and other improvisational music forms at 8 p.m. March 4 at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St., Tarpon Springs. Tickets are $18. Call (727) 942-5605.

"A TRIBUTE TO PATSY CLINE' starring Carolyn Cline will be presented at 3 p.m. March 6 at the Palace Grand, 275 Della Court, Spring Hill (off U.S. 19 a quarter-mile north of County Line Road). Opening act is comic Woody Woodbury. Doors open two hours before the show for buffet and full cash bar. Dinner and show, $32.50, plus tax. Call 863-7949 in west Pasco; toll-free elsewhere at 1-888-655-7469.

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