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Weekend best bets
Cool ideas for your time off
By WILMA NORTON
Published December 2, 2005
Avant-garde acrobatics
Cirque Du Soleil returns to St. Petersburg with Varekai, which premiered in 2002 and has not been performed in Florida. The show opened Thursday and continues through Dec. 31 under the yellow-and-blue striped big top in the Tropicana Field parking lot. Tickets are $35-$70, $31.50-$63 seniors, $24.50-$49 children. Toll-free 1-800-678-5440; www.cirquedusoleil.com
Surrey with a fringe
For more traditional theater, check out the touring Broadway production of Oklahoma! at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. $47-$67. (727) 791-7400.
Pop go the holidays
Veteran actor Nanette Fabray performs 'Twas the Night Before Christmas with the Florida Orchestra as part of a holiday pops concert series, conducted by principal pops director Richard Kaufman. Also featured are vocalists Jeff Deards Jr., Whitney Kaufman and the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Concerts are at 8 tonight at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa, 8 p.m. Saturday at Pasadena Community Church, St. Petersburg, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. $15.50-$50.50. (813) 286-2403 or toll-free 1-800-662-7286.
Choose your genre
Musical choices include an '80s industrial band, an alt-pop rocker, some '60s doo-wop, up-and-coming punksters and a hurricane-delayed show by a country superstar: Front 242, 8 p.m. today, the Masquerade, Ybor City. $20. (813) 247-3319. Jason Mraz, 7 p.m. today, Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg. $25. (727) 896-2276. Jay Black and the Americans with Little Anthony and the Imperials and Kenny Vance and the Planotones, 7:30 p.m. today, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater. $35-$42. (727) 791-7400. 97X Next Big Thing 5, starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Coachman Park, Clearwater. $32.10. (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100. And Alan Jackson with Lee Ann Womack, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Ford Amphitheatre, Tampa. $31.50-$66.50. (813) 740-2446.
Crazy for Carmen
Soprano Cristina Nassif stars as the gypsy femme fatale Carmen in the Opera Tampa production at 8 p.m. today and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa. $29.50-$85. 813 229-7827 or www.tbpac.org
Swing into the season
Christmas gets in full swing all around the Tampa Bay area with parades and holiday kickoff festivals from Crystal River to St. Petersburg. Two long-running holiday traditions, Wild Wonderland at Lowry Park Zoo and the Victorian Christmas Stroll at the Henry B. Plant Museum, both in Tampa, begin today and run through Dec. 23.
Boat show afloat
Hurricane Wilma delayed the St. Petersburg Boat Show by a couple of weeks, but you'll find more than 600 vessels, ranging from trawlers to yachts, on display in the water and on land today through Sunday at the Bayfront Center Yacht Basin downtown. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. $8 adults, $2 for ages 6-12. Toll-free 1-800-940-7642, www.showmanagement.com
[Last modified December 1, 2005, 09:33:03]
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