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Stage: Hot ticket
By JOHN FLEMING
© St. Petersburg Times, published October 12, 2000
Solo flight
Amy Schwartz makes her concerto debut this weekend with the Florida Orchestra. Schwartz, in her second season as concertmaster, is the soloist in Mendelssohn's dashing Violin Concerto. On the podium is guest conductor Joseph Silverstein, a former concertmaster himself with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In September, Patricia Chute's painting of Schwartz (shown here) was part of a show at 531 Central Fine Arts, a gallery in St. Petersburg.
The orchestra's program also includes Mozart's Symphony No. 33 and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday in Ferguson Hall of Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m. Saturday at Mahaffey Theater and 7:30 p.m. Monday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Tickets: $20-$38.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Try 'Laughing Wild'
Remember the Harmonic Convergence of 1987? That New Age happening -- as well as an incident in the tuna fish aisle of the supermarket -- brings together the two monologists of Laughing Wild, the Christopher Durang comedy that opens the Jobsite Theater's third season this weekend.
"It's basically about two individuals trying to make sense out of life," says David M. Jenkins, who co-stars with Katrina Stevenson. "It's an incredibly funny play that covers all the usual Durang themes -- psychobabble, Catholic dogma, gay life, the threat of AIDS -- but is also very poignant."
Laughing Wild has performances at 8 p.m. Friday, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday in the Off Center Theater of Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $15, with a $5 discount for students with ID. (813) 229-7827.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
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