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By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times, published November 9, 2000
Gloom 'n' glam
Shock-rock showman Marilyn Manson started life as Tampa Bay area music journalist Brian Warner, so he must know better than anyone that his decade-old schtick of Satanism and sex is wearing thin. (That 15-minute clock o' fame is tick-tick-ticking, Mr. Manson.)
Still, the "provocative" Manson and his spooky cohorts have a new album, Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), coming out next week. While it's an opportunity for Manson to explore his, uh, art and "persona," the cover shot of him crucified with a crown of thorns likely will excite the religious right more than his waning fans. Besides, with Nookie anthems and frat boy fun filling our radio waves and TRL, who wants all Manson's gloom and glam?
It's okay, Brian Warner. You can't be an Anti-Christ Superstar forever. Heck, even Alice Cooper ended up playing golf.
Marilyn Manson brings the cheekily titled Guns, God and Government tour with openers Union Underground and Godhead to the USF Sun Dome, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa, at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $30.75. (813) 974-3002.
-- GINA VIVINETTO, Times pop music critic
A crazy little thing called love
Dating and mating and marriage and splitting up are the subjects of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, the revue by Jimmy Roberts (music) and Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics) that opens the mainstage season at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota.
All the usual bases are touched in skits about men who watch football, women who shop, nerds on a date, busy married couples who have sex once a year, a divorcee making a dating service video and a widow and widower looking for romance. Roberts' score incorporates country, rock, tango and waltz in numbers such as Cantata for a First Date, Single Man Drought and Always a Bridesmaid.
Director Bick Goss' cast includes Carl Danielson, Maribeth Graham, Nick Santa Maria and Tina Stafford.
After a long off-Broadway run, I Love You is one of the most-produced works around the country this season. It opens tonight and runs through Dec. 23 at Florida Studio Theatre. Tickets: $18-$30. (941) 366-9000.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Multilingual amusements
Spanish Lyric Theatre goes multilingual in Las Musas Latinas (The Latin Muses), a revue of songs performed in Italian, French, Spanish and English. Adapted from a 1912 zarzuela, or Spanish light opera, by Manuel Pennella, the show is based on a frothy premise.
Three painters, their inspiration blocked, call upon the muses of their respective countries, and music and dancing ensues. Among the cast members are.
Spanish Lyric Theatre, now in its 42nd season, puts on a mix of musical theater and Spanish repertory under its longtime artistic director Rene Gonzalez, who staged Las Musas Latinas with choreography by Jackie Loto. Bruce LeBaron conducts the orchestra.
The performance is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Playhouse of Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $18-$22. (813) 229-7827.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Wings and Strings
This festival in Polk City, between Tampa and Orlando, merges aviation with American music. It is held on the grounds of Fantasy of Flight, an attraction that holds what is said the be the world's largest private collection of vintage aircraft. The "Wings" part of the three-day event features those aircraft plus hot air balloons, parachute jumps, kites, ultralights and all sorts of other things that soar.
The "Strings" part comes from the music -- Cajun, bluegrass, alternative rock. More than 40 groups are scheduled to appear on five stages. They include Austin Lounge Lizards, above, appearing Friday at 6:30 and 10 p.m. Others include Austin-based singer/songwriter Jimmy LaFave, appearing several times Saturday and Sunday; alternative country rockers Reckless Kelly, Saturday; folk rock sextet Donna the Buffalo, Saturday; acoustic duo Robin and Linda Williams, Saturday and Sunday; and Canadian country-folk singer Fred Eaglesmith, Saturday and Sunday.
Admission is $75 for a three-day pass. Single-day admission is $20 Fri., $30 Sat. and $25 Sun. Ages 13-18 $15 each day, children free. Admission includes Fantasy of Flight attraction.
Veterans with proof of military service (a photograph is acceptable) get in for half-price Saturday.
The festival begins at 5 p.m. Friday and runs until 7:30 p.m. Sunday. To get to the festival, take exit 21 from Interstate 4.
True to life
Jack Thursby's trio in his acrylic painting Generation X portrays young people who seem isolated despite their proximity. The somber mood is accentuated by neutral colors and a background that seems more stage setting than real life. Thursby, who lives in Ocala, has won numerous prizes in bay area shows. He exhibits at Hyde Park Fine Arts with Joyce Lazzara and Guillermo Portieles of Tampa and Michael Weber of Port St. Lucie, each selected for depicting subjects in a realistic or true-to-life manner. Hyde Park Fine Arts is at 937 S Howard Ave., Tampa; (813) 258-8883. A reception, free and open to the public, takes place 7-10 p.m. Friday. The exhibit is open through Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Free.
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