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Cache Valley Civic Ballet presents ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Paquita’ The Herald Journal

MARCH 27-APRIL 2, 2015

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March 27-April 2, 2015

COVER 8 Cache Ballet delivers

‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Paquita’ at Eccles Theatre

MUSIC 4 Huntsman helps open

Utah State’s new concert series at Performance Hall

4 USU symposium takes

a look at hip-hop’s impact

5 Young Artist Cup coming up soon at Mountain Crest

5 Cow Bop jazz band to

play in Logan Wednesday

THE ARTS 4 ‘Rabbit Hole’ continues at the Black Box Theatre

10 Heritage Theatre in Perry delivers ‘The Mikado’ 11 Aliens ready to invade

USU’s Kent Concert Hall

MOVIES 3 Aliens move into Earth in Dreamworks’ ‘Home’

7 One star: Will Ferrell,

Kevin Hart get stuck on a single joke in ‘Get Hard’

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Kevin Nakatani, performing as the witch, dances as the gingerbread performers stand in the background during a dress rehearsal for the Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s performance of “Hansel and Gretel” and “Paquita” last week at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. On the cover: Mary Fonnesbeck dances as the Forest Nymph. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR Time is running out, so I really hope you have your latest masterpiece nearly completed.

According to Little Bloomsbury Foundation founder Brenda C. Sun, this is the “last call” for artwork to be sudmitted for the ninth annual Little Bloomsbury Art Festival.

One of the nicest people in Cache Valley, Brenda’s passion for art and the energy she puts into the Little Bloomsbury Arts Festival each year is simply amazing.

This year’s Little Bloomsbury Arts Festival will begin Thursday, April 23, and end Saturday, April 25. The show runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day, and you can bet that Brenda Sun will be there each and every minute in the easy-to-spot house at 181 N. 200 East in Logan.

The theme of this year’s festival is “What Dreams Are Made Of” — which kind of makes me think that Brenda must have been cranking up some Sammy Hagar Era Van Halen music when she was trying to come up with an idea — and the submission deadline is fast approaching.

Conventional and innovative artforms should be submitted by 4 p.m. Friday,

April 3, and an awards ceremony and media preview (for the likes of me) is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, April 13.

So, if you dare to dream, visit littlebloomsbury.org or call (435) 994-9904 for submission guidelines and additional information. But even if you don’t want to provide some of your own art this spring, be sure to remember the Little Bloomsbury Arts Festival coming up in a few weeks.

As Van Halen said in “Dreams,” there’s sure to be some “pictures in an empty room.”

And “that’s what dreams are made of.”

— Jeff Hunter

Dreamworks’ latest gets a little lost along the way

By Aaron Peck Cache movie critic

Dreamworks Animation has a tell, and it’s a big one.

Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that you’re playing poker with Dreamworks. They’re betting big, and you’re afraid they’re holding an unbeatable hand. Then, apropos of nothing, Dreamworks starts an impromptu dance party involving everyone in the room. Bet big, because they’re bluffing.

It’s no coincidence that Dreamworks Animation’s most thoughtful and memorable movies don’t end in a unprompted dance party.

There are no obligatory dance scenes at the end of “Rise of the Guardians” or “How to Train Your Dragon.” The spontaneous music video preceding the credits has been a Dreamworks’ bugaboo for quite a while now. It essentially amounts to their version of a shoulder shrug. As in “Meh, the movie’s over.

Now what?” Shrugs.

“Home” is no exception.

The only spoiler in knowing that it ends in pointless dancing is knowing beforehand that Dreamworks is bluffing yet again.

The movie feels like a fish out of water. Ripped

– Rentrak Media Analyst Paul Degarabedian (Page 11)

AP Photo/Dreamworks Animation

In this image, characters Oh, voiced by Jim Parsons, left, and Tip, voiced by Rihanna appear in a scene from the animated film “Home.”

★ ‘Home’ Director // Tim Johnson Starring // Jim Parsons, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Matt Jones, Brian Stepanek, Stephen Kearin Rated // PG for mild thematic elements

from a time when Dreamworks dealt in shallow storylines and star-laden voice casts.

“Home” has more in common with “Bee Movie” than any of the other thoughtful animated films they’ve done in recent years. Its reliance on instantly dated popculture references provides a movie that can only exist in a fixed time — immediately forgotten; rewatchability, nil.

Oh (Jim Parsons) is a purple alien screw-up who happens to be a member

of the Boov alien race. We jump right into his story as he helpfully (annoyingly) narrates. The movie tirelessly explains who the Boov are, where they come from, why they’re traveling to Earth, why they’re taking over Earth in a somewhat peaceful way, and who they’re hiding from. Missing from this expository blah-blah is any sort of connective emotional tissue from the audience to Oh. He’s funny, sometimes. Cute, sometimes. He has a way of speaking broken English

that might be adorable to some, but quickly starts to grate. He takes everything as literally as possible, but none of the resulting effects are as clever or fun as Drax the Destroyer in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

The amiable invasion of Earth is shrewdly funny.

It’s about the only unique aspect of the movie that has any real thoughtful originality to it. The Boov are affable types. They avoid confrontation. They simply drop in on Earth, relocate all the residents of the world — using Dr. Suess-esque vacuums and super-neat sentient bubbles — to Australia. They even go so far as to build them quaint densely-packed villages. They see nothing wrong with their actions.

See HOME on Page 12

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Pet: Marvin From: Cache Humane Society Why he’s so lovable: Hello there. My name is Marvin. Around here, though, my cat caretakers all call me Chairman Meow. I am an orange tabby with the most pretty eyes. I am a little shy, but I would open up in a place where I could run and play. Come meet me and I’m sure you will fall in love with me. Contact the Cache Humane Society at 792-3920.

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Aliens take over in ‘Home’

“Over the past couple of weeks, films driven by the female audience have done much better than films driven by the male audience. But that’s all going to change because ‘Furious 7’ is on the way.”

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Huntsman to open new series Former governor’s daughter headlines Smiley Amano Concert A new concert series has been established at Utah State University that honors the dedication of a respected and well-loved faculty member in the Caine College of the Arts.

The Smiley Amano Distinguished Performers Concert Series was created to recognize and honor the lifetime commitment of professor Gary Amano, director of piano studies in the CCA, to the students of Utah State University. The concert series’ inaugural performance by pianist

Mary Anne Huntsman, accompanied

by Amano, is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in the Caine Performance Hall.

The inaugural Smiley Amano Distinguished Performers Concert Series featuring Mary Anne Huntsman is free, but tickets are required.

For more information and to pick up tickets, contact the CCA Box Office located in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Named in honor of Gary Amano’s

mother, Smiley Waki Amano, the series annually presents a former student of professor Amano in public performances celebrating music and music education.

“My mother always involved herself in helping out with my activities and taking an interest in all of my students and their accomplishments,” Amano says. “She couldn’t play an instrument or even read music, yet she was often my best critic and had See SERIES on Page 13

USU presents ‘Rabbit Hole’ Pulitzer winner hits the stage March 24-28 “Rabbit Hole” promises something for everyone — love, loss, comedy and drama.

The Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University and its theater department will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning play at 7:30 p.m. March 24 to 28, at the Black Box Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center. An additional matinee will be performed at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28.

Tickets are $13 adults, $10 seniors and youth, $8 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 7978022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

The plot of “Rabbit Hole” includes Becca and Howie Corbett, who have

Photo courtesy of Caine College of the Arts

The Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University will present “Rabbit Hole” from March 24 to 28, at the Black Box Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center.

everything a family could want until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously

apart.

“Rabbit Hole” charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead

them back into the light of day.

“The play focuses on a See USU on Page 12

Mary Anne Huntsman will perform Saturday, March 28, at the Caine Performance Hall.

USU looks at the impact of hip-hop music A “Hip Hop and Technology Symposium” is scheduled for 1:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Utah State University. The symposium is presented by the Caine College of the Arts and activities takes place in FAV 150 in the Chase Fine Arts Center at the Logan campus.

In conjunction with the symposium, there is a free “Museum and Music” performance featuring DJ Ripley in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28.

For more information, visit the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus, call 797-8022 or visit arts. usu.edu.

Symposium topics include aesthetic, cultural and legal issues surrounding technology in hip-hop. The symposium is organized by Tim Chenette, Utah State University assistant professor of music theory, and is free and open to the public.

Symposium presenters include Aram Sinnreich, Mitchell Ohriner, Alexander See MUSIC on Page 10

cussion and piano.

Awards will be given to first-, second- and third-place winners in each category.

The logo for this year’s Young Artist Cup was selected from submissions by students in a competition held earlier in the year. The design of The 16th annual Mountain Crest Young Artist Cup Darian Welch of Hyrum was chosen to represent Competition will be held April 9-10 in Hyrum. the 2015 Young Artist on Friday.

Students compete for cash Cup. This annual event prizes and trophies in six Past Young Artist Cup showcases the musical areas: graphic arts design, participants have gone talents of Mountain Crest female and male vocalist, on to excel in music and High School students. strings, brass/winds/perthe performing arts.

Summerfest volunteers

The Summerfest Arts Faire is coming up in just three short months, and we are looking for volunteers. It takes more than 300 volunteers to help us build, run and tear down the event. There is no way the annual festival would happen without volunteers.

If you are interested in volunteering for the 2015 Summerfest Arts Faire as an individual, please visit our website at logansummerfest.com to see the many opportunities available and to fill out the registration form on the “Get Involved/Volunteers” page, or send an email to Laurie at volunteers@logansummerfest. com. If you have a group that is interested in participating, please send an email to Laurie at the same email address.

We also have many Eagle Scout projects and Girl Scout Silver and Gold Award opportunities available.

Contact Laurie at the email address listed above for more information on these projects.

Come and play with us in the sunshine, surrounded by marvelous artists, good food and fantastic music.

Cow Bop headed to hall Festival seeking artwork

Forman’s cowboy jazz band to play Wednesday night

Cow Bop’s self-proclaimed swinging grooves, thrilling riffs, sweet and hot vocals and western sensibilities bring a unique musical experience to the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1.

Tickets for the concert are $10 adults, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information and to pick up tickets, contact the CCA Box Office located in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Formed in 2003 by internationally acclaimed guitarist Bruce Forman, the cowboy jazz and western bebop band has toured extensively throughout the world.

“Bruce Forman and I have been friends for years,” said Corey Christiansen, director of guitar studies in USU’s Caine College of the Arts. “He’s arguably one of the best bebop guitar players in the world and for the last decade has led his band Cow Bop.” Forman is at home playing solo guitar, jazz combo or in Cow Bop, Christiansen said.

The Little Bloomsbury Foundation invites artists, musicians, poets, writers and filmmakers of all backgrounds to submit works for the ninth annual Little Bloomsbury Art Festival, which will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. April 23 to 25, at 181 N. 200 East.

This year’s theme is “What Dreams Are Made Of,” and conventional and innovative artforms are welcome. Submission deadline is 4 p.m. Friday, April 3, or until filled. The awards ceremony and media preview are by invitation only at 4 p.m. Friday, April 13.

All activities, including art submission, exhibition, workshops, masterclasses, magic shows, storytelling and other concerts are free and open to all ages. For submission poster and guidelines, visit littlebloomsbury.org or call/text 994-9904.

‘Water’ author to speak

Photo courtesy of Cow Bop

Cow Bop will perform Wednesday at the Caine Performance Hall.

The band is comfortable in diverse settings and has played in venues from roadside taverns to Carnegie Hall. Cow Bop features Forman on guitar, Pinto Pammy on vocals, David Wise on horns, Tino Tafarella on bass and Ryan

McDiarmid on drums.

“I wanted to bring Forman to Logan because I wanted our community and students to have the opportunity to truly hear one of the best jazz guitarists alive today,” Christiansen said.

In her 2013 book, “The West Without Water, scientist Lynn Ingram asks “what’s normal” for the tumultuous climate of the American West.

“With my co-author Frances Malamud-Roam, I explored the long-term variability of climate and water in California and the West and how humans have adapted to this variability,” says Ingram, professor of Earth and planetary science and geography at the University of California, Berkeley.

“We need to understand, and prepare, for climate extremes.”

Ingram is keynote speaker for USU Natural Resources Week and the university’s 2015 Spring Runoff Conference.

She presents “The West Without Water” at noon Wednesday, April 1, in the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium on campus. Her talk is free and open to the public.

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The Young Artist Cup Committee, in association with Mountain Crest High School’s performing arts department, will present the 16th annual Young Artist Cup Competition at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 9, and Friday, April 10, in the MCHS Auditorium.

Admission to this event is free and everyone is invited to attend.

The Vocal and String Competition will be held Thursday evening and the Piano and Instrumental Competition will be

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Young Artist Cup coming up COMING UP

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St. John Passion set for April 3 Jessop to conduct collaboration between AFCO, Utah State The American Festival Singers will be joined by the Utah State University Choral Scholars and Chamber Orchestra at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 3, at St. John’s Episcopal Church as they perform St. John Passion

by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Suggested donation for St. John Passion is $10.

For more information, visit americanfestivalchorus.org.

First played for audiences on Good Friday in 1724 at the St. Nicholas Church in Germany, St. John Passion has become a recognized tradition during Holy Week and remains an enormous work of art for musicians and patrons of every faith

tradition. Under the musical direction of Craig Jessop, St. John’s Episcopal Church will be filled on Good Friday with the 18th century musical narration of the Passion of Christ as told in the Gospel of John.

Bach’s St. John Passion is a rich and ornate piece of music that will leave the listener experiencing each note as they reverberate through the sanctuary and lift the emotions of the faithful. The piece famously couples complex arias with the familiar chorales that have defined St. John Passion. Bach’s work has been described as a serenely majestic piece of music

telling a story of torment and anguish. Jessop’s direction of St. John Passion is one that will move the audience as few pieces do.

Jessop is professor of music and the founding dean of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. These appointments followed Jessop’s distinguished tenure as music director of the worldfamous Mormon Tabernacle Choir and head of the Department of Music at Utah State University.

The American Festival Singers are part of The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra. Founded in 2008, the AFCO con-

cluded its seventh regular season with a performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Messe de Requiem, Op. 48, and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria.

The AFCO is Northern Utah’s premier professional musical organization that creates unique performing opportunities and partnerships, and celebrates the human experience through music.

The Utah State University Choral Scholars is an ensemble that has performed Benjamin Britten War Requiem, Opus 66, USU’s Joyful & Triumphant and Winter Songs Christmas concerts as well as several benefit concerts.

Celebrate America holding auditions for next production Open auditions for singers will be held soon for the first time in many years for Celebrate America Show’s “New York, It’s a Wonderful Town!”

The popular big band show will host auditions from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 2, and from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 4, at the Sky View High School Auditorium.

In this year’s Celebrate America show, three Navy sailors have 24 hours to spend in New York City before being shipped to the battlefront in World War II — loaded with singing and dancing that will have you tapping your toe and proud to be an American. Come perform with a professional, 17-piece orchestra.

To sign up for an audition, visit Celebrate America’s website at celebrateamericashow.com.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean Penn’s “The Gunman” was no match for the rebel kids of “Insurgent.”

The second installment in the “Divergent” series easily topped the box office with $54 million from 3,875 theaters, according Rentrak estimates Sunday. Penn’s geopolitical thriller stumbled with only $5 million.

While the second films in both the “Hunger Games” and the “Twilight” series boasted opening weekend gains over the first, “Insurgent’s” opening nearly matches that of its predecessor, “Divergent,” which debuted to $54.6 million just last year.

Many predicted a bit of growth for this second film, which sees the return of stars Shailene Wood-

AP Photo/Lionsgate

Kate Winslet appears in a scene from “The Divergent Series: Insurgent.”

ley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet to author Veronica Roth’s dystopian world. But, both distributor Lionsgate and box office analysts see the consistency as a good

thing.

“We’re extremely pleased with the outcome,” said Lionsgate’s President of Domestic See BOX on Page 11

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Mostly, though, “Get Hard” is excruciatingly loud. Ferrell yells, Hart screams; wash, rinse, repeat. These guys know how to command their comedic niches, but even they can’t control themselves sometimes. After a while its grating presence weighs on you.

Its insistence to joke about prison rape and almost nothing else is tiring, and, at times, gross. There are moments where it feels like it’s about to grow up, but then it devolves into endless discussions about hiding objects in body orifices, and you realize nothing’s going to change.

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The Reel Place Aaron Peck

“Get Hard” certainly plays to the strengths of its two leads. Will Ferrell is asked to perform extensive physical comedy, contorting his face, ugly crying and exhibiting his lumpy hairy body for all to see. Kevin Hart is expected to perform seemingly improvised rants while yelling most of the time. Yes, however mediocre “Get Hard” might be, at least it knows how to highlight the innate talents of its actors.

Nevertheless, “Get Hard” — a movie about a wealthy stock trader who is about to go to a maximum-security prison for trading fraud — is chiefly focused on one apparently “hilarious” aspect of prison: prisoners get raped. There’s really no sugarcoating it. The entire premise of “Get Hard” and all its subsequent antics are based upon that notion.

In prison people get raped. They joke about it so much that it seems like it’s the only horrible thing about prison. The movie is obsessed with the idea of prison-based rape. Basing a comedy on something so horrendous feels, I don’t know, disingenuous. Perhaps, there’s some comedy to mine from the topic.

Though the way it comes across in “Get Hard” only made me wonder how much better all of this material would be in a five-minute-long “Key & Peele” sketch.

James (Ferrell) is a millionaire stock trader who lives in a gargantuan mansion, has a staff of migrant workers tending his hedges and is about to marry his boss’s daughter (Allison Brie). He’s got it

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‘Get Hard’ too concerned with one thing

Above, Jade Wimmer (Gretel) and Stephen Millsap (Hansel) perform during a dress rehearsal for “Hansel and Gretel� last week at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Right, Wimmer and Millsap are joined by Molly Mortensen, left, and Kaitlyn Hoffman. Kevin Nakatani performs as the witch. Left, Millsap takes the stage as Hansel.

‘An imprint on your heart’ Members of the Cache Valley Civic Ballet perform ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Paquita’

It is surely a challenge to convey a story without speaking a single word, but that’s just fine with Becky Erickson, who is the Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s most senior member.

“I want to inspire younger people what dancing can be, or what it’s about, or what ballet is about,” Erickson said. “... I go around and do story times to elementary schools, to preschools and to libraries, and it’s amazing how many kids doesn’t even know what ballet is. They don’t know that we don’t talk and they’re like, ‘Why don’t you talk?’ And so I have to teach them about communicating with pantomiming and explaining this is where it originated.”

Erickson was one of the primary cast members during the CVCB’s most recent production, which was held March 20-21 and 23 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. It was actually a twopart production as the local ballet company produced its rendition of the classic fairly tale “Hansel and Gretel” along with the Spanish ballet “Paquita.”

The CVCB, which was founded in 1982 by now-artistic director Sandra Emile, routinely puts on three or four shows a year. This was the company’s first of four productions in 2015.

The show opened with “Hansel and Gretel,” which was performed primarily by the CVCB’s Junior Company members. Junior Company dancers are between the ages of 10 and 14, while Senior Company dancers, which comprised the cast of “Paquita,” are at least 15 years old.

One of the exceptions was Box Elder High School junior Stephen Millsap, a Senior Company member who played the part of Hansel. It was Millsap’s first-ever lead role, which was a bit of a nerve-racking experience, but one he thoroughly enjoyed.

“It’s been a really fun experience for me to be in this show, and I’ve been trying to make the most of the

Dancers, portraying angels, perform during a dress rehearsal last week for the Cache Valley Civic Ballet’s performance of “Hansel and Gretel” and “Paquita.”

Story by Jason Turner • Photographs by John Zsiray last two years that I’ll be in the company,” Millsap said. “... So I’ve been trying to give it my best effort. It’s kind of a last hurrah before I go on to my (LDS Church) mission, and then come back and go to school. Life will go on, but it’s been great. It’s a great show.”

The most challenging part for the 17-year-old was portraying a character much younger than himself.

“I think the most difficult thing is my character, Hansel, is a child and I probably sort of still act like one a lot of the time, but it’s been kind of hard to convey that message to the

audience,” said Millsap, who also performed in “Paquita.”

“So, I have to act more frightened than I usually would in the forest scenes and things like that. It’s different than it would be playing like a normal, older lead ... but it’s been definitely interesting to try to convey that to the audience in the best way I can.”

Performing alongside Millsap was Jade Wimmer, who played the role of Hansel’s younger sister, Gretel. Wimmer, who is a seventh-grader at Spring Creek Middle School, was Clara in the CVCB’s production of “The Nutcrack-

er” last November, so that prepared her well to be cast as a main character.

“It was really fun because it wasn’t too hard of dancing,” Wimmer said.

“Most of (the role) was just acting, so it wasn’t too much pressure and it didn’t seem too bad. I thought I was going to be much more nervous, but it really wasn’t bad.”

This was the first time Wimmer has performed a ballet with a dance partner, which she wholeheartedly enjoyed. Of course, Wimmer also had the honors of pushing the old witch — who was actually depicted by a man, Kevin Nakatani — into the oven.

Wimmer made it a point to praise director Pamela Kirschman for helping to make the ballet a success.

“It was really, really fun to work with her,” Wimmer said. “She’s awesome. It was her first full production for the Cache Valley Civic Ballet and she did great.”

Although she is only is seventh grade, Wimmer has been dancing with the CVCB since she was 7. The artistry and pageantry contained within ballet has already left an indelible impression upon her soul.

“Ballet is something that you can express yourself with and find yourself in,” Wimmer said. “I just love it because the better you get, the more fun it gets and the more confidence you build. And so it’s really nice that way.”

Luke Anderson, one of the primary cast members of “Paquita,” concurred with Wimmer. The 27-year-old was admittedly skeptical of the art of ballet when he first started performing more than 12 years ago.

“But once you’re into it, oh my gosh, what an experience,” Anderson said. “I think a lot of people don’t realize the scope of ballet. I mean, there’s companies and people and dancers, and every kind of choreography under the sun. If you can imagine it, somebody’s either going to do it See HEART on Page 13

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Heritage Theatre delivers ‘The Mikado’

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The Heritage Theatre in Perry will perform “The Mikado” from March 6 to 28 on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.

The Heritage Theatre in Perry presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Mikado” from March 6 to 28, at 2505 S. U.S. Hwy. 89.

Directed by Claudia Bigler, “The Mikado” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are $10 for adults and $9 for seniors and children.

Call (435) 723-8392 for reservations daily from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. except Tuesdays and Sundays. Tickets are also available at the box office and online at heritagetheatreutah. com.

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many leading figures in America. In 2006-07, he jazz and popular music. was a Fullbright Scholar researching Afro-Mexican Mann (New York Unimusic and culture in Oax- versity Steinhardt) has Continued from Page 4 aca, Mexico. As a saxo20 years of experience as Stewart and Larisa phonist, he has played, internationally touring DJ Kingston Mann. recorded and toured with Ripley and event promot Sinnreich (Rutgers University) has written It’s been too long since you have had about music, media and technology for “The New York Times,” “Billboard” and “Wired” and has testified as an expert witness in several cases, including the Supreme Court file sharing suit MGM vs. Grokster.

Ohriner (Shenandoah University Conservatory) received the Society for Music Theory’s 2013 Emerging Scholar Award for his publication “Grouping Hierarchy and Trajectories of Pacing in Performances of Chopin’s Mazurkas.” Since 2012 he has employed computational and statistical HYRUM TREMONTON methods to analyze rhythm, meter, rhyme CACHE VALLEY BRIGHAM and flow in rap music.

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This Gilbert & Sullivan masterpiece has been tickling funny bones for more than a hundred years. How can you not have a good time visiting Titipu, where Nanki-Poo (Jordan Tolman) wants to marry the lovely Yum-Yum (Morgan Richards), who unfortunately is promised to Ko-Ko (Rob Christensen), who has changed his occupation to Lord High Executioner so he can save himself from being beheaded for the horrible crime of flirting?

Ko-Ko is being pursued by Katisha (Charline Grigg), an older woman. The Mikado

er. Her scholarly work focuses on exploring how marginalized and exploited communities

(Jeff Bigler), ruler of all, insists that heads must roll. How can it get more complicated? Come find out.

Claudia Bigler is having such a good time with all the comedy and fun would like to share it all with you. She is well known in the area. Bigler taught choral music at Box Elder High School for 23 years, and she was honored by the Utah Music Educators Association with the Superior Accomplishment Award, and this year as Music Educator of the Year. Bigler and her husband, Jeff, recently retired from singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

survive and flourish, how they use music to assert and express themselves and how legal, social

and business institutions interact with the goals and needs of marginalized people.

Continued from Page 6 Distribution Richie Fay. “I think this is exactly where we thought we’d be,” he added. “We attracted a few more males this time around, and I think we’re headed in the right direction.

The uptick from Friday to Saturday was considerably higher than it was for ‘Divergent.’ That, the A- CinemaScore and what’s coming into the marketplace will allow us to grow very nicely.”

According to Lionsgate, 60 percent of audiences were female.

Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian credits Lionsgate’s consistent release date strategy and impressive marketing campaign for the strong repeat performance.

“It’s really about driving a very fickle audience, that teen, YA — whatever you want

to call them — they’re really tough to get a handle on. Their tastes change like the wind,” he said. “The key is keeping the young adult audience engaged, excited and enthusiastic.”

“Insurgent” also performed well overseas, taking in $47 million from 76 markets, bringing its worldwide total to $101 million.

Disney’s live-action “Cinderella,” meanwhile, fell 49 percent in Week 2 to take second place with $34.5 million.

The PG-rated film has earned an impressive $122 million domestically to date.

Also in its second weekend in theaters, the R-rated Liam Neesonled action film “Run All Night,” managed a slight edge over Open Road’s “The Gunman.”

Neeson’s film, a Warner Bros. release, dropped 54 percent with its $5.1 million weekend, while Penn’s film debuted in fourth place with only

See ALIENS on Page 12 $5 million.

“You have a lot of R-rated competition out there right now,” noted Dergarabedian, who also added that Penn’s foray into the action genre has not garnered the best reviews.

“Kingsman: The Secret Service,” one of the better performing R-rated releases in recent weeks, rounded out the top five with $4.6 million in its sixth weekend in theaters. The 20th Century Fox film has now earned over $114.6 million domestically.

“Over the past couple of weeks, films driven by the female audience have done much better than films driven by the male audience. But that’s all going to change because ‘Furious 7’ is on the way,” Dergarabedian said.

“Put on your seatbelt and get ready, because it’s going to be an incredible ride in the coming weeks,” he said.

The Corey Christiansen Trio will perform with special guest Billy Wolfe at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Friday, April 3, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $15 at the door.

Led by renowned local guitarist Corey Christiansen, the Corey Christiansen Trio also includes Ryan Conger on organ and Steve Lyman on drums.

Born and raised north of Chicago in Mundelein, Illinois, Wolfe began playing piano at the age of 5 and saxophone at the age of 10.

He earned a bachelor’s of music from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he began his professional career playing with bands such as Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra, the Dayton Jazz Orchestra and his own quartet.

Wolfe then returned to Chicago

and in 2011 obtained his master’s of music from DePaul University.

It was during this period that he first began exploring the creative possibilities of contemporary large ensemble music, an interest inspired by his studies with Tom Matta and experiences performing with local Chicago bands such as Ryan Adamsons’ Medium Ensemble and Bryant Scott’s Great PostModern Nightmare.

Wolfe is currently based out of Logan, but he continues to perform across the East Coast and Midwest as the leader of his own octet and composers’ tetradectet and as a member of Ishmael Ali Zghoul’s “Zebec,” as well as “Team Players,” an avant-garde quartet with Brad Linde, Aaron Quinn and Deric Dickens.

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unexpectedly and is soon surrounded by Globolinks — powerful aliens who are invading Earth. The children soon discover that music keeps the aliens away, so Emily, the only child who took her violin home to practice, bravely goes off alone to get help.

The teachers worry about the students’ delay so they come to save them and then set off to find Emily.

The principal is able to save her in a final gesture of kindness before he transforms into a Globolink and flies away.

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“I’m directing this show for several reasons, the first and foremost being my admiration for Dallas Heaton, the director of the opera program in the CCA,” Espinosa, a professional actor and director, said. “The other reason I am directing is because I fell in love with the material. It’s a perfect example of the sci-fi, B-movie style of the 1960s, but everything is sung through. Who couldn’t love an opera about invading aliens?”

In the opera, a bus full of children returning to school from vacation stalls

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Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts opera theater students need help stopping the Globolinks from attacking a school bus full of children! Audiences can see what happens during the performance of “Help, Help the Globolinks!” at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in the Kent Concert Hall at the Chase Fine Arts Center on the campus of USU. The opera is directed by guest Stefan Espinosa.

Tickets are $10 adults, $8 youth and seniors, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information, visit the CCA Box Office

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Aliens Continued from Page 11 opera in the late ’60s, he was arguably writing in response to the sudden ‘invasion’ (and incredible popularity) of electronic music,” Espinosa said.

“His premise that aliens called ‘Globolinks’ suddenly invade the Earth, communicating in electronic noises and vulnerable to nothing but music is simply brilliant. The students are helpless to fight them off because all of them left their instruments at school over the break, neglecting to take them home to practice as they were instructed. Only one smart and brave little girl has her violin with her, and she is sent on a quest for help, alone through the Globolink infested woods.”

Menotti’s message in this play, though intentionally overstated, is still

Home Continued from Page 3 They’ve given humans a place to live. No harm done.

As the perpetual bonehead of his species, Oh, finds himself in hot water after he inadvertently might have announced the new Boov whereabouts to their

USU Continued from Page 4 young family dealing with grief and loss,” says Jason Spelbring, assistant professor in the Department of Theater Arts in the CCA and the play’s director. “The audience will experience a full range of emotions from humor to pain.”

The play is performed in the round, with audience members on all four sides of the stage area so patrons can feel like they are a part of the family.

a good one. We must not forget the value and power of music in our lives, or suffer the consequences that a life centered around machinery can bring, said Espinosa.

“While Menotti was writing in reference to the electronic menaces of his day, the technology of today far surpasses Menotti’s wildest fantasies,” Espinosa said. “I wanted to highlight Menotti’s message and bring it into our modern sensibilities by incorporating as many current electronics as possible, and create a link between the Globolinks and our Wi-Fi centered lifestyles of today. It would be hard to argue that we aren’t all, to some degree, slaves to our electronics.”

Espinosa will use Menotti’s basic message and adapt it to argue that music and art are the true languages of the soul, and we are in danger of letting our screens consume us, distract us from what is real and what really matters in life.

intergalactic enemies.

Borrowing its plot mainly from “Lilo and Stitch,” Oh meets up with Tip (Rhianna), an orphaned girl who lost her mom during the relocation. The companionship is ripe with possibilities, but director Tim Johnson and crew never explore them. More content to go only surface deep, “Home” never explores any farther.

What we have in “Home” is an all-toofamiliar movie, inhabited by less-than-interesting characters, and burdened by a story that doesn’t do any good for anyone watching the movie.

That is, unless, you’re a kid. Perhaps the best thing that could be said for “Home” is that it will most likely work as a colorful electronic babysitter, but that’s about it.

“Just when the Corbetts feel light and happy, someone undoubtedly says something wrong and the family dynamic shifts on a dime,” Spelbring says. “The cast has done a great job creating real people. The scenes like this with the whole family are my favorite.”

There will be one actor from each cohort of the BFA acting program represented in the play, and the production’s entire design team is made up of graduate and undergraduate students.

“The design team has done a remarkable job creating a world that is

alive and cohesive and smart,” Spelbring says.

“Stage management, set design, lighting design and sound design have outdone themselves.”

The assistant director of “Rabbit Hole,” Alexandria Jaramillo, graduated last year from the BFA acting program at USU. “I gave Jaramillo an entire scene,” Spelbring says. “She took control, blocked it, and the scene was seamless.

You would never know which scene was the one she directed.”

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The dark clouds flow in to cover the sky, Then it turns to rain as if to cry, Like it regrets if one person just dies, Our lives or deaths are in the Lord’s flies.

God’s blessing to all of human lives, And liberate all sorrow of mankind, It is time for you to return to heaven, Wishing in a new world to have more fun.

“Road of Life”

By William Humphrey The humble suffer in justice, Traveling the road of life.

Up ahead is a detour, Full of trouble and strife.

When traveling on this road, There is no turning back.

Before you start the journey, Stock up on what you lack.

You’ll need a lot of patience, Some understanding too.

Stock up on determina-

tion, It can see you through.

When at your destination, I’m sure you’ll like the view.

The effort of the journey, Has made a better you.

Continued from Page 4 the musical ear of an educated musician.”

Smiley and Yosh Amano, Gary’s parents, displayed their devotion to his musical education by driving him eight hours every other week from Helper to Logan for piano lessons with USU professor Irving Wassermann.

Smiley Amano passed away in 2002, and today the Smiley Amano Memorial Scholarship at USU is presented annually to a student who combines talent with the hard work and dedication that professor Amano learned and his parents displayed throughout their lives.

“By adding the Smiley Amano Distinguished Performers Concert Series to the Caine College of the Arts offerings, we honor the Amano family and its dedication to music education,”

Heart Continued from Page 9 or you should do it. It’s really a cool world.”

Erickson, whose character rescues and falls in love with Anderson’s, referred to ballet “as a world language.” Ballet dancers enjoy a sense of camaraderie and brother and sisterhood, regardless of how far they venture from home.

Unlike “Hansel and Gretel,” many people in the audience were unfamiliar with the plot of “Paquita,” which is a Spanish ballet that takes place during the mid1800s. Paquita, portrayed by Erickson, is a Gypsy girl who saves Anderson, a French officer, from a jealous Spanish governor. Paquita, who eventually finds out she is of noble birth and was abducted

by Gypsies as an infant, ends up marrying Anderson’s character.

“Ninety percent of the people aren’t going to know (our characters) and that doesn’t

Dew Fairies Rachel Anderson and Mariah Benson perform as Jade Wimmer (Gretel) and Stephen Millsap (Hansel) fake sleep during a dress rehearsal for “Hansel and Gretel” last week at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

matter, but ... even if they don’t know the exact story, they have to have kind of an idea,” said Anderson, who is currently working on a second master’s degree at Utah State University. “They’ve got to think, OK, obviously there’s something here (between the two characters).”

Fortunately for Anderson and Erickson, they have a

wealth of experience dancing together. Needless to say, this came in very handily, especially considering “Paquita” featured a lot more dancing and dynamic, technical movements than “Hansel and Gretel.”

It required Erickson and Anderson to execute several graceful, yet challenging lifts.

The choreography wasn’t easy

to master, Anderson and Erickson admitted, but it was a lot of fun.

“This is a Spanish ballet, so that kind of adds flavor to all of the movements that weren’t there necessarily,” Anderson said. “... Anything Spanish really is also very staccato, it’s very kind of defined movements and it’s a little bit faster usually. Even if you’re moving

slowly, you kind of maneuver to the movement quickly, then have a hold.”

Erickson, 31, especially enjoyed the “sassy” nature of her character — a character she worked tirelessly to master. Members of the CVCB started rehearsing on this production at least once a week, starting in January. And that’s not even counting the classes and training CVCB members undertake.

“And so you put in so many hours of rehearsal time and it all builds up to this, it all builds up to the moment where we actually get to perform and show our families and our friends what we do when we’re not with them,” said the effervescent Erickson, who has been dancing with CVCB for 20 years. “And so that’s the exciting part, really, is performing and feeling the magic of the theater and the magic of performance, and the magic of costuming and lighting and makeup.

“When it comes together, it really does make an imprint on your heart.”

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says Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts. “We couldn’t be more pleased for former student and world class performer Mary Anne Huntsman to open the series.”

Huntsman began studying with Amano at the age of 7. She said he listened to her play and saw something that other teachers did not see at the time.

“I was playing everything by ear but couldn’t read a single note,” Huntsman says.

“Professor Amano transformed me within a year and I won my first piano competition at USU.” Huntsman knew at age 5 that she wanted to be a concert pianist, but hadn’t found the right teacher until she auditioned with professor Amano.

“Not only was he my teacher, but a second father to me,” Huntsman says. “I never dreamed I’d be coming back to USU to give my own recital.

USU is a place that I hold dear to my heart.”

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Former Pittsburgh Pirates great Vernon Law will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, March 27, at the Preston High School Auditorium.

Driver Out will perform an acoustic show with Cade Mower at 8 p.m. Friday, March 27, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $5.

BRAG is joining with CVTD to present a Transportation Lunch and Learn workshop at 11:30 a.m. Friday, March 27, at River Walk Senior Housing (784 S. River Walk Parkway). Lunch will be provided free of charge followed by a presentation and short field trip on a low-floor, CVTD bus, then we’ll return to River Walk. We will discuss fears and concerns of utilizing public transportation and learn how to find the route you need, pick up and arrival times and how easy it is to use the bus terminal. Transportation Resource Booklets are also available. Interested participants must RSVP to Rosa (753-5700), the manager at River Walk Senior Housing, or to BRAG at 752-7242 ext. 424 by noon Thursday. Let us know if you need wheelchair or walker space on the bus field trip.

The Antics family-friendly comedy improv troupe will perform at 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, at the Danstate Building, 59 S. 100 West. Admission is $5 for kids 9 and older; children under 8 are free. Visit facebook.com/theanticsimprov for information.

SATURDAY The Northern Utah Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will hold its banquet and fundraiser on Saturday, March 28, at the Riverwoods Conference Center. Early-bird tickets are on sale now through March 14. For more information, call Joddy or Shelly at 752-4172.

Braveheart is an annual 5K/10K race set up and coordinated by Utah State University’s AFROTC Det. 860 cadets. It is

held to raise funds for a family with a child in need of help because of chronic medical conditions. All of our proceeds are donated to our beneficiary. For our fifth annual Braveheart, we are sponsoring little Jadee. She suffers from serious heart conditions, as well as digestive and respiratory system complications.

This year’s Braveheart 5K/10K race will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 28, at the Taggart Student Center on the campus of USU. The kids’ fun run will begin at 8:30 p.m. Entry fee is $15; $10 for the kids’ run. To register, visit raceentry.com/races/braveheartcharity-race/2015/register.

The Home Team will perform with Someonce and My New Mistress at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6.

The Western singing duo Tumbleweeds will perform at Jim’s Grille (formerly Trader Jim’s Grill) from 6 p.m. to closing Saturday, March 28, at the corner of Main St. and 100 North in Smithfield.

Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts opera theater students need help stopping the Globolinks from attacking a school bus full of children!

Audiences can see what happens during the performance of “Help, Help the Globolinks!” at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in the Kent Concert Hall at the Chase Fine Arts Center on the campus of USU. The opera is directed by guest Stefan Espinosa. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 youth and seniors, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information, visit the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

A “Hip Hop and Technology Symposium” is scheduled from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Utah State University.

The symposium is presented by the Caine College of the Arts and activities take place in FAV 150 in the Chase Fine Arts Center at the Logan campus. In conjunc-

tion with the symposium, there is a free “Museum and Music” performance featuring DJ Ripley at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. For more information, visit the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus, call 797-8022 or visit arts.usu.edu.

Support the historic Elite Hall in Hyrum with swing dance to live jazz music by Larry Smith and his combo on Saturday, March 28. Lessons will be held from 7 to 8 p.m., followed by dancing from 8 to 11 p.m. Cost is $10 per person or $15 per couple.

Nick Welch will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. The Shire of Cote du Ciel will be hosting its 20th annual Children’s Renaissance Faire from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East. Cost is $5 per person; $20 per family.

Bring youself and your little ones out for a day of historic festivities.

Fight an armored knight in real armor, learn to make your own leather badge and go on a noble quest for honor and chivalry. This 100 percent family-friendly event includes interactive, hands-on activities the whole family will enjoy. All activities are included in the entrance fee. Visit coteduciel. org/renfaire.html for more information.

Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

MONDAY The Logan Library Monday Movie this week be the sing-along version of “Frozen.” Rated PG, the film will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 30, in the Jim Bridger Room. Admission and popcorn are free.

USU’s Quinney College of Natural Resources hosts Dan Beard, former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, for the presentation “New Perspectives on Western Water Policy” at 4 p.m. Monday, March 30, in Room 046 of the Eccles Science Learning Center. Beard is author of the newly release book, “Deadbeat Dams.” Admission is free and all are welcome.

For more information, call 7972463.

TUESDAY Teen Tuesday at the Logan Library will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. This week’s event is entitled “Anything Goes!” This is the fifth Tuesday of the month where anything goes. Want to play video games?

Board games? Make a craft.

Come to the Jim Bridger Room.

The Logan Library presents “Learning @ the Library” — classes showing how to get the most from your e-reader device or computer using the free resources available at the library.

Lace ‘N Levis Square Dance “E-Readers & the Library” will be Club will be dancing on Saturday, taught at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, at the Logan Library.

March 27, at 1650 E. 2600 North You can use the library’s devices in North Logan. Class is open or bring your own. Sign up in to couples, singles and families. person at the information desk or Come out and learn how much call 716-9120. fun square dancing is for everyone. Round dancing class starts at 6 p.m., basic square dance class at 7 p.m. and plus and Lynn Ingram, the author main stream club dance at 8 p.m. of the 2013 book “The West For more information, contact Without Water,” will be the keylacenlevis@hotmail.com or call note speaker for USU Natural Mike at 757-4479.

Resources Week and the university’s 2015 Spring Runoff Conference at noon Wednesday, April 1, in the Eccles Conference Twin Flames will perform from Center Auditorium. Her talk is 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at

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free and open to the public. For more information, call 797-2459.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a nonprofit that services individuals with disabilities, is having an Easter Egg Hunt at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. This activity will be free to attend. To attend this activity or request additional information, call 7130288.

THURSDAY Baby Animal Days will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

April 2-4 at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville.

Admission is $9 for adults; $7 for children 3 to 11 years of age.

Come see the baby bears, along with lambs, piglets, calves, kids, foals, chicks and ducklings. The Candy Cannon will go off each day at noon and 2 p.m. on the Festival Grounds, and pony rides and train rides are available all day. Visit awhc.org for tickets and more information.

Nature Journaling with Jamie Wilde, Utah Master Naturalist, will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, and will continue every first Thursday of the month in the Lake Bonneville Room at the Logan Library.

This event is open to all ages and all abilities. Visit facebook. com/loganlibraryfriends for more information.

The Logan Library presents “Learning @ the Library” — classes showing how to get the most from your e-reader device or computer using the free resources available at the library. “Tablets & the Library” will be taught at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 2, at the Logan Library. You can use the library’s devices or bring your own. Sign up in person at the information desk or call 716-9120.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventure is going to Baby Animal Days at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 2. Cost will be $8. To attend this activity or request additional information, call 713-0288.

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The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, March 27, 2015