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Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
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CAT changing lineup GROUP HOPES NEWLY ANNOUNCED COMEDIES WILL FIT NEW VENUE NICKLE STUDIO, AND APPEAL TO A BROADER AUDIENCE BY ADVOCATE STAFF A widow who discovers a marijuana-grow op in her barn and a Newfoundlander who hits the road seeking his fortune are both coming to you in 2013, courtesy of Central Alberta Theatre. Some changes were made to CAT’s lineup of plays for the new year. The new comedy for January is Culture Shock, by Chris Lorne Elliott, about a bored Newfoundlander who tries his luck in Montreal. The March production will be The Prairie Winter Theatre, featuring the one-act play Bloom, by Leanne Minogue. It’s about what happens when the co-chair of a Communities in Bloom committee discovers some illicit plants growing in her deceased husband’s barn. Vice-president Lawrence
Hobbs said some revisions were necessary because of a decision to move most of the season into the smaller, 60-seat Nickle Studio, where dinner theatres cannot be offered. “Some of the plays were pretty dinner theatre-y,” said Hobbs, who believes the newly announced comedies will fit the venue, and hopefully appeal to a broader audience. Culture Shock was extremely popular when staged in Red Deer some five or six years ago as an independent production, added Hobbs. “People kept asking (director Brian Spenser) when he was going to do it again.” The Prairie Winter Theatre, directed by Deb O’Brien, will also include another one-act play or some prairie-related monologues. Also slated for the Nickel Studio in April is Gladys in Wonderland, by Rosemary Frisino Too-
hey. The comedy is about a feisty 87-year-old who thumbs her nose at the grim reaper and refuses to die. The biggest CAT play of the new year, On Golden Pond, will have a short run in the 700-seat Memorial Centre mainstage in February. The bittersweet comedy by Michael McKeever — which was turned into a beloved movie starring Henry Fonda — is about a cantankerous old man who makes friends with his step-grandson, and peace with his daughter at the twilight of his life. After the current run of the comedy 2 Across, by Jerry Mayer, wraps up on Oct. 27 in the Nickle Studio, CAT will present its Christmas play, My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack, in the Memorial Centre from Nov. 22 to Dec. 7.
Country music maverick Jamey Johnson returns WITH LOVING TRIBUTE TO SONGWRITER HANK COCHRAN
CAT is now offering Christmas Party theatre. Free, self-catering party rooms at the Memorial Centre will be available to businesses who book blocks of 30 to 80 tickets to Central Alberta Theatre’s Christmas production of My Three Angels, which runs from Nov. 22 to Dec. 7. Bar service will be available. Businesses can have their Christmas parties and then move the crowd into the Memorial Centre mainstage to see the seasonal play by Sam and Bella Spewak. The dark comedy is set in French Polynesia, where temperatures hit 40C in the shade. My Three Angels, which was made into the 1955 movie, We’re No Angels, starring Humphrey Bogart, is about prisoners who redeem themselves by helping a colonial family in financial distress get through Christmas. After the play, guests can return to the party room for more visiting. Tickets for the show are $25 each from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. To arrange a party room, email cat@centralalbertatheatre.ca.
Tragically Hip coming in January The Tragically Hip will play Red Deer’s first arena show of 2013. The critically acclaimed, multi-Juno-Award-winning band is slated to perform at the Centrium at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22. Vocalist/guitarist Gord Downie, guitarists Robby Baker and Paul Langlois, drummer Johnny Fay and bassist Gord Sinclair are touring from Ontario to British Columbia to promote The Tragically Hip’s 13th studio album, Now For Plan A. Tickets, ranging from $24.50 to $99.50, go on sale on Friday from Ticketmaster.
Usher having birthday week File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamey Johnson performs during the Academy of Country Music Honors show in Nashville, Tenn. Johnson pays tribute to Hank Cochran with the release this week of Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran, a deep look at the songwriter’s career. Johnson could think of no better reason to bring them back. “There’s not a writer I think any more deserving than Hank Cochran to have an album done in the way that we did this one,” Johnson said. “And the icing on the cake was the artists that stepped up and not only agreed to do it, but we were getting death threats from artists if we didn’t put them on this album, you know? There would be hell to pay and we wasn’t gonna have that.” Johnson cut two tracks with good friend Nelson, who got his first paying job in Nashville thanks to Cochran, and other iconic singers like Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Vince Gill, Bobby Bare and Kris Kristoffer-
where white and black Creoles gathered. The area’s bicentennial celebration begins Tuesday and will include
son. But he said the most powerful experiences for him were the songs he sang with Krauss, Emmylou Harris and Lee Ann Womack — “humbled is the word that comes to mind,” he said. Krauss joined him on The Late Show With David Letterman last week to sing Make the World Go Away, taking his tribute to the masses. He wants to spread the gospel to as many as he can. “Oh, Hank was a lot of trouble, a lot of fun, a lot of everything,” Johnson said. “I’m very grateful to have gotten to know him. There won’t be another one. God only makes one of those.” Online: http://jameyjohnson. com
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ing me that song. He was relentless.” The album cements the friendship of Johnson and Cochran in Nashville lore and represents another creative left turn for the fiercely independent 37-year-old Alabama singer-songwriter. Johnson sang at Cochran’s bedside the night he died of cancer in 2010 at age 74. He carried that tribute a step further by making a rare modern example of a country performer saluting a songwriter’s body of work. Once a fairly regular staple in Nashville — one of his favourites is Waylon Jennings’ tribute to Harlan Howard, Waylon sings Ol’ Harlan — they’ve pretty much disappeared.
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NEW ORLEANS — A colorful and musical New Orleans neighbourhood is marking the 200th anniversary of its origins as an early melting pot for the city and the nation. Treme (truh-MAY) is considered one of America’s most unusual neighbourhoods and holds significant place in the history of jazz. It is also getting some new energy thanks in part to the spotlight provided by the HBO series Treme. It was born from immigration that followed the Haitian revolution of the early 1800s and named for French milliner and property owner Claude Treme. The neighbourhood grew as an entertainment centre
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City arts and culture groups have until Dec. 7 to submit applications for a municipal funding program. The Fee for Service program and Capacity Building Fund help not-for-profit organizations build capacity to provide a service, manage a cultural, arts or heritage facility, act as a cultural umbrella organization or support festivals and specials events. A board resolution supporting the application must accompany any requests. Applications must be delivered to the Culture Services Centre at 3827 39th St. by 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 7. Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted. Eligibility information and application forms are available online at www.reddeer.ca/culture or can be picked up at the Culture Services Centre. More information is also available from city culture superintendent Kristina Oberg at 403-309-2637.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Hank Cochran was one of country music’s greatest songwriters. He was also an opportunist, something Jamey Johnson discovered when he met him at a mutual friend’s office several years ago. “Hank was there, and as I was shaking his hand, Hank pulled out a CD of songs that had my name written on it,” Johnson said of the late music legend. “So I didn’t know I was going to meet Hank, but he sure enough knew he was going to meet me that day. He was a-planning on it, and right off the bat he was pitching me songs, and every time I saw him he was asking me to cut this one or cut that one.” Johnson pays tribute to Cochran with the release this week of Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran, a deep look at the songwriter’s career. Johnson teams up with stars like Willie Nelson, George Strait and Alison Krauss on what is mostly a duets album comprised of Cochran classics such as Make the World Go Away and I Fall to Pieces. Co-produced by Cochran’s friends Buddy Cannon and Dale Dodson, the 16-track album also includes one Johnson solo song, Would These Arms Be in Your Way. “He was pretty adamant about wanting me to cut that song,” Johnson said. “I hope we did it justice. I regret that Hank never got to hear it, but he did finally quit pitch-
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