Piney Woods Live August 2011

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Live Music 2nd Saturdays August 13 – Matt Tolentino September 10 – Clearly Vocal

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Production of

Music by

Alan Menken Lyrics by

Howard Ashman and Tim Rice Book Adapted and Additional Lyrics by

Jim Luigs Music Adapted and Arranged by

Bryan Louiselle Based on the Screenplay by

Ron Clements and John Musker Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

JULY 28-30 & AUGUST 4-6 8:00 PM • TICKETS $10 225/227 MAIN ST. • SULPHUR SPRINGS For Reservations Call

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Auditions for our next production: Arsenic and Old Lace August 8-10, 2011 • 7:00 pm • 225 Main St. • Sulphur Springs Cast Requirements: 11 Male/3 Female • Directed by David Woody

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art in the home Dr. Mary Andrews’ eclectic collection by Jan Statman Dr. Mary Andrews has a vision. The promian antique chest in the company of a sculptured nent Longview Ophthalmologist believes people angel and a crystal vase. Near the painting is a should surround themselves with objects and pastel by Cadenhead. It is interesting to note that images of beauty. Art belongs in homes and Queen Elizabeth owns workplaces because, she several of Cadenhead’s says, “Art is nourishing. It works. The same room has nourishes the senses in the lithographs by the avant same way that food nourgarde French painter, Fini, ishes the body.� as well as a Ruth Bernhard Dr. Andrews explained vintage photograph. that she clearly remembers A tall antique bronze the first time she became figurative lamp by A. Raaware of the emotional nieri guards the entrance power of art. “I was eight hall. The exquisite female or nine years old when my figure is titled “Virtuose.� cousin showed me a poster Art finds a place in every of Andrew Wyeth’s famous corner of her home includpainting, Christina’s World. ing the kitchen and hallway The loneliness of the figure where several paintings by in the painting created a popular Louisiana Primitive strong emotional effect for artist Clementine Hunter me. The girl lying in the share wall space with phofield was so close to her tos of Dr. Andrews with the beautiful home, and yet she artist herself.Clementine could not reach it. Many Hunter lived at Melrose Landscape Painting of LaNapoule by Albert Ozenfant years later I realized that the Plantation in Natchitoches. model for the painting was The kitchen also boasts a physically challenged, but colorful Clementine Hunter even now the painting is a metaphor for life. So flower-painted lamp with a lampshade of happy many people have an idea of what their happimarching figures. There is a decoratively painted ness might be, but they simply cannot reach that gourd and a dustpan that is cheerfully adorned place.� with primitive flowers. Dr. Andrews’ interest in art has continued to be Clementine Hunter’s primitive paintings tell an important part of her life. At first she collected stories about life on a Louisiana plantation. The Wyeth’s prints. Later she expanded her horizons smallest was probably a memory of Monday, for and collected prints by various artists. She still it shows a wash hanging on a clothesline while a keeps several of these in her garage because they woman wearing an apron stirs a huge, black cast are pleasant, and she enjoys seeing them, but she iron pot while her chickens and her dog stand believes commercial prints lack the immediacy by. Another shows the cotton harvest with men and visual impact of original art. working loose cotton while completed bales stand She began to collect original works of art ready to be transported. when she inherited several paintings by Albert Ozenfant, a European artist who lived at Meaux, France. A large Ozenfant painting is featured in her dining room. She described the bright, sunny painting as her perpetual image of summer. Even in the darkest and gloomiest days of winter, this cheerful painting brings the warmth of a summer beach into her home. At first she didn’t know whether this was an authentic scene or an image from the artist’s imagination. A French sculptor friend told her this was indeed a painting of a real place. This on the French Riviera, and the building is actually a famous sculpture academy. She later visited the site and made photographs of the scene as it exists today. She described a favorite Ozenfant landscape as having a calming influence. Hand Painted lamp with art objects Another Ozenfant painting is seen above

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