MUSIC EARLY CHRISTMAS ROCKS
Moms love Mannheim Steamroller. That’s not a terrible thing for the Chip Davis-led electric orchestra, as this die-hard fan group has helped the band sell 28 million albums in America alone since its inception in 1974. Most famous for their ’80s-sounding take on Christmas songs, Mannheim Steamroller has music for other holidays as well — not that anyone really cares about that. Coming to the Lilac City next Wednesday, the group will delight mothers and their loved ones brought along for the ride, with their almost campy but thoroughly entertaining Christmas tunes. So what if we haven’t even had Thanksgiving yet. — LAURA JOHNSON Mannheim Steamroller • Wed, Nov. 20 at 7:30 pm • $25-$90 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com
52 INLANDER NOVEMBER 14, 2013
THEATER LOVE AND MUSIC
VISUAL ARTS FAMILIAR FEATURES
The Fantasticks • Nov. 15-16 and 22-23 at 7:30 pm, Nov. 17 at 2 pm and Nov. 21 at 5 pm • $10 (free for EWU students) • EWU Bldg. 210, Cheney • 359-2459
Rose Bond: “Poetics and Public Projection: Layered History - Redrawn Memory” • Nov. 12-Feb. 7, artist reception Nov. 12 from 5-6 pm • Free • Whitworth’s Bryan Oliver Gallery • 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. • whitworth.edu • 777-4513
This fall, EWU’s theater department produces one of the longestrunning musicals in the world, The Fantasticks, first performed in 1960 and continuing off-Broadway for 42 consecutive years. Its plot is partly based on Romeo and Juliet, but twisted to portray the lovers’ fathers tricking their two offspring to fall in love, rather than forcing them apart. Once this scheme is revealed, the couple separate, only to find that in the end they want to be together. It’s a delightful allegorical tale, told through an untraditional love story. — KATELYN SMITH
Canadian-born Rose Bond’s works explore architectural animation on a large scale. Creating specific installations for places all around the world, including Exeter Castle in England and the Museum at Eldridge Street on New York’s Lower East Side, Bond has won awards from the American Film Institution, Bloomberg L.P., and the National Endowment for the Arts. Bond’s vivid works have an almost dream-like quality to them. — EMERA L. RILEY