Performing Arts
Christina Nihira
Broadway to Bricktown
8 p.m. Saturday
Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker
okcciviccenter.com
297-2264
$40-$65
Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Broadway
When it Raines
Broadway star Ron Raines comes home for the first time in 30 years for a one-night-only performance.
Performing Arts
Christina Nihira
Broadway to Bricktown
8 p.m. Saturday
Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker
okcciviccenter.com
297-2264
$40-$65
We laughed, we cried, it was better than 'Cats'!
CFN
Gazette staff
Well, Chicken-Fried News hasn’t actually seen the musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. But even before its world premiere in La Jolla, Calif., last month, we knew it would be much better than Cats. And the critics agree!
Stage it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Relive 100 Years of Broadway in, oh, a couple of hours in an all-star musical revue kicking off at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday — the first of eight performances scheduled through Feb. 17 at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker. Tickets are $15- $55. Call 297-2264 or visit okcciviccenter.com.
Tuesday-Wednesday, Feb. 13, ongoing
‘Hazzard’ warning
Just a good ol’ boy, never meanin’ no harm, actor Tom Wopat crashes the UCO Jazz Lab.
Fresh from his “hey, isn’t that Tom Wopat?” appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, actor Tom Wopat will perform two concerts Saturday at the UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth in Edmond.
Although he’s promoting his brand-new CD, I’ve Got Your Number, and is a two-time Tony nominee for his Broadway pursuits, Wopat is perhaps best-known for playing Luke Duke on the early ’80s TV hit The Dukes of Hazzard.
But don’t just take my word for it.
“Audiences will definitely remember Tom Wopat as one of the rowdy Dukes of Hazzard boys, but he is so much more than that,” said Greg White, director and producer of UCO’s Broadway Tonight series.
The shows are scheduled for 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $40. For more information, call 974-3375 or visit uco.edu/cfad/events. —Rod Lott
Hey! Read This:
• Django Unchained film review
• The Dukes: The Complete Series DVD review
The Great Gildersleeve Movie Collection
You’d have to be a harrrrrd man not to like it.
Comedy
Rod Lott
Now that I’ve devoured Warner Archive’s The Great Gildersleeve Movie Collection, I know who my mom was referring to all those years. It’s irrelevant for your enjoyment of the set, but Harold Peary’s Gildersleeve character proved so popular on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio program, he was spun off into his own show (and eventually TV and these films).
