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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 2000
Page
27
Friday offers a KISS concert preview in Weekend. Marion welcomes the Swamp Fox Festival highlighted by Cindy Hadish in Cue. Sue Davis Smith examines backpack trends making students carry heavy loads in Sunday’s paper.
John Lithgow says contracts may force the NBC comedy to end after this season and he plans to return to Broadway for a February 2002 debut. He notes he enjoyed a six week Manhattan workshop of Sweet Smell of Success and is publishing The Remarkable Farkle McBride with Simon & Schuster.
Christian Slater surprised at a Windtalkers welcome dinner hosted by John Woo at W Honolulu. The party also doubled as a belated birthday celebration for Slater, who is 31, and follows his Valentine’s Day honeymoon at the Diamond Head hotel with Ryan Haddon. Windtalkers stars Nicolas Cage and Matt Damon and centers on World War II soldiers protecting Navajo code talkers.
Festival events run Friday to Sunday at Regina Inter-Parish Catholic Education Center Iowa City with dinners 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Sunday brunch 7 30 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. Admission six dollars plus carnival rides music bingo and sales. Additional events include the 50th Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mount Pleasant with concerts by John Berry Suzy Bogguss Billy Dean Tracy Lawrence Sawyer Brown and more with various performances and admission details and Taste of Iowa Rockin on the River 2000 in Cedar Rapids featuring multiple stages art and music with seven dollar admission and age based free entry. The Iowa Renaissance Festival Harvest Faire in Amana with encampments runs 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday through Monday with eight dollar adult tickets and discounts for students and young children. Other listings include Amanas: A Photographic Journey at The Museum of Amana History and Hypnotist Jim Wand at Luther College. Sauerkraut Days in Blairstown features music and Ringling Bros Circus at The Mark of the Quad Cities with varied ticket prices and times. Dinosaur Day at Lake Iowa Park offers family activities and is weather dependent. Historic Barn Tour in Elgin with an old-time barn dance and adult and child pricing.
Riverside Theatre marks its 20th season after a sold out Shakespeare festival boosting membership to about 800 and seating demand at 110 Gilbert St. Iowa City Community Theatre begins its 45th season, eyeing the Englert Civic Theatre as a potential new home while staging Wait Until Dark and Of Thee I Sing among others.
Riverside schedule lists multiple plays from September to June including Sweet and Hot Tartuffe Art Small Miracles Wit Walking the Wire Equus and As You Like It with varied director credits. Iowa City schedule presents Wait Until Dark Of Thee Sing Driving Miss Daisy Born Yesterday Youre a Good Man Charlie Brown and pricing details for musicals and non-musicals with matinee discounts.
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