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4A Daily News – Thursday, June 20, 2013 Pastimes & Arts entertainment Reckoning to perform at State What happens when you mix two college professors, a retired junior high teacher and an elementary school music consultant together? You get Reckoning, a band of hot bluegrass and rock veterans playing their unique style of music called DeadGrass. Reckoning will be playing at 8 p.m. Friday, June 28 at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. This repertoire of lively bluegrass stompers, harmony vocals and bouncy ballads consists of classics from the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Old and in the Way and the Jerry Garcia Band. Tickets are $10 in By PATRICIA FELDHAUS Special from Ashland, Ore. advance $15 at the door, available at Plum Crazy, Business Connections, Wild Oak, and w w w. s t a t e t h e a t r e r e d bluff.com. Presented by Tehama County Arts Council and California Arts Council. Blue Oyster Cult to rock the Cascade Be prepared for a rockin' night when the Cascade Theatre brings iconic heavy metal band Blue Öyster Cult to the stage for a premier performance on Saturday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. Pioneering the heavy metal style while providing inspiration to psychedelic jam bands and arena rockers alike, genre-benders Blue Öyster Cult offer the world a taste of the wild side. Revered by punks and metal heads Blue Öyster Cult has carved out a 40-year career via a string of complex hard rock albums and killer live shows. The group has been known to incorporate elements of science-fiction and dark occultism into their jaw-dropping performances. This allegiance to dynamic and masterful concerts has led to the group being covered by everyone from Metallica and HIM to Moe. Formed on a college campus in 1967, Blue Öyster Cult are best known for their smash singles "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," "Burnin' for You" and "Godzilla." Riff-heavy and head- Opening at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival banging while intelligently hook-laden, the band remains a staple among the heavy metal greats. Tickets are $33 to $53 and are available at the Cascade Theatre Box Office at 1733 Market St. in Redding, by phone at (530) 243-8877 or directly through the Cascade Theatre website at www.cascadethe- atre.org. The 2013-14 Cascade Theatre Performance Series is generously sponsored by US Bank and Jefferson Public Radio. An elaborate woodland bower served as background for three opening plays. "Cymbeline", "The Heart of Robin Hood" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor Elizabethan stage in Ashland. "Cymbeline" is one of Shakespeare's later plays and has been classified as a "romance" since it deals with heroic endeavors containing many diverse and complex plots which miraculously become resolved as wars "cease / Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace." Artistic Director Bill Rauch refers to the play as a fairy tale – complete with ghosts, a poisoned apple and the element of sign language since King Cymbeline is deaf. There is also a helpful graph in the playbill showing character relationships between the British court of the King and Queen (the Doctor says, "I do not like her") and her overly dramatic son juxtaposed with banished citizens who end up in Wales and Italy – even in the Roman Army. Cymbeline sums up the situation well when he says, "The time is troublesome." "The Heart of Robin Hood" was created by playwright/director David Farr for the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2011 winter season. Joel Sass directs this merry romp in the woods where Maid Marion decides to join Robin Hood and his band of robbers. When she is rebuffed, she returns to the forest as Martin of Sherwood where she is a rival to Robin Hood with the exception that she and her aide, Pierre,take from the rich , but also give to the poor. In the meantime Prince John arrives on the scene to levy taxes on the English citizens under the guise of collecting money for the absent King who is on a crusade to fight the infidels. John not only wants to marry Marion, but he is so evil that the enthusiastic audience loves to hate him. Despite several beheadings and a "de-tongueing" this family friendly story has a happy ending. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" used the same forest oriented set adapted by Director Christopher Liam Moore to include the 1964 Catholic High School graduation. So, when the play opened, Theseus was a priest assisted by Hippolyta as a nun in handing out diplomas to the four lovers : Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helen. When Lysander said,"The course of true love never did run smooth," he had no idea of the many merry mishaps Puck would cause when the two couples entered the fairy kingdom of Oberon and Titania. Nick Bottom and his "rustics" added to the hilarity by simultaneously being in the enchanted woods to practice their play "Pyramus and Thisbe." Upon waking the next day, Nick told his cohorts,"Ear hath not heard….about the dream I had." One afternoon I was treated to an excellent production of Tennessee William's "A Steetcar Named Desire" also directed by Moore, set in the New Orleans French Quarter with a wonderful stylized multi level set and containing many of the actors who played in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"(2010). Blanche, Stella's visiting sister, is accused by Stanley of being "..full of imagination, lies and deceit." From one of her opening lines that "I can't be alone, I need to be with people," through her relationship with Stella and Mitch, one of Stanley's friends, and ending with her last line,"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," her fragility is palpable/. I was equally moved by Stanley's anguished call for "Stella!" The outdoor plays run through October 11, 12 and 13 while "Streetcar" performances are inside the Angus Bowmer Theatre with "Taming of the Shrew" and "My Fair Lady" until Nov. 1, 2 and 3. For more information on ordering tickets go online at www.osfashland.org or phone 800-219 8161. Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90 MIAMI (AP) — Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy ''Mars Attacks!,'' died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90. Whitman died of heart failure at Orange Park Medical Center, his son-inlaw Roy Beagle said. Whitman's tenor falsetto and ebony mustache and sideburns became global trademarks — and an inspiration for countless jokes — thanks to the TV commercials that pitched his records. But he was a serious musical influence on early rock, and in the British Isles, he was known as a pioneer of country music for popularizing the style there. Whitman also encouraged a teen Elvis Presley when he was the Pancake Breakfast Saturday, June 29th 7am-10am $ 00 8 Applebee's Restaurant 220 Antelope Blvd headliner on the bill and the young singer was making his professional debut. Whitman recorded more than 65 albums and sold millions of records, including 4 million of ''All My Best'' that was marketed on TV. His career spanned six decades, beginning in the late 1940s, but he achieved cult figure status in the 1980s. His visage as an ordinary guy singing romantic ballads struck a responsive chord with the public. ''All of a sudden, here comes a guy in a black and white suit, with a mustache and a receding hairline, playing a guitar and singing 'Rose Marie,''' Whitman told The Associated Press in 1991. ''They hadn't seen that.'' For most of the 1980s, he was consistent fodder for Johnny Carson's mono- logues on late night NBCTV, and the butt of Slim Whitman look-alike contests. ''That TV ad is the reason I'm still here,'' he said. ''It buys fuel for the boat.'' ''I almost didn't do them. I had seen those kinds of commercials and didn't like them. But it was one of the smartest things I ever did.'' He yodeled throughout his career and had a threeoctave singing range. Whitman said yodeling required rehearsal. ''It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.'' Born Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. in Tampa on Jan. 23, 1923, he worked as a young man in a meatpacking plant, at a shipyard and as a postman. June 16 - 30, 2013 Food From The Heart Funds for Food Drive A simple $18.00 donation provides 100 pounds of nutritious food, including fresh produce. 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