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The Orland Art Gallery Artist's Reception will fea- ture Jerianne Van Dijk 3-7 p.m. Friday. Works will include vi- sions created in watercol- ors, ink and crayon and graphic designs. Van Dijk is well known throughout the nation and even internation- ally and her awards list is long. Along with the creative exhibits, there will be re- freshments and music performed by Nick Leach. Guests can do some Christmas shopping with the cards, quality prints and original art on dis- play. The gallery is at Fourth and Colusa streets, across the street from Maple Gar- dens. ORLANDART GALLERY Receptionset for Van Dijk Mercy High School will be hosting its annual win- ter choral and instrumen- tal music program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9 at the school, at 233 Riverside Way. Admission is $3 per per- son, with all proceeds ben- efiting the Mercy music pro- gram. The public is welcome to celebrate this Advent sea- son. Call the school for more information at 527- 8313. MERCY HIGH SCHOOL Winter choral and music program set PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. The North State Sym- phony, under the direction of Dwayne Corbin, per- forms its annual Christ- mas Holiday Concert on Dec. 13 in at Red Bluff's State Theatre and Dec. 12 and 14 in Chico and Red- ding respectively. The concert features a mix of traditional holiday music for orchestra, inti- mate baroque and classi- cal favorites and a carol sing-along. Two talented North State young artists are fea- tured on the concert. Ellanore Rose Lundberg of Corning will play a solo work for flute by the 18th Century German com- poser Karl Stamitz. Ryan McGaughey, a student at Humboldt State, will play a movement of a Mozart Concerto for piano. Also on the concert are works by Bach and other early composers as well as later works. Corbin, a professor at Simpson University, is the resident conductor of the North State Sym- phony, which is taking a full season to audition and select a new music director. Corbin also con- ducts Redding's Shasta Symphony. The Red Bluff concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the State Theatre, 333 Oak St. The concert is under the auspices of the Tehama County Community Con- cert Association, which of- fers a variety of concerts throughout the year to members and non-mem- bers. For more informtion, visit www.tehamacon- certseries.org. Non-mem- bers may buy tickets at the State or from the NSS of- fice, at 898-5984. The three performances begin with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12 in St. John's Episcopal Church on Floral Avenue in Chico. The location is new this year. However according to Keith Her- ritt, the NSS manager, "the folks at the Episco- pal Church have a beau- tiful church where music sounds wonderful, and they have been very wel- coming to us. We are very happy to perform there." Tickets for the Chico concert, which includes a dessert reception, are available at the Univer- sity Box Office, 898- 6333. The performances con- clude with a 4 p.m. concert Dec. 14 in Redding's Our Lady of Mercy Church, on Shasta View Road. A re- ception is included follow- ing the concert. Tickets are sold through the Cas- cade Theatre, 243-8877. More information is available at www.north- statesymphony.org. NORTH STATE SYMPHONY Co rn in g fla ut is t to h ea dl in e hol id ay c on ce rt COURTESYPHOTO Ellanore Rose Lundberg By Frazier Moore TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK The boy who refused to grow up: It sounds like men today in this youth-obsessed cul- ture. But nearly a century before his name found its way into pop psychology, Peter Pan was born as the high-flying hero of a play by Scottish writer James M. Barrie. Many adaptations later, 1954's Broadway musi- cal version of "Peter Pan" came to TV in a live NBC telecast in 1955, then was re-staged a year later with Mary Martin yet again in the title role. Now NBC is recaptur- ing its youth for a revival of "Peter Pan," broadcast live today (8 p.m. EST) and starring Allison Wil- liams ("Girls") as Peter, the cocky young champion of Neverland, and Chris- topher Walken as the de- liciously evil pirate, Cap- tain Hook. The cast also includes Christian Borle, Kelli O'Hara and Minnie Driver as the narrator. Officially titled "Peter Pan Live!" this three-hour event is a follow-up to last year's live "The Sound of Music," which drew an astonishing 18.6 million viewers. Why "Peter Pan" this go-around? "It's a classic, a really great musical, that has its DNA in live television," said Neil Meron, who with his partner, Craig Zadan, are back as executive produc- ers. "To follow 'The Sound of Music' and create some sort of beachhead for a hol- iday tradition, you look for titles that can fit into that little box," he said, pointing to a nearby TV, "and 'Peter Pan' fits very snugly." More than snug, "Pe- ter Pan" will be bursting wide open with more sub- text to the characters and narrative than its Broad- way forebear, Meron said. Its glorious score (includ- ing "I Won't Grow Up," "I'm Flying" and "Never Never Land") is supplemented with additional tunes by the team of Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, including a song dropped from the origi- nal "Peter Pan" before it reached Broadway. "It's much bigger and much more challenging than 'The Sound of Music' last year," said Zadan. "A lot more musical numbers, a lot more dancing, plus the sword fights and fly- ing. And a live dog." With no do-overs allowed. But maybe the biggest difference between this year and last: Everyone knew and cherished the 1965 Julie Andrews-star- ring film of "The Sound of Music," which made tam- pering with it a dicey prop- osition. "We had a gigantic shadow over us last year," said Meron. "This year, the shadow isn't as big." Then he added with a smile, "Peter Pan DOES find his shadow in the show." That's a fact. Early in the action, we see Wendy with a needle and thread reat- tach Peter's shadow, which he had left behind on a pre- vious visit to the Darling children's nursery. Then he teaches Wendy and her two little brothers how to fly. Then off they fly to Nev- erland! NBC is hoping viewers take the trip too — and they don't need to wait un- til Thursday's broadcast. The social media buzz around #peterpanlive had already started Tuesday. Some of it was fueled by a "leaked" tape of Tony win- ner Jane Krakowski "audi- tioning" for Peter in a man- ner not appropriate for chil- dren in a parody posted on funnyordie.com. NBC also released a mashup video of the show's cast, fans, singer/songwriter Alex G. and DJ Tay James singing a decidedly pop version of "I Won't Grow Up." Come Thursday night, the Twittersphere could be jammed with moment- to-moment scrutiny of the show — at least, if there's any lesson to be drawn from last year's live tele- cast, when the Web was alive with snark. "People who have nice things to say keep it to themselves," said Zadan, "and the people who have nasty things to say don't, so they're out there tweeting away. But it cre- ates massive audiences. Social media drove view- ership last year with peo- ple following Twitter and saying, 'Oh! This I have to see for myself.'" What they'll see in "Pe- ter Pan Live!" is "a beau- tiful story about find- ing the child in you and trying to hold onto that while you grow up," said its stage director, Rob Ashford, confidently. This "Peter Pan" is housed on a huge Long Is- land soundstage that last year was transformed into pre-World War II Austria. "'The Sound of Mu- sic' was more straightfor- ward: One room, then an- other room, then another," said live TV director Glenn Weiss. "We're trying to im- merse the viewer into this show. Cameras will be in- side the scenes. There may even be a camera captur- ing a flying point of view." While Peter gets to fly, Captain Hook will have ample chance to demon- strate he's light on his feet. Tap dancing in boots? "I asked them to make my clothing as light as pos- sible," said Christopher Walken, "'cause there's a lot of stuff to wear: a wig and a hat and swords and muskets!" A show business veteran at 71, Walken isn't typi- cally thought of as a song- and-dance man, despite his memorable hoofing in "Pennies From Heaven." But however much iden- tified with serious drama (his breakout, Oscar-win- ning role was in the chill- ing 1978 film "The Deer Hunter"), he is anything but dismissive of musicals — neither as an actor nor as an audience member. "Musicals are my favor- ite!" he declared. "If some- body says, 'I'm taking you to the theater,' I say, 'OK. Just make sure it's a mu- sical.' 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