Photo by Basil Childers, courtesy Rioult Dance New York.
Photo by Basil Childers, courtesy Rioult Dance New York.
Saturday, April 12-Sunday, April 13
Rioult Dance New York has brought its grace and emotional movement to the world’s stages, and Tulsa’s Cascia Hall Performing Arts Center is about to be one of them. The celebrated troupe started by dancer Pascal Rioult, formerly a soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company, brings to Tulsa a program rich in the tradition of modern dance and every bit as captivating as a 20th anniversary celebration demands. Performances will include Les Noces with music by Stravinsky, On Distant Shores accompanied by an original score by Aaron Jay Kernis and Wien and Bolero set to compositions by Ravel. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 12, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in the arts center’s Helmerich Theatre, 2520 S. Yorktown Ave., Tulsa. Tickets are $15-$40, available at www.choregus.org.
Last weekend was all about lining the flower beds, aerating the garden and making preparations for spring. This weekend is about finding everything you need to plant in those spaces. The SpringFest Garden Market & Festival at the Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S. Peoria Ave., features plant, arts, crafts and food vendors on the lawn with more indoors. Experts will be on hand to answer all your gardening questions, and a children’s area will be available. The market and festival is 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12 (www.tulsagardencenter.com). Want more? Check out Herb Day in Brookside. The annual outdoor market includes a variety of herbs, flowers and plants for your garden along with gardening supplies and unique gift and handmade items. Herb Day takes place from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the northeast corner of 41st Street and Peoria Avenue, Tulsa (www.brooksidetheplacetobe.com).
The duo Sugarland may be taking some time off from hit-making and touring, but the half that is Jennifer Nettles is regrouping on the road to support her most recent project, a solo album. That Girl was released in January and debuted at No. 1 on the country music charts and did impressively on the Billboard 200. A Grammy Award winner in 2009 for the song “Stay,” performed by Sugarland, Nettles shows on her new album that there’s more song and passion from where that came. Brandy Clark opens Nettles’ concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Joint, the Hard Rock Tulsa Hotel & Casino’s entertainment venue, 777 W. Cherokee St., Catoosa. Tickets are $65-$75 each at www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com.
Anyone who says Moby’s best days of spinning and mixing are behind him obviously didn’t see him perform two 75-minute DJ sets at last year’s Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif. Yes, 15 years after 1999’s electronica tome Play went multiplatinum around the world, Moby still rocks the arena. The master DJ headlines the ACM@UCO Rocks Bricktown music event on Friday, April 11. Live music from ACM@UCO student bands begins at 3 p.m. at the Chevy Bricktown Events Center, 429 E. California Ave. Moby take the stage at 10 p.m. He’ll be in town a day earlier for a master class at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10 at the ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., on the University of Central Oklahoma campus. Both the master class and the concert are free and open to the public. For more, visit www.acm.uco.edu.
The touring musical spectacular with star power closes this weekend in Oklahoma City. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring AmericanIdol alumni Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo wraps up its run at the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., on Sunday with its 7 p.m. showing. Tickets for the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical based on a Bible story are $24-$70, available at www.myticketoffice.com.
There’s nothing like that new-car smell, so just imagine stepping into the Tulsa Auto Show at Expo Square this weekend when manufacturers from Audi and Ford to Volkswagen and Infiniti will have the newest models of cars, SUVs, trucks and other vehicles (concept and custom cars) on the floor of the River Spirit Expo. All that awesome new-ness will be matched only by other attractions at the show, including the Route 66 Auto Show featuring classic cars and the show market with the perfect gifts and accessories for your favorite motorhead. The show is open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, and from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, April 13. Tickets are $4 for ages 7-12 and $8 for ages 13 and up. For other details, see www.exposquare.com.
Magically Angry by Bryan Cooper. Image courtesy OSUIT.
Pete’s Pistol by John Hammer. Image courtesy OSUIT.
Thursday, April 10, 6-9 p.m.
The stream of talent coming out of OSU’s Institute of Technology has enhanced the creative professional climate of Oklahoma for years. Now it’s time to help the Oklahoma State University Okmulgee campus’ program and benefit deserving students furthering their education. ART Plus is an art exhibit and auction of works by alumni of the OSUIT Visual Communications Division. The silent auction begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at the Hardesty Arts Center, 101 E. Archer St., in Tulsa’s Brady Arts District. Browse and discuss the work while enjoying light hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine. All proceeds of the auction benefit students in the division, which includes studies in graphic design, photography and 3D modeling and animation technology. For more, visit www.artplusosuit.org.
UPDATED with photo above. She towered above the fronds of Palm Springs, Calif., for nearly two years. Now a leggy, colossal Marilyn Monroe statue en route to New Jersey is about to stop in Tulsa in time for the Brady Arts District First Friday Art Crawl.
The disassembled Forever Marilyn will be hauled into town Friday afternoon. Created by artist Seward Johnson out of stainless steel and aluminum, it depicts Monroe in the famous subway grate scene from The Seven Year Itch, director Billy Wilder’s 1956 comedy film starring Monroe as The Girl of Tom Ewell’s fantasies. The statue first took its place on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in 2011 before it was moved to Palm Springs in May 2012. Forever Marilyn is being shipped cross-country to be featured in a retrospective art exhibition of work by the 84-year-old Johnson from May to September at the New Jersey State Fairgrounds in Hamilton, N.J.
Beloved by some, deplored as “grotesque” by others, Forever Marilyn stands 26 feet tall when fully assembled, but Tulsans will have to settle for her in pieces — the statue weighs in at 36,000 pounds. A waist-up likeness of Monroe in the iconic, billowing white halter dress, however, will provide plenty of photo ops. The statue will be parked outside of the Hardesty Arts Center, 101 E. Archer St., in the Brady Arts District in downtown Tulsa. It is expected to arrive by 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and will remain overnight before pushing off for its next stop.
Photo by Gregg Felson.
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The Tulsa Drillers get the advantage when it plays its season opener against the Corpus Christi Hooks at ONEOK Field, 201 N. Elgin Ave., on Thursday, April 3, at 7:05 p.m. The Drillers play Corpus Christi through Saturday, April 5, and then the San Antonio Missions from Sunday, April 6-Tuesday, April 8. Visit www.tulsadrillers.com for ticket information, a full game schedule and a look at special events throughout the season.
