IBJ Daily Arts & Entertainment

	Thursday, December 6, 2007
	Classical Christmas. The Futral of music.  "It's a Wonderful Life." Merry Christmas, you old holiday masterpiece.  "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Larceny on tour.   "What You Crave." Why shouldn't artists want a white Christmas, too?  Lou Harry's A&E blog launch: OK, so we're shamelessly self-promoting.   This Week's Contest: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."  Continuing: Still running highlights from past IBJ Daily A&E e-mails.
	Classical Christmas Dec. 8 Scottish Rite Cathedral On Saturday, you have a choice of two Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra-presented divas. You could join the mob at the Hilbert Circle Theatre to see Sandi Patty at Yuletide Celebration, or you can see soprano Elizabeth Futral, who joins conductor Raymond Leppard and the Apollo's Voice choir at the Scottish Rite Cathedral for this concert, which focuses more on music than spectacle. While she's performed in "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the Met and "La Traviata" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the North Carolina-born, IU-trained singer also has done more than her share of contemporary work, including creating the role of Stella in Andre Previn's opera-fied "A Streetcar Named Desire" (which is available on CD and DVD) for the San Francisco Opera. That's some serious vocal power at the service of music by Mendelssohn, Bach and others (including Leppard himself). For more details on Classical Christmas, click here. To hear Futral sing "Take me out to the ball game," click here. "It's a Wonderful Life" Dec. 7-8 Artcraft Theatre, Franklin No matter how many times you've see this Frank Capra classic, there is nothing like seeing it on a big screen in an old-fashioned movie house. And right now, just about the only big-screen, old-fashioned movie house around is the glorious Artcraft Theatre in Franklin. Do yourself a major favor and take advantage of this opportunity. Tickets are only $5 for adults and $3 for kids. And if Clarence and company cooperate, there may well be a little snowfall on the town square, making Franklin look a bit like Bedford Falls. Just be careful not to slip while you run through the streets shouting "Merry Christmas" to the old building and loan. (If for some reason you can't make it this weekend, there's always next, when "Miracle on 34th Street" is being screened). For more details, click here.
	"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" Dec. 11-16 Clowes Memorial Hall David Yazbek is not cut from the same mold as most Broadway composers. Then again, there aren't too many Broadway composers anymore, so perhaps that comparison is irrelevant. For full preview, click here. "What You Crave: A White Christmas at the Harrison Center" Dec. 7  The Harrison Center for the Arts The Harrison Center for the Arts offers a playful take on holiday tradition with this evening of snow-colored visual art, music, dance and whateverness. For full preview, click here.
	Lou Harry's A&E blog launch Dec. 10  Monday is day one for this new forum for arts and entertainment discussion. Just click on ibj.com to join in (and find out how to get free tickets to our first IBJ Night at the Movies, featuring the new Philip Seymour Hoffman film, "The Savages"). More info—on Monday— here. This week's contest: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" Last week, we asked you to tell us the worst pairing of actors in a movie. The question was in celebration of the good pairing of Steve Martin and Michael Caine in the movie "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Our favorite responses are here. Lucky contest entrant Jes Balascio also got to see the touring production of the musical, courtesy of Broadway in Indianapolis, which also threw in a couple of DRS T-shirts and a cast recording CD. This week, we've got a family four-pack of tickets to see Indianapolis Civic Theatre's production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." All you need to do is enter here and we'll pick a winner at random next Tuesday. While there, just for fun, let us know a memorable, interesting, embarrassing or otherwise worth-noting brother (we're partial to Billy Carter and the Brother from Another Planet, but you make your own choice). We'll link you to some of these next week. Continuing "A Christmas Carol" Indiana Repertory Theatre, through Dec. 24 "Roman Art from the Louvre" Indianapolis Museum of Art, through Jan. 6 "The Bill Peet Storybook Menagerie" Herron Galleries, through Jan. 6 "Yuletide Celebration" Hilbert Circle Theatre, through Dec. 23 "Tuesdays with Morrie" Indiana Repertory Theatre, through Jan. 13

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