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PAGE 16 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019 THE HERALD Entertainment: Weekend Every scene in the wrestling comedy/drama “Fighting With My Family” has been mapped out in advance, and everybody in this movie is in reality an actor play- ing a part. That’s right — it’s all scripted. I know. Shocker. You might also find “Fight- ing With My Family” predictable if you’re a fan (as I am) of the classic inspirational underdog- sports movie, whether pure fic- tion a la “Rocky” or “The Karate Kid,” or all those based-on-a-true- story tales such as “Rudy” and “Hoosiers.” No matter if nearly every mo- ment is as familiar and comfort- able as your favorite blanket. As the obligatory crusty-but-caring coach played by Vince Vaughn says to the professional wrestling hopefuls: Sure, there’s a story- line to be followed, but you gotta be able to sell that story, and you need something special if you’re going to win over the crowd. In “Fighting With My Fam- ily,” the instantly likable Florence Pugh has the chops to sell the story of the real-life WWE diva known as Paige, and along with a supporting cast led by Nick Frost and Lena Headey as her parents and Jack Lowden as her older brother — not to mention writer- director Stephen Merchant’s fun- ny and touching screenplay and his solid work behind the cam- era — this group has more than enough spark and sparkle to win over the crowd. I loved hanging out with this movie, even when we were get- ting training sequences straight out of “An Officer and a Gentle- man”; tough-love speeches from the coach a la the aforementioned “Rocky” et al; the good ol’ standby of a dinner scene featuring up- tight, oh-so-proper guests meet- ing a crude and cussing family, and even a couple of shameless cutaway shots to the family dog reacting to events probably no dog would be able to comprehend. It’s just a big bowl of uplifting fun. Based on the true story of the wrestling Bevis family (renamed the Knight family) as chronicled in the 2012 documentary “The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Fam- ily,” the movie chronicles the unlikely journey of the teenage Paige (Pugh). We follow her story from working with her family as part of a local, small-time family grappling entourage in Norwich, England, to her big break — a coveted tryout for the WWE in the States. Nick Frost and Lena Headey are a winning pair as Paige’s par- ents. He’s an ex-con who did eight years (”mostly for violence, but there was some robbery, too”), while she was an addict with thoughts of ending it all before they found each other — and found salvation through their mu- tual love of wrestling. (As you’ll see in the closing credits foot- age, Frost and Headey captured not only the general appearances but the spirited personalities of Paige’s folks.) Jack Lowden does fine work as Paige’s older brother Zak, who has always been his sister’s best friend and mentor but is crushed when she is selected for a tryout camp in Florida and he doesn’t make the cut. Vaughn does his Vince Vaughn thing and rarely opts for anything approaching subtlety, but he’s well-cast as the coach/ instructor who decides who will get a shot at the big time and who needs to go home. Writer-director Merchant (who has a small part in the film), a co-writer and co-director of the original “The Office,” among other collaborations with Ricky Gervais, certainly knows how to mine laughs from his script, whether it’s broad physical shtick or dryly funny one-liners. What comes as a bit of a surprise is how often “Fighting With My Family” is genuinely moving, and how a handful of seemingly stock char- acters turn out to be something ... well, something more. Dwayne Johnson is his usual magnetic and self-deprecating screen presence playing Dwayne Johnson, who has become a big movie star but remains connect- ed to the WWE. (When Paige and Zak meet the Rock for the first time and Zak says he’s been a fan since the Rock had hair, Johnson snaps back that the bald look “is a choice.”) Johnson is a producer of “Fighting With My Family,” and the WWE Studios were involved in the production, so yes, the movie is a celebration of an enormously popular form of mass entertain- ment, with only passing mention of the tolls it has taken on many a wrestler. (Just because the moves are orchestrated and punches are pulled doesn’t mean those ath- lete/entertainers don’t sustain all manner of serious injuries.) “Fighting With My Family” works as a cheeky but never con- descending story of one of those “chin-up” working-class British families so often featured in the movies, and of course primar- ily as the story of an undersized, overmatched outcast who is de- termined to succeed against all odds. It’s quite a trick to pull off such an authentic sports movie about a world in which every match really is fixed. Uplifting comedy follows clan with WWE ambitions RICHARD ROEPER Fighting With My Family êêê½ Cast: Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual material, language throughout, some violence and drug content. ROBERT VIGLASKY/METRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURES/ASSOCIATED PRESS Florence Pugh, left, and Jack Lowden, right, battle in “Fighting with My Family.” The film opens Friday at Jasper 8 Theatres. At times, “Leaving Neverland” has you shaking your head in sorrow as you hear the graphic memories of two men who claim to have been sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were children. At times “Leaving Neverland” has you practically shouting at the screen, as you want to ask the par- ents of these men: What were you thinking when you allowed your son to sleep in the same room with a grown man! And at times “Leaving Nev- erland” has you wondering why the filmmakers didn’t reach out to someone from Jackson’s camp — attorneys, relatives, former band mates, tour organizers, managers, employees at Neverland Ranch, publicists, etc., etc. — to ask if they had ever seen anything sus- picious and/or to get a response to the allegations. The Jackson estate DID send a 10-page letter to HBO, complain- ing about not being asked to par- ticipate in the two-part, four-hour documentary (which premieres on Sunday), claiming the film doesn’t meet HBO’s standards and requesting the movie be shelved. That’s not happening. HBO’s response read in part, “Our plans remain unchanged. ... People should reserve judgment until they see the film.” Having seen the devastating and undeniably persuasive film, I can’t say with 100 percent certain- ty Jackson molested the alleged victims, but at the very least, the very least, we’re reminded of how bizarre it was for this man to have cultivated such close relationships with a number of boys, even as his legions of fans and his supporters rationalized it by saying Jackson was just like Peter Pan and he had the soul of a child and he was an innocent who didn’t want to grow up. What a load of ... nonsense. “Leaving Neverland” features extensive interviews with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two thoughtful, articulate, intelli- gent and clearly still shaken men in their late 30s who tell separate but chillingly similar tales of how they were brought into the King of Pop’s world when they were just children, and how the magical times of sharing the stage with Jackson and becoming his “friend” gradually turned into something horrific and monstrous and unspeakable. When Safechuck was 9 years old, he was featured in a Pepsi commercial with Jackson. In the ad, the boy is wandering around backstage and enters Jackson’s dressing room. He regards Jack- son’s hat and glasses, etc., with awe, at which point a smiling Jackson enters the dressing room and says, “Looking for me?” Geez. Even that’s kind of creepy. A year later, 10-year-old Jimmy Safechuck was on tour with Jack- son, his star-struck mother along for the ride. Safechuck’s mother talks about a vacation to Hawaii, and how she kept her distance from Jackson and her son because she wanted her son to have a good time. How- ever, she drew the line at Jimmy staying in Jackson’s room because “I didn’t think it was appropri- ate for my son to go to sleep with him.” No. Kidding. When Jimmy wasn’t on tour with Jackson, “My son would be on the phone for hours with Mi- chael. Hours.” Eventually, Jimmy’s parents did allow her son to share a room with Jackson: “It seemed like a natural thing ... when Mom and Dad said, ‘Yes, you can go sleep with Michael.”’ As Safechuck relates, it was anything BUT natural. He details the moment in Paris when Jack- son introduced him to masturba- tion, and later recounts how the alleged abuse became more in- tense as he got older. Wade Robson won a Michael Jackson dance contest at a store near his home in Brisbane, Aus- tralia, which led to Jackson invit- ing Robson to join him onstage for his next concert — and eventually Robson’s family moving to Los Angeles so young Wade could be close to his new best friend Mi- chael Jackson. In compelling fashion, Rob- son recounts how Jackson alleg- edly molested him on numerous occasions. Both men talk about how Jackson continually told them to never breathe a word of their “special” relationships to anyone, as it would ruin their lives. Both men acknowledge that in the past they’ve told authorities under oath Jackson didn’t molest them. Both men explain why it took de- cades for them to state their truths -- to themselves, to their families and to the world. There’s no video or audio evi- dence of actual crimes, but even old news footage of Jackson hold- ing hands with various little boys as they dash from hotel to limo while the press snaps photos and fans go wild is weird and trou- bling. When these kids were on tour with Jackson, all that meant was they’d join him onstage for a number or two. Why in the world was he holding hands with them in public, sending them faxes, giv- ing them gifts, taking them and their families on trips? In 1993, a man named Evan Chandler accused Jackson of mo- lesting his 13-year-old son. Jack- son reached a financial settlement with Chandler’s family. In 2005, a jury found Michael Jackson not guilty on multiple counts of child molestation brought against him. Jackson died in 2009. In the years since then, his family and friends and countless fans have vigorously defended his name and have called all allegations against him without merit. At times “Leaving Neverland” feels more like a deposition than a documentary, given we’re hear- ing from only one side, again and again. But Lord does that side present a convincing case. HBO’s ‘Leaving Neverland’ devastating and persuasive RICHARD ROEPER P.O. Box517, Jasper, IN 47546 812-301-2203 or812-319-1666 www.duboiscounty.younglife.org www.jasperwyldlife.younglife.org *Visit ourwebsite forlatest schedules and ways to get involved!
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Every scene in the wrestling comedy/drama “Fighting With My Family” has been mapped out in advance, and everybody in this movie is in reality an actor play-ing a part.
That’s right — it’s all scripted.I know. Shocker.You might also find “Fight-
ing With My Family” predictable if you’re a fan (as I am) of the classic inspirational underdog-sports movie, whether pure fic-tion a la “Rocky” or “The Karate Kid,” or all those based-on-a-true-story tales such as “Rudy” and “Hoosiers.”
No matter if nearly every mo-ment is as familiar and comfort-able as your favorite blanket. As the obligatory crusty-but-caring coach played by Vince Vaughn says to the professional wrestling hopefuls: Sure, there’s a story-line to be followed, but you gotta be able to sell that story, and you need something special if you’re going to win over the crowd.
In “Fighting With My Fam-ily,” the instantly likable Florence Pugh has the chops to sell the story of the real-life WWE diva known as Paige, and along with a supporting cast led by Nick Frost and Lena Headey as her parents and Jack Lowden as her older
brother — not to mention writer-director Stephen Merchant’s fun-ny and touching screenplay and his solid work behind the cam-era — this group has more than enough spark and sparkle to win over the crowd.
I loved hanging out with this movie, even when we were get-ting training sequences straight out of “An Officer and a Gentle-man”; tough-love speeches from the coach a la the aforementioned “Rocky” et al; the good ol’ standby of a dinner scene featuring up-tight, oh-so-proper guests meet-ing a crude and cussing family, and even a couple of shameless cutaway shots to the family dog reacting to events probably no dog would be able to comprehend. It’s
just a big bowl of uplifting fun.Based on the true story of the
wrestling Bevis family (renamed the Knight family) as chronicled in the 2012 documentary “The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Fam-ily,” the movie chronicles the unlikely journey of the teenage Paige (Pugh). We follow her story from working with her family as part of a local, small-time family grappling entourage in Norwich, England, to her big break — a coveted tryout for the WWE in the States.
Nick Frost and Lena Headey are a winning pair as Paige’s par-ents. He’s an ex-con who did eight years (”mostly for violence, but there was some robbery, too”), while she was an addict with
thoughts of ending it all before they found each other — and found salvation through their mu-tual love of wrestling. (As you’ll see in the closing credits foot-age, Frost and Headey captured not only the general appearances but the spirited personalities of Paige’s folks.)
Jack Lowden does fine work as Paige’s older brother Zak, who has always been his sister’s best friend and mentor but is crushed when she is selected for a tryout camp in Florida and he doesn’t make the cut. Vaughn does his Vince Vaughn thing and rarely opts for anything approaching subtlety, but he’s well-cast as the coach/instructor who decides who will get a shot at the big time and who
needs to go home.Writer-director Merchant (who
has a small part in the film), a co-writer and co-director of the original “The Office,” among other collaborations with Ricky Gervais, certainly knows how to mine laughs from his script, whether it’s broad physical shtick or dryly funny one-liners. What comes as a bit of a surprise is how often “Fighting With My Family” is genuinely moving, and how a handful of seemingly stock char-acters turn out to be something ... well, something more.
Dwayne Johnson is his usual magnetic and self-deprecating screen presence playing Dwayne Johnson, who has become a big movie star but remains connect-ed to the WWE. (When Paige and Zak meet the Rock for the first time and Zak says he’s been a fan since the Rock had hair, Johnson snaps back that the bald look “is a choice.”)
Johnson is a producer of “Fighting With My Family,” and the WWE Studios were involved in the production, so yes, the movie is a celebration of an enormously popular form of mass entertain-ment, with only passing mention of the tolls it has taken on many a wrestler. (Just because the moves are orchestrated and punches are pulled doesn’t mean those ath-lete/entertainers don’t sustain all manner of serious injuries.)
“Fighting With My Family” works as a cheeky but never con-descending story of one of those “chin-up” working-class British families so often featured in the movies, and of course primar-ily as the story of an undersized, overmatched outcast who is de-termined to succeed against all odds.
It’s quite a trick to pull off such an authentic sports movie about a world in which every match really is fixed.
Uplifting comedy follows clan with WWE ambitionsR I C H A R D R O E P E R
Fighting With My Familyêêê½
Cast: Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne JohnsonRating: PG-13 for crude and sexual material, language throughout, some violence and drug content.
ROBERT VIGLASKY/METRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Florence Pugh, left, and Jack Lowden, right, battle in “Fighting with My Family.” The film opens Friday at Jasper 8 Theatres.
At times, “Leaving Neverland” has you shaking your head in sorrow as you hear the graphic memories of two men who claim to have been sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were children.
At times “Leaving Neverland” has you practically shouting at the screen, as you want to ask the par-ents of these men: What were you thinking when you allowed your son to sleep in the same room with a grown man!
And at times “Leaving Nev-erland” has you wondering why the filmmakers didn’t reach out to someone from Jackson’s camp — attorneys, relatives, former band mates, tour organizers, managers, employees at Neverland Ranch, publicists, etc., etc. — to ask if they had ever seen anything sus-picious and/or to get a response to the allegations.
The Jackson estate DID send a 10-page letter to HBO, complain-ing about not being asked to par-ticipate in the two-part, four-hour documentary (which premieres on Sunday), claiming the film doesn’t meet HBO’s standards and requesting the movie be shelved.
That’s not happening. HBO’s response read in part, “Our plans remain unchanged. ... People should reserve judgment until they see the film.”
Having seen the devastating and undeniably persuasive film, I
can’t say with 100 percent certain-ty Jackson molested the alleged victims, but at the very least, the very least, we’re reminded of how bizarre it was for this man to have cultivated such close relationships with a number of boys, even as his legions of fans and his supporters rationalized it by saying Jackson was just like Peter Pan and he had the soul of a child and he was an innocent who didn’t want to grow up.
What a load of ... nonsense.“Leaving Neverland” features
extensive interviews with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two thoughtful, articulate, intelli-gent and clearly still shaken men in their late 30s who tell separate but chillingly similar tales of how they were brought into the King of Pop’s world when they were just children, and how the magical times of sharing the stage with Jackson and becoming his “friend” gradually turned into something horrific and monstrous and unspeakable.
When Safechuck was 9 years old, he was featured in a Pepsi commercial with Jackson. In the ad, the boy is wandering around backstage and enters Jackson’s dressing room. He regards Jack-son’s hat and glasses, etc., with awe, at which point a smiling
Jackson enters the dressing room and says, “Looking for me?”
Geez. Even that’s kind of creepy.
A year later, 10-year-old Jimmy Safechuck was on tour with Jack-son, his star-struck mother along for the ride.
Safechuck’s mother talks about a vacation to Hawaii, and how she kept her distance from Jackson and her son because she wanted her son to have a good time. How-ever, she drew the line at Jimmy staying in Jackson’s room because “I didn’t think it was appropri-ate for my son to go to sleep with him.”
No. Kidding.When Jimmy wasn’t on tour
with Jackson, “My son would be on the phone for hours with Mi-chael. Hours.”
Eventually, Jimmy’s parents did allow her son to share a room with Jackson: “It seemed like a natural thing ... when Mom and Dad said, ‘Yes, you can go sleep with Michael.”’
As Safechuck relates, it was anything BUT natural. He details the moment in Paris when Jack-son introduced him to masturba-tion, and later recounts how the alleged abuse became more in-tense as he got older.
Wade Robson won a Michael Jackson dance contest at a store near his home in Brisbane, Aus-tralia, which led to Jackson invit-
ing Robson to join him onstage for his next concert — and eventually Robson’s family moving to Los Angeles so young Wade could be close to his new best friend Mi-chael Jackson.
In compelling fashion, Rob-son recounts how Jackson alleg-edly molested him on numerous occasions.
Both men talk about how Jackson continually told them to never breathe a word of their “special” relationships to anyone, as it would ruin their lives. Both men acknowledge that in the past they’ve told authorities under oath Jackson didn’t molest them. Both men explain why it took de-cades for them to state their truths -- to themselves, to their families and to the world.
There’s no video or audio evi-dence of actual crimes, but even old news footage of Jackson hold-ing hands with various little boys as they dash from hotel to limo while the press snaps photos and fans go wild is weird and trou-bling. When these kids were on tour with Jackson, all that meant was they’d join him onstage for a number or two. Why in the world was he holding hands with them in public, sending them faxes, giv-ing them gifts, taking them and their families on trips?
In 1993, a man named Evan Chandler accused Jackson of mo-lesting his 13-year-old son. Jack-
son reached a financial settlement with Chandler’s family.
In 2005, a jury found Michael Jackson not guilty on multiple counts of child molestation brought against him.
Jackson died in 2009. In the years since then, his family and friends and countless fans have vigorously defended his name and have called all allegations against him without merit.
At times “Leaving Neverland” feels more like a deposition than a documentary, given we’re hear-ing from only one side, again and again.
But Lord does that side present a convincing case.
HBO’s ‘Leaving Neverland’ devastating and persuasiveR I C H A R D R O E P E R
P.O. Box 517, Jasper, IN 47546
812-301-2203 or 812-319-1666
www.duboiscounty.younglife.org www.jasperwyldlife.younglife.org
*Visit our website for latest schedules and ways to get involved!
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Current cinemaCurrently playingAlita: Battle Angel ê½ (Jasper 8 Theatres) In a dystopian future, an abandoned cyborg with unique fighting skills is revived by a fatherly physician (Christoph Waltz). Like the title character, “Alita” is an amalgam — of “Terminator,” “Blade Runner” and many others — without a unique identity of its own. We’ve seen this movie before. Many times. (Sci-fi action, PG-13, 2 hrs. 22 min.)
Happy Death Day 2U êêê (Jasper 8 Theatres) There’s a surprisingly sweet heart lurking beneath all the bloody rinse-and-repeat hijinks in this cheerfully twisted sequel, following up on the college student (Jessica Rothe) who relives her murder over and over. (Horror/sci-fi, PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part êêê (Jasper 8 Theatres) A candy-colored sugar rush with a nonstop parade of pop culture references, famous cameos and inside jokes, “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” doesn’t quite match the original’s spark and creativity, but it’s a worthy chapter in the ever-expanding Lego movie universe. (Animated adventure, PG, 1 hr. 33 min.)
The Upside êê (Jasper 8 Theatres) Kevin Hart delivers a sincere and relatively low-key performance as a convict hired to assist a billionaire business genius (Bryan Cranston) paralyzed from the neck down. He and Cranston mesh well together, but the overlong story is stuffed with unnecessary and momentum-blocking detours. (Comedy, PG-13, 2 hrs. 5 min.)
On DVDRalph Breaks The Internet êêê The hapless video game “villain” (John C. Reilly) from “Wreck-It Ralph” and his sharp-witted friend Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) venture out of the arcade into the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part. There were times when the sweet-natured animated adventure was brimming with so much stimuli, I had to remind myself to laugh. (Animated adventure, PG, 1 hr. 52 min., 2018)
Bohemian Rhapsody ê The greatly gifted Rami Malek is given zero chance to create a believable, in-depth portrayal of Queen leader Freddie Mercury in this shamelessly scripted biopic. What a crushing, unmitigated, stunningly inept and astonishingly tone-deaf disaster. (Music biography, PG-13, 2 hrs. 15 min., 2018)
IMAXShowplace Cinemas East, 1801 Morgan Center Drive, Evansville: “Alita: Battle Angel,” www.showplacecinemas.com
EventsAttractionsAngel Mounds Historic Site, 8215 Pollack Ave., Evansville. Hours (CT): 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. www.angelmounds.org
Big Splash Adventure, Valley of the Springs Resort, 8505 W. State Road 56, French Lick. 877-936-3866 or www.bigsplashadventure.com
Falls of the Ohio State Park Interpretive Center, at the end of West Riverside Drive, Clarksville. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. www.fallsoftheohio.org
Indiana Caverns, 1267 Green Acres Lane S.W., Corydon. Features a 25-minute boat ride, a waterfall, thriving cave life and Big Bone Mountain. Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily April through October and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily November through March. Closed Christmas. www.indianacaverns.com
Jasper City Mill, 160 Third Ave. The mill features cornmeal ground on site, craft items, old-fashioned
candy and local products. Exhibit (changes every six months): Dubois County Art Guild Gallery Walk, items from artisans and rustic Amish furniture available in the gift shop. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays.Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City (all times CT). Park hours: Memorial Visitor Center, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. through March 31; farm, closed for the season; nature center, open, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays; Colonel Jones Home, noon-4 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, June-August. www.nps.gov/libo/ or 812-937-4541
Louisville Zoo, 1100 Trevilian Way. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily through March 15, 2019. www.louisvillezoo.org
Marengo Cave Park: The Crystal Palace walking tour features a formation-filled room and huge flowstone deposits, while the Dripstone Trail walking tour is known for its profusion of delicate soda straw formations, slender totem pole stalagmites and penny ceiling. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. http://marengocave.com
Mega Cavern, 1841 Taylor Ave., Louisville. Historic Tram Tours, Mega Zips and Mega Quest, an underground ropes challenge. Closed major holidays. 877-614-6342 or www.louisvillemegacavern.com
Mesker Park Zoo, 1545 Mesker Park Drive, Evansville. Hours (CT): 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. 812-435-6143 or www.meskerparkzoo.com
Wilstem Ranch, Paoli: Grizzly, Giraffe and Kangaroo Encounters. www.wilstemranch.com or 812-936-4484
Upcoming eventsFrench Lick Kitchen Live, Grand Colonade Restaurant, French Lick Springs Hotel, 1:30 p.m. March 2.
Model Train Show, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. CT March 2, St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 2227 W. Michigan St., Evansville. 812-307-5050 or www.evansvilletrainshow.com
Cork & Cousine: Mardi Gras, 6 p.m. CT Tuesday, March 5, Owensboro Convention Center. Must be 21 to attend. Tickets available at OwensboroTickets.com.
Coin Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. March 16, VFW Post 2939, 301 Main St., Tell City.
Frozen on Ice, April 4-7, 2019, The Ford Center, , 1 S.E. MLK Jr. Blvd., Evansville. For tickets call 800-745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com
ExhibitsKrempp GalleryA Collaboration: Chet Strange and Parker Michels-Boyce, through Wednesday. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays and noon to 3 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays.
Saint MeinradArchabbey LibraryExhibit: Saints Inside and Out, through March 30, features paintings and mosaics by Karen Glanders of Nashville, Ind., and Chris Elam of Bloomington. Hours: Call 357-6401 or 800-987-7311 or visit www.saintmeinrad.edu/library/hours/
Other galleriesIvy Tech Bower-Suhrheinrich Visual Arts Center, 3501 N. First Ave., Evansville. Hours (CT): 1-6 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Closed major holidays. www.ivytech.edu/southwest
Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery, 815 W. Market St., Louisville. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Closed major holidays. 502-584-5353 or www.flamerun.com
The Green Building Gallery, 732 E. Market St., Louisville. Hours: 9-5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Fridays and 4-9 p.m. Saturdays. Closed major holidays. www.thegreenbuilding.net/gallery/index.html or 502-561-1162
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, 506 Main St. Hours (CT): 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Closed major holidays. 812-682-3156 or www.nhgallery.com
Dubois County MuseumMembership: 2019 memberships are available. Purchase a membership and receive free admission into the museum from the day the membership is purchased through Dec. 31.
Exhibit: Snow People, through next Thursday. Anna Knebel, who has loaned 273 snow people to the museum, will be present at an open house from 1-4 p.m. Sunday.
Storytime for Kids, 10:30 a.m., Saturdays, March 9 (theme is spring), April 13 (theme is Easter), and May 11 (theme is graduation).
Little Sprouts (preschool program), 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 30.
Teddy Bear Tea with Grandma and Me, 9 a.m. Saturday, May 4.
Permanent exhibits: Our Eldest Daughter, The Cold War (1945-1991), Black Heritage in Dubois County, Grand Army of the Republic, A Bicentennial Remembrance: The Story of German Immigration to Dubois County, Safari Room, The Story of Bill Schroeder and the Jarvik Heart; Main Street Dubois County (a model town from the 1900s featuring 17 businesses, including Stewart Hotel, Schutz’s Shoe Service and a funeral home, doctor’s office, jail, barbershop, church, bank, surveying office and bar), Grand Army of the Republic, Little Pioneer Children’s Play Area (includes one-room schoolhouse, book nook, toy area and dress-up area), Lewis and Clark keel boat, The Law in Dubois County, Honoring the Military, The Civil War Diary of William C. Benson, Model Trains, Dubois County in World War I, The Spanish-American War and Dubois County, Huntingburg Wagon Works, Girl
Scouting in Dubois County, People of the Woodlands, Trace the Buffalo, Pioneer Area, Germans, Land Owners Map, Early Settlers of Dubois County, Cheering our Champions, Furniture, Civil War Flag, Prisoners of War, The Mills of Dubois County. Also, Heidet Blacksmith Shop, depicts the original shop from Ferdinand; Lindauer Sandstone Quarry and Grindstone Works of St. Henry, displays days of sandstone manufacturing; Eckert Log Home, assembled log home inside the museum shows building material and home life inside a German-style log home; Women’s Work is Never Done, choreographs the daily work week of pioneer women; History of Coal Mining; Meyer Planing Mill of Haysville; Ferdinand Sawmill; Huntingburg Buggy Works wagon; History of Boy Scouting; Antique Farm Machinery, featuring more than 75 pieces, including a binder, reaper, corn shredder and 1879 Buckeye hoe wheat drill; Tinker the Horse, represents the contribution of animals to the history of the area; silver smelter from Buck Shoals in Haysville; giant fruit press; threshing machine belted to a Kitten engine, one of five working steam engines; cane press and evaporator pan like the one used to make Birdseye molasses; and murals of Zoar, Birdseye, Celestine, Dubois, Duff, Ferdinand, Huntingburg, Portersville/Boone Township, St. Henry/Johnsburg, St. Anthony/St. Marks, Holland, Haysville, Ireland, Jasper and Schnellville.
Hours: The museum, 2704 N. Newton St., is open from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. Closed April 19 and 20 for Good Friday and Easter. Admission charged. Can be found on Facebook and at www.duboiscountymuseum.org. 812-634-7733
Huntingburg MuseumOn exhibit: Commercial, manufacturing, military, school and social club memorabilia; the Geiger
bedroom, family Bible and other belongings; a dollhouse inside a grandmother clock; a pony cart; and a 1950s kitchen.
The museum is in Huntingburg City Hall, 508 E. Fourth St. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays unless City Hall is closed and by appointment. Closed major holidays. 683-2211.
French Lick West Baden MuseumExhibit: The Art of the Monon — The Howard Fogg Paintings, March 1-Sept. 1.
Hours: The museum, located at 469 S. Maple St., Suite 103, is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. www.flwbmuseum.com
Other museums Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, 311 W. Second St., Owensboro. Hours (CT): 10 am.-5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. bluegrasshall.org
Evansville African American Museum, 579 S. Garvin St. Hours (CT): 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and noon-5 p.m. Saturdays. Closed major holidays. 812-423-5188 or www.evansvilleaamuseum.org
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, 411 S.E. Riverside Drive. Exhibits: 59th Mid-States Art Exhibition, through March 3; Hours (CT): 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. 812-425-2406 or www.emuseum.org
Frazier History Museum, 829 W. Main St., Louisville. Exhibits: Kentucky Craft Luminaries, through March 24; Road Map To Heaven: Photogrpahs by Linda Bruckheimer, through April 14; Harlan Hubbard Watercolors, Feb. 20-May 5: Olmsted’s Louisville: 1891 to the Present, April 10-Sept 15; Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson’s Campaign for Sheriff, April 20-Sept. 2; Celebrating the Sounds of Kentucky, Sept. 19-Feb. 2020. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. 502-753-5663 or www.fraziermuseum.org
Henager Memories & Nostalgia Museum, 8837 S. State Road 57, Elberfeld. Hours (CT): 8 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays. Closed major holidays. 812-795-2230 or www.henagermuseum.com
Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville, 22 S.E. Fifth St. Hours (CT): 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. 812-464-2663 or www.cmoekids.org.
Owensboro (Ky.) Museum of Fine Art, 901 Frederica St. Hours (CT): 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. 270-685-3181 or www.omfa.us
Owensboro Museum of Science and History, 122 E. Second St. Hours (CT): 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.
Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy, 20 Red Skelton Blvd., Vincennes. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. 812-888-2105
Reitz Home Museum, 224 S.E. First St., Evansville. Hours: 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. CT Tuesdays through Sundays. Closed major holidays. 812-426-1871 or www.reitzhome.com
Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. 3rd St., Louisville. Exhibits: Making Time: The Art of the Kentucky Tall Case Clock, through June 16; Yinka Shonibare MBE: The American Library, March 29-Sept. 15; and Ebony G. Patterson: ... while the dew is still on the roses ...., June22-Sept 29. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. 502-852-5555
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‘SAINTS INSIDE AND OUT’“Pine Needles,” a mosaic by Bloomington artist Chris Elam, is on display at the Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library through March 30.
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Science CentersKentucky Science Center, 737 W. Main St., Louisville. Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon-6 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. 800-591-2203 or www.kysciencecenter.org
Night LifeDancesAmerican Legion Post 147, Jasper: 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays, line and couples dancing. $5, 482-5426 for information.
Orange County Senior Citizens Center, 8497 W. Main St., French Lick: 7-9:30 p.m. Fridays, dance with live band.
William Tell Center, 1301 11th St., Tell City, 7-10 p.m. CT Saturdays. Open to all ages; smoke and alcohol free. $5, includes snacks. Sponsored by the William Tell Senior Citizens.
BarsGaslight, Huntingburg: Open Mic Night, 8-11 p.m. Thursdays.
CasinosTropicana, Evansville: New Crime Theatre, Friday-Saturday. www.tropicanacasinos.com
French Lick Casino: Casino Lounge (8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.) — DJ Charlie, Saturday. 888-936-9360 or www.frenchlick.com/entertainment/concerts
On stage Actors Community TheatreDinner theatre: “The Dinner Party,” April 4-6, 2019. Dinner theatre patrons must be 18 or older.
Plays: “Into the Woods,” July 25-28, 2019.
All of the shows will be performed at the Jasper Arts Center. Season tickets and two-event packages are available at ActorsCommunityTheatre.com.
Historic Astra TheatreFilms: “When Harry Met Sally,” 7p.m. Saturday; “Major League,” 7 p.m. April 20; and “Mary Poppins,” 7 p.m. June 1.
Concerts: Iris DeMent — singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter — 7:30 p.m. March 22; Cris Jacobs, 7:30 p.m. May 18; and second annual Rock Lotto, 7 p.m. July 20.
Comedy: Costaki Economopoulos, 7:30 p.m. April 12.
Buy tickets and make donations at www.TheNextAct.org.
Jasper Arts CenterBackstage Series — Matt Beilis, 7:30 p.m., March 8.
Family Fun Series — The Amazing Max, 3:30 p.m., Sunday.
Live at The Astra! — The Good Humor Men, 7:30 p.m., March 15.
Tickets are available by calling the arts center at 482-3070.
Area concertsLincoln Amphitheatre, Lincoln City: Departure: A tribute to Journey, May 16; Molly Hatchet, June 1; Toys in the Attic: A tribute to Aerosmith, June 15; Purple Veins: A tribute to Prince, July 27; Ben and Noel Haggard, Aug. 10; John Waite, with special guest Henry Lee Summer, Aug. 24; Celebrate the Sounds of the Summer of ’69, Aug. 31; Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, Sept. 7; and Hard Day’s Night: A Tribute to the Beatles, Sept. 28. Season tickets available. lincolnamphitheatre.com
Other concertsCorydon Live (formerly Corydon Jamboree), 320 Hurst Lane, north of town square: The Forgotten Trail Show, first Saturday of each month; Rockin’ Terry Lee, Sasha Mullens and Brad McCrady, Saturday. 812-734-6288 or www.corydon.live
Derby Dinner Playhouse, Clarksville: World Famous Glenn Miller
Orchestra, April 8; The Doo Wops & The Wulfe Bros, May 13; Mo5aic, June 3; The River City Boys: Salute to the Songs of the Statler Brothers, Aug. 5; The VanDells, Aug. 5; Branson on the Road, Aug. 26; The Ladies for Liberty & The Soldiers of Swing, Sept. 9; How Great Thou Art: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley, Oct. 7; The Return: A Beatles Tribute, Nov. 4; 812-288-8281 or www.derbydinner.com.
The Ford Center, 1 S.E. MLK Jr. Blvd., Evansville: Blake Shelton, March 2; Casting Crowns, March 14; Godsmack, April 19. For the complete schedule, visit www.thefordcenter.com. For tickets call 800-745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com
KFC Yum! Center, Louisville: Blake Shelton, March 1; Metallica, March 9; KISS, March 12; Kenny Chesney, April 4; Legends of Hip Hop, April 5; Backstreet Boys, Sept. 13; Carrie Underwood, Oct. 17. For the complete schedule, visit www.kfcyumcenter.com. For tickets call 800-745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com
The Kentucky Center, 501 W. Main St., Louisville: Black Violin, Wednesday; The Choir of Man,
March 27; Dianara, March 9. www.kentuckycenter.org
Victory Theatre, 600 Main St.,
Evansville (all times CT): Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra: Brahms’ First Concerto and Stavinsky’s
Firebird, Saturday; Vienna Boys Choir, March 2; Home Free, March 28. www.evansvillephilharmonic.org or www.victorytheatre.com
Area playsBede Theater, Saint Meinrad Archabbey and Seminary & School of Theology, St. Meinrad: “Twelfth Night,” 7 p.m. CT March 8; and “Around the World in 80 Days,” 7 p.m. CT March 9. Both play presented by the National Players.
Lincoln Amphitheatre, Lincoln City:”Here I Grew Up” (story of Lincoln), June 28-9 and July 11-13. Season tickets available. lincolnamphitheatre.com
PlaysActors Theatre of Louisville, 316 W. Main St.: 43rd Humana Festival of New American Plays, March 1-April 7. 502-584-1205 or www.actorstheatre.org/visit/ticketing-options/
The Kentucky Center, 501 W. Main St., Louisville: “Book of Mormon,” Tuesday-March 3; “Hamilton,” June 4-23, 2019. www.kentuckycenter.org
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NATIONAL PLAYERS IN THE HOUSESaint Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, will once again host the National Players, America’s longest-running classical touring company, during March. On Friday, March 8, the actors will perform Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” while the performance on Saturday, March 9, will be “Around the World in 80 Days,” based on the book by Jules Verne as adapted by Laura Eason. Both free performances will begin at 7 p.m. CT in St. Bede Theater on the St. Meinrad campus. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. CT.
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