The Aircraft of the Boneyard and the Pilots That Flew Them, an exhibition of photographs by Pamela Reed, continues through Thursday, May 31.
Soul Paintings, an exhibition by Roz Eppstein, continues through Friday, July 27.
Women of Courage, an exhibition of photographs by artist Edwina M.
Scott, continues through Friday, May 11.
The Campus Christian Center Art Gallery seeks artwork of various media for its upcoming shows.
Learn to make and apply your own earth-friendly paint using clay and other non-toxic ingredients in a clay-painting class from 8 a.
m. to 5 p.m.
, Saturday, May 12.
Life drawing classes take place from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m., every Thursday.
- 'Scrooge' is not typical Gaslight fare, but it's still got a lot of appeal Starring in a musical on Broadway, then taking it on a grueling national tour, you can start to feel like Velma Kelly in Chicago: an entertainer who has been sentenced to prison. Of course, Velma ends up in prison because she's killed her lover, only to be upstaged as a media darling by a nobody who's done pretty much the same thing. Merely playing Velma doesn't require you to kill, except in the metaphorical showbiz sense.
But oh, doing hard time on tour. "It's so much harder than on Broadway," says Brenda Braxton, who plays Velma in the version of Chicago being brought to town next week by Broadway in Tucson. "It's not just the fact that you miss your home and your husband and your dog; I brought my dog with me this time.
It's eight shows a week, Tuesday through Sunday, with travel on your one day off. Then there's the difficulty of being in a different hotel every week, trying to find food that's not going to make you sick or not going to make you fat or not going to be too expensive. You're just uprooted.
" So, given all that, why has Braxton played Velma for nearly two years now? Besides for the paycheck, that is? "Velma is kind of Brenda," she says.
"She's funny; she's sneaky; she's happy. It's very, very rare that you get to play a character that runs the gamut of so many emotions in one night. And I've had good co-workers.
We play off each other well. It's nice to have co-stars you can try something new with, instead of being stuck in what you're doing. It keeps it fresh and alive.
"And, yeah, there's the paycheck, too." Braxton adds that she has no problem knowing that many people who come see her in Chicago are going to have Catherine Zeta-Jones in mind from the show's film version. "I'm not competing with her at all," she declares.
"Live theater is so much different from film, anyway. And because of the fact that I'm an African-American woman, I bring a whole other thing to it that Catherine Zeta couldn't bring. And I know my craft, and I've been around a long, long time.
I don't think about it at all.
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