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4 WHAT'SUP Guide to Arts & En AUDITIONS Chapin Community Theater will hold auditions for "Mama *N' Em," at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday in the Chapin Community Theater, 107 Columbia Ave., Chapin, S.C. Available roles for five women and four men ages 35-80. Must be able to do a convincing upstate South Carolina accent. For information call 772-3720. Town Theatre will hold auditions for "Prescription: Murder" at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Roles are available for four men and three women that range in age from early 20's to 50's. Perusal scripts are available. For more in iormation, can /yy-zoiu. BALLET The Columbia City Ballet presents The Nutcracker." The show runs at 8 pm. from today to Dec 11, and tickets are $8 and $10 for children and students, $16.50 and $18.50 for adults and $5.00 for balcony, on sale now. CONCERTS USC presents its annual Christmas Music Festival at the Carolina Coliseum 4 p.m. Sunday featuring performances by the USC Band, Percussion Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Concert Choir, Left Bank Big Band, Carolina Alive, the University Chorus and the USC Dance Company. Admission and parking are free. The South Carolina Concert Choir Dresents their annual Christmas con I cert at the First Presbyterian Church 6 p.m. Sunday. Vocal selections will range from sacred holiday carols and spirituals by Giovanni Palestrina and Johannes Brahs to "Rigeltanze a collection of six Christmas carol dances by contemporary American composer Libby Larsen. The Benedict College Concert Choir presents "A Special Kind of Christmas" featuring Yuletide Music by contemporary composers 7 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Atisdel Chapel on Benedict's Campus. The performance is free. MOVIES Monday through Dec 14, Nickelodeon Theatre will feature films by Ingmar H Th< tertainment Bergman including "Cries and Whispers," with showtimes at 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $3.50 for members of the Columbia Film Society, $4.50 for students and senior citizens and $5.50 for non-members. MUSEUMS / GALLERIES McKissick Museum The work of talented USC graduate art students will be on display until Dec. 18. 'The Annual MFA Exhibit" will feature works by Vicky Heapee, Bingjian Zhang and Shinli Zhou, who are all working towanls a master of fine arts degree. Columbia Museum of Art "Richard Estes: The Complete Prints" will run through Dec. 11. This is the first traveling exhibition surveying the piint woik of photo-i-ealist Richard Estes. Admission is free. PLANETARIUM "Season of Light" at the Gibbes Planetarium is open. The show begins with the winter solstice and examines how ancient cultures celebrated this dark time with their warmest and brightest holidays of the year. THEATER Drayton Hall USC Theatre presents "The Christmas Candle," an original music play based on an old German fairy tale, Wednesday through Dec. 11 at Drayton Hall. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Curtain time is 8 pm. Wednesday through Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Town Theatre ^ "T .end Me fl Tennr^ nnena tndnv and Ififc, will run through Dec. 17. Tickets are $8 for students. Benson Theatre USC's puppet regime will wrap up its 1994 season with "Pizza Man." Performances are tonight through Sunday and Dec. 8-10 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $3. The theatre is located on the USC campus. IN CDC has one of thi We will search the Every week CDC h CDC has thousands Sell your books bad HOT NEW TITLES 01 Itfs CI Holiday events this weekend i ESTHER RUSSELL Staff Writer Christmas music and Santas are sure to leave the malls and cover the Midlands area Saturday as five holiday events take place. The Christmas festivities kick off Satuiday with Columbia's Carillon Christmas Parade at 9:45 a.m. on the corner of Richland and Main streets. According to the Carillon parade office, spectators will see 10 bands, a 57foot Betty Boop balloon, Ronald McDonald with his friends, Santa Claus and much more as the 116 parade entries travel down Main Street. This year's parade theme is "Home for the Holidays," and former Miss American Kimberly Aiken is the grand marshal. A less traditional parade will take place Satuixlay on Lake Murray at nightfall. Murium Atria of the Lake Murray Visitors Center said the Christmas lights Parade will feature about 30 boats deCnratarl with licrhts a Santa Viandincr nut candy to children, a snack bar, a bonfire, Caribbean-style caroling and a fireworks finale. "The gates on the Lexington side of the dam open at 4:30 p.m.," Atria said, "and most people arrive early with picnics and make a whole day of it." Atria said tickets are $5 and must be purchased in advance at the visitors center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Between the parades, check out Cayce's fifth annual Christmas Traditions festival where Santa Claus, traditional Christmas decorations, musicians and a dancer doing the Charleston are just a few of the featured events. THE CARC e largest college and: world over to special as the $10.99 Deal D ! of CDs under $10. k at the University Be I SAi? 1HIS WEEK at tiici Friday, Decern be beginning hric ; abound [ in Columbia The festival will be tonight and Saturday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p..m. and is free of charge at the Cayce Historical Museum at the Cayce Municipal Complex at 1800 12th St. Extension. nl l j7i ~ -l.ij: x j wciyiuu ruectuy, uirecior ana curator of the museum, said the festival includes traditions from the 1730s to the present. There are Christmas trees from each period," Kleckly said. "Every room in the museum is decorated from a different period, and hostesses in period costume will be there to explain the decorating. There will also be decorations in the park, like the reindeer." Besides festive decorations, Christmas Traditions also offer's entertainment. There are dulcimer and violin player's," Kleckly said. "In the 20th century room, there will be a dancer in TaDDeri attire doing the Charleston." A Revolutionary War reenactment group will perform a firing of weapons, an old holiday tradition. Free cider and ginger cookies will be served from a 200-year-old kitchen, and Santa will be greeting children by the caboose at the 1910 train depot. A continuing holiday event is Lights Before Christmas display at Riverbanks Zoo, located off 1-26 at Greystone Boulevard. The lights will be up today through Dec. 30 from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m. The zoo will be closed Christmas Eve and b Christmas Day. C The Lights Before Christmas is an annual presentation where the zoo show- 1C cases holiday music and animal shapes n created with lights. ^ The zoo's gift shops and cafes will be ^ open, as well as the Aquarium Reptile Complex, which features a steamy trop 5LINA MALL ilternative music sectior order that rare piece o isc?always a hot new r tokstore for the most c 'Srw/T V >r 2, 1994 : to look like tmas VH| I JKB m ? M Columbia City Ballot asketball legend Alex English and Anthony Hampton star in olumbla City Ballet's "Nutcracker." :al rain forest section, colorful coral For those who think even the zoo's jefs and an arid desert. steamy rain forest won't remedy cold Admission to the light show is $3.75 arms and legs, the Columbia City Baltr adults, $1.75 for children 3 to 12 and let is presenting the Christmas classic pp fnr t.hnsp 9. and nndpr fJmnns rntps "TVip Nntnrnplror" tViio wppV and and re available for groups of 15 or more, next weekend at the Roger Center. is in Columbia. 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