| Arts out there: A taste of Broadway at the Obelisks 04/11/2001 / The Dallas Morning News The Dallas Business Committee for the Arts has announced the main attraction for the 13th annual Obelisk Awards ceremony, to be held next month.
"The Broadway Tenors," produced by Michael Jenkins of the Dallas Summer Musicals, will feature Alan Campbell, Brian D'Arcy James and Brent Barrett, all stars of recent Broadway hits.
Mr. Campbell was nominated for a Tony for his work in Sunset Boulevard. Mr. Barrett is currently playing Frank Butler to Reba McEntire's Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway. Mr. James has appeared in Titanic, Carousel, Blood Brothers, and Les Miserables.
The Obelisks, presented to area businesses that support the arts, will take place at noon on May 31 at the Adams Mark Hotel.
Individual tickets are $150, and tables run $1,500 to $3,000. Proceeds benefit the committee and the Dallas Summer Musicals School of Musical Theater. For tickets or information, call Kimberly Jaffe at 972-991-8300.
• Another fund-raiser, the Dallas Opera's sixth annual raffle, will be May 28 at NorthPark Center.
The prize is a 2001 Mercedes-Benz CLK 320 Cabriolet valued at $45,000. Tickets are $100 each, with only 2,000 to be sold.
Be forewarned: The lucky winner must pay taxes and title and license fees. Tickets will be available through the day of the drawing. You can get them by credit card by calling 214-443-1063 or 214-443-1061 or in person at the Dallas Opera offices in Campbell Centre I, 8350 N. Central Expressway, Suite 210.
Czech 'em out
PIECES dance company will present "Classical PIECES" in the auditorium of Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, 3838 Crown Shore Drive, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
The program includes excerpts from Giselle and Sleeping Beauty, as well as three works that the company plans to perform in Prague, Czech Republic, later this month: Herald, Snow, and Undercurrent.
Tickets are $10. Call 972-601-9832 or go to www.geocities.com/pieces_texas.
Art talks
Dr. Eleanor Harvey, curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art, will give a talk on "Thomas Moran and America's National Parks" Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the DMA's Horchow Auditorium.
Moran, whose Indian Paradise (Green River, Wyoming) is part of the DMA collection, was a British-born painter who emigrated to the United States as a child and eventually became one of the "Panoramists," famous for landscapes of the Rocky and Sierra mountains. Moran was sometimes called "the American Turner."
His paintings of the American West, presented to members of Congress, helped inspire the government to establish the National Park Service in 1916.
Admission is $5 ($3 for DMA members and seniors), free for students. For more information on the talk, call 214-922-1826.
• The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art will present a free lecture, "The Four Accomplishments in East Asian Art: Painting, Calligraphy, Music and Board Games" by Dr. John Carpenter, Thursday at 6 p.m.
The lecture will cover the traditional Chinese painting theme of the Four Accomplishments, or Four Leisurely Pursuits, a concept that was taken up by Japan during late medieval times. The idea of the performance of art as a leisurely pursuit instead of a professional activity will be explored.
In ancient Chinese and Japanese aristocratic circles, mastery of calligraphy, the zither and the game of Go were considered important social skills, essential for political networking (kind of like golf today).
Dr. Carpenter received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1997. His research interests range from the history of East Asian calligraphy to early modern Japanese painting and prints. He was a co-author of the catalogue accompanying the 1996 DMA exhibition "Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama." He lectures on Japanese art at London University.
The Crow museum, 2010 Flora between Harwood and Olive, is adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art.
Call 214-979-6430 or visit www.crowcollection.org for more info.
Passion play
The theatrical group Clay – a Theater of Hope presents Philip W. Turner's popular drama Christ in the Concrete City, which examines the life of Jesus in light of modern-day urban problems.
Mr. Turner once said that he wrote the play "in rage" as a young man "repulsed by the concrete walls of the city of our pseudo-scientific secularism."
The play will be staged at the Irving Arts Center's Theater in the Commons, 3501 N. MacArthur Boulevard in Irving, just north of the main complex of the arts center. Performances are Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children under 12. Call 972-252-2787.
Last call
Saturday at 4 p.m. is the deadline for slide submissions to the Dallas Visual Art Center's 2001 Critic's Choice exhibition.
The juror is Dr. Steven A. Nash, director of the forthcoming Nasher Sculpture Center and chief curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The entry fee is $30, $20 for DVAC members.
For a prospectus, call 214-821-2522, fax to 214-821-9103 or email .
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