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Austin
AUSTIN SYMPHONY: The symphony will perform Feb.
22 and 23 at 8 p.m. in the Municipal Auditorium, South 1st
at West Riverside. Music to be performed includes: Weber
— Overture to Der Freischutz; Schoenberg — Pelleas and
Melisande; Brahms — Concerto in D Major for Violin;
Schubert — Rosamunde. Tickets are from $3.50 to $7.50.
Call 512-476-5461.
TEXAS CAPITOL: The Texas Legislature is now in ses
sion. Tours of the capitol are given every quarter hour,
seven days a week, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Corpus Christi
RUSH: Rush comes to the Memorial Coliseum Feb. 27 at
7:30 p.m.
Dallas
AFRICAN AWARENESS: The African Awareness Festi
val is being held each Saturday at 3 p.m. through Feb. 24.
The location is the Walnut Hills Branch of the Dallas Public
Library, 9495 Marsh Lane. Call 214-357-8434.
TEXAS EVENTS
FELICIANO: Jose Feliciano will appear in the Palladium
tomorrow. The acoustical guitarist will perofrm at 8 and 11
p.m.. Call 214-363-4455 for prices.
Houston
SYMPHONY: The Houston Symphony performs every
weekend at Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana in downtown Hous
ton. The Feb. 17 and 18 performances will include:
Brahms — Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano;
Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E Minor. Perform
ances are at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Call 713-227-3625.
OPERA: The Houston Grand Opera will perform “Der
Rosenkavalier,” an opera by Strauss, Feb. 23 through
March 2, in Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana. Performances are
at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, 7:30 p.m. on Monday and at 8
p.m. all other days. Call 713-227-5277.
ICE SHOW: Holiday On Ice will be performed at the
Summit Feb. 21-25. Shows will begin at 8 p.m. Call 713-
627-9550.
RAY PRICE: Ray Price will perform at the Celebrity Circle,
7326 Southwest Freeway, Feb. 23 and 24. Call 713-960-
8934.
RODEO: The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo begins
Feb. 23 at the Astrodome, 9100 Kirby Drive. Perform
ances extend through March 4. They include:
—Feb. 23: K. C. and the Sunshine Band
—Feb. 24: The Osmonds
—Feb. 25: Leif Garrett, Crystal Gayle
—Feb. 26: Conway Twitty
—Feb. 27: Pat and Debby Boone
—Feb. 28: The Oak Ridge Boys, Eddie Rabbitt
—March 1: Loretta Lynn
—March 2: Loretta Lynn
—March 3: Kenny Rogers, Dottie West
—March 4: Charlie Pride
Elsewhere
JAZZ: The Southwest Jazz Festival will be held Feb. 23 in
Kingsville. Performances will be held in Jones Auditorium
on the Texas A&l University campus. The festival will fea
ture high school and college jazz band competition during
the day, and a concert by Count Basie and his band at 8
p.m.
JALAPENO: The first annual Jalapeno Street Festival will
be held in Laredo’s San Agustin Plaza on Saturday after
noon. (See photo, page 2.)
Play to open
"The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas,” the rollicking musical
comedy that was a smash
Broadway hit and is still playing in
New York, will open in Houston
February 25. The open-ended
run will be performed at the
Tower Theater.
The musical, which is based on
the actual closing of the famous
Chicken Ranch in La Grange by
Houston TV personality Marvin
Zindler, was taken from a book by
Texans Larry King and Peter
Masterson. The music and lyrics
are by Tex and Carol Hall, and
musical numbers are staged by
another Texan, Tommy Tune.
The Houston Company cast
includes local theater veteran
Marietta Marich as Mona
Stangley, the madam with "a
heart of gold,” William Hardy, an
actor and director at the Alley
Theater for 20 years, as Sheriff
Fort Worth show
A few new records were set as
the 83rd annual Southwestern
Exposition and Fat Stock show
closed its 1979 edition. W.R. Watt
Jr., president and manager of the
stock show, said, “Our show this
year, overall, was even better
than anticipated.
“We knew we had an outstand
ing rodeo planned, but its recep
tion exceeded our expectations,”
he said. “The livestock show with
nearly 15,000 entries (a record)
produced enthusiasm among ex
hibitors, and the show animals
were tops in their respective
breeds.”
The indoor rodeo featured 22
performances during the 12 days
of the show and produced a rec
ord 827 cowboy entries, with 771
contestants vying for $181,153 in
prize money, also a record.
Total grounds attendance at
the stock show was 605,000, and
paid rodeo attendance was
117,180, both down slightly from
a year earlier due mainly to bad
weather conditions, Watt said.
“We hosted a number of
foreign visitors,” he said, “adding
prominence to our show’s attrac
tiveness as an international
event.”
Auction sales for the show this
in Houston
Ed Earl Dodd and Larry Hovis of
TV’s “Hogan’s Heroes” as the
zealous, self-styled public defen
der Melvin P. Thorpe (based
loosely on Zindler).
The musical includes, of
course, Miss Mona’s girls, and
also some characters known as
The Texas Aggies — good ole’
boys who visit the chicken ranch.
The play will inaugurate the
newly remodeled Tower Theater,
located at 1201 Westheimer,
which has been converted from a
1930 art-deco movie theater to a
945-seat live theater.
Performances will be every
Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m.,
Saturday at 7 and 10 p.m. and
Sunday at 3 and 7 p.m. Tickets
are $14, $11.50 and $9 for week
day performances and one dollar
higher on weekends.
For any additional information,
call 713-977-5050.
sets records
year generated more than $2 mil
lion in gross volume. A world rec
ord was set for the Sale of Cham
pions, when Fort Worth busi
nessman Don Hansen and as
sociates placed the top bid of
$52,000 for the Grand Champion
Steer of the show. The champion
was a Limousin 5/8 cross shown
by Sonya Deatherage of the Sta
ton, Texas 4-H club. The 1,165-
pound black named “Buddy” was
of Noffsinger Ranches breeding.
The Reserve Grand Champion
Steer was a Limousin-Angus
cross shown by Becky Lindsey of
the Mullin, Texas FFA chapter.
“Last Chance” weighed 1,175
pounds and was bred by Alvin
Tiemann. It brought $7,000 in the
auction from Miller Beer of Fort
Worth and Dallas.
“We take pride in having the
most prestigious stock show in
the country,” Watt said, “and full
credit for this recognition should
be given to all our employees.
“It takes many people working
together to make this enormous
civic endeavor the success it con
tinues to enjoy year after year,”
he said.
Dates for the 1980 stock show
will be Jan. 23 through Feb. 3.
Malanga
Exhibit
The photographs above and at left are from
an exhibit by Gerard Malanga which is on
display is the MSC Gallery. Above is
Malanga’s portrait of Phillip Lamamtia, and
at left is a portrait of William Rice Bur
roughs. Soem of Malanga’s work in another
medium, film, was shown last Tuesday on
campus.
Photos by Bill Wilson