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Where you turn: This is not just a stage

Daniel West holds part of a rainbow banner in the 2007 Tulsa Pride and Diversity parade, which ran from 15th and Utica to Veteran’s Park on June 9, 2007. Tulsa World file

By Staff Reports
Published: 6/14/2008 2:08 AM
Last Modified: 6/14/2008 3:05 AM

ALL THE TOWN'S A 'STAGE'

SummerStage continues at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center with a trio of Saturday shows.

The Tulsa Area Community Theatre Alliance goes on at 8 p.m. with the TACTA Showcase, featuring 10 shorts from member theater groups.

Sweet and Hot Productions puts four sensational voices — Cindy Cain, Rebecca Ungerman, Pam Van Dyke Crosby and Annie Ellicott — under the lights for two shows in a staged reading of a work by P. Casey Morgan. It's called "Backstage at the Midnight Social Club" and it's 8 p.m. in the Liddy Doenges Theatre, Second Street and Cincinnati Avenue. Tickets for this cabaret are $20 to $30, available at the PAC box office, 596-7111.

And it wouldn't be SummerStage without Gilbert & Sullivan. Light Opera Oklahoma offers up the G&S classic "Pirates of the Penzance" at 8 p.m. on the main stage. Tickets are $25-29.

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TULSA PRIDE 2008 EQUALITY FESTIVAL

Tulsa's gay pride events wrap up Saturday at Centennial Park, 1028 E. Sixth St.

The theme for Tulsa PRIDE 2008 is "Equality, Love, Tulsa," and at the Equality Festival, organizers plan to make that theme a reality by highlighting and celebrating Tulsa's cultural and ethnic diversity.

The Equality Festival will include everything from fashion shows to art shows to kids events, with booths set up for businesses and organizations that support a diverse community. Charities, churches, parenting

organizations, HIV/AIDS prevention organizations, activist and political groups, and social organizations will be represented.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

www.tulsaworld.com/equalityfestival

MAKE IT MOZART

Things are under way in Bartlesville at the 2008 OK Mozart International Festival. Fireworks went off last night, but there are plenty of performances left to light up the night.

Saturday is "An Evening with Ben Vereen," with the Tony Award-winning star and a small combo performing, as Vereen put it, "songs that have touched all our lives." Vereen's show begins at 8 p.m.

For Father's Day, OK Mozart offers up a special pops concert featuring legendary pianist Peter Nero at 2 p.m. Sunday. At 7:30 p.m. that evening the two winners of the OK Mozart Young Artists Competition will perform.

And Monday will be a night for dance, as the New York Theater Ballet company performs works that range from Agnes de Mille's ballet for the musical "Carousel" to Antony Tudor's classic "Jardin aux Lilas" and the company's unique one-act version of "The Sleeping Beauty."

Tickets for the Vereen and Nero performances range from $25 to $50; the Young Artists concert and the ballet performance have top ticket prices of $35.

(918) 336-9800, www.tulsaworld.com/okmozart

TALONS TRY TO GET EVEN

The Tulsa Talons may be looking to settle some old scores when they host the Iowa Barnstormers. John Gregory, the Barnstormers' head coach, has beaten the Talons six times in the past three years. Tulsa and Iowa kick off at 7 p.m. Saturday. It's Tulsa's second-to-last home game of the season.

For ticket information, call (877) 885-7222.

www.tulsaworld.com/talons

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	Report Comment CWG, (6/14/2008 8:11:32 AM) The gay kind of diversity is not my bag. May go down by there to see who does not need my business.
	Report Comment PPilot, Tulsa (6/21/2008 1:55:18 PM) CWG, save yourself the trip. You're backwards attitude is says everything we need to know about you. After all, you just said it best: "May go down by there to see who does not need my business." You are correct, we don't need YOUR business. Save your money for a new double-wide.

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