Odds & Ends: Events, News & Local Theater

If you are in Mason, Texas on October 4th, you can participate in various activities on Old Yeller Day related to the book and the Disney movie (1957). Fred Gibson, the author of Old Yeller (1956), lived most of his live in Mason. Here is an article about the festivities, and here is the calendar of events on the Mason city website.

Apparently Ludwig Bemelmans' grandson has created a new Madeline story. You can read about it here. I think they could have just left the character well enough alone in print with the five original stories (you can see my thoughts in general about this practice here in part 1 and part 2), but perhaps this is one that will work. (According to a couple of reviews mentioned in the AP article, it looks like it does not though.) I will probably take a look at it once the library has it.

The Earnest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida has worked out an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow the six-toed cats to stay. Here is the AP story.

If you are in Northern Utah, here are a few productions you might want to see:

Jekyll and Hyde - Rodgers Memorial Theater in Centerville is performing this musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) through October 30th. Go to www.rodgersmemorial.com for more information.

In American Fork, through October 13th, you can experience the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Concert, based Washington Irving's short story originally published in 1820, with an orchestra, a sound effects artist, and a fully costumed chorus and narrator, as well as other activities for the whole family. Go to www.sleepyhollowshow.com for more information.

And lastly, BYU is hosting the University of Utah's production of the Classical Greek Tragedy Medea (431 BC), by Euripides on September 29th. Get production and ticket information at www.byuarts.com.