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“CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF”: 8 p.m. April 20, Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. Story of a couple poised to inherit the largest plantation in the Mississippi Delta. He is confined, by injury, to the bedroom of his family estate. His bride is determined to win the family fortune. Tickets: $32.50, $37.50, $42.50 at 630-896-6666 or www.paramountarts.com.
“CLOSER”: through May 10, Riverfront Playhouse, 11-13 S. Water Street Mall, Aurora. Patrick Marber’s controversial and provocative play about love and sex in the 21st Century. Not appropriate for younger or more sensitive audience members. Schedule: 8 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays. Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors and students at 630-897-9496 or www.riverfrontplayhouse.com.
“DROOD”: through April 12, Pheasant Run Resort Mainstage Theater, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. Family-friendly mystery by Rupert Holmes. Presented by Noble Fool Theatricals. John Jasper, the “Jekyll-and-Hyde” choirmaster, is in love with his student, Rosa Bud, who is engaged to Jasper’s nephew, Edwin Drood. When Drood is discovered missing, suspicions surface as to whether Drood has been murdered. The audience will help determine the story ending. Schedule: 8 p.m. Friday, 5 & 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $27, $38. Dinner show packages: $49, $60. Tickets and information: 630-584-6342; any Ticketmaster location or www.ticketmaster.com.
“LATE NITE CATECHISM”: through May 31, Preservation Hall Studio Theater at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. Noble Fool theatricals comedy presentation featuring Lisa Braatz as Sister, the wisecracking, lovable nun. Schedule: 6 p.m. Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $27 with dinner packages from $49. Tickets and information: 630-584-6342; any Ticketmaster location or www.ticketmaster.com.
“THE MUSIC MAN”: 7:30 p.m. April 17-19, Dundee-Crown High School auditorium, 1 Charger Country Drive, Carpentersville. Story of the con man salesman, Harold Hill, who fools everybody but the intelligent town librarian, Marian Paroo. Tickets: $7 adults, $6 seniors and students available at the door. Tickets and information: 847-275-6995.

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DENVER, Colo. - Colorado Crush QB John Dutton will continue to cheer for his sister-in-law and American Idol hopeful, Kristy Lee Cook tonight as she will perform once again on the hit show as one of the final nine contestants.
Cook, a country singer, impressed judges last week with her rendition of “God Bless The U.S.A.” and will be right at home this week as Idol welcomes country superstar Dolly Parton to the show.
“She is country through and through,” Dutton said of Cook. “She will be totally in her element this week and we are excited to watch her perform once again.”
Cook, a 24-year-old singer from Selma, OR, auditioned for the show at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, home to the Philadelphia Soul, last August. Cook will perform on Tuesday, April 1, at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on FOX.
Watch American Idol and vote for Kristy via text message or phone with the information provided during the telecast.
Season and group tickets for the 2008 season are now on sale. Contact a Crush account executive at (720) 258-3400 to reserve your seats today. Individual game tickets can be purchased at the Pepsi Center Ticket Office, all Colo rado Ticketmaster locations and on line at ticketmaster.com.
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The wait is over. You can officially start enjoying spring now. The days will get longer, the sun will shine brighter, and the birds will sing more sweetly now that the line-up for this year’s Sundown in the City has been announced. Feel free to grumble about the picks and complain about the crowds.
Check back on Thursday for the full line-up. Sorry, information embargo is in place until then.
Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria in the Old City was closed for lunch on Monday so staff members could attend a funeral mass for Carrie Daugherty in Chattanooga. Daugherty, 24, was killed March 19. She had been an employee of Barley’s for two years.
“I couldn’t think of anything more horrifying than what we’ve had to go through the last week,” says Barley’s booking manager Robby Dubov. “She was that person for us, you know? She came in a room and everyone smiled. We’re tight. There’s not a lot of turnover. Some people have been here for three to six years.”
Barley’s will hold a benefit concert with the local honky-tonk band J.C. and the Dirty Smokers on April 19 in Daugherty’s memory. Proceeds from the show will be donated to Emily’s Power for the Cure, a foundation formed in honor of Daugherty’s niece, Emily Ransom, that raises money for research to cure neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer.
Daugherty had also been training for the Country Music Marathon in Nashville on April 26 to raise money for the foundation. Several Barley’s staff members, including Dubov, are now planning to take part in the marathon.
Micah Johnson, a 21-year-old acquaintance of Daugherty, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in her death.
Word has it that Josiah Leming, the Morristown teenager whose dismissal from American Idol earlier this year was among the most controversial cuts ever made on the show, has signed a deal with Warner Bros. The first report, with additional news that Leming had already spent part of his advance on a pick-up truck for his father, came on the KnoxBlab message board on Thursday, March 20. That was followed the next day by a post on News Sentinel entertainment writer Terry Morrow’s blog, which was then linked to by Rolling Stone’s website and realitytvmagazine.com. As of Monday, Leming’s MySpace page still reads that his label deal is “up for negotiation.”

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