2012
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The Artwork of Lancaster County Young Artists: March 5 at The Ware Center at Millersville University Lancaster. The Lancaster County Young Artist -2012 Exhibit is a competition to recognize outstanding artists in grades 7 – 12. From a field of 2500 entries, the best works are chosen for inclusion in this exhibition. This collection will remain throughout the month of March. 717-871-2344 or www.millersville.edu
The Lancaster Butterfly and Entomological Club: March 5 at the North Museum of Natural History and Science. The Lancaster Butterfly and Entomological Club meets to study butterflies and insects and to share that information at our meetings. Catch the enthusiasm! 717-291-3941 or www.northmuseum.org
Fast Family Meals: March 6 at The Good Cooking Store. Sometimes it feels like there’s never enough time to get dinner on the table. Join us as we explore a menu of quick recipes fit for a family. We will make and then share together Apple & Poppy Seed Salad, Coriander Chicken with Satay Sauce, Baked Rice, and Chocolate Mocha Sauce with ice cream. 877-525-7745 or www.fix-itandforget-it.com
Mouse Paint: March 6 at the Hands-On House. Come along with three white mice and explore the world of color. Please call to reserve a spot. 717-569-5437 or www.handsonhouse.org
CATS: March 9 at American Music Theatre. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of T.S. Eliot poems in an airport bookshop, CATS has become one of the longest running shows in Broadway history. Winner of seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, CATS features 20 of Webber’s timeless melodies, including the hit song, “Memory.” 800-648-4102 or www.amtshows.com
Choo Choo Barn Opening Day: March 10 at the Choo Choo Barn. The O, HO and N Gauge trains are ready to chug down the tracks at one of the largest, hand-built model train displays in America. Featuring more than 150 animations and 22 operating trains, this 1,700 square foot handcrafted, work-of-art is packed with small-scale local landmarks and detailed scenes from Lancaster County. 717- 687-7911 or www.choochoobarn.com
Murder at Mount Hope: March 9 at Mount Hope Estate & Winery. Join us at the Mount Hope Murder Mystery Dinner theater for an interactive, culinary Who-Done-It! Enjoy an ace-high meal and help the lawman figure who in tarnation is the culprit! The year is 1870. World famous inventor-turned-railroad-tycoon Horatio Terwilliger has invited numerous guests to the Mt. Hope Grand Central Train Depo for the inaugural journey of his new fangled locomotive. The guests board the train and head off down the tracks until a murder is unveiled. Someone on the train is dead … and someone is a killer. 717-665-7021 or www.parenfaire.com
Jonah!: March 10 at the Sight & Sound Theatre. Unlike any show you’ve ever seen, this energetic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat from the time you step into the theatre. A new, completely immersive experience, Jonah promises to move you to laughter and tears. From the enormous whale swimming over your head to the thunderous effects of the mighty storm, the story of Jonah will astound and captivate the young and young-at-heart alike. 717-687-7800 or www.sight-sound.com
Barrels on the Brandywine: March 10 on the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail. Each March, the wineries of the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail feature tastings of the new developing vintage in barrels, buckets, bottles and more! This Passport Event gives you a chance to venture into our cellars and taste the new wines firsthand. 610- 444-3842 www.bvwinetrail.com
Irish Rovers: March 10 at the Whitaker Center. The story of the Irish Rovers includes hosting three award-winning television series, topping the music charts again and again, more than 45 years of international recordings, and touring their music around the world. Enjoy a rollicking, rousing performance of traditional Irish tunes of good cheer when the Rovers come to Harrisburg. 717-214-2787 or www.whitakercenter.org
Charter Days: March 11 The Ephrata Cloister. Celebrate the birth of Pennsylvania with FREE ADMISSION to the Historic Ephrata Cloister. As a special feature of the day, the Ephrata Cloister chorus will perform in the Meetinghouse at 2, 3, and 4 pm. 717-733-6600 or http://www.ephratacloister.org/
The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee: February 21 at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre. A heartwarming and offbeat new musical comedy about growing up, fitting in and earning R-E-S-P-E-C-T. There’s gold stars all around when six young people in the middle of puberty learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. Through March 10. 717-898-1900 or www.dutchapple.com
Wine & Chocolate Month: February 21 with the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail. Bring your sweetheart and come celebrate with the wineries of the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail as we present delicious wine and chocolate tastings and other romantic events throughout the month. Through February 29. 610-444-3842 or www.bvwinetrail.com
War imitating life inaugural lecture: February 21 at Elizabethtown College. At 7:30 pm, Dr. Carmine Sarracino will read from his collection of poems about the American Civil War and comment on how he came to see ordinary, day-to-day life as mimicking the conditions of battle. 717-361-6412 or www.etown.edu
Them!: February 23 at the North Museum of Natural History and Science. A classic sci-fi movie comes to the Planetarium dome! Common ants mutate into giant man-eating monsters in Them! Curator of Collections Andy Redline will provide pre-show commentary. Free for members and potential members. Doors open at 6 p.m. 717-291-3941 or www.northmuseum.org
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: February 24 at The American Music Theatre. With over 30 albums to their credit, New Jersey’s Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes’ musical trademark continues to be their exuberant rhythm and blues feel, loaded with the driving sound of their legendary horn section. Rolling Stone Magazine called their album “Hearts of Stone,” “one of the top 100 albums of the 70s and 80s.” 800-648-4102 or www.amtshows.com
Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Papa Mozart: February 24-25 at The Fulton Opera House. We continue our long tradition of honoring living American composers by sharing Laconika, a recent composition by our 2012 Composer’s Award honoree George Tsontakis, who will also conduct. Then enjoy a pioneering work by Mendelssohn, featuring our own Netanel Draiblate. 717-397-7425 or www.lancastersymphony.org
Backstage Studio Gallery: February 25 at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg. Lights, camera, action! Explore an engaging new gallery that reveals the science and technology behind TV, movies, music and theatre. Backstage Studio features more than a dozen fascinating hands-on exhibits and displays that demonstrate the technology used to create the seemingly “magical” experiences of the stage and screen. Through January 1. 717-214-2787 or www.whitakercenter.org
Organ Concert for Kids featuring Ken Cowan: February 25 at Longwood Gardens. Ken Cowan brings The Longwood Organ to life in a program for kids! 610-388-1000 or www.longwoodgardens.org
Winter Fest: February 25 at Stoudt’s Brewery. Unlimited sampling of winter warmers from various breweries, great food by Chef Jim Carr and live music by “The Octavia Blues Band” octaviabband Breweries attending are: Rumspringa, Union Barrel Works, Victory, Slyfox, Boxcar, Mountain Spring and Stoudts. 717-484-4386 or www.stoudtsbeer.com
Mu Concert Band and Wind Ensemble: February 26 at the Ware Center at Millersvile University Lancaster. Millersville University Music Department’s Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will perform on Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM. This harbinger of spring will showcase the students’ talent through traditional and contemporary selections. 717-871-2344 or www.millersville.edu
Where Do You Hide a Dinosaur: February 26 at the Hands-on-House Strike up the band! Learn how to become a “fossil finder” when you play hide and seek with a dinosaur. Drop in anytime during the scheduled time. 717-569-5437 www.handsonhouse.org
Saturday: American Music Theatre, East Lampeter Township
By CPBJ staff
Some of Air Supply‘s more famous songs include “Lost in Love,” “All Out of Love,” “Just As I Am” and “The One That You Love.”
Solo artist and lead singer of The Babies and Bad English, John Waite will perform with Russell and Hitchcock.
Waite became popular in the ’70s and ’80s thanks to his talents in writing power ballads and arena rock.
His most well-known songs include “Missing You” and “When I See You Smile.”
The show starts at 8 p.m.
For tickets, click here.
Sunday: Hershey Theatre, Derry Township
By CPBJ staff
It provides a snapshot of Manhattan and tells a tale of deception, seduction, betrayal and revenge.
The movie is not rated.
A special concert showcasing the theater’s four-manual Aeolian-Skinner organ precedes the film at 1:30 p.m.
The box office opens at 1 p.m. the day of the film.
The show starts at 2 p.m.
For tickets, click here.
For more information, call 717-534-3405.
Friday: Hershey Theatre, Derry Township
By CPBJ staff
The show starts at 8 p.m.
For tickets, click here.
Friday: American Music Theatre, East Lampeter Township
By CPBJ staff
He has done stand-up comedy most of his life and got his start in 1979 at the legendary Comedy Store in Los Angeles.
Mandel has become a successful author thanks to the release of his personal memoir, “Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me,” which takes a look into his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and how these conditions helped shape his career.
The show starts at 8 p.m.
For tickets, click here.
“Evening of One Acts”
Thursday and Saturday: The Ware Center, Lancaster
By CPBJ staff
Theatre for Transformation, a multi-racial spirit-led ensemble, will present the performances.
The first is “Sister Friend,” a play infused with spirituals and gospel music that delves into the friendship between enslaved celebrity poet Phillis Wheatly and her best friend, Obour Tanner.
The second, “Show Me the Franklins!,” highlights the enslaved people in Benjamin Franklin’s households in London, Paris and Philadelphia. The play is a mix of poetry, ritual and song, and it promises to challenge the viewer to consider to whom or to what they are enslaved.
The shows start at 7:30 p.m. both days.
For tickets, visit the center’s reception desk, call 717-872-3811 or 717-871-2308 or visit muticketsonline.com. “Pay what you can” ticket pricing is available Thursday with donations collected at the door.
2012 Eastern Synchronized Skating Championships
Thursday-Saturday: Giant Center and Hersheypark Arena, Derry Township
By CPBJ staff
Among the competitors at the championships is Team USA’s Haydenettes, who are scheduled to participate in the senior event. From Lexington, Mass., the Haydenettes are the 2011 U.S. Synchronized champions and World bronze medalists.
For a schedule of events, click here.
For ticket information, click here.
This is a presentation by Lisa Minardi, Assistant Curator at Winterthur, Delaware. Beginning with the immigration of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to Pennsylvania in 1742, the Muhlenbergs have figured prominently in American history. A native of Germany, Muhlenberg served as a Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania from 1742 until his death in 1787, earning him the title patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America. He married Anna Maria Weiser, daughter of Conrad Weiser, and they had eleven children. Three of their sons went to to achieve significant renown: Peter as a Revolutonary War general; Frederick as first Speaker of the United States House; and Henry, Jr. as a renowned botanist. More information of the relationship of the Muhlenberg family to Manheim is detailed in the book by George Heiges: “Henry William Stiegel and His Associates” in which he talks about the Stiegel-Muhlenberg friendship. It was Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg who became the pastor of the four small congregations of Warwick, Heidelberg, White Oak, and Manheim.
It’s the annual free Community Weekend January 21 – January 22, 2012 at ZooAmerica North American Wildlife Park.
Guests can visit animals from the Southern Swamps, The Great Southwest, Eastern Woodlands, Big Sky Country and Northlands. They’ll be able to experience up-close animal encounters hosted by ZooAmerica naturalists throughout the day.
Zoo mascot Ranger Scratch also will make a special appearance.
The wildlife park is an 11 acre, year-round, walk-through zoo that is home to more than 200 animals representing more than 60 North American species. Open daily, ZooAmerica is one of eight zoos in Pennsylvania accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and prides itself on following its mission of conservation.
The event’s hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days.
Admission is free. Additional parking will be available at the parking garage on Chocolate Avenue.
For more information about, call 717-534-3900 or visit www.ZooAmerica.com.
