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January 23, 2004

Music

Today:

The Surrogate Band, a Pink Floyd tribute band, will bring its four-set show complete with more than $10,000 worth of video and light effects to The Temple Club, 500 E. Grand River Ave., in Lansing's Old Town. The seven-piece group even throws in some British accents - just another bonus to keep Floyd fans pleased.


Heiruspecs, a live hip-hop group from Minneapolis will bring their underground sound to Mac's Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing. Special guests include local artists Tasheree D. Enajetic and Gambit the MC. Cover is $5 for 21 and older.


Saturday:

The Accafellas, an a capella group made up of eight MSU students, will perform live at the Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for general admission for the "Accafellas Awards." The show will be a spoof of an awards show featuring "Best Kiss" and "Best Accafella." The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. with the all-female MSU a capella group, Ladies First, opening.


The Thud Rumble - Q.F.O. Tour, featuring Q-Bert, Stylus Plots!, DJ Ruckus, MC 3rd Degree, DJ Benny Ben, Kaku and Finale, Annalyze and a 25-foot video wall by the Disassembler at The Temple Club. If you're a hip-hop fan, you don't want to miss this show. Learn how to break dance from members of the Nucking Futs B-Boy crew. The show starts at 8 p.m. and will last until 2 a.m. The price is $17.50 for those 21 and older and $20 for 18 and older.


Theater

This weekend:

The longest running play in the world by Agatha Christie will be performed Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors over 60 and $5 for children under 10.

For more information or to reserve tickets, call (517) 484-9191.


If fantasy is more of the genre you crave, then members of the MSU Department of Theatre will wow your imagination with their presentation of "The Skriker" by Caryl Churchill.

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Directed by theater senior Khalid Bhatti, the play will run Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the MSU Auditorium.

Tickets are $3 and are available at the door.

For more information, call (517) 355-6431.


For all of the ballet-lovers out there, the Moscow Festival Ballet will be in town this weekend at the Wharton Center.

Tonight the group will perform "Giselle" - a starry-eyed ballet about a young peasant girl, Giselle, who is helplessly in love with whom she thinks is a simple villager but who is really a nobleman.

The ballet group will also be performing the classic tale of "Cinderella" tomorrow evening.

Both shows start at 8 p.m. and tickets for each range from $23 to $37. Student and group discounts are available and for more information or to buy tickets, call (517) 432-2000 or 1-800-WHARTON.


If show tunes run through your blood, than a visit to Grand Ledge on Sunday will make you want to sing, sing, sing!

At the Grand Ledge Opera House, 121 S. Bridge St. in Grand Ledge, the Lange Choral Ensemble will be singing their hearts out to numerous Broadway show songs starting at 3 p.m.

Musical numbers will be chosen from hits such as, "West Side Story," "Les Misérables," and "Ragtime."

Tickets for the concert are $7 before the show and $9 at the door. They are available at the Grand Ledge Area Chamber of Commerce, MacDowell's Hearth & Floral, Ledge Clippers Barber Shop and Grand Ledge Shell.

For more information, call (517) 627-1443 or (517) 627-5170.

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