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Theater, music depts. debut 'Carousel'

For the first time, MSU Department of Theatre and the MSU School of Music will collaborate to bring Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's classic "Carousel" - a musical that embodies and challenges dance, opera and music. "This is not your typical happy-ending musical," said Melanie Helton, director and assistant music professor.

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Fire at will

It's 3:30 p.m. on a Monday, and Adie Helfenstein has some time - and people - to kill before his 7 p.m.

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Young artist to show comics

At 8 years old, Layne Toth has accomplished things people three times her age might admire. The aspiring Lansing comic book artist has been featured in Time Magazine, enrolled in art classes at Lansing Community College and won contests.

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Instrumental musical duo to play church

Musical duo Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen will play at 8 p.m. today at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing, 855 Grove St. Reid has been playing clubs, festivals, street corners, cafes and a variety of other venues over the last 30 years.

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Rock your body

Welcome back to "Rock Your Body," The State News fitness and nutrition column. Each week, we hit up our local experts with some questions and pass on their wisdom to you. But before we get to the goods, we thought we'd tell you a little bit about who'll be giving you advice. Tom Ostrander: Tom is the owner of Powerhouse Gym, 435 E.

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'Polar Express' entertains despite creepy faces

The classic Christmastime story "The Polar Express," known for its enchanting illustrations and touching message to believe in Santa Claus, is now engaging its readers on the silver screen. After years of reading the book to his children, actor Tom Hanks decided "The Polar Express," by Chris Van Allsburg, would make a good movie. The book tells the story of a young boy who had mixed feelings about the existence of Santa.

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Off the pages

Grand Rapids, Mich. - A brooding black steam engine stands waiting on a dark, cold night. The passenger cars lined up behind it glow with yellow lamplight and children's laughter.

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Plane crash play divides sexes

A mother has been grieving over her son's death for seven years. The seven years of grieving makes her grief look like a pointless obsession of a woman who has lost her mind. "The Women of Lockerbie," presented by the MSU Department of Theatre, revolves around a mother, Madeline Livingston, who lost her son in the crash of Pan Am flight 103. After all these years, she still wanders around a forest in Lockerbie, Scotland, where the crash took place, to find the debris of her son's body.

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Interns toil at night to create play

When the lights are off and most people go to bed, BoarsHead Professional Theatre's interns begin working into the early morning hours, exploring their hidden talent on stage in a series they call Dark Nights. For the past few years, theater interns at BoarsHead, 425 S.

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Rockers Magna-Fi release record, play Rick's today

One night while delving into Cheap Trick's "Surrender," brothers C.J. and Mike Szuter mused at the idea of forming a rock band. Although many wannabe rocksters dream of such out-of-reach goals and never achieve them, the Szuter duo took the opportunity seriously and soon shaped the alt-rock group Magna-Fi.

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'Chicago' dishes up in-your-face, exciting jazz

It's so much more than a murder story starring beautiful women. The musical "Chicago," showing this week at Wharton Center, is about the 1920s, feeling good at no expense and jazz. It's not that cool bluesy, saxophone kind of jazz made popular by Ray Charles and Miles Davis.