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37 'THE SCRANTON TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1986 Society To Sponsor Irish Christmas Show Friday Night Baptist Church, 213 S. Main Ave. An exotic car show will be presented from Friday through Sunday at the Valley Forge Convention and Exhibit Center. for the dinner theater. The Dec.

21 show at 7:30 p.m., will be performance only, without the dinner. Reservations are available by phoning 283-2195. The DuPont Registry and Hemmings Motor News are co-sponsors of the event during which all attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the DuPont Registry. Millions of dollars worth of automobiles will be on display. They include celebrity vehicles like Al Holbert's Lowenbrau racing car No.

14; the original Miami Vice cars, the Spyder and the Testarossa; Yoko Ono's Mercedes Benz; the amazing Rolls-Royce from the movie Leon Spinks' Spartan, and the original 1975 Ford Gran Torino from "Starsky and Hutch," featuring Starsky look-alike Michael Glasman. Show hours are Friday, 5 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $2 for children.

A Messiah Sine-in. featuring the Rob pop and jazz standards in its own innovative style. Tickets will be available at the door at a cost of $6. A performance by the Phil Woods Quintet, originally scheduled for the above date, has been postponed until spring. The Singers' Guild ot Scranton will present George Frederick Handel's "Messiah" on Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

in St. Peter's Cathedral. Excerpts from Handel's masterpiece will highlight the guild's traditional Christmas presentation. The concert also will include Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat," as well as many carols by the 60-voice chorus. A full baroque orchestra, the Sinfonia da Camera, will accompany the chorus, and Robert L.

Edwards will direct the program. Tickets are available at the Diocesan Guild Studios and Ralph's Record City in Scranton, and Costa's Cards, Clark's Summit. Tickets also may be purchased at the door on the night of the concert. On Dec. 21, the singers will participate in the Christmas program at the Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre.

V'f'i Ventriloquist Shari Lewis will be on stage Dec. 20 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at Kirby Center, Wilkes-Barre. Her Christmas show, "Holiday Happening," offers 90 minutes of singing, dancing and magic for the entire family. The Irish Cultural Society of Scranton will sponsor the Glen Curtin Irish Cristmas Show on Friday at 8 p.m.

at the South Scranton intermediate School. The show stars Glen Curtin and his band, famed Irish songstress Anna McGoldrick and comedian Eamon O'Connor with "Shamus" the leprechaun. -Tickets for the show are priced at $10, with proceeds benefiting St. Joseph's Center. Tickets are available at Giannetta's Music Store and Cronin's Irish Cottage, Scranton, and Shanty and Lace, Clark's Summit.

Marywood College Campus Choir, singers and chamber choir will present a Christmas concert Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center on the college campus. Traditional and contemporary carols will be sung by the campus and chamber choirs under the direction of Robert D. Herrema, and Marywood Singers directed by Sister Alphonsa Concilio, IHM. The free concert is open to the public.

Further information is available by contacting the school's music department at 348-6268. The Jazz at the Lucan Center series will continue Sunday at 3 p.m. with a Derformance bv Asmraaus Sunshine, a young. 10-member lazz band that plays Bon Jovi, Cinderella Show Due MercuryPoIyGram recording artists Bon Jovi and Cinderella, will be coming to Northeastern Pennsylvania during a posKJhrist-mas tour of the East Coast. The two bands will be at the Kingston Armory, Kingston, on Jan.

3. Tickets are priced at $13.50 and are on sale at Paperback Books-mith, Viewmont Mall. Bon Jovi also has shows booked Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 20 at 8 p.m.

at Stabler Arena, Lehigh University, Bethlehem. Tickets for this one are priced at $15 and are on sale at Ticketron. Fresh from its sold-out tour of Europe, Bon Jovi will be embarking on its first U.S. headline tour. The group's current LP, "Slippery When Wet," already has topped the Billboard album charts, remains in the Top 5, and is rapidly closing in on triple-platinum sales.

The band's first single, "You Give Love a Bad Name," just went No. 1 in Billboard. A new single, "Livin on a Prayer," has just been released. Label mate, Cinderella, has spent the last five months on the road with David Lee Roth. The rfroup's debut album, "Night Songs, is just shy of platinum and 'has spent months on the Billboard Top 20 list.

Key LP tracks have been "No-'body's Fool" and "Shake Me." cioHrioill THIS WEEK: Nell Sedaka will be at the Kirby Center, Wilkes-Barre, on Saturday night. BOOKINGS: Broome County Arena, Binghamton, will be the site of a concert by David Lee Roth On Jan. 21. The bands Bon Jovi and Cinder-ea have a concert set for Jan. 3 at Kingston Armory.

(See following listing for show times and ticket details for all concerts.) CRISTY LANE: Saturday, 8 p.m.. State Theater, Easton; $15, $12; on Visa and MasterCard bv calling (215) 252-3132. BON JOVI: Dec. 19. 7:30 p.m., Dec.

20, 8 p.m., Stabler Arena, Lehigh University, Bethlehem; $15; Ticketron. BOM MVI and CINOMllA Jan. 3. 8 p.m., Kingston Armory, Kingston; (13.50; Paperback Booksmith, Viewmont Mall. (Ralph's Record City and Gallery of Sound are sold out).

TONY BENNETT: Jan. 10, 8 p.m.. Symphony Hall, 26 N. Sixth Allei. 3wn; $20, $19, $18; for information i to charge tickets on Visa or MasterCard, call (215) 821-0906.

LEE ROTH: Jan. 21. 7 30 p.m.. Broome County Arena, Binghamton; $14.50: on sale starting Saturday at Ticketron. F.M.

KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Wilktt-Barr NEIL SEDAKA: Saturday, 8 p.m.; $19, $16, $14. Tickets for most F.M. Kirby Center performances are available at Ticketron, Gallery of Sound stores, the Kirby Center box office Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., on VISA or MasterCard by calling 826-1100. For mail orders, send stamped, self-addressed envelope with check or money order and mail to: "Tickets," F.M.

Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Indicate show, date and time. VALLEY FORGE MUSIC FAIR Route 202, Devon Saturday, Vienna Choir Boys; $15. Sunday, Shirley Caesar and the Richard Smallwood Singers; $15.

Dec. 27. Fred Pirrli I the Five Satins. Tht Ptnguint. Don Juan, Arlene Smith and Th Chtnttlt and little Caatar Thi Rommr, $17.50 or $30 tor this and Dec.

28 shows. Dec. 28, Tht Drlfltrt. Tht Duprtes. Tht Dovtllt and Tht Skylintrt, Gary Lewis and Tht Pltyboyi; $17.50 or $30 tor both shows.

Tickets for Valley Forge Music Fair presentations are on sale through Ticke-trfln locations. Phone charges, through Visa or MasterCard, may be made by calling (215) 644-5000. Information is available by calling (215) 296-9994. A free-will offering will be taken. The Genettl Dinner Playhouse, Route 309, Hazleton, is presenting Neil Simon's comedy about male midlife crisis, "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers," through Dec.

20. For information: 455-3691. The Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" will be staged this holiday season at the Forty Fort United Methodist Church, Wyoming and Yeager avenues in Forty Fort. Performances will be held Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 4 and 7 p.m.

Tickets cost $4.50 for adults and $2.50 for children. They are available by calling 288-7785. Italian and Greek paintings by Gloria Lenakos Galfnev will be on exhibit through Jan. 9 in the main lobby of the Lackawanna County Courthouse. Sculptor and painter George R.

Arv thonlsen of Solebury, will be featured in a one-man show through Jan. 16 at the University of Scranton Art Gallery. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, and 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

The public may attend. Admission is free. Paintings by Jim Quinnan will be displayed at the Everhart Museum through Feb. 1. A concurrent exhibition features comic strip heroes of the past and present.

Mimeactor Joe Gorl will perform children's stories at the Central Gallery of the Everhart Museum, Saturday at 10:30 a.m. A photography exhibit by John Bar-nosky will continue through Jan. 22 in the Contemporary Gallery Art Center at Marywood College. Ballet Theater of Scranton, in conjunction with Marywood College, will present "The Nutcracker" in free performances Dec. 26-28 in the college's Fine Arts Theater.

Matinees, by the children's company, are scheduled on the three days at 2 p.m. Evening performances by the senior and apprentice troupes are slated daily at 7:30. A Santa Express rail excursion from Honesdale to Hawley aboard the Stourbridge Lion will be run Saturday at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. The 90-minute ride will cost $3 per person. Santa and Mrs.

Claus will distribute cookies to children on the ride. An Elizabethan Madrigal Dinner will be staged by the Madrigal Singers of East Stroudsburg University today, Saturday, Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 at Charlemagne Park Restaurant, Mount Bethel. The feaste will get under way each night at 7:30 and will be an evening of Elizabethan-style music, entertainment, costumes and cuisine.

The authentic meal is modeled after meals actually served in 1573. Tickets are priced at $46, except for tonight's event, which is priced at $43 per ticket. Information is available by calling (215 759-6002 between 3 and 6 p.m. Uvlo Saganlc will hold an exhibition of slate sculpture through Friday at Lindner Art Gallery, Miller Library, at Keystone Junior College. At Kirby Center The F.M.

Kirby Center lor the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre, has announced the following shows: Ventriloquist Shari Lewis will be on stage Dec. 20 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; tickets are priced at $9, $6 and $4. Lewis will usher in the Christmas season with her show, "Holiday Happenin's," 90 minutes of singing, dancing and magic for the entire family. Soprano Christine Donahue will appear Dec. 21 at 7 p.m.; tickets cost $12, $8 and $6.

The singer will be joined in the Christmas concert by the Scranton Singers Guild, the Hazleton Oratorio Society and the Sinfonia da Camera. The Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theater will perform "The Nutcracker" on Dec. 27 at 2 and 8 p.m., and Dec. 28 at 2 p.m.; tickets are priced at $10 and on sale at the Kirby Center box office and through the Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theater. The center will present its Town Hall Series, a collection of lectures by notables from the entertainment field, through March.

In the Town Hall Series, psy-chosexual therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer will lecture on Feb. 24, and talk-show host Larry King is scheduled March 24. All lectures begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available fof individual lectures.

Orders should be mailed to The Times-Leader, Wilkes-Barre. Tickets for most F.M. Kirby Center performances are available at Ticketron, Gallery of Sound stores, the Kirby Center, on VISA or MasterCard by calling 826-1100, or for mail orders, send stamped, self-addressed envelope with check or money order and mail to: "Tickets," F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703.

Indicate name of show, date and time preferred. The Lucan Center for the Arts, 232 Wyoming is sponsoring a series of films, on a monthly basis on Wednesday evenings through May The next film will be Francois Truf-faut's "Day for Night" on next Wednesday. The drama about the film-making world includes the problems of the high-strung temperamental cast and crew with slyly comic and bittersweet insight into the scenes behind the scenes. The film stars Jean-Pierre Leaud, Valentina Cortese and Jacqueline Bisset. All films will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by an informal discussion.

Tickets at the door will cost $3.50. "The Nutcracker" ballet will be performed by Ballet Northeast, Friday through Sunday in the Darte Center of Wilkes College. Show times are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Artists from across the nation are exhibiting their works in a Marywood College crafts and sculpture invitational show through Dec. 18 in the college's Contemporary Gallery.

Among the exhibitors are Everette Busbee, Timothy Glotzbach, Brent Kington, Eleanor Moty, Craig Nutt, Matt Povse, and Kathleen and Frederick Woell. Included are items of genuine wool clothing, wood works, jewelry, ceramics and pottery. The perennially popular story of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" will be presented in an adaptation called "Mr. Scrooge" by the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, Swoyersville. Performance schedule is today through Sunday, and again Dec: 18-21 Neil Sedaka will perform in concert Saturday night at 8 at the Kirby Center, Wilkes-Barre.

Tickets are priced at $19, $16 and $14. Tickets for the show are available at Ticketron, Gallery of Sound stores and the Kirby Center. ert Dale Chorale, will be held Dec. 21 at 3 p.m. in St.

Luke's Episcopal Church, 232 Wyoming Ave. Tickets are available on a first-come first-served basis and may be obtained from members of the chorale; Cetta-Parrish Music 517 Linden The Book and Record Mart, South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, or by calling 90 FM at 655-2808. Donation is $4. A reception will immediately follow the performance. A special holiday-oriented concert by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will be presented Dec.

19 at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre and Dec. 20 at Masonic Temple in Scranton. Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Hugh Keelan, will conduct the orchestra. The program will feature Dr.

Roosevelt Newson, pianist, in "Symphonic Variations" by Cesar Franck. Members of the Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theater will dance to selections from Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." Elsewhere on the program there will be Antonin Dvorak's "Carnival Overture" and W.A. Mozart's "Sleigh Ride." A Christmas carol sing-along will conclude the show. Keelan is director of the New Essex Chamber Orchestra, in England, and has been guest conductor for Covent Garden and the Glyndebource Festival. He also has led the Opera Theater of New York.

The dance soloists will be Nancy Latoszewski and Jerry Noone, who have performed various roles with the WBBT. Tickets are available by calling the philharmonic hotlines at 342-0920 or 287-1916; at Giannetta Music and Paperback Booksmith, Scranton, and at Kirby Center, Gallery of Sound or Book and Record Mart in Wilkes-Barre. Tickets also are available for two special spring performances at the Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Wilkes-Barre. Internationally acclaimed flutist James Galway will perform with guitarist Kazuhito Yamashito on March 16, and popjazz greats Mel Torme and George Shearing will entertain on May 15. Tickets cost $20, $16 and $9 for each of these performances at the Kirby Center.

The Wally Gordon Community Singers will present their annual Christmas concert Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in United Irish songstress Anna McGoldrick will be on stage when the Irish Cultural Society of Scranton sponsors the Glen Curtin Irish Cristmas Show on Friday at 8 p.m. at the South Scranton Intermediate School. RUSTY NAIL, 732 S.

Irving Friday, Bill Kolata; Sunday, Chaplin Heist. SHERATON INN, Meadow Avenue: Tonight through Sunday, Night Rider. SMOKEHOUSE, Lake Sheridan Road. Factoryvllle: Friday, Spyder; Saturday, East Coast. TOMAINO'S LOUNGE, Main Street, Archbald: Friday, Zootz; Saturday and Wednesday, Sno Dog.

TREADWAY INN, Scranton-Carbon-dale Highway: Tonight, New York City Comedy Night; Friday, Sno Dog; Saturday, Fast Lane. UNCLE MIKE'S, 223 W. Market Friday, Bobby Ross. WALDORF PARK, East Mountain: Friday, Lafe Show; Saturday, Bill Saar. Bon Jovi, above, and Cinderella, below, will be coming to Kingston Armory on Jan.

3 as part of a post-Christmas tour of the East Coast. Bon Jovi also has concerts set for Dec. 19-20 at Stabler Arena at Lehigh University in Bethlehem. Live Entertainment at Local Clubs Here is how the live entertainment lines up for the coming week at local clubs: ALBRIGHT CAFE, Providence Road and Albright Avenue: Tonight and Friday, Silent Runner; Saturday, Pocket Rocker. ALORA DINING ROOM, Ramada Inn, Clark's Summit: Tonight through Sunday, Gary Bode on piano.

AUTOGRAPHS, 100 S. Main Old Forge: Tonight, Dirty Looks; Friday, to be announced; Saturday, Separate Checks plus Rudy and the Liuing Dolls; Sunday, Meat Loaf; Wednesday, Todd Rungren. BAMBOO ROOM, Montdale: Saturday, The Diamonds. CABARET, Kennedy Drive, Archbald: Friday, Quest; Saturday, Sicmn. CARDINAL INN, Route 502, Spring GREEN BRICK, 1758 Brick Friday, Rumors; Saturday, Beggar's Opera; Wednesday, Frank Pullo and Brian Anderson of The Pulse.

HEIL'S PLACE, 1002 Wheeler Friday, Chaplin Heist: Saturday, Cullen Casey; Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dakota. LOUNGE, Route 590, Hamlin: Saturday, Carl Kennedy and the Country Kings. JIM DANDY'S, Chinchilla: Tonight, Don Watt; Friday, David Bill. JUDGE'S, 2934 Blrney Friday. Gerard McDonough; Saturday, Janet Rhodes.

O'TOOLE'S, 1328 Mulberry Friday, The Pulse; Saturday, Pearl. Sunday, Rockin' Reverend Billy Wertz; Tuesday, open mike with Dave Harris. Brook Saturday, Time. CINNABAR, 3277 Pittston Ave: Saturday, Pete Mills. CLUB MARGARET, 1610 Washburn Friday, Harrison Barnes and the Sound Machine.

DOC'S CAFE, Main Street, Moscow: Saturday, Chaplin Heist. ERIE HOTEL and RESTAURANT, Elmhurst: Friday, Beggar's Opera; Saturday. Night Train. FATHER JOHN'S PUB, 330 W. Market Tonight, Mike Walton; Friday, Jim Cullen and Tom Casey; Saturday, Redstone.

GALLAGHER'S, 600 S. Blakely Dunmore: Friday, Great Rock Scare; Saturday, The Buoys; Sunday, Quest; Wednesday, Arc Angel. GAVIN'S, 1392 N. Washington Tonight, open mike..