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FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Annual Wine and Music Festival May 24-25, Bluegrass Day Sunday with bands starting at 1pm. Country Day on Monday. Doors open at 12pm. $5. Food available. Hill Prairie Winery, Route 97, Oakford
Barbeque, Blues and Cruise May 30, 10am-11pm, National barbeque cook off, Stacy Mitchhart headlines at 7pm, arts and crafts show, kids zone, skydiving show, model airplane show. $5. Christian County Fairgrounds. visit downtowntaylorville.com AUDITIONS
Open call for Mature Mob Jun 6, 12:30-3pm, 2009 theme is vaudeville—sing, dance, juggle, mime, funny skits, etc. Springfield Senior Center, 701 W. Mason St. For more info, call 546-1507.
THEATER & COMEDY
The Ghost of Springfield High May 29-30, 8pm and May 31, 3pm, 8. SHS student Nick Edwards is contacted from beyond the grave by Rachel, the school ghost and finds himself caught up in a centuries-long fight for Rachel’s freedom. Mature themes. $10 adults, $7 students, seniors. For tickets, call 494- 4273, email [email protected], or pick up at Popeyes. SHS Auditorium.
Dessa Rose May 9, 15, 16 and 20-23 8pm, May 10, 17, 24, 2pm, Story of friendship between a pregnant runaway slave and a white woman abandoned by her husband on an isolated Alabama farm. $13 adults, $12 seniors. Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Sixth St. For info, call 523- 2787.
Little Women May 22-24 and 28-30, 8pm, Story follows four sisters through the growing pains of sisterhood. $12 adult, $10 seniors, $7 children under 12. Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site. Petersburg. For more info, call 632-4000 or go to www.lincolnsnewsalem.com.
One Destiny Throughout May and Jun, Performances continue. Free with paid museum admission. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. For more info, and dates and times, visit www.presidentlincoln.org.
