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FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Safe Family Saturday May 2, 10:30am-1:30pm, Free event focuses on summer safety for families. Bicycle helmets will be fitted and given away to children. Free food, games and prizes. Southern View Park, S. Fifth St, American Red Cross, 787-7602. www.il-redcross.org
AUDITIONS
Illinois Talent Competition Statewide talent search open to men and women of all ages and talents including individual and group acts for two-night competition at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, May 23-24. Prizes. For more info, call 815-207- 3759.
Springfield Ballet Company May 3, 12pm, Hoogland Center for the Arts, Theatre II 420 S. Sixth St. For more info, call 544-1967.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
The Lincoln We Know Now May 9, 7-9pm, Chicago actress Jennifer Shook, The Abe We Know Now: Abraham Lincoln in Contemporary Theatre and Popular Culture. American food and wine tasting available. Free. Dr. Ugs Drugstore Cafe, 142 E. Beardstown Street, Clare Lynd-Porter, 473-2726. www.imaginearts.org
THEATER & COMEDY
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.
Oklahoma! May 1-2, 7:30pm, May 3, 5pm, Springfield High School’s 2009 musical pro duction. SHS Schnirring Auditorium, 100 S. Lewis St, Kim Parker, 546-6108.
Comedian Bob Biggerstaff May 8-9, 7:30 and 9:30pm, $13 and $15 vip. Funny Bone Comedy Club.
Comedian Gallagher May 1-2,8-10pm, Comedy legend comes to Donnie B’s Funny Bone Comedy Club. $28, $30 VIP. For reservations, call 391- 0136.
Comedian Rocky Laporte May 8, 8pm and May 9, 7:15 and 9:30pm, Comedian Rocky Laport headlines, Ted Denson features shows. Mason City Limits Comedy Club, 114 E. Chestnut St, Clammy, 482-5233. www.mclimits.com
Comedian Todd Yohn May 1, 8pm and May 2 7:15pm and 9:30pm. Mason City Limits Comedy Club, 114 E. Chestnut St, Clammy, 482-5233. ww.mclimits.com
Doug Stone May 2, 7pm and 9pm, Comedy night. $10 at door. Riverside, 6111 Mechanicsburg, Carrie, 498- 7625.
HCFTA Variety Show May 9, 8pm, Features local talent. $12 adults, $10 seniors/children. Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Sixth St. For more info, call 523-2787.
MUSIC: GENERAL EVENTS
Acoustic Lunch Mon, Tue, Fri, 12-1pm, Jaigh Lowder (Mon), Kathyrn Raistrick (Tue), Dennis Darling, Lucas Westcott (alternating Fri). Trout Lily Cafe, 218 S. Sixth St. For info, call 391-0101.
Blues Legend Big George Brock with Clarine Wagner Club TNT, 418 W. Kirkham, Tony Simmons, 324-4546.
