HAMLISCH AND BACHARACH TUNES COME ALIVE AT QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE — Quality Hill Playhouse continues its season dedicated to film music with an exploration of 1960s and ’70s cinema in the intimate cabaret revue “What They Did for Love: The Music of Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach,” opening April 17.
Hamlisch, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning scores for “The Sting” (1973) and “The Way We Were” (1973), will be featured in the first act. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}In addition to songs from these films, the act will include “Nobody Does It Better” from 1977’s “The Spy Who Loved Me” and selections from “A Chorus Line,” his Broadway hit that was translated to film in 1985.
Songs by Kansas City native Bacharach will comprise the revue’s second act, including “The Look of Love” (“Casino Royale,” 1967), “Alfie” and “What the World Needs Now” (“Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” 1972) and “Close to You” (“The Heartbreak Kid,” 1972).
“What They Did for Love” runs through May 17 at Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, MO. For tickets, call 816-421-1700. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.QualityHillPlayhouse.com.
WAVES THAT SAVE CELEBRATES SPRING — Waves that Save, a local not-for-profit organization run by Jewish cancer survivor Bradd Robinson, is dedicated to providing leisure services to those in our community that have been affected by cancer. It is hosting its first spring picnic featuring food, games, rides, prizes and so much more from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Shawnee Mission Park shelter 18. There is no cost, however donations will be greatly appreciated. Hamburgers, hot dogs and condiments will be provided. Feel free to bring any side dishes (either for yourself or to share) that you wish. Tickets are available at www.annualspringpicnic.eventbrite.com. For more information about Waves that Save, visit www.wavesthatsave.org or its Facebook page, www.facebook.com/wavesthatsave.
VISITORS TO ISRAELI PARK TURNED AWAY FOR CARRYING CHAMETZ — JERUSALEM (JTA) — Visitors to a public park in Israel were turned away because they carried food that was not kosher for Passover.
The security guard at the entrance to the park in Afula, in northern Israel, was checking visitor’s bags for weapons and for chametz, according to reports.
Visitors found to have chametz in their bags were not allowed into the park. Several ate their sandwiches outside the park before gaining entry.
“The Afula municipal park is a public facility that serves the residents of the city and its environs, and so the public is asked to refrain from bringing chametz into it during the holiday, as is customary in many other public institutions,” the municipality said in a statement.
Israeli law prohibits the display and sale of chametz during Passover. Chametz also is prohibited in hospitals and other public institutions.
Barak Avivi, a Tel Aviv attorney, told Haaretz that he was considering filing a class-action lawsuit with the municipality on behalf of those who were turned away for having chametz with them.{/mprestriction}
