By Monty Siekerman
"The Wedding Singer" musical will be performed this weekend at Ada High School auditorium with a cast of 50+ Ada Junior High and High School students.
The humorous, engaging, and entertaining show involves a wedding singer and waitress.The musical revolves around Robbie, who sings at weddings, his failed relationship with his former fiancée, and his romance with a new love, Julia, the waitress.
The romantic comedy is based on the 1998 movie by the same name. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore starred in the movie. The musical played on Broadway in 2006.
ArtSpace/Lima will host an opening reception for Spring Show 2017 on Friday, April 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
Spring Show 2017 is the 62nd edition of ArtSpace’s signature exhibit.
Entries are accepted from within a 100-mile radius of Lima in the following categories: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, digital art and mixed media. Entries juried in will be displayed in the Ellen Nelson Gallery. Additional works, not selected in the first round of jurying, but re-juried, will be on display in the Salon des refusés in ArtZone.
Chris Murphy will present a saxophone recital at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 in Presser Hall at Ohio Northern University. The concert is free and open to the public.
Murphy, of Bowling Green, is a saxophone soloist and music educator. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of South Carolina and a masters’ degree in music in saxophone performance from Bowling Green State University.
He has received several honors and awards for his work, and he was a winner of the Bowling Green State University Concerto competition and the Douglas Wayland Chamber Music Competition.
The Ohio Northern University Singers and Chamber Singers will present a concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 21 in Presser Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. It will feature works by C.V. Stanford, Felix Mendelssohn, Jake Runestad, Stephen Paulus and Eric Whitacre in exploration of the concert theme, “The Road Home: A journey in song.”
Members of the public are invited to attend a town hall meeting featuring U.S. Congressional Representative Jim Jordan. The event will be held from 6:‐8: p.m. Monday, April 24 in the South Hall of the Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center in Lima. The town hall is sponsored by Allen and Hardin for Election Action and Democracy (AHEAD), in partnership with other groups in Representative Jordan’s district.
Jim Jordan (R‐Urbana) has represented Ohio’s Fourth Congressional District in the US House of Representatives since 2007 and is a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus.
ONU will host a steel band festival beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 22 in the north gym of King Horn Center on campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
In addition to the ONU Steel Band, bands from Bowling Green State University, Toledo School for the Arts, Clark Montessori School, Lima Arts Magnet School and the Ohio Avenue Steel Band from Columbus will join the headliner, Tracy Thornton, for a high-energy rock ‘n’ roll concert.
