
Alfred Stewart
May 25, 2007Yvonne Knudsen- Smith
June 1, 2007“Will Rogers Follies” (Mandeville) June 1-3, at Mandeville High School, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $26 adults, $23 seniors, $19 students and $12 children. For more info: (504) 885-2000 or (504) 371-3330. Follows the life of stage, screen, radio, newspaper hero Will Rogers. The popular humorist and performer died in a plan crash in 1935. His life is viewed through the lens of the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined in his heyday.
“Sugar Babies” (New Orleans) June 15-July 8, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, with 2 p.m. curtain times on Sundays, at the Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St. For more info: (504) 522-2081. Tickets are $28 for general admission, $25 for students. A nostalgic trip to the days of burlesque. Includes songs “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street” and “Don’t Blame Me.”
“The Jungle Book” (Thibodaux) June 21-24, at the Jean Lafitte Wetlands Cultural Center Theatre, 314 St. Mary St. Show times are 7 p.m. nightly, except Sunday. Matinees are at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $5. Rudyard Kipling’s tale of a boy lost in the jungle and adopted by the beasts of the wild. For more info: (985) 446-1896.
“Beauty & The Beast” (Houma) June 21-24, at 7 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Sundays, at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center. Tickets are $15, and are available at the First United Methodist Church (6109 La. 311) from 4-7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more info: (985) 868-8087. The Disney version of the enchanted tale of a cursed prince and Belle, a bookworm looking for her place in the world.