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College Theater’s presentations of The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s comic masterpiece, will continue 8 p.m. today and Saturday on the main stage of the Williams Center for the Arts. Tickets, which cost $2 for Lafayette students, $3 for faculty and staff, and $6 for the public, can be purchased by calling the box office at 610-330-5009.
The benefit production of Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, will run today, Saturday, and Sunday in the Marlo Room of Farinon College Center.Tickets cost $5 for students and $10 for others. They may be purchased in the Farinon Center at lunchtime on weekdays or beginning two hours prior to show time outside the Marlo Room.
The Arts Society will host “Swingin’ at Marlo’s” for the Spring 2004 Party Challenge 10:30 p.m. today in the Farinon Center’s Marlo Room. “The joint will be jumping with the Slicked-Up 9’s beating it out and friendly instructors from the Allentown Area Swing Dance Society showing you that the only spectators in the house should be your shoes,” according to Arts Society. “The free refreshments and door prizes make the evening a real killer-diller; be there or be square!”
Hispanic Society of Lafayette will start its Party Challenge event, “Noche Caliente… Melt to be One,” 11 p.m. today in the Farinon Center Snack Bar. “Dress hot, look hot, be hot! Come dance to Latin American music, enjoy Hispanic food, and melt in an ambiance of rhythms and fire,” state organizers.
The baseball team will host Fairleigh Dickinson in a doubleheader starting noon Saturday at thenewly renovated Class of 1978 Stadium in Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. Lafayette lost 5-2 to Hofstra in non-conference baseball action Wednesday.
Also at Metzgar Fields, the men’s lacrosse team, which won an 8-4 contest Wednesday, will take on Binghamton 1 p.m Saturday at Rappolt Field.
The Chorduroys, the student male a cappella group, will open for critically acclaimed a cappella singers Marcoux Corner 9 p.m. Saturday at the Farinon Snack Bar. With a four-member lineup, Marcoux Corner has performed more than 300 shows in 14 states. Using a blend of humor and harmony, the group covers five decades of music, from the doo-wop style of the ’50s to contemporary songs. The free event is sponsored by Lafayette Activities Forum.
LAF also will screen the film Mona Lisa Smile 7 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday, in the Farinon Center’s Limburg Theater. Tickets cost $2. With a running time of 2 hours, five minutes, the film is rated PG-13 for sexual content and thematic issues. The plot: In 1953, free-spirited Berkeley graduate Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) is hired to teach art history at a prestigious, and very old fashioned, all-female college. Katherine wants to teach her students (including Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, and Maggie Gyllenhaal), but more importantly, she wants to show them a world outside the traditions that have been laid out for them.
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