BY RUTH RICE

RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM

Le Grande Cirque will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on the Pitt-Johnstown campus in Richland Township.

An international company of handpicked champion acrobats, gymnasts and other performers will create a visual feast of precision group acrobatics and stunts.

Tickets are $39 and $37 for adults and $29 for students.

Information: 269-7200 or www.upjarts.com.

Hard-court high jinks

The Harlem Globetrotters will bring their 2010 World Tour to Johnstown at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, 326 Napoleon St.

Tickets are $41, $28, $23 and $19.

Information: (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Pink machine

The Pink Floyd tribute band The Machine will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Arcadia Theater, 1418 Graham Ave., Windber.

The New York-based band performs a cross-section of the 16-album repertoire that Pink Floyd produced during its 30-year reign as a pioneer of experimental rock.

Tickets are $37, $35 and $28.

Information: 467-9070.

Savior’s song

“Jesus Christ Superstar” will be presented by the Pitt-Johnstown Theater Department at 7:30 tonight and Saturday and Feb. 25-27 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 28 in the studio theater at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on the Pitt-Johnstown campus in Richland Township.

The rock opera depicts the final seven days of the life of Christ.

Tickets, which are available at the door, are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students.

Information: 269-7200, (800) 846-2787 or www.upjarts.com.

Country tickets

Tickets are on sale for a concert featuring country stars LeAnn Rimes and Josh Turner, which will be held at 7 p.m. March 17 at Cambria County War Memorial Arena, 326 Napoleon St., downtown Johnstown.

Rimes is a two-time Grammy winner, and Turner has been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.

All seats are $39.50.

Information: 536-5156, (800) 745-8499, (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Lessons in chocolate

“Willy Wonka” will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday and Feb. 26 and 27 at Blacklick Valley High School, 555 Birch St., Nanty Glo.

The story of Wonka and his chocolate factory unfolds as five children tour the factory and learn lessons from the mysterious Oompa Loompas.

Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for children.

Information: 749-9211.

Scene of the crime

“CSI: Live,” a kid-friendly version of the popular CBS television show, will be fighting crime at 10 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Saturday at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Richland Township.

Actors will portray crime-scene investigators while young members from the audience come on stage as CSI recruits and witnesses and suspects to the crime.

This version of CSI is a bit less graphic, with the victim being injured.

Tickets are $5.

Information: 269-7200, (800) 846-2787 or www.upjarts.com.

Vintage dance

A dance sponsored by Windber Area Visioning Experience will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday in the gymnasium at Windber Community Building, 1605 Graham Ave., Windber.

Music from the ’60s and ’70s will be played on vintage jukeboxes provided by WAVE member Bill Bahorik.

Guests should wear tennis shoes for dancing on the gym floor.

Refreshments and seating will be available in the gym.

Proceeds from last year’s dances were used to purchase 200 new chairs for the ballroom at Windber Recreation Park, and proceeds from this year’s dances also will be used for needed improvements at the park.

High-def cinema

A high-definition double feature will be presented this weekend as part of the CineMuse program for children at Heritage Discovery Center, 201 Sixth Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

“Nature Scopers – Scope Out the World Around Us,” a science series for a very young audience, will be shown at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

“Marvelous Motion,” showing how other creatures get around, will be shown at 2:10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The 30-minute films are free to JAHA members or with museum admission.

Information: 539-1889.

Focus on hunger

“Witnesses to Hunger,” an exhibit featuring the photography of Pennsylvania mothers who have experienced poverty and are working to create better lives for their children, will be on display through Wednesday at the Community Arts Center of Cambria County, 1217 Menoher Blvd., Westmont.

The traveling exhibit is being presented by the Philadelphia GROW Project and Drexel University School of Public Health.

It will feature the photographs of three Johnstown sisters, Sarina Hardison, Aletha Triplin and Artrese Taylor.

Viewing hours will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.

Information: 255-6515.

Black history

Two performances will be staged at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center, 411 Third Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown, in celebration of Black History Month.

“Bad Girls of the Bible,” a dramatization by local women, will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The performance will show the bad deeds of biblical women and how God forgave them and replaced their bad behavior with good deeds.

Admission is $5.

“Ms. Avery’s Musical Review,” featuring Pat Holifield as a sharp-tongued social critic, will be presented at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27.

The review will include the West African dance troupe Kulani, Don Blake and Lust, Michele Clark, Darlene Seals, Artese Thomas, James Bush and a special tribute to Michael Jackson.

Admission is $5 for those ages 12 and older and $3 for senior citizens and children younger than 12.

Information: 536-5399 or 410-4680.

In focus

“What You See Is What You Get,” a photo exhibit by Clyde Williams Sr. of Johnstown, will be on display through Feb. 28 at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center, 411 Third Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

The exhibit will include nature, wildlife and wedding photographs as well as photos of President Obama and former President Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea.

In addition to Williams’ photographs, photographer John Toth will have a display of cameras he has collected, featuring models from 1928 to 1974.

The exhibit is part of the celebration of Black History Month.

Information: 536-5399.

Merging of ideas

“Colleen Browning: Realist – Illusionist” will be on display through March 19 at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Johnstown, Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Richland Township.

Reality and illusion merge in the internationally acclaimed artist’s work, which includes realism, portraiture, abstract, a self-portrait, landscape and cityscape.

Browning’s medium is primarily oil painting.

The show features 30 of almost 100 of Browning’s works stored at the museum’s permanent collection in Loretto.

Museum hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and one hour before arts center performances.

Information: 269-7234.

Artistic variety

Several exhibitions are on display at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto on the campus of St. Francis University.



“Shirley Goldfarb: The Later Years” will be on display today and Saturday.

Goldfarb worked in abstract expressionism, then developed her own unmatched style.

Her earlier works will be on display through Saturday at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Altoona.



“Robert E. Peary: Accomplished Arctic Explorer” will be on display in the rear Zamias Gallery through March 6.

This exhibit features 13 prints generated from black-and-white photographs and hand-tinted glass lantern slides chronicling the Cresson native’s travels.



“Twentieth Century Prints: Gifts of Allwyn and Ellen Levine” will be on display in the upstairs Margery Wolf-Kuhn Gallery through June 5.

The exhibit includes works by artists such as Jim Dine, Larry Rivers, Philip Pearlstein, Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Nancy Graves and Will Barnet.

Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

Information: 472-3920.

Dinner and a laugh

Bedford County Players will perform Jack Sharkey's comedy “I Take This Man” as a dinner theater today and Saturday and Feb. 26 and 27 at the Carriage House of Bedford.

Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the show will follow at 8.

Cost of the buffet dinner and show will be $28.

Reservations: 623-1174.

Dinner guests

“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will be presented by Altoona Community Theatre at 8 tonight and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mishler Theater, Altoona.

The show is recommended for mature audiences due to adult language and situations.

Tickets are $15, plus a $2.50 box office fee.

Information: 944-9434 or www.altoonacommunitytheatre. com.