“SUDS: The Rocking ’60s Musical Soap Opera” will bubble into Mountain Playhouse, Jennerstown, through Aug. 19.

Curtain times are 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and 3 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets are $17 to $33 for matinees and $22 to $39 for evening performances.

Information: 629-9201, option 1 or MountainPlayhouse.org.

Hometown party

The 22nd Portage Area Summerfest will be held today through Sunday at Crichton-McCormick Park, 100 Memorial Way, Portage.

Hours are 5 to 10 p.m. today, 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is free.

Information: www.portagepa.com.

Energizing art

“Calm Energy,” an exhibit by Marcene Glover, will be on display through Aug. 27 at the Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center, 411 Third Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

The exhibit encompasses oversized oil portraits, a tiny series of enameling and Glover’s mixed-media style of painting.

Information: 536-5399.

Antique alley

The 42nd annual Somerset Antique Show will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on the streets of Uptown Somerset.

More than 100 dealer are slated to attend.

There will be no appraisals this year.

Admission is free.

Information: 445-6431 or www.somersetpa.net.

Bandshell blast

AmeriServ Free Summer Concerts at the Roxbury Bandshell will continue Sunday at the bandshell, along Franklin Street in Johnstown.

Spiff Jeffy & The Freezline will perform indie at 5, and Tree will play Irish, folk and Celtic at 6.

Book bargains

Computer, business and craft books as well as dictionaries and thesauruses will be highlighted during a used book sale all this month at the Inclined to Read Bookstore in the Cambria County Library, 248 Main St. in downtown Johnstown.

Bookstore hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays.

Information: 536-5131.

Fun fests

St. Andrew Festival will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the church and school grounds,  1621 Ferndale Ave., Johnstown.

Entertainment will include local band Push, Clay Bowser and Classic Clowns on Saturday and Bill Venet’s Cash Review and the local band Almost Tomorrow on Sunday.

There will be a garage sale at 3 p.m. Saturday, a dance party at 9 p.m. Saturday, a basket raffle both days and car cruise at noon Sunday.

A chicken barbecue dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Parking and admission are free.

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The 18th annual Heritage Days Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday at Central City Community Park.

A firemen’s parade will start at 6 p.m. Saturday on Sunshine Avenue in Central City.

Entertainment on Saturday will include Orange Fire, Tree and Flood City Brass.

Admission and parking are free.

Information: www.shadecentralcityheritagedays.com.

Musical call

Auditions for Cresson Lake Playhouse’s production of the rock musical “Next to Normal” will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the theater’s rehearsal hall, 526 W. Ogle St., Ebensburg.

Roles are available for the cast of four men and two women.

Hopefuls are asked to prepare 16 measures of a song from a contemporary rock/pop production that is appropriate for the style of the show. A cold reading will be supplied.

Actors are asked to stay for callbacks at 4 p.m.

Songs from the show will be reviewed beforehand for the actor’s benefit.

Performance dates are Oct. 3-5 and 11-13.

Information: 472-4333 or www.CressonLake.com.

Band night

The Blue James Band will perform Saturday at Dively’s Tavern, 121 Derby St. in the Roxbury section of Johnstown.

The band combines rock, reggae, folk and funk and features Clifton Williams on guitar, Valerie Taylor on keyboard, Con Foley on drums and Brian Worley on bass.

Information: 536-9707.

Outdoors concerts

Full Kilt will perform from 6 to 9 p.m. today as part of the Concerts in the Park series at Penn Eben Park, Ebensburg.

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Civic Concert Band will perform as part of the free Summer Concerts on the Green at 7 p.m. Wednesday on the grounds of Community Arts Center of Cambria County, 1217 Menoher Blvd., Westmont.

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Northern Cambria County Community Band will perform from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday on the lawn next to Conemaugh Township Area Historical Society, 106 S. Main St., Davidsville.

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Sugar Mountain will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday on the Diamond in Ligonier as part of a free series of Sunday evening band concerts sponsored by the Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Country crooner

Country star Randy Houser will perform at 8:30 tonight at Rock Run Recreation Area, 1228 St. Lawrence Road, Patton.

His performance is part of the fifth annual Fisher’s ATV World Reunion 2012, but the public can attend the concert.

Tickets are $25 at the gate.

Information: 674-6026.

Class act

“Legally Blonde” will be presented at 8 tonight and Saturday at Cresson Lake Playhouse, 279 Shapiro Road, Loretto.

Tickets are $17 for adults and $10 for students younger than 18.

Information: 472-4333 or www.CressonLake.com.

Hidden jewels

“Creating the Look of Today with Yesterday’s Treasurers,” an educational seminar on vintage jewelry given by Laura Argenbright, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center, 411 Third Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

The presentation is part of the first monthly Second Sunday Antique Boutique, which will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month.

Participants are invited to bring vintage pieces of jewelry that have been inherited or acquired.

Argenbright will teach participants how vintage costume jewelry can have value as a collectible and discuss how to repurpose jewelry to create magnets, hair accessories and bedazzled handbags and notebooks.  

She will provide participants with a handout listing makers’ names to watch for when looking through old jewelry.  

The program is free.

Information: 536-5399.

Team action

New player registration for the Sitting Bulls Disabled Sled Hockey team will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Planet Ice, 195 Jari Drive, Richland Township.

The first practice of the season will be held at 4, and new players are welcome to attend to see disabled sled hockey played and to try it.

Trial equipment will be available for potential players.

Sled hockey is designed as a competitive sport for physically challenged youth and young adults following the same rules as USA hockey.

Players sit on specially designed sleds and use two hockey sticks to propel themselves across the ice.

Information: http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=sittingbulls.

The sled hockey team also will sponsor a blood drive from noon to 6 p.m. Monday at Planet Ice.

Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are preferred.

Information: Redcrossblood.org.

Performance venue

Bret Sarlouis, an actor with (un)Apologetic Productions, will host a send-off party and variety show from 8 to 11 p.m. today at the Venue of Merging Arts,

305 Chestnut St. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

Sarlouis is moving to New York City and is holding a fundraiser for the arts center.

There will be music acts, sketch comedy, improvisation, artwork, baked good and baskets.

Information: 410-2245.

Flood tours

“Journey Around Lake Conemaugh” van tours will be held at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. daily through Aug. 26 at Johnstown Flood National Memorial, South Fork.

The one-hour tours will begin at the visitors center and travel to the north and south abutments of the South Fork Dam, as well as the clubhouse.  

Reservations are encouraged, but are not required.

The tour is included with park admission.

Information: 495-4643.

Site programs

Several programs will be presented at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, 10 miles west of Altoona off the Gallitzin exit of Route 22.  

A van tour of the Allegheny Portage Railroad will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at the park’s visitors center.

A park ranger will trace the historic route of the railroad from the canal basin in Hollidaysburg to the canal basin in Johnstown.  

The three-hour tour is free, but reservations are required.

The Michael O’Brian Band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the outdoor amphitheater.

Irish tunes played by the local favorites are always the highlight of the park’s summer concert series.

There is a $2 per person charge for the concert, which will be moved indoors in the event of rain.

Information: 886-6150 or www.nps.gov/alpo.

Living history

Members of The Brigade of the American Revolution will perform a living history activities from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Fort Ligonier, routes 30 and 711 in Ligonier.

There will be drills, battle demonstrations, encampments, blacksmithing and 18th century music.

The Brigade of the American Revolution is an international historical association dedicated to recreating the lifes and times of the common soldiers of the 18th century.  

Members of the brigade are located in all 13 original states plus Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, California, Oregon, Canada and Great Britain.

Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $5 for children ages 6–16. Children ages 5 and younger will be admitted free.

Information: (724) 238-9701 or www.fortligonier.org.

Comedy on stage

The Bedford County Players will present Lawrence Casler’s comedy, “A Night in the Theater” tonight and Saturday and Aug. 17-19 at the Harrison Township Community Center, 136 E. Pitt St., Bedford.

Tonight’s performance is a dinner theater, with dinner at 6:30 and the show at 8.   

Other performances will begin at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sunday.

The cost for the dinner theater is $20, and all other performances will be $10.

Light refreshments will be available to purchase before the show and during intermission.  

Information: 623-7555.  

Thoughtful art

“When Thoughts Become Things” will be on display through Aug. 27 at Art Works in Johnstown, 413 Third Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

Works from various artists and artisans will include paintings, photography, handcrafted pieces and jewelry.

Information: 535-2020.

Dual exhibit

“From Individual to Universal: The Art of Philip Brulia and Evgeny Krayushkin” will be on display through Aug. 18 at the George A. and Herbert T. Wolf Gallery at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Altoona in the Brett Building, 1210 11th Ave., downtown Altoona.

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

Information: 946-4464 or www.sama-art.org.

Artistic faith

“Seeing and Believing: Art Encounters Faith” will be on display through Dec. 8 in the Margery Wolf-Kuhn Gallery at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto on the campus of St. Francis University.

The 45-piece exhibition features paintings, drawings, prints and photographs representing Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and American Indian spirituality.

Information: 472-3920 or www.sama-art.org.

Urban art

“Then and Now,” an exhibit inspired by urban landscapes by New York native Susan Severson, will be on display through Sept. 29 at the Blair County Arts Foundation’s administrative office, 1212 12th Ave., Altoona.

Viewing hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

Severson has 150 paintings in more than 90 collections throughout the United States.

She and her husband moved to Altoona in 1992, and she is a member of Art in Common, Altoona artists’ associations and Bedford County Arts Council.

Information: 949-2787.

Office life

 Indiana Players’ production of “Policy & Procedure” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Philadelphia Street Playhouse, 725 Philadelphia St., downtown Indiana.

The comedy takes place in a future office setting, where the employees become so caught up in the Catch-22s of office procedures that it becomes almost impossible to work.

 Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens.

Information: (724) 464-0725 or www.indianaplayers.com.

 

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