Friday, May 2

THEATER

Joseph and his coat

It’s a weekend for theater lovers. South Pointe High School stages “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” the beloved Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that tells the Biblical story of Joseph, his coat of many colors and his jealous brothers, who sell him off as a slave. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Rock Hill school. The performance features a cast of 30 and nine children from the Rock Hill Honors Children’s Choir. Tickets are $5 students and children and $10 adults, available at the door.

A classic sound

The classic musical “The Sound of Music,” presented by the Westminster Catawba Christian School fine arts department, features a bonus. The school will stage its version of the show at 7 p.m. today and Saturday at the Catawba campus gym in Rock Hill. And here’s the treat: Remember Daniel Truhitte, who portrayed the young German officer Rolf, who sang “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” in the original film version? Truhitte, who lives in Concord, N.C., will attend tonight’s opening night. Seniors Rachel Sanders and Miller Perrill portray Maria, the high-spirited postulant, and Capt. Georg von Trapp, the widowed naval officer with seven children who falls in love with her. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, with children 5 and younger free. Details, Brenda Fisher, (803) 328-5460.

They’re at it again

It’s a play within a play. The Merry Pranksters Theatrical Troupe serves up laughter once again, when it presents “Cartablanca” tonight through Sunday at Winthrop University’s Johnson Hall. Watch the residents of a fictitious Rocking Hill retirement home as they prepare to put on the play, “Cartablanca,” in the show written by Candy Clapp Randall for members of the acting troupe for the mentally disabled. Shows are at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $10 general and $5 for Winthrop students, with tickets available at the Rock Hill PRT office, City Hall, and at the Boyd Hill Recreation Center. Details, Wendy Waddle, 329-5659 or www.rockhillrocks.com.

Drama with dessert

How sweet it is! Fort Mill Community Playhouse presents a drama and dessert production with its murder/mystery “The Mousetrap: A Play by Agatha Christie.” Shows continue tonight and Saturday night at the playhouse, 615 Banks St., Fort Mill. A young couple have started a new hotel in the converted Monkswell Manor and are snowed in with four guests and an additonal traveler who ran his car into a snowdrift. A detective arrives on skis to inform the group that he believes a murderer is on his way to the hotel after the death of Miss Maureen Lyon in London. When one of the guests is killed, they realize that the murderer is already there. The play is known for its twist ending. Details, call 548-8102 or visit fortmillplayhouse.org.

Violin and piano, anyone?

They go together like bread and butter. Violin-piano duo Opus Two will perform at 8 tonight at Barnes Recital Hall, Winthrop University, in a show presented by the Rock Hill Music Club and Lancaster Music Study Club. Pianist Andrew Cooperstock, formerly of Rock Hill, is chair of the keyboard department of the Universioty of Colorado, and violinist William Terwilliger teaches violin and chamber music at the University of South Carolina. The free show is part of the state convention of the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs meeting in Rock Hill.

Dazzle in your denim

It’s a great night and a good cause. The Catawba Care Coalition hosts its fifth annual Dazzle ‘n’ Denim from 7 to 11 tonight at the Springs Dairy Barn, Fort Mill, with food, music, dancing, silent and live auctions. Admission is $50 per person. The coalition offers services for HIV and AIDS patients and community education. Details, 909-6363, Ext. 243, or visit www.catawbacare.org.

Saturday, May 3

EVENTs

Go for the green

Gotta green thumb? Learn how to grow one during the York County Master Gardener Association’s garden tour from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The tour features seven gardens in the Tega Cay area. Tickets are $10, available at any of the gardens on the tour. The gardens are: Gretchen Barrett, 135 Shoreline Parkway; Jimmy and Wayne Hall, 16005 Molokai Drive; Paul and Daphne Thompson, 7569 Thorn Creek Lane; J.B. and Mackie Reeves, 16126 Tana Tea Circle; John and Suzanne Roxburgh, 7115 Topsail; Marie and Jake Jakiel, 1716 Colville Lane and Mary and Dan Stefano-Zanda, 1916 Chestnut Hill Drive. For details, call Marilyn at 981-5303.