Gaelforce Dance

Gaelforce Dance
YOUNGSTOWN -- Peace is the ultimate message of Gaelforce Dance, the contemporary Irish dance production that will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Edward W. Powers Auditorium. Dancers and musicians help to tell the story of two brothers and the love triangle that pulls them apart. Dancers wear transmitters on their legs to amplify their tapping. Gaelforce Dance was founded in Australia and is touring the United States and Europe. For tickets, call the Powers box office at (330) 744-0264 or Ticketmaster, (330) 747-1212.
Singers wanted
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The New Castle Music Club wants area singers to join its members in rehearsing for and presenting its 61st annual performance of George F. Handel's "Messiah." Dr. Allan Mosher of Youngstown State University will perform the bass solos. Rehearsals are each Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in New Castle through Nov. 19. Past participants should bring their copy of the music to rehearsal. Those singing for the first time may purchase copies of the music for $7.25. The performance will be at 3 p.m. Nov. 25 at the church, located at the corner of North Jefferson and Falls streets. For details, call (724) 652-8773.
Language networks
Arabic, Asian, Italian and Hispanic networks are now available to customers of Time Warner Cable in Northeast Ohio. Time Warner is offering an eight-channel Hispanic package of movie, music and news channels for $4.99 per month. The following premium channels are also available for $14.95 per month: TV Asia, which offers programs in Hindi, English, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi and South Indian languages; ZEE TV, which is aimed at native South Asians; ART, for the Arab American community; and RAI International, featuring Italian culture.
Sitcom proposed
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Reese Witherspoon comedy "Legally Blonde" may become a sitcom on ABC. The network has won the bidding for the rights to transform the story of a ditzy blonde at Harvard Law School into a television show, Variety reported recently. The modestly budgeted film earned more than $93 million at the box office, making it one of the summer's highest-grossing movies. Marc Platt, who produced the MGM film, plans to executive-produce a pilot episode for the planned ABC show. It's unknown who would star in the sitcom, but the original stars of movies that become television shows rarely appear in the small-screen versions.
Piano master class
CANFIELD -- Dr. Marcella Branagan will lead a piano master class and give a recital at 4 p.m. next Sunday at The Ursuline Center, 4280 Shields Road. Her visit is part of the educational project by Ursuline Sisters and Youngstown Music Teachers' Association. Branagan is a member of the piano faculty at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. She earned degrees at Eastman School of Music and Staatiche Hoshshule fur Musik in Freiburg, Germany. She was awarded a silver medal at the 1972 Canals International Music Competition for Modern Music at Rotterdam. Tickets are $25 for patrons, $15 for adults and $5 for students. Buy them at the door or reserve them by calling (330) 799-8335.