Tim’s Picks: What’s up?
'Kinky Boots' and The Yellowjackets at Purdue. Opening receptions at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. Josh Turner at Long Center. Spin Class at The Spot. Your guide to what’s going on this weekend
What’s going on this weekend? Start with …
By Tim Brouk / For Based in Lafayette
“Kinky Boots,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, Elliott Hall of Music, Purdue University — “Kinky Boots” stomped its way to Broadway glory in 2012 and 2013, winning or being nominated for every musical theater award you can think of. The musical written by actor Harvey Fierstein and composed by pop legend Cyndi Lauper ran in the Big Apple for several years straight. Now, a touring production will bring the campy, colorful show to Purdue. “Kinky Boots” centers on Charlie, a fourth-generation heir to the Price & Son shoe company. To honor his father, Charlie takes on the company but believes it’s in need of a new direction to remain solvent. Enter Lola, a star drag queen who oozes fashion and life inspiration. After much song and dance, Charlie and Lola find success in their “Kinky Boots” while learning a lot about each other and themselves. $42-$96. Tickets.
Alice Baber and LaDonna Vohar exhibits’ opening reception, 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, 102 S. 10th St., Lafayette — Two Midwestern painters — one from today and one from yesterday — will be celebrated this weekend at the Art Museum. Two exhibits will open: First, works from influential abstract impressionist Alice Baber will be featured in “Exploring the Collection.” Baber, an Illinois native who earned her master of arts degree from Indiana University, began her career in the 1950s, supporting herself early on in New York as an arts writer and editor at McCall’s. She soon put the typewriter away and concentrated on her own colorful abstract paintings, which launched her prolific international career in the 1960s and ‘70s. Baber passed away in 1982, but her works live on in exhibitions like “Exploring,” which will hang in the Art Museum through May 31.
“LaDonna’s Melange” will feature realist works in the form of several new acrylic and oil paintings as well as some old favorites. Vohar has been a visual arts leader in the community for decades and is much deserving of her flowers and one such blossom comes in the form of this solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, which runs through May 10.
