Entertainment

On Sunday afternoon, May 16th beginning at 1:30 and playing until 5:30 p.m., the Lyle Beaver Trio will be performing at the Keystone Turner Hall.  The hall is located at 91 2nd Ave. in Keystone.  Food and good polka music will be available! For samplings of their music, click HERE.

Thank you Rachael Larkin, for transporting our print of “Date Night” from Story City, IA!  Yep, that’s right, despite the shortage of available 35 mm prints – “Date Night” is on! BUT FIRST…. be sure to reserve your seats for ACT I’s “Bus Stop” which plays the Palace Friday and Saturday, May 14 & 15 at 7 p.

Two weeks in a row?  Nicholas Sparks is back, ladies! “The Last Song,” starring Miley Cyrus (girl), Liam Hemsworth (guy) and Greg Kinnear (dad), plays the Palace THREE NIGHTS ONLY on Friday, May 7 and Saturday May 8 at 7 pm and 9 pm, and Sunday, May 9 at 7 pm.  This romantic drama with a bit of comedy runs 108 minutes and is rated PG for thematic material, some violence and sensuality, and language.

  By Anthony Bopp   VINTON - There are some people who seem born for the performing arts, and spending time with Mikala Neimeier would seem to make it clear she was born to perform.   Mikala, 13, is featured in the upcoming production of Bus Stop from ACT I of Benton County in one of the show's most demanding roles. But that seems to be only added incentive to this energetic girl, who appears to have been preparing for the stage since early childhood and will continue her ACT I performances this summer in the acclaimed musical 13.

  Channing Tatum stars as John Tyree, a handsome Army Special Forces specialist home on two weeks' leave. Amanda Seyfried plays Savannah, a lovely young woman whose purse falls off a pier. John dives in, retrieves it, and they fall deeply in love as only Nicholas Sparks can tell it. 
 No, this is not the plot from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

 Director Mary Horst has announced details of this year's Second Stage! Summer Theatre Camp from ACT I. Showing June 25 and 26 at 7:00 PM at the Benton Community High School Auditorium in Van Horne, the show is titled SPLASTASTIC and Horst promises many different performance elements in this years production, giving the young performers opportunities for a wide range of experience.

  The only all-teen musical to ever run on Broadway comes to Benton County August 6 – 15, 2010, produced by ACT I and performed at the Vinton-Shellsburg High School auditorium.  This will be one of the first productions of the show in the Midwest and possibly the first in Iowa.  Auditions were held April 24 and 25, 2010 at 2:00 pm in the ACT I Studio above Clingman Pharmacy in Vinton.

By Anthony Bopp   On Saturday, over 15 area teens appeared for auditions for the 13-member cast of ACT I of Benton County's production of '13' to be staged at the Vinton-Shellsburg High School Auditorium in August for 6 performances. Another day of rehearsals took place Sunday, April 25, withanother dozen auditioning.   13 is a fast-paced, edgy look at being thirteen years old, as seen through the eyes of Evan Goldman, a Jewish boy from New York City who must move to Indiana with his mother following his parents’ divorce.

The fund-raising continues for the Vinton Palace Theatre digital projection system. Two recent $1,000 donations have added to the total. The Vinton Kiwanis Club donated $1,000 to the project. Kiwanis President Ashlyn Christensen presented a check for $1,000 to Palace Manager Marcy Horst. Donations continue to come in at the Palace during movie nights.

It’s happening again!  There are no available copies of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” Instead, we will rearrange our schedule and show “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” beginning this Friday, April 23 though Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m. nightly, and Saturday and Monday, April 24 and 26 at 2 p.