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Carrie Underwood, April 9 at Conseco Fieldhouse. Details here.

Jon McLaughlin, April 9 at Bluebird Nightclub in Bloomington. Details here.

Comedians of Chelsea Lately, April 9 at the Murat Egyptian Room. Details here.

Academy of St. Martins in the Field, April 10 at Clowes Hall. Details here.

Randy Travis and Collin Raye, April 11 at the Murat Theatre. Details here.

Straight No Chaser, April 12 at IU Auditorium, Bloomington. Details here.

IU Opera presents “West Side Story,” April 9-17 at the IU Musical Arts Center, Bloomington. Details here.
 

April 8 to May 1
Phoenix Theatre
The other shoe drops in the Indiana Repertory Theatre/Phoenix Theatre double bill of Steven Dietz plays. Just as the IRT’s
hugely entertaining “Becky’s New Car” ends its journey this weekend, the Phoenix’s “Yankee Tavern”
opens.
This one is a thriller involving conspiracy theories minor (was Disney involved in the fall of Communism?) and major (the
play is set in a lower Manhattan bar near the Twin Towers). Details here.
 

April 10 to Jan. 30
Indianapolis Museum of Art
In a new exhibition organized by the IMA (and seen only here), works by designers including Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier
and Gianni Versace are seen as art rather than adornment. Details here.

April 9-10
Cabaret at the Columbia Club
She’s Jan on “The Office” and Trudy Monk on “Monk,” but Melora Hardin has also sung Fatine
in “Les Miserables” at the Hollywood Bowl and played Roxie Hart in “Chicago” on Broadway. Give a listen
to her here. Or, better yet, see her live at the
Columbia Club.
Hardin will also be offering a masters class, in which participants can sing for her—and receive constructive comments.
For details on both events, click here.

April 12-17
Indianapolis Civic Theatre
No matter where you stood on the health care debate that raged in Washington last month, if you were of a certain age, you
heard in your head the voice of Jack Sheldon at some point in the procedural discussion. Sheldon, in case the name doesn’t
ring a bell, was the singer/musician who provided the vocals for the “Just a Bill” segment of “Schoolhouse
Rock.”
Those 1970s shorts, which used to be featured on Saturday morning TV, taught many of us not just about how laws are made,
but also what conjunctions and interjections are and why three is a magic number.
These songs form the basis of this musical, which Indianapolis Civic Theatre is using to launch its new young audiences program.
Note that that’s “young audiences,” which doesn’t mean kid casts: The actors and technical crew are
some of the same grown-up talent you’d find on Civic’s main stage. Details here.
 

A southern Indiana amusement park in May will unveil what it touts as the world's longest water coaster. The $5.5 million
Wildebeest ride will open May 14 at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari. The ride will be a third of a mile long and
use a conveyor system to take riders up a lift hill before dropping them 38 feet. The ride uses a magnetic field under the
slide surface to move the toboggan-style rafts up hills. Park officials say the technology has been used in steel roller coasters
in the past.

Police are warning college hoops fans about counterfeit tickets on the market for Monday’s NCAA men’s basketball
national championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium between Butler University and Duke University. Over the weekend, Indianapolis
Metropolitan Police confiscated more than 140 counterfeit tickets from scalpers. One scalper arrested by police had made about
$3,500 selling fake tickets before being apprehended.

Hamilton County authorities are investigating the deaths of a man and woman found in a Westfield home on Sunday. According
to authorities, a family member discovered the victims in the back bedroom of the house in the 2700 block of 186th Street.
Cause of death for the 24-year-olds remains a mystery, but detectives tell FOX59 drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.
Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.