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This month’s First Friday events include the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art’s opening of “Inner City Inspiration: An Artist’s Evolution in Clay” (April 1-May 14), featuring work by IU Associate Professor of Ceramic Art Malcolm Mobutu Smith, including a large-scale graffiti mural. Details here. 

“Annie Get Your Gun” fires up at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, March 31-May 8. Details here. 

“American Idol” contender Kellie Pickler headlines a free concert as part of the NCAA Women’s Final Four Tourney Town at the Indiana Convention Center April 2. Details here. 

The Indianapolis Museum of Art screens “Selections from Project 35,” a trio of videos selected by a team of international curators, April 1-Oct. 30. Details here.

Pianist Jeremy Denk joins the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for a weekend of Sibelius, Ravel and Mozart, April 1-2. Details here.

Comic Adam Carolla performs at the Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, April 1. Details here. 

Old 97s return to the Vogue April 3. Details here. 

The St. Petersburg Symphony comes to the Palladium April 3. Details here. 

Dennis DeYoung brings the music of Styx to a concert with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra March 31. Details here.

March 31-April 24

Phoenix Theatre

A game among friends has unexpected emotional consequences in Melissa James Gibson’s comedy-drama that New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called “beautifully conceived, confidently executed and wholly accessible.” The strong cast chosen by the Phoenix for the play’s local premiere includes Ryan Artzberger, Jennifer Johansen and Scot Greenwell. Details here. www.phoenixtheatre.org

April 1-3

Conner Prairie

What’s old is what makes Conner Prairie an enduring attraction. What’s new is what makes on-the-fence patrons make the trek to Fishers.

Additions this year include a Junior Aeronaut Adventure as part of the 1859 Balloon Voyage, an interactive opportunity to help build a potter’s shop using period tools in 1839 Prairietown, and a chance to learn the art of packing for a horseback journey at the Lenape Indian Camp. For information on these activities and more, click here.  

April 2

Cabaret at the Columbia Club

You may know her as the singer/songwriter of the ’70s hits “Midnight Blue” and “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and a Best Female Vocal Performance Grammy winner for “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.” You may even know that she was a member of Bette Midler’s backup group, the Harlettes. My favorite moment in Manchester’s career, though, was back in 2000 when she stood behind my seat at a Chicago workshop production of “I Sent a Letter to My Love,” a show she composed, and I could clearly sense the energy and passion she had for the project. For theaters looking for an intimate, very human chamber musical, it’s well worth a look.

 Maybe we’ll even hear a song from it when she takes the stage at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club this weekend. For details, click here.  

April 1

The Palladium

There are a lot of worthy ways to spend your Friday evening.

Me, I think I’ll catch a performance by Savion Glover, the greatest tap dancer in the world. (In the view of Gregory Hines, himself no slouch, Glover is the greatest who ever lived.) How often does an opportunity like that happen?

 Even if the name isn’t familiar, you may remember Glover from appearances on “Sesame Street” (teaching Mr. Snuffleupagus—and a generation of kids—the joy of tap), on “Dancing with the Stars” (see his guest spot here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ40aKtPlXc), or in the Broadway musicals “Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk,” “Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Black and Blue” and “The Tap Dance Kid.” He also inspired the footwork for the animated movie “Happy Feet.” Details on Glover’s appearance here. 

VMS, an Indianapolis-based marketing firm specializing in pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, has hired Phil Belt as its chief operating officer. Belt previously was a vice president at Credit Suisse, focused on private-equity investments in life sciences. Before that, he oversaw the product and corporate communications teams at Eli Lilly and Co.

Dr. Techsin T. Ty has been appointed medical director of Mississippi-based Great Lakes Home Health’s central Indiana service area. Ty practices internal medicine in Kokomo.

Dr. Steven G. Becker has been named interim assistant dean and interim director of the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Evansville branch. He succeeds Rex D. Stith, who had directed the Evansville campus for 18 years. Becker also will continue to serve as a professor of physiology.

Carmel-based CNO Financial Group Inc. hired John M. Bradley as vice president of product management for Medicare markets. Bradley, an actuary, comes from Illinois-based Combined Insurance Co.

Indiana University Health has canceled plans for a $73 million administrative office building at 16th Street and Capitol Avenue to instead purchase the Gateway Plaza tower at 10th and Illinois streets. The Indianapolis-based hospital system is still moving forward with construction of a $120 million neurosciences hub across the street from its Methodist Hospital campus. But IU Health officials, without being specific, said the price was too good on Gateway Plaza—where the hospital system already rents 130,000 square feet and employs 750 workers. The building currently has 80 percent of its 270,000 rentable square feet leased. But the looming departures of IU Health as well as the IU Foundation—which recently bought its own building along the Central Canal—could have quickly reduced occupancy to 20 percent. IU Health also bought the 1,200-space parking lots adjacent to the building.

Six Indiana hospitals were named to Thomson Reuters' annual list of the nation’s top 100 health care facilities. They included St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, the flagship hospital of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health. Also making the list were Columbus Regional Hospital, Community Hospital in Munster, Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw, Memorial Hospital & Health System in South Bend, and Reid Hospital & Health Care Services in Richmond. The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals study evaluates performance in 10 areas: deaths; medical complications; patient safety; average patient stay; expenses; profitability; patient satisfaction; adherence to clinical standards of care; post-discharge deaths; and re-admission rates for patients suffering a heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. The study has been conducted annually since 1993.

Purdue University ranked No. 47 on a list of the institutions worldwide with the most articles published last year in the widely cited Nature research journals. U.S. institutions occupied 33 of the top 50 positions, with Harvard University topping the list. The index is available here. The Nature journals primarily publish articles disclosing basic research findings in life, physical and chemical sciences. The journals focus less on applied scientific or engineering research. The index is a collaboration between Nature Publishing group and Digital Sciences, a sister division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.