Arts & Entertainment
Get Out: Things to Do This Weekend
Families can be entertained within the Alpharetta-Milton area with puppets, plays and butterflies.
Where/When: , 5575 State Bridge Rd, Johns Creek, GA 30022, July 14-16 7 p.m., July 16th 1 p.m.
Why Go?: Enjoy one of Broadways biggest musical/comedy hits. The story is about a pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
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Price: $12 - $25
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Where/When: , 180 Academy St, Alpharetta, GA, July 15-16, 7:30 pm.
Why Go?: Enjoy this classic story as the character Scout learns valuable lessons of humanity, compassion and what it means to be a good neighbor.
Price: $15
Where/When: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 2200 Encore Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30009, Friday July 15, 8:30 p.m.
Why Go?: Enjoy watching this classic movie while listening to the Atlanta Orchestra perform the score. Hosted by Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankieewicz.
Price: $12-$35
Where/When: , 5315 Windward Pky, Alpharetta, GA 30004, Saturday, July 16, 7-9 p.m.
Why Go?: Clusters of Grey is a Rock/Folk-Rock/Fusion band. Check them out this Saturday at Starbucks.
Price: Free
Where/When: , 950 Forest St, Roswell, GA 30075, July 14 – 19, 10:00 am
Why Go?: The story involves a bumbling headless horseman, his wise-cracking horse, the meat head Brom Bones, the lovely Katrina, her rich father and the mild-mannered and loveable Ichabod Crane. This show features twenty handmade mouth and rod puppets and a shadow puppet. This show is recommended for kids 5 years and up.
Price: $4 Kids (2-12), $5 Adults
Where/When: , 9135 Willeo Rd, Roswell, GA 30075, Saturday, July 16 (10 a.m-2 p.m.) and Sunday, July 17 (noon-5 p.m.)
Why Go?: The Flying Colors Butterfly Festival delights everyone all weekend at the Chattahoochee Nature Center when the air fills with the beating wings of hundreds of beautiful butterflies! Enjoy live music, create arts and crafts, have butterflies painted on your face and visit fascinating entomology exhibits. Kids can dress in costumes and wear their butterfly wings and antenna to march in our butterfly parades at the conclusion of festivities each day.
Price: $10 per person, free for children 2 and under
Where/When: , 101 School St, Cumming, GA 30040, Thursday - Sunday, July 14th – July 16th, 8 p.m.
Why Go?: Twain's timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim, a slave, escape to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Propelled by an award winning score from Roger Miller, the king of country music, this jaunty journey provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana. This 2011 Cumming Playhouse presentation of Big River is directed by Colleen Quigley Green.
Price: Donations help raise much needed funds for the Bald Ridge Boys Lodge.
Where/When: , 4075 Spot Rd, Cumming, GA 30040, Saturday, July 16, 7 a.m.
Why Go?: This is great single and double track off-road running experience. The race will start on the street (required for spacing) but will soon lead into the woods. The terrain is made up of a little bit of everything, rolling hills, single track, double track. If you have never visited Sawnee Mountain Nature Preserve – do it! The course is beautiful and offers something for every runner truly wishing to ´ditch the city´.
Price: $35
