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Sarasota News Leader January 18, 2013 Page 96 BEST OF ENEMIES, URBAN COWBOYS BOTH HELD OVER Florida Studio Theatre's regional premiere of The Best of Enemies has been held over through Feb. 3, and its toe-tapping revue Urban Cowboys has been extended until March 31, both by popular demand, the theatre has announced. struggles as working class families," the release adds. Urban Cowboys "stands at the intersection of the Wild West and the urban city, exploring the emergence of country music into the mainstream that began in the 1970s and conThe Best of Enemies "exposes the poison of tinued into the '80s," the release points out. prejudice and explores how two polarized in- Co-creator Rebecca Hopkins says in the redividuals can overcome their differences," a lease, "I always love putting together the guinews release notes. tar shows, especially the ones with a Western swing to them." Inspired by the book of the same name by Osha Gray Davis, the play is based on a Hopkins adds that the show is a tribute to the provocative true story: In 1971, a high-rank- evolution of country music led by legendary ing member of the Ku Klux Klan was pitted artists such as Mickey Gilley, George Strait, against an African-American Civil Rights ac- Dolly Parton, John Denver and Kenny Rogers. tivist over the desegregation of schools, the Tickets for both shows may be purchased onrelease notes. "A strange and transformative line at FloridaStudioTheatre.org, by phone at relationship" developed between the two as 366-9000 or by visiting the box office at the they found common ground "based on their corner of North Palm Avenue and Cocoanut love and concern for their children and their Street in downtown Sarasota. ORGAN VIRTUOSO TO PERFORM AT FIRST CHURCH On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. Music Fine Arts New York City, and he performs with the New at First Church, 104 S. Pineapple Ave., will York Philharmonic and the American Symphopresent Kent Tritle: Organ Virtuny Orchestra. oso and Man of Many Talents as For admission, a $10 donation is part of its Powerful Pipes Inaugurequested. Tickets are available at ral Organ Series. www.firstsrq.com/arts.php Tritle has been hailed "the brightParking will be available in the Zeest star in New York's choral music nith Garage on Mira Mar Court. world" by The New York Times, acFor additional information, contact cording to a news release. He is an Kent Tritle/Conthe church office at 955-0935. organist at St. John The Divine in tributed