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High School Football Still Going Strong in Cabarrus County

Cabarrus County High Schools will be well represented in this years high school football playoffs. Of the 8 public high schools in Cabarrus County, five earned a spot in the first round of the playoffs, which begin Friday, November 13. Jay M. Robinson at A.L. Brown, Northwest Cabarrus at Concord High and Hickory Ridge will play North Forsyth in Winston-Salem.

Good luck boys!

Carolina Renaissance Festival

Just two weekends left to make it to this year's Renaissance Festival. The weekend on November 14 and 15 will celebrate Pirate Christmas and there are many pirate themed events planned for the weekend. The final weekend November 21 and and you can get a free child's admission when you bring a canned good to donate. Saturdays and Sunday from 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Rain or shine. Just north of Charlotte between Concord and Huntersville. For more information, visit www.royalfaires.com/carolina

Neil Simon's Plaza Suite

Hilarity abounds in Neil Simon's Plaza Suite as three couples successively occupy Suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. According to the NY Times, Plaza Suite "Set the town laughing." In the Visitor From Mamaronecka suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields in the Visitor from Hollywood. His rendezvous with a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, turns out to be more than he bargained for. In the Visitor from Forest Hillsthe last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her wedding. The N.Y. Daily News called Plaza Suite "Wonderfully funny.... The blockbuster (3rd playlet) is the wildest and most uproarious farce I have seen on a stage." Halton Theater at CPCC at various times November 13, 14, 20, 21 and 22. For more information, visit http://arts.cpcc.edu/

Elmo's Green Thumb

Elmo has raised his sunflower, Sunny, from a seed, but his floral friend has outgrown the flower pot. Elmo and friends find Big Bird's garden the ideal place for Sunny to flourish and grow but they are too excited to wait. Rather than let Sunny follow nature's course, Abby Cadabby, Sesame Street's fairy-in-training, casts a spell to make Sunny grow. The spell does just the opposite and, instead of growing, Elmo and all of his friends shrink! While Abby searches for just the right words to reverse the spell, Elmo, Zoe, Telly and friends explore Big Bird's garden from a smaller perspective and learn some big lessons about patience, overcoming their fears and appreciating the role that each creature plays in our ecosystem - from dancing ladybugs and beautiful butterflies to grouchy beetles that scavenge the garden floor. Will being small help Sunny grow tall? It's a fresh, original Sesame Street Live on a whole new scale! Live at Bojangles Coliseum various times November 12-15. For more information, visit www.bojanglescoliseum.com

South Pacific

Lincoln Center Theater, in association with Bob Boyett and NETworks Productions, presents a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's prize-winning musical classic SOUTH PACIFIC, directed by Bartlett Sher. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.

Set on a tropical island during World War II, SOUTH PACIFIC tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples -- US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush & French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman Joe Cable & a young local native girl Liat -- and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score's songs include such musical theater classics as "Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger Than Springtime," "Bali Ha'i," "There is Nothin' Like A Dame" and "A Wonderful Guy." Belk Theater various times November 10-15. For more information, visit www.blumenthalcenter.org