News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 67

NEWS-PRESS GULF COASTING, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 3 rBEST BET JAZZ UP YOUR THEATER Along with the '50s and '60s music of Sea Cruise, a cash bar, door prizes, dance contests, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, fries and malts will add up to a rockin' oldies evening. Tickets for $10 per person are available at Camelot Music at the Edison Mall and at Specs Music on Winkler Avenue. Proceeds will benefit the Multi-County Hearing Impaired. ml -J i "WAIT UNTIL DARK," a tingler-teaser by English playwright Fredrick Knott, opens Thursday at the Naples Playhouse. The blind heroine in the play defends herself against three criminals who invade her Greenwich Village apartment.

For times and ticket information, call 263-7990 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. OUTDOORS GET TO KNOW THE NIGHTTIME WILDLIFE SCENE by taking part in a nocturnal ecology program Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. in Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve.

The trip will be led by Nature Center and Planetarium staff members naturalist Jim Reynolds and astronomer Linda Jacobson. The evening will include a short hike without the aid of artificial light. Cost is $7 for Nature Center members, $10 for others. Call 275-3435 to register. MUSICDANCE "OOOOOUEEEE, BABY1 Rock and roll the night away to the tunes of Sea Cruise from 8 p.m.

to midnight Saturday at the Fort Myers Exhibition Hall. DROP ANCHOR FOR JAZZ and enjoy a free concert at Four Freedoms Park in Cape Coral from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday. If you go by water, cruise up to Bimini Basin and enjoy the show from your boat; if you travel by land, bring a blanket or a lawn chair and kick back to the sounds of "Karizma" and "All That Jazz." Whatever your vantage point, you're sure to enjoy the sunset as part of the evening. Refreshments will be available.

Call 549-4426 or 549-0350 for additional information. MORE JAZZ WILL FILL THE AIR on Tuesday when the Southwest Florida Jazz Society presents The Johnny Dee Sextet with Jebri Lee Briley at the Landings in Fort Myers. The six jazz artists will open the society's new season at 8 p.m. with a swinging tribute to jazz from blues to ballads and lots of music for dancing. Admission is $5.

It all happens in the Helm Clubhouse (enter Landings off McGregor Boulevard, keep right to second left turn, then take first right past tennis courts). Call 482-7984. 1 I New troupe premieres SHOPPING SPREE at the Bell Tower Shops by taking in the courtyard concert from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday. This week's show by Joel Benefield is part of the Bell Tower's Third Annual Cool Jazz Festival that continues every Thursday evening through Oct.

26. There is no admission, and a cash bar is available. Next week: Ray Stewart. KIDS STUFF PRESCHOOL STORYTIME at the Fort MyersLee County Library welcomes children from 3 to 6 years old every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. The programs introduce young minds to the world of books through storytelling, fingerplays, puppet shows, crafts and films.

Each week's program lasts from 30 to 40 minutes and is free. Call 334-3992. BEDTIME STORYHOUR for children ages 2 to 5 and their parents takes place at the Cape CoralLee County Library from 7 to 7:30 p.m. every Thursday. No registeration is required and children are welcome in their pajamas.

Call 542-3953. KIDS FROM 10 TO 14 will have a howling good time at the Haunted House Masquerade from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cape Coral Yacht Club Pavilion on Driftwood Parkway. Costume prizes, a demon disc jockey, monster munchies and punch are on the party agenda. Register at Cape Coral Parks and Recreation Department headquarters, 4537 Coronado Parkway.

Admission is $4. Call 945-1588. IF YOU CAN CRANK UP your radio in the Mariner High School parking lot in Cape Coral and blast a tune into the Greenwave locker room at Fort Myers High School, you'll probably win the Car Stereo Competition on Saturday. It's Blast Off '89 and for once, teens will be asked to turn up the volume and show what their car stereo systems can do. SPARK 91.5 DJs will judge the competition and broadcast live from Mariner beginning at 1 p.m.

Get on over and go tune for tune against the best. There will be prizes, socializing and continuous LOUD music. Fifth Row Center, the area's newest company, presents "Little Shop of Horrors" in a dinner-theater format at The Diana restaurant in downtown Fort Myers at 7 tonight. The show stars Ruth Brown and Greg Benedict and features Andy Wahlberg as Audrey II. Show tickets are dinner menu items priced individually.

The show goes on every Thursday and Friday through Oct. 27. Call The Diana at 332-2278 or Fifth Row Center at 489-44 16. TS I ft "AMONG WILD CHIMPANZEES," a video that highlights Jane Goodall's studies of man's closest living relative, will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Nature Center and Planetarium, 3450 Ortiz Fort Myers.

Goodall spent two decades studying chimpanzees in Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve. The film of her experience will be shown on the planetarium dome at the Nature Center. The program is included in the regular admission price to the center. Call 275-3435. IF YOU'RE ON SANIBEL Sunday afternoon, check out Baileyfest '89, a festival of food, entertainment and fun sponsored by the shops in Bailey's Shopping Center at the corner of Periwinkle Way and Tarpon Bay Road.

Beginning at 1:30 p.m., the parking lot will come alive with music, doggers, belly dancers and even a dunk tank and a wine and cheese tasting. Prize drawings will be held all afternoon. It's all free, except for drinks (and a donation at the dunking tank). The fun will wind down around 6 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS CHECK OUT THE LATEST IN BOATS during this weekend at Coralwood Mall in Cape Coral.

New boats will be on display in the parking lot and also in the inner mall today and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. THE YOUNG AND YOUNG AT HEART ALIKE will enjoy buying, selling, trading or simply browsing at the baseball and football card show at the Robert E. Lee Motel in North Fort Myers from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Sunday. Dealers will display old and new cards, autographed items and other collectibles. Admission is free. As an added attraction, Dick Drago, a major league pitcher for 13 seasons with Kansas City, Boston, California, Baltimore and Seattle (he pitched for Boston in the 1975 World Series against Cincinnati) will sign autographs from 1 to 3 p.m.

Ahoy, maties, it's party tyme Shiver your timbers and search for buried treasure from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the annual Olde Tyme Beach Party at the Pink Shell Resort on Fort Myers Beach. In the photo above, Audrey and Charles Richardson get into the pirate mood in preparation for the party. Audrey Richardson of the Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the annual party, is organizing this year's event. See cover story for details..