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THE CENTER FRONT Players go retro for their latest production, "The Good Old Days of Radio and Television."

On Saturday, Feb. 6, Sunday, Feb. 7, Saturday, Feb. 13, and Sunday, Feb. 14, the Thomas A. Baum Senior Center-based troupe will perform an episode of the radio comedy "The Bickersons."

The original program starred Don Ameche and Frances Langford as husband-and-wife John and Blanche Bickerson, who had what marriage counselors might call "issues."

Bitingly funny, but with a genuine sense of affection, the show was must-hear radio from 1946 to 1951 on NBC and CBS.

For the local production, the Baum Center will be turned into a old-time radio studio, with a sound effects guy, an off-stage announcer, on-air lights and actors seated at Prada Leather Handbags a table reading scripts into microphones.

"We wanted to recreate what it was like to sit in the dark and imagine," said Tom Filkins, 70, the show's director. "Most of the old radio shows were done live."

Filkins also plays John Bickerson, with Sharon Thompson and Jane Smallwood rotating in the role of Blanche Bickerson.

And that's only Act I.

For the second part of the show, a quartet - Jerry Manolas, Dick Gillespie, Sheila Diehm and Loretta Fertal - will recreate "Your Hit Parade."

The popular radio and TV program, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes, featured the top songs of the day, which means you'll hear such '40s and '50s classics as "Mack the Knife," "Volare" and "The Wayward Wind."

The Dare2Danzers also will get into the act.

"If I look into the audience and see anyone under 60," said Filkins, who lives in Manns Harbor, during a telephone interview, "I may have to do a little talk about the old days."

Also coming up...

* It may be the off-season, but you wouldn't know it by what's going on this month at the Outer Banks Brewing Station.

The Kill Devil Hills eatery/nightclub has three wildly divergent events scheduled.

On Saturday, Feb. 6, the Dallas-based touring sideshow known as Hellzapoppin makes a stop.

You're invited to step right up to a production that's part circus, part freak-show and part concert.

Think "Moulin Rouge" with music by Iron Maiden.

Performers include a sword-swallower, "a real live Penguin boy," acrobats, aerialists, contortionists, burlesque dancers and a fire- eater.

Shows are at 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tickets are $10.

"The Vagina Monologues" will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, Tuesday, Feb. 9, and Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Eve Ensler's award-winning play addresses a wide range of subjects and is at turns funny, sad and thought-provoking.

More than a dozen local women (mostly non-actors) will read the monologues.

Tickets are $10 and $20. It's a benefit for Outer Banks Hotline and other local civic organizations.

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On Saturday, Feb. 20, the local quintet known as 9:58 will headline a benefit concert for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

A number of local businesses are contributing merchandise and servic
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