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Showboat season: Showboat Majestic celebrates 35 years on the Ohio River in 2003 with a six-show lineup:

April 23-May 11, the new musical The Human Comedy; May 21-June 8, Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon; June 11-29, revue Is There Life After High School?; July 9-27, The Odd Couple - Female Version; Aug. 6-24, The Secret Garden; Sept. 10-28, vaudeville celebration Sugar Babies.

For subscriptions and information call the box office at 241-6550. The Showboat is located on Cincinnati's Public Landing.

Jackie Demaline

Concerts on sale

Today: Alkaline Trio, 8 p.m. June 23 at Bogart's. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 day of show.

Saturday: Alabama at Riverbend, 8 p.m. Aug. 8. Tickets are $302.75*, $152.75*, $47.75, $22.75 (*ticket includes collector's edition lithograph).

David Gray, 7:30 p.m. July 25 at Riverbend. Tickets are $39.25.

Brooks & Dunn Neon Circus and Wild West Show, 4 p.m. May 2 at Rupp Arena in Lexington. $47.75 and $37.75.

Matchbox Twenty with Sugar Ray and Maroon 5, 7 p.m. May 25 at Nationwide Arena, Columbus. $43 and $37.

Monday: The Eagles, 8 p.m. May 26, U.S. Bank Arena. $153, $83, $43.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. each day at Ticketmaster, (513) 562-4949 or www.ticketmaster.com.

FYI

Tickets are on sale for two special film events with timely social and political themes.

• The Last Just Man from Steven Silver documents the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Rwandans through the eyes of United Nation peacekeeper Gen. Romeo Dallaire, who tried in vain to persuade world leaders to help. It will screen March 24 at 7 p.m. at Old St. George, 42 Calhoun St., Clifton. A panel discussion will follow. Tickets are $8, available at Old St. George, The Buzz Coffee Shop (221-3472), and online from Cincinnati World Cinema at Web site . For more information, call 533-8208 or visit Web site.

• In the Company of Strangers by Toledo filmmaker Thomas Hofbauer is a fictional tale that addresses homophobia and peer pressure through the story of a young troublemaker sentenced to community service in an AIDS hospice. It screens March 27 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at the 20thCentury in Oakley, and will be followed by a panel discussion with AIDS Volunteers of Northern Kentucky. Tickets are $8, available from Cincinnati International Film Festival by phone, 379-6462, online at Web site, or from Wizard's Movies & Music in Oakley, 351-5500.

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