Broadway at the Movies; Fine Art and Flowers at the Wadsworth; Art Show in Tolland

Broadway's Memphis at the Movies

Less expensive by far than beaming yourself to the Great White Way is taking a seat at one of your local cinema palaces for a screening of Broadway's current Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis. The cinematic event marks the first time the Tony Award-winning Best Musical is presented in theaters while concurrently running on Broadway. The film features the entire musical with the original cast plus behind-the-scenes footage. (The touring production of the musical arrives next year at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.)

Screenings are April 28, April 30, and May 3 at 7:30 p.m., and May 1 at 12:30 p.m.  Participating theaters include Buckland Hills 18 IMAX in Manchester, Branford 12 in Branford, and AMC Danbury 16 in Danbury. Tickets for Memphis are available at participating theater box offices and online atwww.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations, prices and additional information — including cast photos and other details —visit the NCM Fathom website. 

Wadsworth Fine Art & Flowers

How do you know it's spring time in Hartford? Aside from the abundance of blossoming trees, the city's Wadsworth Atheneum annually presents the Fine Art & Flowers show. Each year, the museum's Women's Committee pairs masterworks from the Atheneum's collection with 60 floral arrangers and table designers. The result? Floral creations as various and artful as the works that inspired them. Offered in conjunction with the show are a variety of garden- and flower-related special events – from flower arranging workshops and demonstrations to a Garden Club Day, and lectures on topics including Edible Landscapes and hosta varieties.

Fine Art & Flowers runs April 28 through May 1. The Wadsworth Atheneum is at 600 Main St., Hartford. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visitwww.wadsworthatheneum.org or call 860-278-2670.

Art League Presents CT+6

A juried exhibition of art works by regional artists annually makes up the West Hartford Art League's "CT +" show. This year, it's "CT +6" for entrants who hail from Connecticut and six other states – Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. Dina Deitsch, associate curator of contemporary art at the Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Mass., is juror.

CT +6 runs from April 28 through May 29 at the Clubhouse Gallery, 37 Buena Vista Road, West Hartford.  An opening reception for the artists is May 1 from 2 to 4 p.m. Awards will be announced at 3 p.m. For more information, visit www.westhartfordart.org or call 860-231-8019.

Mary Miss Exhibition at Joseloff Gallery

New York-based sculptor Mary Miss is at the forefront of Eco Art, a movement spawned in the 1970s that reconnects art with science and politics around issues including climate change, biodiversity, pollution, and water quality. Eschewing dry, statistical methods of advocating change, Eco Art relies on the use of images, performances, art exhibits and films to make the case for a greener world. Mary Miss: City as Living Laboratory, Hartford centers on a site-specific, multi-part installation created by Miss at the Joseloff Gallery in West Hartford. It is designed to bring attention to the Park River and its watershed. The 77-square mile Park River watershed stretches east through Connecticut from the Metacomet Ridge to the Connecticut River. The north branch of the Park River flows through the campus of the University of Hartford into a buried conduit at Farmington Avenue near the Mark Twain House.  The north and south branches of the Park River converge underground and travel beneath Bushnell Park in Hartford before pouring into the Connecticut River.  Miss hopes her work engages citizens and makes them aware of the importance of local watersheds and how their behavior affects them.

The exhibition runs through May 29 at the Joseloff Gallery. The Joseloff Art Gallery is at 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford. For more information, visit www.joseloffgallery.org or call 860-768-4090.

Late Organist Honored in Choral Evensong in Storrs

St. Mark’s Episcopal Chapel Choir will perform an Evensong on Sunday, May 1, at 5 p.m. in honor of former chapel organist Virginia Herrmann, who died March 17 at age 97. Herrmann was responsible for fundraising and procuring the chapel’s Brombaugh organ, a 1,410-pipe organ dedicated in1979, suited to baroque music and mentioned in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Herrmann studied at Juilliard, Eastman and under German composer Paul Hindemith at the Yale School of Music, where she met her husband, Heintz Herrmann. They were married in 1947.

Herrmann taught piano and theory, but, after developing tendinitis, she took up organ.

The Evensong will include the Randall ThompsonAlleluia, choral responses, Our Father, theMagnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and Psalm I.

The program will also honor the UConn students in the choir and congregation who are soon to depart for the year. A reception in the church will follow the service at 6 p.m. The church is at 42 N. Eagleville Road. For information, call 860-429-2647 or visit stmarkschapel.org.

Beasts and Bones at Mansfield Center

Kindergarteners and first-graders will learn about bony critters, including bunnies, bears, beavers, bluebirds and boas Tuesday, May 3, for an hour at 4:45 p.m. at the Mansfield Parks and Recreation Community Center. The instructor is Sue Harrington and she will appear on future Tuesdays through May 17.

The program fee is $35 for residents and $45 for non-residents, and includes all instruction and materials throughout the program. For an additional $12, Mansfield children can come straight from school on the bus, receive a snack and be escorted to the class on time. The program started last Tuesday but no discounts will be given for missed sessions.

For information, call 860-429-3015 or visit the website: www.mansfieldct.gov.

Juried Art Show in Tolland

Vermont art juror Robert J. O’Brien of Perkinsville, VT, will judge the 8th annual competition starting Saturday, April 30, at the Arts Center of Tolland on the green. More than $1,000 in prizes, including a $500 first-place award, will be given. The art show will continue through Sunday, May 22.

For more information, visit the Arts Center website or call 860-871-7405.