I’m a self-professed Gleek. For the un-indoctrinated – and honestly, you don’t know what you’re missing – I am referring to my jones for “Glee,” the Fox TV show about a diverse group of students who comprise New Directions, an underdog high school glee club.

Fans of the show will understand why I am excited that coach of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline (and character Rachel Berry’s birth mom) will be coming to Powell Hall to perform with the St. Louis Symphony. Yes, that’s right, Tony Award winner, Lea Michele look-alike and former b’nai mitzvah singer Idina Menzel will perform for one afternoon only on Sunday, Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. Tickets for the concert are $65-$40 and are now available at the Powell Hall Box Office, online at www.stlsymphony.org, or by phone at 314- 534-1700. The Powell Hall Box Office is located at 718 North Grand Boulevard in Grand Center.

Menzel received a Tony Award for her role as “Elphaba” in the Broadway blockbuster “Wicked” and also starred on Broadway in the original cast of “Rent,” for which she received a Tony nomination. At the Powell Hall concert, she is expected to perform a wide-ranging concert of classical, pop, and musical theater favorites, including hits from “Wicked,” “Rent” and her “Glee” appearances.

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A new twist on an adult film

B&B Theatres is taking the concept of dinner and a movie to new heights. The new multiplex, opening in Wildwood Friday, Oct. 1, will have 10 digital auditoriums, all with stadium seating, and one auditorium called the B&B Grand Screen that features a 56 foot wall-to-wall screen. 

A unique feature of the Wildwood Cinema 10 is the “Marquee Suites,” two auditoriums that have their own exclusive entrance and are available only to patrons 21 and older.  The auditoriums will feature large reclining leather chairs with a granite tabletop in between every two seats.  The private lobby will offer a full service bar and locally catered items such as flatbread pizzas, sandwiches and cheese platters, in addition to more traditional concession items. The theater is located at 16820 Main Street in Wildwood.

Good Haiku gets tickets for you

Interested in a free trip to Israel? Just tap the poet in you.

El Al airlines is inviting its Facebook fans to submit their best Haiku by Oct. 22 to have a chance to win two roundtrip tickets to Israel. A Haiku poem consists of three lines, with lines 1 and 3 each containing five syllables, and line 2 must have seven syllables. Here’s an example:

Scribe a good Haiku.

Someone scores 2 free tickets

Possibly, it’s you.

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The winning submission will also be featured on the El Al USA website, www.elal.com, and the El Al USA Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as the airline’s American blog www.SkyWordsWithELAL.com. For contest rules, visit http://bit.ly/95UQsU.

For the chance to win $100 discounts off any nonstop flight to Israel, follow El Al on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ELALUSA. El Al recently hosted a contest where contestants were asked to submit their best travel joke on the airline’s Facebook wall. The grand prizewinner was Jillian Finkelstein of Cherry Hill, N.J. Here is her winning entry:  

“NASA has sent many shuttles into space and has made an attempt to include passengers of all races and creeds. They realized that clergy had been excluded, so they invited a priest, a rabbi and a minister to orbit the earth. Upon their return, crowds formed to hear their impressions. First the priest emerged, beaming and full of joy. He said, ‘It was amazing, I saw the sunrise and set, I saw the seas. It was beautiful.’ Then the minister came out, also happy and seemingly at peace. He said, ‘I saw the magnificent earth and the majestic sun. I’m truly in awe.’ Then the rabbi appeared. He was completely disheveled, his beard tangled flowing in every direction, his kippah was frayed, his tallit was wrinkled. They asked, ‘Rabbi, did you enjoy the flight?’ He threw his hands up in the air and replied, “ENJOY??? What was to enjoy?? Every five minutes the sun was rising and setting! On with the tefillin, off with tefillin, shacharis, mincha, ma’ariv, shacharis, mincha, ma’ariv!”