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Weekend Picks: Local hero G. Love brings in The Bones of J.R. Jones for a night at the Fillmore

Ama Deus Ensemble

St. Katharine of Siena Church, 401 S. Aberdeen Ave., Wayne.
7 p.m. Friday, $30; $25 seniors; $10 students.

Conductor Valentin Radu leads the Ama Deus Ensemble in Brahms magnificent German Requiem with soloists Julie-Ann Green, soprano, and Kevin Deas, bass, plus the composer's Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn.

Jesus Christ Superstar

Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave, Glenside, Pa.
8 p.m., Friday; 4 & 8 p.m., Saturday. $19.50-34.50. 

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Broadway hit Jesus Christ Superstar hits the area just in time for the Easter holiday. The rock opera loosely follows the events of the Gospels, touching on issues of social justice and Jesus' celebrity status. The music -- from "I Don't Know How to Love Him" to the rousing "Superstar" -- is a standout.

The Little Flower

Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.
Saturday, 8 p.m. Tickets: $87. 

Distinguished actor Tony Lo Bianco portrays the man who was truly America's mayor, New York's Fiorello La Guardia, in his show The Little Flower, which follows Hizzoner on his last day in office in 1945.

The Bones of J.R. Jones

Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St.
8:30 p.m., Saturday, $27.50.

Brooklyn musicologist Jonathon Linaberry performs as The Bones of J.R. Jones, playing dead-on, throwback country blues with a Dean CE Cutaway Resonator guitar, an old trunk pounded with a foot-pedal, and a tambourine taped to his foot. He opens for local hero G. Love..

Hangmen

Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr.
1 p.m., Sunday, $20; $10 students. 

In Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Hangmen, the second-best executioner in England is left at loose ends, holding court in a northern pub, when the U.K. abolishes the death penalty in 1965. A film of the National Theatre production screens at the