Benefits, Ballet, Movies, Trains, Lorrie Morgan Make for a Good 'Get Out' Weekend

Essential Marietta happenings for the weekend:

1. Support SafePath Children's Advocacy Center. This Marietta-based organization is holding its 10th anniversary Hearing Children's Voices black-tie benefit at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The event includes dinner, entertainment and an auction, with proceeds going to the group's work to help abused children.

Tickets are $150. For information, call 770-801-3469 or visit supportsafepath.com.

2. See Lorrie Morgan in Concert. Lorrie Morgan has charted more than 25 country music singles on Billboard in a career that started with an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry at age 13 with her grandfather George Morgan. Morgan performs at the at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $30 plus fees.

Go to http://prca.cobbcountyga.gov/anderson_theatre.htm for information or to buy tickets.

3. Check out "Beauty and the Beast" as a Ballet. The British Academy of Performing Arts presents its version of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" tale as a ballet and repertoire at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday at The Joe Mack Wilson Theatre on the campus, 1100 S. Marietta Parkway.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and youth. For information, visit www.bapa.us or call 770-578-8272.

4. Revisit your childhood love of model trains. The Piedmont Division of the National Model Railroad Association sponsors its 14th annual Model Train Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Cobb Galleria Centre. The show will feature more than 250 vendors for only an $8 ticket for adults. Children 12 and under may attend for free.

For information, visit themodeltrainshow.com.

5. Watch Hitchcock's most romantic suspense thriller. Even the average movie-goer knows a half dozen Alfred Hitchcock movies. Psycho, North By Northwest, Vertigo and The Birds immediately come to mind. But Hitchcock hit his highest note with Notorious, a tense thriller in which an agent played by Cary Grant uses the woman he lives (Ingrid Bergman) to nab a notorious Claude Rains.

The movie features two of the greatest "great scenes" in movie history: The greatest zoom shot and the greatest kiss. Essential.

The movie plays at 2 p.m. Saturday at the East Cobb Library, 4880 Lower Roswell Road. For information, call 770-509-4996.