The Weekend Ten

LITTLE ROCK — 1 GLORY BE

For a glimpse of those “glorious”

days when untalented people who were also wealthy could perform among the truly talented, check out Glorious!, the latest comedy at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Sixth and Main streets, Little Rock. The play, written by Peter Quilter, opens at 8 p.m. Friday and runs through March 28. Tickets range from $20 to $40 and can be reserved by calling (501) 378-0405 or (866) 684-3737 or by going to the Web site www.therep.org. See full story Page 8E.

2 LORD OVER

Celebrity Attractions presents

Lord of the Dance at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Center Music Hall. Tickets are $50, $37, $32 and $22 and are available at Celebrity Attractions in person at 300 S. Spring, Suite 100 or by calling (501) 244-8800; online at Ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 982-ARTS. See full story Page 3E.

3 GO GREEN

A green army will make

its way from the Clinton Presidential Center, across the Main Street Bridge and into North Little Rock’s Argenta Historic District for the Rock to North Little Rock St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Presented by the Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas, the collection of floats and marching bands will start out at 1 p.m. Saturday. Irish dancing in front of Cregeen’s Irish Pub will follow. Admission is free. Call (501) 868-6416 or visit irisharkansas. org.

4 EARLY “SUMMERTIME”

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra takes a trip to Catfish Row with a concert performance of George and Ira Gerswhin’s opera-musical Porgy & Bess, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Robinson Center Music Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Bass-baritone Timothy Jones sings the role of Porgy with soprano Henrietta Davis as Bess, tenor Calvin Lee as Sportin’ Life and soprano Nura Myers Joplin as Clara, plus the voices of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Vesper Choir and the Philander Smith College Choir. Geoffrey Robson conducts. The concert is part of the orchestra’s Acxiom Pops Live! series. Tickets are $20-$72 (with $6 for students); bring nonperishable food items to support the Arkansas Food Bank Network and the Orchestras Feeding America National Food Drive. Call (501) 666-1761 or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

5 TWINKLE TOES

Arkansas’ arena football team

has a new name and a new season. The Arkansas Diamonds (formerly the Twisters) kick off the season by taking on the San Angelo Stampede Express at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Verizon Arena. Tickets are $12-$50. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.

6 WILD DISCOUNT

If you’ve wanted to visit the

chimps, elephants and bush dogs at the Little Rock Zoo, you can save a little money on Saturday, which is Coleman Dairy Dollar Day, with $1 admission for everyone. Call (501) 666-2406 or visit littlerockzoo.com.

7 LAUGH IN

Improvisational troupe ImprovLittleRock will spring into action at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Friday night’s show is the long-form “The Harold,” and Saturday’s “Comedy Throwdown” features two teams, one hard-to-please judge and audience inspiration. Tickets are $8 for each show. Call (501) 374-7529 (PLAY).

8 MELLOW YELLOW

Camden welcomes spring in

grand style with its annual Daffodil Festival, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday. For active types, there are the 5K race, poker run, bike show, rock climbing walls and children’s activities. Guided tours of museums, antebellum homes, historical sites and costumed re-enactments will appeal to history buffs while garden tours show off the town’s flowers. Then there’s the Championship Steak Cook-Off. Activities will be centered in downtown Camden. There are admission fees for the tours and some activities, ranging from $5-$15. Call (870) 836-0023 or visit camden festival.com.

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TURNER

The Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries will fill the Main Library’s basement with books of every size, shape and type during its regular FOCAL Book Sale. The sale is open to all from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. All paperbacks are 50 cents and hardcovers are $1, so it’s an opportunity to fill your shelves without draining your wallet. The Main Library is at 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Call (501) 918-3000.

10 PUPPET SHOW

Ventriloquist/comedian Jeff Dunham, in the midst of his “International Identity Crisis Tour,” will appear with his characters Walter the curmudgeon, Peanut the Woozle, Achmed the Dead Terrorist and Jose Jalapeno on a Stick for a 5 p.m. show Sunday at the Arkansas State University Convocation Center, 217 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. Tickets are $43.50 (plus applicable service fees). Call (870) 972-2781 (ASU1) or (888) 278-3267 (ASUFANS) or visit tickets.astate.edu or www2.astate.edu/a/convo/con certshows.dot.