LITTLE ROCK — “The Three Phantoms” - singer-actors Craig Schulman, Brad Little and Gary Mauer - will give two Arkansas performances this week:
7:30 p.m. Tuesday with the Conway Symphony Orchestra and conductor Israel Getzov in the Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, to open the UCA Public Appearances’ Broadway Series. Tickets are $30-$40, $27-$37 for senior citizens, with discounts for UCA alumni, faculty, staff and students with current ID. Call (501) 450-3265 (866) 810-0012 or visit the website, uca.edu/ tickets.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Arkansas Best Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith, part of the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith’s Season of Entertainment 30. Tickets are $22 and $19. Call (479) 788-7300or visit the website, www.uafortsmith.edu.
The concert will feature music from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Jubilee, Kiss Me Kate, Company, And the World Goes Round, Paint Your Wagon, Jekyll & Hyde, The Most Happy Fella, Secret Garden, Man of La Mancha, Camelot and Damn Yankees.
The three have among them more than 3,000 performances of Phantom and 2,000 performances of Les Miz.
Conway ArtsFest
The Conway “Three Phantoms” concert is also a part of the Conway Alliance for the Arts’ fourth annual ArtsFest in Conway, Tuesday-Oct. 3 at various Conway venues.
Also headlining the festival: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans, at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Simon Park, on Front Street downtown, with members of the 170-member University of Central Arkansas marching band.
Before the concert, the marching band will accompany the “Children’s Parade of Art” down Front Street from the Log Cabin Democrat building to the park. (The New Orleans band will be in residence at UCA starting Wednesday, and that includes a 1:40 p.m. Thursday concert at the Student Center Quad.)
Conway Alliance for theArts is sponsoring the festival. Admission to most events is free. A complete schedule is available at artsinconway. org.
Dance workshops
The Thea Foundation, Arkansas Dance Coalition and Arkansas Dance Network will put on “Jazz Dance Workshops with Broadway Star Bill Hastings” in central and Northwest Arkansas next week:
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Dance Studio, Room 129, Centre for the Performing Arts (theater building), University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock
1:30-6:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in Room 220 of the University of Arkansas HPER Building, 155 Stadium Drive, Fayetteville.
In addition to Hastings’ portion of the workshops, Niki Ciccotelli and Eve Rosin, staff members at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, will lead participants through a halfhour session in which the dancers will re-create seven paintings in teams “en tableau.”
Tuition for each workshop is $20; register online at theafoundation.org and arrive a few minutes early to sign in. For the Little Rock workshop, call (501) 681-2556; for the Fayetteville session, call (479) 422-6132 or visit dancecoalition.com.
Hastings has presented workshops in Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas for the last four years.
Garden flutes
The Hot Springs Flute Ensemble will give a concert of Western music at 3 p.m. today in the Pavilion at Garvan Woodland Gardens, 540 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs, off Carpenter Dam Road, on the east side of Lake Hamilton.
The program will include the Arkansas premiere of Chris Caliendo’s Western Suite. Kristin Grant conducts.
In case of rain the concert will be held in the gardens’ Magnolia Room. Admissionto the concert is free with admission to the gardens, $8.75, $7.75 for senior citizens, $4 for children. Call (501) 520-0306 or visit the website, www. HotSpringsFlutes.com.
Bluegrass Monday
Bluegrass band Grand Prairie - Rodger King, lead vocals, guitar and dobro; Chuck Brockington, mandolin and vocals; Molly Brockington, guitar and lead vocals; Kathy King, bass; and Jason Dean, banjo - will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 West Emerson St., Paragould, as part of radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s Bluegrass Monday series.
Admission is free; the station will pass the hat (suggested donation: $5). Call (870) 972-2367.
Area bluegrass musicians will jam at 5 p.m. at Terry’s Cafe, 201 S. Pruett St., Paragould (one block east of the theater). Bring only acoustic instruments and play only bluegrass.
ASU Theatre
Arkansas State University Theatre will open its 2010-11 season with Wonder of the World by David Lindsay-Abaire at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6-9 in the Drama Theatre of ASU’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
The rest of the lineup (all performances at 7:30 p.m. in the Drama Theatre):
Nov. 14-15, 18-19: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music by Lee Blessing
Feb. 25-26, 28, March 1-2: The Butler Did It by Walter Marks and Peter Marks
April 15-16, 19-20: The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency.
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Call (870) 972-2781 (ASU1) or visit the website, www2.astate.edu/ tickets. For more information on the plays, visit theatre. astate.edu/seasons.
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