LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend: THEATER Chaperone drowses
Ouachita Baptist University’s department of theater arts and division of music will collaborate on a staging of The Drowsy Chaperone (music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar), accompanied by an orchestra, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Jones Performing Arts Center at OBU in Arkadelphia. Tickets are $10. Call (870) 245-5563 or visit www.obu.edu/boxoffice.
Soccer Mom’s secrets
Conway Community Arts and the Lantern Theatre will stage Secrets of a Soccer Mom by Kathleen Clark at 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and April 26-28 and 2:30 p.m. April 29 at the Lantern Theatre, 1021 Van Ronkle St., Conway. Because of some sexual references, the theater group is recommending the play for ages 16 and older. Tickets are $12. Call (501) 733-6220, e-mail ConwayLanternTh eatre@gmail.com or visit www.conwayarts.org.
Joe Turner’s travels
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s John McLinn Ross Players will stage August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Center, UAPB, 1200 N. University Ave., Pine Bluff. Tickets are $10, $5 for students with ID. Call (870) 575-8411 or (870) 575-8428.
Harvey visits
The Rialto Players will stage Harvey by Mary Chase at 7 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, same times April 27-28, 2 p.m. Sunday and April 29 at the Rialto Community Arts Center, 215 E. Broadway, Morrilton. Tickets are $10. The shows Saturday and April 28 will be in a dinner theater setting; dinner starts at 5:30 p.m.; dinner theater tickets are $25 and must be obtained in advance at the Morrilton Area Chamber of Commerce. Call (501) 477-9955 or visit rialtoartscenter.com.
MUSIC
‘American Voices’
The Little Rock Wind Symphony’s “American Voices” concert will feature the blues, a rag, a drag and a horn concerto at 3 p.m. Sunday at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Paragould native Shawn Hagen, a member of the United States Army Band, “Pershing’s Own,” in Washington, will be the soloist in the Concerto for Horn by Brett Miller. The program will also include Fanfare for the Common Man and “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land by Aaron Copland; Hymn to a Blue Hour by JohnMackey; band arrangements of Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag; and Frank Ticheli’s Blue Shades. Karen Fannin conducts. Friends of Shawn Hagen is sponsoring the concert. Tickets are $10, $8 for senior citizens, free for students. Call (501) 666-0777 or visit lrwindsymphony.org.
UCA choirs, bands
The University of Central Arkansas Concert Choir and Chamber Choir will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The Concert Choir’s program will include works by Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gyorgy Orban and Arvo Part. The Chamber Choir will perform music by Felix Mendelssohn, Giovanni Maria Nanini, Part and Lejos Bardos. Admission is free. John Erwin conducts. Call (501) 450-5751 or e-mail johne@uca.edu.
Meanwhile, UCA’s jazz ensembles will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the university’s Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall. The Dixieland Band, with Jackie Lamar conducting, will play traditional New Orleans Jazz from the 1910s and ’20s. Jazz Ensemble II, under the baton of Christian Carichner, will explore the rise of the Big Band Era. And Jazz Ensemble I, with Larry Jones conducting, will pay tribute to drummer-bandleader Buddy Rich. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5018 or e-mail rljones@uca.edu.
New Edition reunion
Tickets - $68, $58 and $48 plus handling charges - are currently on sale for New Edition’s “30th Reunion Tour” concert, 6 p.m. July 1 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. After 7 is the opening act. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
ART
Spring show
TheArtGroup, 10840 Maumelle Blvd., North Little Rock, will open its spring gallery show, 6-9 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday, April 22. In addition to local original art, the gallery will offer entertainment, food and wineand children’s activities. Call (501) 680-9484 or visit TheArt-GroupMaumelle.com.
Rep benefit
More than 80 central Arkansas artists and artisans will provide pottery, watercolors, acrylics, photographs, sculpture and jewelry for Artworks XXIV, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s annual art-auction fundraiser, 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the main lobby at The Rep, 601 Main St., Little Rock. The event starts with a silent auction and music by blues/rockabilly singer/ songwriter Ben Brenner and the Rep’s a cappella doo-wop Young Artist group The Four Reps; hors d’oeuvres; and an open bar. A live auction begins at 7:30. Tickets are $50. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit www.therep.org.
DANCE
Ballet benefit
Arkansas Festival Ballet will hold its “Arabian Nights Soiree” fundraiser at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the home of Vince Insalaco, 567 Silverwood Trail, North Little Rock. The event will feature a raffle for a bracelet and an Oriental rug. Tickets are $30. Call (501) 227-5320 or e-mail info@arkansasdance.org.
Weekend, Pages 38 on 04/19/2012