LITTLE ROCK — BIG TOP Stunt riders, acrobats, animals and clowns are going to party down at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus presents Barnum Bash. Showtimes are 7 p.m. today-Saturday, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 5 p.m.
Sunday. Tickets are $10.75-$50.75. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
2BAND Recently reunited rock band Creed will be the latest in the 2012 PepsiConcert Series at Magic Springs Water and Theme Park on U.S.
70 (East Grand Avenue) in Hot Springs, Saturday. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 8.
Lawn seating is free with general park admission, $44.99, $29.99 for those under 48 inches tall and ages 55 and older. VIP seating is an additional $10; reserved seating is $5. Call (501) 624-0100 or visit magicsprings.com.
3 BUFFET The aisles will be alive with The Sound of Music as Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, stages the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical through Sept. 1. Lauren Cupples plays Maria, with Don Bolinger as Captain Von Trapp and Kelley Ponder as the Mother Abbess. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Tuesday-Saturday; 11 a.m. for Sunday and Wednesday matinees (July 25, Aug. 1 and 8; no evening shows those Wednesdays), 5:30 p.m. Sunday evening. Tickets (including buffet and show) are $31 Sunday evening-Thursday, $33 Friday-Saturday, $29 Sunday and Wednesday matinees, $20 for children and those (with confirmatory ID) who are 16 going on 17. (Show-only tickets are $25, $15 children.) Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.
4’BYE The Four Reps - Henry Melhorn, Jack Dowden, Matthew Morley and Charlie Askew, an a cappella/rock/doo-wop/barbershop quartet representing the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s Young Artists program - will hold a final, one-night-only farewell concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Rep, 601 Main St., Little Rock. The concert will also feature a special showing of Arkansas filmmaker Mark Thiedeman’s short film Cain and Abel, which stars two of the Rep’s Summer Musical Theatre Intensive alumni, Sam Pettit and Keith Hudson.
Tickets are $10. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit therep.org.
5BIG HAIR There’s Hairspray all over the place this weekend. The musical (music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and ScottWhittman, book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on John Waters’ 1988 film) is on stage:
At the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 Main St., Pine Bluff, 7:30 p.m.
today-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $18-$22, $5 for students. Call (870) 536-3375 or visit the website, ArtsScienceCenter.org.
m And it’s the final weekend of the Community Theatre of Little Rock’s production, 7:30 p.m.
Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Tickets are $16, $14 for military, students and those 65 and older, free for children 6 and under ($1 off with a pair of gently used running shoes). Call (501) 410-2283 or visit ctlr-act.org.
6BENEFIT Ernie isn’t the only one who likes to play with rubber duckies. North Little Rock’s Wild River Country, CrystalHill Road off Exit 12 off Interstate 430, is once again hosting the Rubber Ducky Regatta and its slow-moving rubber ducky race in the lazy river, 3-10 p.m. Friday. Admission to this fundraiser for Camp Aldersgate is $9 and includes dinner and a racing duck. Call (501) 225-1444 or visit campaldersgate.net.
7 BOATS Seaworthy - and notso-seaworthy - crafts of all shapes and sizes will take to the waters of Greers Ferry Lake, trying to avoid taking home the feared Titanic Award in the annual World Championship Cardboard Boat Races, 10 a.m. Saturday. The main event location, Sandy Beach in Heber Springs, will also host a treasure dig, watermelon-eating contest, tug of war and the Demolition Derby. General admission is free. Call (800) 774-3237 or visit heber-springs.com.
8 BLACK HISTORY The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W.
Ninth St., Little Rock, chronicles 50 years of life and black culture in Arkansas with a new temporary exhibit: “A Voice Through the Viewfinder: Images of Arkansas’ Black Community.” The collection of photos by Ralph Armstrong opens with a special reception, 4:30-6:30 p.m. today, and will remain on display through Jan. 5. Admission is free. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Call (501) 683-3593.
9BUILDING “Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones” goes on displayFriday in the exhibit hall of the William F. Laman Public Library System main library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. The exhibition, on loan from the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, with additional artifacts and objects from Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville, will be up through Aug. 25. Admission is free. Call (501) 771-1995, Extension 105, or visit lamanlibrary.org.
10BUXTEHUDE Organist Lynn Bauman, now of Memphis but formerly music director of St. Luke’s EpiscopalChurch, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, will play works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Richard Purvis, Dale Wood, Percy Whitlock and Louis Vierne in a recital at 5 p.m. Sunday at the church, part of a new series called Fifth Sunday Festival of the Senses. Admission is free. Call (501) 412-3865.
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