1 KICKING
Martial arts teachers and students from all over the world are already showing off their stunts and skills at the American Taekwondo Association World Championships in Little Rock. The tournament portion begins Friday and continues through Sunday, with most events at the Statehouse Convention Center, Markham and Main streets. The World Ceremony, 7 p.m. Saturday, will take place at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. Tickets are $19.50-$41.50 plus handling fees. Call (501) 568-2821 or visit ataonline.com or ticketmaster.com.
2 HONKY-TONKING
Honky-tonker Gary Allan will perform twice this week in Arkansas: At 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Arkansas Music Pavilion, Washington County Fairgrounds, 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville. Tickets are $31.50-$52 (with limited premium seating at $102). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
And at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Timberwood Amphitheater, Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, U.S. 70 East (Grand Avenue). Country singer Aaron Owens will open the show at 7 p.m. Get in free with general park admission ($54.99 day of concert, $49.99 if bought in advance online, $33.99 for people 55 or older; limited $5 reserved seating available). Call (501) 624-0100 or visit MagicSprings.com. See story Page 4E.
3 PRANCING
Camelot is a silly place where they sing, dance, quarrel over the air speed of an unladen swallow and eat ham, jam and spam (a lot) in Monty Python’s Spamalot (music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, book by Idle based, mostly, on the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail), opening at 8 p.m. Friday at the Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock. Subsequent shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday through July 28. Tickets are $20, $16 for students and those age 65 and older. Visit weekendtheater.org, or, for more information only, call (501) 374-3761.
4 LAW-ABIDING
Courtney Speyer plays the title role, a supposedly dumb blonde who takes on Harvard Law School — and wins — in Community Theatre of Little Rock’s season-closing production of Legally Blonde: The Musical (music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach), 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through July 28 at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Tickets are $16, $14 for military members, students and those 65 and over, free for kids 6 and younger; bring a pair of gently used running shoes and get $1 off. (Today’s 7:30 p.m. “Pocket Preview, ” open-to-the-public dress rehearsal, is pay what you can.) Call (501) 410-2283 (ACT3) or visit ctlr-act.org.
5 DANCING
Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam (played by Paige Carpenter and Harold Dean, respectively) will twirl around the stage to the classic songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein as the Royal Players stage The King and I, Friday through July 28 at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Curtain time is 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12, $10 for those 65 and older, $5 for students. Call (501) 315-5483 or visit theroyalplayers.com.
6 ACTING
The Youth Theatre of Central Arkansas will present two short plays at 7 p.m. today and Friday in the Bridges/Larson Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. At 7, the Junior Group, youngsters in grades 3-6, will stage Paper or Plastic? by Werner Trieschmann; at 7:45, the Senior Group, students entering grades 7-12, will offer The Worst High School Play in the World by William Gleason. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5092 or visit uca.edu/theatre.
7 SINGING
John Denver “tribute artist” Jim Curry will put on his one-man show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Pine Bluff Country Club, 1100 Country Club Lane, part of the Old Town Dinner Theatre series. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $45, gratuities included; dress code is casual, “but conservative when in doubt.” Call (870) 535-2646 or visit pbdtheatre.com.
8 DRIVING
An army of jeeps and other classic military modes of transportation will rumble up to the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History for the Vintage Military Vehicle Show. The display will be open to visitors 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday on the museum grounds, 503 E. Ninth St. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602 or visit arkmilitaryheritage.com.
9 LAUGHING
New Yorker Adam Hunter, a finalist on season six of Last Comic Standing, headlines shows (with Sam Demaris as the feature act) through Saturday at the Loony Bin Comedy Club, in the Breckenridge Village Shopping Center, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road. Show times: 7:30 p.m. today, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Tickets are $7 today (free for ladies on Ladies Night), $10 Friday-Saturday. Call (501) 228-5555 or visit loonybincomedy.com.
10 QUILTING
The Hot Springs Area Quilt Guild presents more than 200 quilts and more than 20 vendors at Quiltfest: Borders and Beyond, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday-Saturday at the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. Admission is $5. Call (501) 318-0947 or visit hsaquiltguild.com.
Weekend, Pages 27 on 07/11/2013