Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Sculpture competition
Downtown nonprofit studioMAIN has extended the deadline to Dec. 31 for Arkansas artists to submit proposals for the South Main Street Public Arts Competition.
Three donors — the John and Robyn Horn Foundation, the Quapaw Central Business Improvement District No. 5 and Anita Davis, owner of Esse Purse Museum and Bernice Garden — are giving matching gifts totaling $45,000 toward commissioning, through the statewide competition, sculptures for display between the 1200 and 1700 blocks of Little Rock’s Main Street.
The first-tier prize is a $10,000 commission for the creation of a large, permanent “gateway” sculpture to the South Main neighborhood; two second-tier prizes of $7,500 will let artists choose among three locations along the streetscape. A jury of SoMa representatives and members of Little Rock’s art community will adjudicate the competition.
Information about the Public Arts Master Plan is available online at southmainpublicart.com; call (501) 374-5300 or email southmainpublicart@gmail.com.
Kinky tickets
The national tour of Kinky Boots, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for best musical, and five other Tonys to “boot,” (including one for the score by Cyndi Lauper; book by Harvey Fierstein), will be onstage 8 p.m. May 19 and 22, 7:30 p.m. May 20-21, 2 and 8 p.m. May 23 and 1:30 and 7 p.m. May 24 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis.
Steven Boothplays Charlie Price, who, in trying to keep the shoe factory he has inherited from his father afloat, finds inspiration in Lola (Kyle Taylor Parker), a “fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos.”
Tickets, $20-$125, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday Dec. 19. Call (901) 743-2787cq EH or (901) 525-3000cq EH or visit orpheum-memphis.com.