ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Erica Summers and Ashley Murie
Erica Summers and Ashley Murie

Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:

Argenta Fiddler

A Fiddler on the Roof -- sounds crazy, no? But at the Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, the musical ( music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem) will be onstage at 7 p.m. today and Sunday, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $30-$50. Call (501) 353-1443, email fiddlerontheroof@argentacommunitytheater.com or visit ArgentaCommunityTheater.com.

Saturday tales

The Lantern Theatre and Conway Community Arts will give their final Super Summer Saturday interactive performance of SOME of Grimm's Fairy Tales for children at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Lantern Theatre, 1021 Van Ronkle St., Conway. Children help the cast, which includes Erica Summers, Ashley Murie and Elizabeth Williams, tell the stories onstage.

Admission is $5 for children under 12, free for adults accompanied by a child. Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. The theater will donate half of the proceeds to the American Red Cross for tornado relief. Call (479) 601-5562 or visit conwayarts.org.

Beastly breakfast

Dr. Doolittle could talk to the animals, but you can have breakfast with them, 8-9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Little Rock Zoo, 1 Zoo Drive, Little Rock. Two programs with buffets and discussions with keepers will start in the zoo's Cafe Africa: Breakfast With Big Cats and Breakfast With Rhinos.

Tickets (including zoo admission for the day) are $21.95, $16.95 for children, with discounts for zoo members. Reservations are required. Call (501) 661-7218.

Young Pirates

Young Jane Hawkins joins a crew of pirates, including Long Jen Silver and a talking parrot, as the Maumelle Youth Theater, in association with the Maumelle Players and Little Scholars Academy of Maumelle, stages Treasure Island: Young Pirates of the Caribbean, 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday at Little Scholars Academy of Maumelle Theater, 112 Audubon Drive, Maumelle.

Kathryn Schultz Miller adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's tale into a "musical participation play for young people to perform."

Tickets are $5 (up to a maximum of $30 per family). Call (501) 358-8413.

Weekend on 07/24/2014

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