Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Bull sessions
The nation's top cowboys will be competing against the world's "rankest" bucking bulls for a share of more than $15,000 in prize money in the Professional Bull Riders Inc.'s Bootdaddy.com PBR Jonesboro Invitational, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday at Arkansas State University's Convocation Center, 217 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
Doors open at 7. Tickets are $15-$38 (plus service fees), $9-$20.50 for children. Call (870) 972-2781 or (888) 278-3268 or visit Tickets.AState.edu.
Spa City Cinderella
The Hot Springs Children's Dance Theatre Company will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday and May 8-9 and 3 p.m. Sunday and May 10 at the Five Star Dinner Theater, 701 Central Ave., Hot Springs.
The performance is part of the Arts & The Park celebration this weekend and next in downtown Hot Springs.
Deanna Karlheim will dance the title role, with Amy Bramlett as the fairy godmother and Matthew Redix as the master of ceremonies. The company's artistic director is Edmond Cooper.
Dinner-show tickets are $37.95, $24.95 for children; show-only (including all seats for the Sunday matinees), $24.95 and $17.95. Call (501) 318-1600 or visit thefivestartheatre.com.
Horse opus
Also in conjunction with the festival, Red Door Studios will stage Derby Day, written and directed by Hot Springs native Samuel Brett Williams and set in a luxury box at Oaklawn during the Arkansas Derby, at 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and May 7-9 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and May 10 at Low Key Arts, 118 Arbor St., Hot Springs. Tickets are $10 in advance (prekindle.com/events/reddoorstudios), $15 at the door; three front-row tables that seat up to four are available per performance for an additional $30. Visit reddoorhotsprings.com/derby-day.html.
Operatic evening
Opera in the Rock will feature arias and other selections from operas for its Opera on the Rocks VIshowcase and fundraiser, titled "Into the Fray -- Love and Conflict," 6:30 p.m. today in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
Sopranos Suzanne Banister and Genevieve West Fulks, mezzo-soprano Rosella Ewing, tenor Daniel Foltz-Morrison, baritone Robert Holden and pianist Kyung-Eun Na will perform; the program will include the "Quartet" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto and arias and ensemble pieces from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte and La Clemenza di Tito; Gaetano Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus, Verdi's La Traviata, Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chenier and Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.
The event will also include hors d'oeuvres, wine and spirits and an auction. Tickets are $60, $40 for students, $420 for a table for eight. Call (501) 269-1365 or visit oitr.org.
'Megabucks' musical
The national tour of Million Dollar Quartet, inspired by the Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins jam and recording session at Sun Records in Memphis (book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux), will be onstage at 7 p.m. today at the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $40 plus fees, $20 for students. Call (870) 508-6280 or visit thesheid.com.
Music workshop
Composer and teacher Wynn-Anne Rossi will lead a workshop under the auspices of the Music Teachers Association of Central Arkansas, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday at Winfield United Methodist Church, 20100 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. The workshop will include two sessions: "Bringing the Art of Composition to Students" and "Discovering Latin Music." Registration starts at 9 a.m.; there's a $20 fee ($10 for college students) at the door. Call (501) 812-4225.
Freedom Fest
The Arnold Family Foundation will hold its fifth annual Fort Lincoln Freedom Fest, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday at the DeValls Bluff Community Center & Museum, 710 E. Sycamore St., DeValls Bluff.
The event will feature six musical acts on two stages, a car and motorcycle show, a bass tournament on the banks of White River, the annual 5K run/family 2K walk, shuttle rides all day to Fort Lincoln, arts and crafts and food vendors and a rock-climbing wall. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Mammo Van and the Arkansas Arts Center Artmobile will be parked on the grounds.
Admission is free. Call (870) 998-2012 or (501) 516-6064 or visit the Facebook page, Facebook.com/FortLincolnFreedomFest.
Big band
The David Rosen Big Band will perform for an outdoor concert and picnic at 6 p.m. Sunday on the Fine Arts Center lawn, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 1000 Campus Drive, Helena-West Helena.
The event is part of the Warfield Concert series; sponsor is Southern Bancorp. Bring lawn chairs or blankets and a picnic meal. The event will move inside in case of rain. Admission is by free tickets, available online at warfieldconcerts.com. Call (870) 338-8327.
Weekend on 04/30/2015