ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Slava's Snowshow clowning onstage at Walton Center

Slava Polunin plays the title character in Slava’s Snowshow this week at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.
Slava Polunin plays the title character in Slava’s Snowshow this week at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

Russian performance artist Slava Polunin's Slava's Snowshow, combining traditional and contemporary theatrical clowning, will be onstage 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Jan. 25 in Baum Walker Hall of Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.

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Randy Newman will perform his songs with the Conway Symphony Orchestra and conductor Israel Getzov.

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The moon clown in Ball is part of Slava’s Snowshow this week at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

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Trumpeter Matthew Vangjel solos Saturday with the Fort Smith Symphony

Tickets are $30-$60. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.

Trumpet concerto

Trumpeter Matthew Vangjel will join the Fort Smith Symphony and conductor John Jeter for a performance of the Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Arcbest Corp. Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith.

The program for the "French Impressions & Scottish Landscapes" concert will also include Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel and the Symphony No. 3 in a minor, op.56, "Scottish," by Felix Mendelssohn.

Tickets are $35-$40, $15-$20 for students. Call (479) 452-7575 or visit the website, fortsmithsymphony.org.

'Short' concert

Composer, songwriter and pianist Randy Newman will perform his songs with the Conway Symphony Orchestra and conductor Israel Getzov at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.

Sponsor is the Log Cabin Democrat. Tickets are $30-$40, $10 for students and children. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit the website, uca.edu/reynolds.

Murry's auditions

Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, will hold open auditions for performers of all ages and ethnicities for its 2015 season at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 26.

Actors will be seen in the order they arrive unless other arrangements have been made. Provide a headshot and resume and be prepared to perform a 30-second monologue and, if auditioning for musicals, prepare 16 measures of a song and provide sheet music for the accompanist.

Some participants might be asked to stay for a short group dance audition immediately after initial auditions; wear clothing and shoes that allow movement. A schedule is available at murrysdp.com. Call (501) 562-3131 or email murrysgroups@outlook.com.

Audition classes

Arkansas Festival Ballet will host audition classes for three summer intensive ballet trainings at the Arkansas Festival Ballet/Arkansas Academy of Dance Studio, Breckenridge Village, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock:

• The Joffrey Workshop, Saturday. Registration: 1:30 p.m., audition: 2-4 p.m. More information is available at tinyurl.com/nqr3pcz.

• Oklahoma City Ballet, Jan. 30. Registration: 4:30-5 p.m.; audition: 5-6:30 p.m. Auditions also 10:30 a.m.-noon Jan. 31 at Northwest Arkansas Conservatory of Classical Ballet, 3111 S.E. J St., Bentonville; call (479) 553-7400. tinyurl.com/qds7t3s.

• Joffrey Ballet, Feb. 7 (age 10-25). Ballet registration: 10-11 a.m. Ballet 1 (age 10-14) audition: 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m.; Ballet 2 (15 to 25) audition: 12:30-2 p.m. Jazz registration: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Jazz audition: 2:30-4 p.m. Audition requirements and fees: tinyurl.com/nx2z8oy.

Call (501) 227-5320.

30th season

Rogers Little Theater will open its eight-play 30th season at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers, Sept. 11-13, 17-20 and 24-27 with the newly imagined Alan Cumming version (still on Broadway) of the musical Cabaret -- music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.

Auditions will take place July 27.

The rest of the 2015-16 season schedule:

• Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 5-8, 12-15: The Addams Family, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, based on characters created by Charles Addams. Auditions Sept. 14-15.

• Dec. 11-13, 17-20: #AChristmasCarol, A Tragically Hilarious Comedy by Ed McClure (premiere of an "RLT Original Production"). Auditions Nov. 2-3.

• Feb. 5-7, 11-14, 18-21, 2016: Monty Python's Spamalot, music by John Du Prez & Eric Idle, book and lyrics by Idle, "lovingly ripped off" from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Auditions Dec. 14-15.

• April 1-3, 7-10, 2016: Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz. Auditions Feb. 8-9, 2016.

• May 6-8, 12-15, 2016: Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally. Auditions March 28-29, 2016.

• June 10-12, 16-19, 2016: Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom. Auditions April 25-26, 2016.

• July 29-31, Aug. 4-7, 11-14, 2016: Mary Poppins, original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, book by Julian Fellowes, new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, co-created by Cameron Mackintosh. Auditions June 6-7, 2016.

The theater will convert main-level seating to two-person cabaret tables, increasing its seating capacity approximately 25 percent, says McClure, RLT production chairman and board member. Season tickets will range from a $92 six-show balcony-seat package to a $340 eight-show cabaret-table package. Individual tickets will be $30 cabaret, $50 cabaret table, $17 balcony. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, rogerslittletheater.org.

Roadshow tickets

Fans of PBS' Antiques Roadshow have until 11:59 p.m. April 6 Pacific time (1:59 a.m. April 7 Central time) to apply for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the show, which will be in Little Rock on July 25 (at a venue to be announced) as part of a six-city summer tour. Visit the website, pbs.org/antiques/tickets.

Otherwise, admission is free, but tickets are required and must be obtained in advance. Ticket applications and complete ticketing rules are available at the website or by calling (888) 762-3749.

Style on 01/18/2015

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