ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Kathy Busch plays Elle Woods in Red Curtain Theatre’s production of Legally Blonde Jr.
Kathy Busch plays Elle Woods in Red Curtain Theatre’s production of Legally Blonde Jr.

Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:

Idol auditions

Fox’s American Idol will hold auditions for its 15th season Aug. 8 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena, Interstate 30 and East Broadway. Registration will start no later than 8 a.m. but auditioners will not be allowed to camp overnight inside or outside the arena. Required are two forms of ID that show proof of age and a photograph (for example, a birth certificate and driver’s license, birth certificate and a passport, or birth certificate and a school ID card; contestants under 18 must be accompanied by a parent and/or legal guardian who must provide a government-issued photo ID). Auditioners will get a wristband and seat ticket, but those don’t guarantee an audition. Complete and updated registration details are available at americanidol.com.

Blonde Jr.

Red Curtain Theatre will stage the musical Legally Blonde Jr. (music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, based on the book by Amanda Brown and the MGM movie) at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday in the Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Tickets are $15, $10 for children 12 and younger, senior citizens and military. Call (501) 499-9776, email info@redcurtaintheatre.com or visit redcurtaintheatre.com.

Court square concert

The Cobb Brothers will perform 2-4 p.m. Sunday in Mountain View’s Stone County Court Square, part of the Ozark Folk Center State Park’s Court Square Concert Series. The headliners will play from 2-3 under the shade of the big oak tree on the east side of the courthouse, followed by an hour-long classic pickin’ session. Admission is free. Call (870) 269-3851.

Arts Center grant

The Henry Luce Foundation has given the Arkansas Arts Center a $350,000 grant to complete research, conservation and integration of drawings and watercolors by American artist John Marin (1870-1953).

The artist’s daughter-inlaw, Norma Marin, donated the 290 works to the Arts Center in February 2014, giving the center the world’s second largest collection of Marin works; the biggest is at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

The trove includes architectural renderings and drawings of his native New Jersey and Philadelphia, where he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and pieces he completed in Paris. Many of them have never been exhibited.

Ann Prentice Wagner, the Arts Center’s drawings curator, will head the project. The grant will also support the production of a catalog and an exhibition that will originate at the Arts Center before traveling to a select number of venues in the United States.

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