The U.S. national tour of the musical Annie (music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan) will be onstage, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 2 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Nov. 29 at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
Issie Swickle, a 10-year-old actress from Davie, Fla., plays the title role, with Sunny, a 5-year-old rescued terrier mix, as her dog, Sandy. Gilgamesh Taggett plays Oliver Warbucks with Lynn Andrews as Miss Hannigan.
The center is partnering with the Humane Society of the Ozarks, which will have a display in the center lobby Tuesday night, to help promote the humane treatment of animals through education and advocacy.
Tickets are $30-$74. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.
Bluegrass Monday
Bluegrass bands the Buffalo City Ramblers -- Rodger King, vocals and dobro, and husband-and-wife duo Kent (vocals and guitar) and Beci (vocals and bass) Coffey -- and Grand Prairie (King, lead vocals, guitar and dobro; Chuck Brockinton, mandolin and vocals; Molly Brockinton, guitar and lead vocals; Kathy King, bass; and Jason Dean, banjo) will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of KASU-FM, 91.9 Bluegrass Monday series. The station will literally "pass the hat" to pay the bands; suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@astate.edu or visit the "Bluegrass Monday" Facebook page.
Quartet concert
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Rockefeller Quartet (Katherine Williamson, Trisha McGovern-Freeney, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Aaron Ludwig, cello) will play movements from the String Quartet No. 2 by Alexander Borodin and the String Quartet No. 4 in c minor, op.18 No. 4, by Ludwig van Beethoven for the annual Ruth Allen Concert, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Hospital Lobby Gallery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100.
Thanksgiving Concert
The Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra's Thanksgiving Concert, 7:30 p.m. Monday in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway, will include selections from Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.550, "Jupiter." Karen Griebling conducts. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1249 or email griebling@hendrix.edu.
Lecture rescheduled
The Central Arkansas Library System has rescheduled its J.N. Heiskell Distinguished Lecture, by ABC News White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, for 6:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free; a reception will follow. Reserve seats by calling (501) 918-3024, emailing lellis@cals.org or at the website, eventjoy.com/e/heiskell-lecture. Karl postponed the lecture, originally scheduled for Oct. 9, citing the need to stay in Washington to cover developments regarding the election of a new speaker of the House of Representatives.
Scholarship auditions
The Arkansas Choral Society will hold auditions for high school seniors planning on attending a university or college in Arkansas and majoring in music for the society's Wang Scholarship, 7 p.m. Dec. 3 at Calvary Baptist Church, 5700 Cantrell Road. Students should prepare a selection to sing for the society's music director, Kent Skinner, and supply sheet music for the accompanist. Dec. 1 is the deadline to apply; applications are available online at lovetosing.org/scholarship-application.
A cappella festival
Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center is taking video audition submissions through Jan. 29 for its second annual VoiceJam a cappella ensemble festival, April 1-2 at the center, 495 W. Dickson St. Groups selected for competition will be announced Feb. 5. Winner will get the opportunity to attend the Vocal Asia Festival in Taiwan in August. Registration, competition criteria, submission and festival components are available online at waltonartscenter.org/voicejam-compete.
Honoring teachers
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seeking nominations -- deadline is Dec. 13 -- for the 2016 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards, annual grants that recognize inspiring teachers in any field of education across the United States, created in honor of composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday in 2010. Nominate outstanding teachers, living or deceased, kindergarten through college in all areas of education, online at kennedy-center.org/programs/awards/sondheim. The awards presentation will take place on Sondheim's birthday: March 22. Recipients each receive a $10,000 prize and their stories, as told by the nominating student, are featured on a website dedicated to inspirational teachers.
Style on 11/22/2015