Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Pagans turns 25
Red Octopus Theater will perform its 25th December sketch show, Pagans on Bobsleds XXV!, 8 p.m. today-Saturday at The Public Theater, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10, $8 for senior citizens, students, active military and veterans. Call (501) 291-3896, email RedOctopusTheater@gmail.com or visit redoctopustheater.com.
Heiskell lecture
Julia Reed, contributing editor to Elle Decor and Garden & Gun, food columnist for the Wall Street Journal and frequent MSNBC guest, will give the Central Arkansas Library System's J. N. Heiskell Distinguished Lecture, 6:30 p.m. today at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. A 6 p.m. reception will precede the lecture, named for J.N. Heiskell, the longest-serving member of the Library's Board of Trustees and editor of the Arkansas Gazette for more than 70 years. Reed will sell and sign copies of her books afterward. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3024 or visit cals.org.
FRIDAY
'Three Organists'
The Three Organists -- Adam Savacool, organist at Little Rock's Second Presbyterian Church; Bill McCandless, former chairman of the music department at University of Central Missouri, now living in Little Rock; and Stanley Cox, organist at Little Rock's Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church -- will play seasonal works and a carol apiece for the Little Rock Musical Coterie's December program, 11 a.m. Friday at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, 4823 Woodlawn Ave., Little Rock.
Savacool will play Fantasy on Two Well-Known Christmas Carols by John E. West; Choral Prelude on Silent Night, Op. 3, by Samuel Barber; and Toccata on Antioch by Craig Phillips. His carol: "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." McCandless will perform two of the Six Carol Settings by Wilbur Held and Variation on "Adeste Fideles" by Raynor Taylor; his carol: "O Little Town of Bethlehem." And Cox's program will be "Here Betwixt Ass and Oxen Mild" by Robert J. Powell, "Angels We Have Heard on High" by Hugo Gehrke, "People Look East" by Dale Wood and "Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella" by Keith Chapman, followed by his carol: "Go Tell It on the Mountain."
Admission is free. Call (870) 403-2350.
Death row art
The Central Arkansas Library System's Cox Creative Center, 120 River Market Ave., will hold an opening reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday, for "Art From the Row," arts, crafts and poetry created by prisoners on Arkansas' death row or who have been executed. The exhibit, a partnership with the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, will be up through Dec. 19. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3000.
Junior Elf
Red Curtain Theatre will stage Elf the Musical Jr. (music and lyrics by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin, based on the 2003 New Line Cinema film), 2 and 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Staples Auditorium, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Tickets are $15, $5 for children 10 and younger. Call (501) 499-9776, email info@redcurtaintheatre.com or visit redcurtaintheatre.com.
SATURDAY
History walk
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program's "Walks Through History" tour will visit Selma Methodist Church and Selma Rosenwald School in Drew County, starting at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, Arkansas 293 and Ables Creek Road, Selma. The school is on Selma-Collins Road, approximately a quarter mile south of U.S. 278. The church was built about 1874, originally for a Baptist congregation. The school was built in 1924, one of many paid for by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. Co-sponsor is the Drew County Historical Society. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9880, email info@arkansaspreservation.org or visit arkansaspreservation.org.
Mulberry artists
Functional and sculptural wood-fired pottery by Stephen Driver and scarves, rugs and tapestries by Louise Halsey from the Little Mulberry Gallery will be on display and sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at New Deal Salon & Gallery, 2003 S. Louisiana St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (479) 292-1319 or visit the Little Mulberry Gallery Facebook page.
Jazz in Harrison
The Lisa Perry Quartet will put on a jazz concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Lyric Theatre, 115 W. Rush St., Harrison. Sponsors are Beltone of Harrison and the Harrison Daily Times. Tickets are $5. Call (870) 391-3504 or visit ticketpeak.com/res/lyrictheatre.
SUNDAY
Triple Threat
Triple Threat -- Benton natives Caleb Conrad, Tyler Davis and Will Richey, who made their national debut on NBC's America's Got Talent -- will put on a concert titled Holiday Harmony, also the name of their new album, 2 p.m. Sunday, Cabe Festival Theatre, Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock. Doors open at 1:30. Tickets are $15-$25. Call (501) 821-7275 or visit web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10127080.
A Christmas screening
Yes, TBS airs a 24-hour marathon in a couple of weeks, but those who want to experience a holiday classic with a theater full of other fans can attend Argenta Community Theater's Dogtown Film Series screening of A Christmas Story, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5 and the theater is at 405 Main St., North Little Rock. Call (501) 353-1443 or visit argentacommunitytheater.org.
TICKETS
Phantom at Robinson
Tickets -- $33-$138 -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera, March 8-19 (7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, with a special 2 p.m. March 9 matinee) at Robinson Center Performance Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Call Celebrity Attractions at (501) 244-8800 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Weekend on 12/08/2016