ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Hendrix College troupe to take a whack at Sweeney Todd

Bridget Yelk (from left) plays Mrs. Lovett, with fellow Hendrix students Tarek Esaw as Toby and Jonah White in the title role of Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim’s musical will be onstage Wednesday-Saturday at the Conway college.
Bridget Yelk (from left) plays Mrs. Lovett, with fellow Hendrix students Tarek Esaw as Toby and Jonah White in the title role of Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim’s musical will be onstage Wednesday-Saturday at the Conway college.

The Hendrix Players will stage Sweeney Todd -- The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler, adapted by Christopher Bond), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday, Cabe Theatre, Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Admission is free; reservations are recommended. Call (501) 450-1343.

Musical Mediation

Also at Hendrix this week, the Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra, conductor Karen Griebling and singers from Opera in the Rock will perform for "All Souls Musical Mediation on Diversity and Inclusion," 7:30 p.m. Monday in the college's Greene Chapel.

The program includes Pieta by Ulysses S. Kay, with Danielle Rosson as English horn soloist; selections from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin (with soprano LaSheena Gordon); selections from Incident at Wounded Knee by Louis W. Ballard; cellist David Gerstein as soloist in Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch; soprano Jaimee Jenson McDaniel and baritone Ronald McDaniel performing selections from Kay's Frederick Douglass; and "Prayer" from September Trilogy by Andrew Rudin. Hendrix Chaplain the Rev. J.J. Whitney will lead the mediation.

The service will also honor late Hendrix education professor James Jennings. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-1249 or email griebling@hendrix.edu.

Short Asian films

Red Dot Cinema will screen independent short films from Asia, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. Admission is $8. Visit the websites, tinyurl.com/j85xsxv or reddotcinema.com.

Annapurna in Rogers

Arkansas Public Theatre will stage Annapurna by Sharr White, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Nov. 10-12 and 2 p.m. Nov. 6 and 13 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Doors and concessions open at 7. Sponsors are Dr. Ed and Arlene Wait. Tickets are $35 for cabaret seats, $60 for table of two, $23 for balcony. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit arkansaspublictheatre.org.

Spooky concert

The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith symphonic band will offer a Halloween concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, ArcBest Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. The program will include "spooky" works by Paul Dukas, Hector Berlioz and others; Alexandra Zacharella conducts. The concert is part of the university's Season of Entertainment 36. Tickets are $6. Call (479) 788-7300.

Heritage grants

Application deadline is 4:30 p.m. Dec. 5 for grants of up to $5,000 for Arkansas Heritage Month, available to help nonprofit organizations develop local events and projects for May 2017. The theme will be "A State of War: Arkansas Remembers World War I." Past grants have funded exhibits, historic and walking tours, festivals, art shows, poetry readings, nature walks and research projects.

The grants dovetail with Gov. Asa Hutchinson's creation in March of the World War I Centennial Commemoration Committee, which is encouraging organizations to develop and participate through 2018 in activities expanding the understanding and appreciation of the significance of World War I.

An application packet is available online at arkansasheritage.com; guidelines and application forms are also available by writing the Heritage Month Grant Coordinator, Department of Arkansas Heritage, 1100 North St., Little Rock, Ark. 72201; by fax -- (501) 324-9154; or by email -- randy.dennis@arkansas.gov.

Style on 10/30/2016

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