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Vienna Boys Choir to 'Smile' on Delta town in free concert

The Vienna Boys Choir performs Tuesday in Helena-West Helena.
The Vienna Boys Choir performs Tuesday in Helena-West Helena.

The Vienna Boys Choir, touring the United States with a program titled "Smile," performs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. John's Episcopal Church, 625 Pecan St., Helena-West Helena, under the auspices of the Warfield Concert Series.

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Sports photographer Damian Strohmeyer showcases his work in a presentation Tuesday at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville.

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Fiddlers Everett Elam and Emily Phillips play old-time music Tuesday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in North Little Rock.

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Asleep at the Wheel performs Saturday at the Alma Performing Arts Center.

Oliver Stech conducts a lineup that includes sacred and secular music by William Boyce, Henry Purcell ("Come Ye Sons of Art," "Sound the Trumpet" and "See Nature, Rejoicing" from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary II), Antonio Vivaldi ("Domine, fili unigenite" from the Gloria), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre, Nacio Herb Brown ("Singin' in the Rain" from the MGM movie Hollywood Revue) and Johann Strauss II.

Admission is free. Call (870) 338-8327 or visit the website, warfieldconcerts.com.

Folk fiddlers

Folk fiddler duo Everett Elam and Emily Phillips will offer a program titled "An Evening of Old-Time," which the performers describe as "a journey into the music of the past created by farmers, settlers, and the 19th-century working class of America." The concert takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock; it is part of the St. Luke Festival of the Senses.

Ed Hale will join the duo on two numbers, one on concertina and the other on the hammered dulcimer. The performers will accompany each tune with "a fact or two to give the listener a musical and historical context." Admission is free. A "meet-the-artists" reception will follow. Call (501) 753-4281.

Quartet history

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Quapaw String Quartet -- Charlotte Crosmer and Eric Hayward, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello -- will cover the "History of the String Quartet" in an "informance," 5:15-6:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Capital Hotel, 111 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The program will feature movements from string quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak and Dmitri Shostakovich, and excerpts from quartet works by Anton Webern and John Novacek. Admission is free. Visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

Honoring Porter

This year's Art Porter Music Education's annual For the Love of Art celebration, honoring Little Rock jazzman Art Porter Sr.'s legacy, will include two events:

• Minors in Music will join their Mentors in Music, paying tribute to the late jazz pianist on what would have been his 83rd birthday (Feb. 8, 1934), 7 p.m. Wednesday at Cajun's Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road, Little Rock.

• South African-born smooth-jazz singer and guitarist Jonathan Butler will perform with the Art Porter Singers and other special guests in a Black History Recognition Program, 6 p.m. Feb. 19 at St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 2501 Main St., Little Rock.

Admission to both events is free; donations to benefit APME's scholarship program will be accepted. Call (501) 492-9120 or visit artporter.org.

Asleep in Alma

Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Alma Performing Arts Center, 103 E. Main St., Alma. Tickets are $25, $32, and $42. Call (479) 632-2129 or visit almapac.org.

'Hump? What hump?'

Arkansas Public Theatre will stage Young Frankenstein (music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan), 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 16-18 and 23-25 and 2 p.m. Feb. 12, 19 and 26 at the historic Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Cabaret seats are $35, $60 per two-person table; balcony seats are $23. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit arkansaspublictheatre.org.

The theater company will also hold auditions, at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Victory Theater, for Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Auditions will be based upon readings from the script; there are roles for nine men and one woman. An audition packet, including the audition scenes, character descriptions and rehearsal schedule, is available for download at arkansaspublictheatre.org. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the auditions will be closed to all others. Call backs, if necessary, will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 14. Production dates are March 31, April 1-2 and 6-9.

SI photographer

Boston-based sports photographer Damian Strohmeyer, whose work has appeared on more than 70 Sports Illustrated covers, will showcase more than 30 years of his work in a presentation titled "The Power of Sports," 7 p.m. Tuesday -- two days after shooting Super Bowl LI in Houston -- in the Rogers Conference Center, University of the Ozarks, 415 N. College Ave., Clarksville, part of the university's 2016-17 Walton Arts & Ideas Series. Admission is free. Call (479) 979-1433.

Last Five Years

The Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main, Springdale, will stage Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Feb. 12.

Two 20-somethings -- an up-and-coming writer (Bryce Kemph) struggling to balance his sudden success with his increasingly tumultuous love life, and an aspiring actress (Elizabeth Jilka) dealing with the frustrations of her stalled career while watching her husband from the sidelines -- explore the history of their relationship from two perspectives, in opposite chronological order.

Tickets are $10 and $15. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.

Wayne's World redux

Marking the 25th anniversary of its Feb. 14, 1992, release, the movie Wayne's World will be back on big screens in more than 400 theaters Tuesday-Wednesday, including (Tuesday) the Tinseltown in Benton and the Cinemark Towne Centre in Conway, and (Wednesday) the Carmike Sugar Creek in Bella Vista, Malco Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville, the Carmike 14 in Fort Smith and the Carmike Central City 10 in Hot Springs.

The screenings will also feature an exclusive introduction by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and ABC-TV and a post-movie videotaped chat with director Penelope Spheeris and cast members Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Colleen Camp and Robert Patrick. Tickets and more information are available at waynesworld25.com.

Illusionists in Memphis

The Illusionists -- Live From Broadway, which The New York Times describes as "a high-tech magic extravaganza," will be onstage 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis.

The seven performers: Dan Sperry, the Anti-Conjuror; Jeff Hobson, the Trickster; Kevin James, the Inventor; Andrew Basso, the Escapologist; Colin Cloud, the Deductionist; Jonathan Goodwin, the Daredevil; and An Ha Lim, the Manipulator.

Tickets are $30-$85 plus fees. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2787 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.

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