The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ivan and Ian Neville from Dumpstaphunk, George Porter Jr. of the Meters, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, the Lost Bayou Ramblers, the 79rs Gang and Terence Higgins will be onstage as part of "Take Me to the River New Orleans Live!", 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Center for the Humanities and the Arts, University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock.
Tickets are $30-$65, $10 standing room for students, $110 for a VIP package that includes reserved seating, food and libations. Visit the website, uaptc.edu/charts; for more information, visit takemetotheriver.org.
Moreno at UCA
Actor, dancer and singer Rita Moreno will talk about her seven-decade show-business career and participate in a question-and-answer session, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Moreno is one of only 12 living performers to have won the entertainment-awards grand slam: Emmy (twice, for her 1977 appearance on The Muppet Show and in 1978 for The Rockford Files), Grammy (for her 1972 performance on the Electric Company album, based on the children's television show), Oscar (in 1962 for her performance as Anita in West Side Story) and Tony (in 1975 for her comedic role as Googie Gomez in Broadway's The Ritz). She currently appears in the remake of Norman Lear's sitcom One Day at a Time on Netflix. Tickets are $15. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
Hallelujah Girls
The feisty females of Eden Falls, meeting weekly in an abandoned church-turned-day-spa, decide to shake up their lives after the loss of a dear friend in The Hallelujah Girls by the comedy playwright troika of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.
Girls runs Tuesday-Nov. 17 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday -- 12:45 p.m. Wednesday matinees only (no Wednesday evening shows) through Nov. 7. Doors and buffet open 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $33-$35, $23 for children 15 and under; show-only tickets $25 and $15. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
School of Rock
A failed, wannabe rock star posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school turns a class of straight-A students into a mind-blowing rock band in School of Rock -- The Musical (music from the 2003 film plus an original score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Julian Fellowes). A touring company puts it onstage at 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. Oct. 28 at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $38-$77 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Bluegrass Monday
The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band performs at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., in Paragould, for Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM's Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will literally "pass the hat" to pay the group; suggested donation is $5. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@astate.edu or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.
Zombie Crawl
Zombies will parade down Spring Street, followed by apocalyptic vehicles, spooky street performers and Halloween floats for the seventh annual Eureka Springs Zombie Crawl, Saturday, with 5 p.m. lineup -- zombies at the Carnegie Public Library, 194 Spring St.; vehicles and floats in the parking lot of the new Eureka Springs Community Center (former high school), 44 Kings Highway, just off U.S. 62. The parade starts at 6:30 and winds up at Basin Spring Park, 4 Spring St.
Sign up for the Zombie Costume & Makeup Contest; custom-made trophies go to the best float and best vehicle. Admission is free but participants and spectators are asked to provide two cans of food for the local Flint Street Food Bank. Visit the Facebook event page, facebook.com/events/1032979140192462.
Radio Dracula
Nine actors and three Foley artists from the Northwest Arkansas Audio Theater re-create a 1940s radio broadcast of Dracula, a radio play by Philip Grecian based on the novel by Bram Stoker, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. Tickets are $10, $5 for students; donate blood at Community Blood Center before performance dates, ask for "Blood Bucks" and receive a "buy one, get one free" coupon. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org/nwa-audio-theater-dracula.
'Partisan Earthquake'
Janine A. Parry, a political science faculty member at the University of Arkansas, will lecture on "Measuring, Comparing, and Explaining Arkansas' Partisan Earthquake," 6 p.m. Wednesday at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, 1 E. Center St., Fayetteville. It's part of the Pryor Center Presents series. Admission is free. Visit pryorcenter.uark.edu.
Ballet auditions
Arkansas Festival Ballet will hold auditions Nov. 10 at Arkansas Academy of Dance, Breckenridge Village, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, for Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty, which the company will stage May 16-19 at the Arkansas Arts Center. Artistic Director Rebecca Miller Stalcup will stage and add choreography to the original by Marius Petipa. Auditions are open to all dance students, male and female, age 7 and up. For students age 7-8 with a minimum of two years classical ballet training, registration at 9 a.m., auditions 9:30-10:30. For students 9-11 with at least three years of training, registration at noon, auditions 12:30-1:30 p.m. For dancers 12 and older with at least four years of ballet training, registration is at 1 p.m., auditions: 1:30-3 p.m. Call (501) 227-5320, email info@arkansasdance.org or visit arkansasdance.org.
Bard on board
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre will stage three full-length productions June 7-July 7 for its its 13th season at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway: a William Shakespeare comedy, The Comedy of Errors, outdoors in front of McAlister Hall; and, on the stage of UCA's Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, a Shakespeare drama, Macbeth, and the musical Guys and Dolls. They'll also put together an abridged "family" adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet onstage at Reynolds Performance Hall that will tour the state. Call (501) 852-0702 or visit arkshakes.com.
Style on 10/21/2018