Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY
'Sunset on the Nile'
The Mirana Dance Company offers a program titled "Sunset on the Nile," 7 p.m. today at Cache Restaurant, 425 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Tickets, $45, include dinner, two drinks and the show. Valet parking is free. Visit tinyurl.com/y3pmzrqs or the Mirana Dance Company Facebook page.
Musical Pipe Dream
The Arkansas State University-Beebe theater department stages the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Pipe Dream 7 p.m. today and Friday and 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday in the Owen Center Theater, 1102 W. College St., Beebe. Admission is free. Call (501) 882-3600 or visit asub.edu.
SATURDAY
Boomtown Opry
Members of the house band — Gene Simmons, Henry Matthews, Willie Glover, Andy Ray, Chip Bricker, BJ Kyle, Southern Koast (Keith Owens and Susan Tolin) and Tammy Fogle — headline the Boomtown Opry, 7 p.m. Saturday at the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W. Eighth St., El Dorado. Tickets are $10 in advance (visit itickets.com), $15 at the door, $5 for children 12 and younger, free for children 5 and younger. A portion of the proceeds benefits the El Dorado Boys & Girls Club. Call (870)/ 665-9315, email boomtownopry@outlook.com or visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/boomtownopry.
SUNDAY
Thomason's tales
Film and TV producer Harry Thomason tells tales about his career and discusses his new memoir, Brother Dog: Southern Tales & Hollywood Adventures, 3 p.m. Sunday at Sturgis Hall, University of Arkansas-Clinton School of Public Policy, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. A book signing will follow. The event is in partnership with the Clinton Foundation and Central Arkansas Library System. Admission is free; reserve a seat by calling (501) 683-5239 or by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.
Coterie concert
Arkansas student musicians perform for the Little Rock Musical Coterie, 2 p.m. Sunday at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, 4823 Woodlawn Ave., Little Rock.
• From the University of Central Arkansas in Conway: clarinetist Taylor Johns performs the Premiere Rhapsodie by Claude Debussy and clarinetist Dahre Miller and flutist Lavonne Riggins perform Flute-Tarantella by Camille Saint-Saens.
• From Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, pianist Sean Carney performs the Prelude in c-sharp minor, op.3 No. 2, by Sergei Rachmaninoff; pianist Melissa Lee plays Concierto de Invierno by Rafael Landestoy. And pianist Sam Youmans plays Preludio Luminosidad de Agua by Adolfo Mejia.
Admission is free. Call: (501) 350-8988.
Godfather II anniversary
A meticulously restored version of Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning The Godfather: Part II, marking the 45th anniversary of its 1974 release, returns to cinemas this month. It will screen, with its original mid-film intermission, at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock and the Tinseltown in Benton; 3 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Breckenridge 12 in Little Rock; and 3 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville and the Malco Fort Smith Cinema in Fort Smith. It's part of the TCM Big Screen Classics Series. TCM primetime host Ben Mankiewicz provides commentary before and after the film. Ticket information is available at FathomEvents.com.
TICKETS
Journey in Rogers
Tickets — $35 to $399.50 plus applicable fees — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a concert by Journey and The Pretenders, 7 p.m. June 22 at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. (For the Lawn 4-Pack, four lawn tickets bought at the same time, $26.50 each.) Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Country concert
Tickets — $35-$75 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a "Chapters Tour" concert by country singer Brett Young, with special guest Matt Ferranti, 8 p.m. March 26 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit LiveNation.com.
Cher concert
Tickets — $39.95-$119.95 and $499.95-$1,200 front-row seats (plus service charges) — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a concert on Cher's "Here We Go Again Tour," with special guest Nile Rodgers & Chic, 8 p.m. March 14 at North Little Rock's Simmons Bank Arena. There is a limit of eight tickets per household. Visit the arena box office, ticketmaster.com or LiveNation.com.
Weekend on 11/07/2019