A touring production of the Broadway musical American Idiot (music of Green Day, lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, book by Armstrong and Michael Mayer) will be staged at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. April 28 at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
The musical, about three boyhood friends searching for meaning after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, received a 2010 Tony Award nomination for Best Musical and 2010 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.
The show is part of the center’s Coca-Cola Night Out Series, with additional support from Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. Tickets are $53-$79 (with discounts for students). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.
Disney-fied show
The Side Street Strutters, featured performers at Disneyland, will put on their new show, “Shiny Stockings, featuring Meloney Collins,” at 2 p.m. today at the Arend Arts Center, 1901 S.E. J St., Bentonville, under the auspices of LiveOnStageNWA. The “Students on Stage” opening act will be students from Bentonville’s Kaleidoscope Dance Academy. Tickets are $30, $5 for students. Call (479) 855-9997 or visit LiveOnStageNWA.com.
Bluegrass Monday
David Davis and the Warrior River Boys will perform for Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s monthly Bluegrass Monday concert at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W.Emerson St., Paragould. The station will pass the hat to pay the band; suggested donation is $5. Call (870) 972-2367, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Bluegrass Monday page on Facebook (facebook.com/bluegrassmonday).
UCA Wind Ensemble
The University of Central Arkansas Wind Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Ricky Brooks will conduct a program that includes Unending Stream of Life by Davis Maslanka, La Pequena Habana by Todd Malicoate, Easter Monday on the White House Lawn by John Phillip Sousa and Glorious Journey by Arkansas composer CharlesBooker. Flutist Kayla Copeland, winner of the UCA Wind Ensemble Spotlight Competition, will be the soloist in The Carnival of Venice.
Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5764 or e-mail [email protected].
And the UCA University and Symphonic bands will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Reynolds Performance Hall.
The University Band program will have a circus theme and include an arrangement of Camille Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of the Animals. Brantley Douglas and students Leslie Sellers and Barrett Parten will be on the podium.
Douglas will also conduct the Symphonic Band in music by George Gershwin, including selections from Porgy and Bess, An American in Paris and the Second Rhapsody with piano soloist Terrie Shires.
Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5022 or e-mail [email protected].
Meanwhile, the UCA University Chorus will collaborate with Songs Unlimited and high school and college choirs for a pair of concerts called “Voices for Remembrance and Peace”:
With the Little Rock Parkview High School choir at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
With the Henderson State University Chamber Chorale and the University of the Ozarks Chamber Singers at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The program will include Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. Ryan Fisher conducts.
Admission to both concerts is free, Call (501) 450-5756 or e-mail [email protected].
Songs Unlimited, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the art of song with special emphasis on songs of the Americas, will bring its “Songs Across the Americas Encounter Extra!, Chaski & Friends” show, which revolves around the encounter between Jewish and Latin American communities starting in the 15th century, to several central Arkansaslocations:
1:40 p.m. Tuesday, Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, UCA;
7 p.m. Tuesday, Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler St., Conway; and
5 p.m. Wednesday, Faulkner County Library (for children).
Support comes via a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Call (501) 327-2964, e-mail [email protected] or visit the website, songsunlimited.org.
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