Eight actors (Jeffrey Baumgartner, Noah Chacon, Jenny Guy, Bryce Kemph, Kathy Logelin, Justin Scheuer, John T. Smith and Nate Stahlke) will perform more than 40 roles as Fayetteville’s TheatreSquared premieres an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, through Dec. 29 in the 175-seat Studio Theatre at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.
Tickets are $22-$36 (with a limited number of $10 seats through the theater’s “30 Under 30” program). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2.org.
Sing-along screening
Walton Arts Center,495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville, will screen Sing-a-long Sound of Music at 7 p.m. Friday. Audience members are invited to dress up as a character from the 1965 film version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, and sing along by following subtitles.
Northwest Arkansas actor-musician-teacher Jason Suel will lead the audience through a pre-show vocal warm-up and provide instructions on how to use the props in the “magic moments pack.”
The show is part of the center’s Kimberly-Clark Family Fun series, with additional support provided by Lee and Linda Scott and the center staff. Tickets are $17. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.Historic Christmas
“An Old World Christmas” opens today at the Rogers Historical Museum, 322 S. Second St., Rogers. The exhibition incorporates guided tours of the Hawkins House, where the museum is located, showing historical Christmas traditions from various countries. The exhibition will be up through Jan. 4. Hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Admission is free. Call (479) 621-1154 or visit the website, rogersarkansas.com/museum.
‘Ephemeral Shrines’
An exhibition of recentwork by Little Rock artist Lakey Goff Sanford, titled “Ephemeral Shrines,” opens with a 7-9 p.m. reception Thursday at The Depot, 548 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Admission is free and the restaurant will supply food, beverages and music.
The exhibition of sculptural headpieces, displayed in photographs taken by the artist’s husband, Dero Sanford, will remain on display during the restaurant’s normal business hours, 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday, through Dec. 29. Call (501) 951-4151 or email [email protected].
Theater commitment
Joseph K. Farmer plays an out-of-work actor who gets a job manning the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan’s most exclusive restaurant in the Rogers Little Theater’s dinner theater production of the one-man show Fully Committed by Becky Mode at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Dec. 12-14 and 2 p.m. Dec. 8 and 15 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Dinner starts 90 minutes before curtain; the meal ends and show-only balcony seating starts 30 minutes before curtain. Dinner theater tickets are $48; show-only tickets are $25 main floor, $17 balcony. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, rogerslittletheater.org.
‘Tunes for Toys’
The Fort Smith Symphony is conducting a “Tunes for Toys” drive as part of its sold-out Christmas concert, “The Living Christmas Card,” featuring the vocal quartet In Full Swing, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Arkansas Best Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket to the concert (there has been a waiting list since September), deposit a new, unwrapped toy for children in foster care, all ages, infants to teens, into one of the special, gift-wrapped containers in the lobby. The Sebastian County Department of Human Services will take charge of distributing the gifts. Call 479-452-7575, Extension 3.
Les Mis auditions
Rogers Little Theater will hold auditions for the musical Les Miserables (music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English libretto by Herbert Kretzmer, based on the Victor Hugo novel), 7-9 p.m. Dec. 9-10 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers.
Consult the audition packet, which contains a complete listing of the roles, audition dates and times for those roles, the music, the readings, rehearsal schedule and other information, available online at rogerslittletheater.org. Or call (479) 631-8988. Production dates are Feb. 14-16, 20-23 and 27-March 2. Email productions@rogerslittletheater. org.
Eureka home tour
Nine Eureka Springs homeowners are inviting visitors into their lavishly decorated residences for the Eureka Springs Preservation Society’s 31st annual Eureka Springs Christmas Tour of Homes, 3-8 p.m. Saturday.Docents in Victorian attire will be at each house on the self-guided tour to relate its history; visitors will encounter choir and band music, carolers and refreshments. Tickets - $15 in advance, $20 dayof-tour, free for children 12 and younger - are available at the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce, 516 Village Circle, or visit eurekaspringspreservationsociety.org.
Breakfast with Santa
Have “Breakfast with Santa” (and Mrs. Claus) at 8:30, 9:15 and/or 10 a.m. at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. The $15ticket ($5 for adults, breakfast only) includes the meal, a visit with Santa, decorating gingerbread cookies and Christmas crafts. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit the website, artscenteroftheozarks.org.
Madrigal Feaste
The Arkansas State University Choirs will serve as the court of “King Henry the Eighth of England, Jonesboro, and Craighead County,” complete with costumes, decorations, comedy and fanfare, in the 15th annual Madrigal Feaste 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday the Grand Hall of ASU’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
Dale Miller, director of choral activities, will host. The wassail bowl will be available 15 minutes before seating, at which time the first fanfare will sound. Servers and the audience will sing traditional carols; the “court” will sing madrigals and chansons. The menu will be lemon parmesan-encrusted chicken breast, candied baby carrotswith pecans, roasted potatoes with garlic and parsley, baby lettuce with dried cranberries and rolls; a flaming pudding will come in with the royal fanfare.
The Faculty Women’s Club hosts the Friday performance; tickets are $35. Call (870) 972-3055 or (870) 972-3330 or email [email protected].
A limited number of Saturday tickets are $40 through Tuesday, $35 for faculty, staff, students and senior citizens. Proceeds benefit the choirs’ March 2014 concert tour of Spain. Call (870) 972-2781 or (888) 278-3267.
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