Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Comedy headliner
Louis Johnson, just back from a USO World Comedy Break tour, headlines this week - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday and 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday at the Loony Bin Comedy Club, in the Breckenridge Village Shopping Center, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road. Tickets are $7 Wednesday-Thursday, $10 Friday-Saturday.
Call (501) 228-5555 or visit the website, loonybincomedy.com.
Library parade
The What Cheer Brigade, a 20-piece marching band from Providence, R.I., leads a parade along the nature trails of the Central Arkansas Library System’s Children’s Library & Learning Center, at 4:30 p.m. today. Go in costume and take homemade instruments and noisemakers. The event will also feature face painting and giant puppets. Admission is free. Call (501) 978-3870 or visit the website, cals.org.
Many mice
Arkansas State University’s Summer Children’s Theatre will stage The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Vicky Ireland at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday in ASU’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. Sponsor is the Golden Grotto of Jonesboro.Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door. Call (870) 972-2781 or visit the website, tickets.astate.edu.
Rogers ‘royalty’
Rogers Little Theater will stage Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I in a dinner-theater setting at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through Aug. 11 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Sponsors include Harps Food Stores and Arvest Bank. Dinner starts an hour before curtain. Tickets are $45; show-only balcony seats are $16. Children under 5 will not be admitted. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, Rogers LittleTheater.org.
The troupe will also hold auditions at 7 p.m. July 29-30 at the Victory Theater for The Wizard of Oz (music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1939 movie musical, based in turn on the classic by by L. Frank Baum).
The audition will consist of singing, dancing and acting; audition information is available online at rogerslittletheater.org (where you will also find a list of roles and requirements, song audition selections and a link to obtain an audition packet), by calling (479) 631-8988 or by emailing director Ed McClure at [email protected].
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