ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

11 Brazilian dancers to have Walton Arts Center jumping

Brazilian dance ensemble Compagnie Kafig performs Thursday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.
Brazilian dance ensemble Compagnie Kafig performs Thursday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

Compagnie Kaf ig, an 11-member, all-male Brazilian dance ensemble that performs a mix of samba, hiphop and capoeira styles, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.

The show is part of the center’s 10x10 Arts Series; tickets, $10-$25, include admission to a pre-show “Creative Conversation” and a post-show party. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.

Horn concerto

Alex Shuhan, the Fort Smith Symphony’s principal horn player, will solo with his colleagues and conductor John Jeter in the Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K.495, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a chamber-orchestra concert titled “Fascinating Rhythms,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Arkansas Best Corp.Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith.

The program will also include Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro and the Symphony No. 2 in D major, op.36, by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Tickets are $40 and $35, $20 and $15 for students. Call (479) 452-7575, Extension 1, or visit the website, fortsmithsymphony.org.

Messiah returns

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Vesper Choir will give its 60th annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah (in the Mozart orchestration) at 3 p.m. today in the John McLinn Ross Theater, Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Building. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, 1200 N. University Drive, Pine Bluff.

Michael J. Bates will conduct the chorus, soloists (UAPB alumnus Jacob Hurley will be the bass soloist; others will come from the choir) and an orchestra of student musicians and professional string and woodwind players.

Inclement weather forced a postponement from the original performance date, Dec. 8. Admission is free. Call (870) 575-7001.

Feaste sans feast

Inclement weather in December forced the cancellation of Arkansas State University’s 15th annual Madrigal Feaste, so the University Choirs will present a special concert version at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Riceland Hall, ASU’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and conductor Dale Miller serve as the court of “King Henry the Eighth of England, Jonesboro, and Craighead County.” The Feaste will not feature a meal, but there will be wassail and dessert at a post-concert reception. Admission is free, but the music department will accept tax-deductible donations toward a spring concert trip to Spain. Call (870) 972-2094. Art and essays

The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program is inviting Arkansas students to participate in its 23rd annual “Preserve Our Past” art and essay invitational. Students in grades five through eight can enter an artwork or essay based on a historic Arkansas property that is at least 50 years old, with a focus on how those places reflect Arkansas history or why it is important to preserve the state’s historic sites.

All entries must be postmarked by April 1. For more information or an entry form, write AHPP Art and Essay Invitational, AHPP, 1500 Tower Building, 323 Center St., Little Rock, Ark. 72201; call (501) 324-9786; send an email inquiry to [email protected], or download the form at arkansaspreservation.com/preservation-services/youth-education/Pop.aspx. Include your name and mailing address on any phone or email messages.

First-, second- and thirdplace winners in each category (art and essay) will receive a trophy; art-division winners will have their artwork framed. Winning entries will be on display throughout May (Arkansas Heritage Month) at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock.

RLT season

Rogers Little Theater’s 2014-15 “Season 29” will feature the Arkansas premieres of three plays, including the 2013 Tony Award winner for Best Play, at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers.

The Tony winner, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, which mashes up contemporary comedy with smart Chekhov references, will be onstage April 3-5 and 9-12, 2015.

Also on the schedule: the Arkansas premieres of The Other Place by Sharr White, May 1-3 and 7-10, 2015, and Magic/Bird by Eric Simonson, June 12-14 and 18-21, 2015.

The season opens Sept. 12-14, 18-21 and 25-28 with Fiddler on the Roof - music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein, based on stories by Sholem Aleichem.

The rest of the schedule:

Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 6-9: Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig

Dec. 5-7, 11-14: A Christmas Story, adapted by Philip Grecian from the 1983 movie screenplay by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark, based on Shepherd’s book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash

Feb. 13-15, 19-22, 26-March 1, 2015: Legally Blonde The Musical, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, based on the the MGM movie and the novel by Amanda Brown

July 24-26, 30-Aug. 2, 6-9, 2015: Shrek The Musical, music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the DreamWorks animated film and the book by William Steig.

Details, including season-ticket prices and audition dates, will be posted online at rogerslittletheater.org. Call (479) 631-8988.

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