Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Renoir documentary
Renoir -- Revered and Reviled, a documentary based on the collection of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's works at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, will be on the screen at 7 p.m. today at the Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock. The film, the fourth title in the "Art & Architecture in Cinema" series, focuses on Renoir's artistic reinvention after his rejection of impressionism in the early 1890s. Tickets and additional information are available at FathomEvents.com.
Footloose at OBU
Ouachita Baptist University's School of Fine Arts will stage Footloose the Musical (music by Tom Snow, lyrics by Dean Pitchford and additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar and Kenny Loggins, book by Walter Bobbie, based on Pitchford's screenplay for the 1984 film) at 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Jones Performing Arts Center at OBU in Arkadelphia. Tickets are $12. Call (870) 245-5555, email [email protected] or visit obu.edu/boxoffice.
2 Platters salutes
Monroe Powell of the Dominos, the Ink Spots and eventually the Platters, for whom he was the lead singer, joins performers Kenni Jaye, Don Gloud'e and Genevieve Dew this weekend for two performances of "Monroe Powell, A Salute to the Platters":
• At approximately 6 p.m. today, immediately after the fish weigh-in for the Bassmaster Elite Tournament on the south end of Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, just off College Street, Mountain Home. The performance is part of the university's 2015-16 Arvest Concert Series. Admission is free; take your own lawn chair. Call (870) 508-6109 or email [email protected].
• 3 p.m. Sunday at the Grand Prairie Center, 2709 U.S. 165 S., Stuttgart. Tickets are $25 and $35. Call (870) 673-4201, Extension 1896, or visit pccua.edu/GPC.
Dulcimer Jamboree
Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View is holding its annual Dulcimer Jamboree, today-Saturday, with concerts at 7 p.m. each day and workshops and classes for all levels of play on hammered and mountain dulcimer, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Featured instructors and performers include Ted Yoder, Bing Futch, Rick Thum, Judson Steinback, Jess Dickinson, Jeff Hames and Joe Jewell. Cost for the three-day event: $200 (includes admission to the craft village and the evening concerts), and you don't have to register in advance. Concert admission is $12, $7 for children 6-12. Call (870) 269-3851.
FRIDAY
Tenor recital
Dover native and Arkansas Tech University graduate Jonathan Ray, tenor, will give a recital with pianist Janine Tiner at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. His program will include Canticle I, "my beloved is mine and I am his," by Benjamin Britten; "O Divine Redeemer" by Charles Gounod; the aria "If with all your hearts" from Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn; "Ah! mes amis" from La Fille du Regiment by Gaetano Donizetti; "Ich baue ganz" from The Abduction From the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; art songs and lieder by Ottorino Respighi, Henri Duparc and Richard Strauss; and three show tunes -- "Maria" from West Side Story, "The Contest" from Sweeney Todd and "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables. Sponsor is Arkansas Federation of Music Clubs. Admission is free. Call (501) 747-2162.
'Toy Scout'
"Think Antique Roadshow meets Vintage Barbie" is how "America's Toy Scout" Joel Magee describes the Little Rock Vintage Toy Buying Show, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday at the Hampton Inn & Suites, 1301 S. Shackleford Road, Little Rock. Magee is offering on-the-spot cash payments for many pre-1980 toys and memorabilia, "whether in perfect, unused condition or broken with missing pieces," he says. That includes G.I. Joes, Disneyland posters, Star Wars action figures, Transformers, Hot Wheels, Barbie dolls, Pez dispensers, Beatles memorabilia, superhero figurines, baseball cards, 1940-60s comic books, Shirley Temple dolls, Hot Wheels and Hummel figurines. Admission and parking are free. Call (541) 501-2090 or (561) 628-1990, email [email protected] or [email protected] or visit americastoyscout.com.
SATURDAY
Honoring Earth Day
The Green Corner Store is hosting an Earth Day Celebration, noon-4 p.m. Saturday at the Bernice Garden, 1401 Main St., Little Rock. The theme is "Every Day Is Earth Day," which encompasses the need to be sustainable and earth-friendly and features exhibits by local businesses, nonprofits and garden-related groups. There will be food trucks, music, workshops and kids activities. Admission and parking are free; it's "family and pet friendly." Call (501) 374-1111, email [email protected] or visit the "Every Day Is Earth Day! LR" Facebook event page.
Mystery talks
Arkansas native, author and filmmaker Beth Brickell will talk about "The Most Widely Publicized Mystery in Arkansas History: The Disappearance of Maud Crawford" at 12:30 p.m. Saturday for the noon luncheon of the Arkansas Historical Association, Bowen Hall, Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott St., Little Rock. Cost of the luncheon is $20; remaining seats, if there are any, are limited. Call (479) 575-5884.
Brickell will also speak at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Faulkner County Public Library, 1900 Tyler St., Conway -- (501) 327-7482 -- and at 10 a.m. Monday at Laman Public Library System's Argenta Branch, 420 Main St., North Little Rock -- (501) 687-1061. Admission is free to both.
Musical zoo
Central Arkansas Ballet dancers and Red Curtain Theatre actors are representing the residents of an imaginary zoo in The Carnival of the Animals, 7 p.m. Saturday at Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The performance, which ballet director Carrie Miller and theater director Kristen Sherman have set to the musical work of the same name by Camille Saint-Saens, features rhyming narration by Conway native Kennedy Reynolds, a senior at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in Hot Springs. Tickets are $15, $5 for children 10 and younger. Call (501) 499-9776 or email [email protected].
SUNDAY
St. Mark's Messiah
The Choir of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christine Westhoff soprano; Cecelia Stearman, alto; Scott Kennebeck, tenor; and David Robinson, bass, will perform (with a few judicious cuts) George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah, 3 p.m. Sunday at the church, 1000 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock. Tim Allen, who conducts, says he's presenting it not as church music but as a secular piece. The performance is part of the church's Third Sunday at Three program. Admission is free; there's a $20 suggested donation. Call (501) 225-4203 or visit st-marks.com.
Weekend on 04/21/2016