ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Aging, love focus of Security; Charlie Puth plays in Rogers

Singer-songwriter-producer Charlie Puth performs today at the Walmart AMP in Rogers.
Singer-songwriter-producer Charlie Puth performs today at the Walmart AMP in Rogers.

An 83-year-old "Cinderella" teaches her unusual family that it's never too late to find Prince Charming in Social Security by Andrew Bergman, Tuesday-Sept. 22 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday -- 12:45 p.m. Wednesday matinees only (no Wednesday evening shows) through Sept. 12. Doors open and meals start 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $33-$35, $23 for children 15 and under; show-only tickets are $25 and $15. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.

'Voicenotes Tour'

Pop-rock singer-songwriter-producer Charlie Puth brings his "Voicenotes Tour," with opening act Hailee Steinfeld, to the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers, 7:30 p.m. today, part of the amphitheater's 2018 Cox Concert Series. Gates open at 6.

Tickets are $32-$79.40 plus fees; each of the four tickets in a "LAWN 4-PACK" is $27. Call (479) 443-5600 or visiting amptickets.com.

Frisco Fest

Rogers' annual Frisco Festival, this year featuring the Catty Carnival, runs 5-10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday on First and Second streets between Poplar and Walnut streets and on Walnut Street between Arkansas and Second streets in downtown Rogers.

The Friday entertainment schedule includes performances by the Boss Tweeds at 5 p.m., Ballet Folklorico and Ballet Westside at 6 and Sin Son Gnero at 8. Saturday's lineup: Tony Redman at 2 p.m., Honeyjack at 3:30, Handmade Moments at 5 and Carrie Nation & the Speakeasy at 8.

There will be a car show on Saturday at Third and Elm streets. A food court and concessions throughout the festival will provide food and drinks for sale. A beer station in the Entertainment Garden will include brews from Ozark Beer Co., New Province and Anheuser Busch.

The Catty Wampus Co-op will offer an array of craft vendors along First and Elm streets. The Second Street Kids Zone will feature a bungee trampoline, giant inflatable slides and a climbing wall. The Rogers Fire Department will conduct demonstrations behind the Frisco stage on Saturday morning. The A&M Railroad will offer excursion rides from downtown Rogers to Springdale. There will be three Saturday performances of the Southern BMX Stuntshow, plus a roaming juggler, humans and animals on stilts, LED hula-hoopers and fire dancers.

Admission is free. Visit mainstreetrogers.com.

'Sensory'/'Unnatural'

Two exhibits open Tuesday at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main, Springdale:

• The annual Sensory Iconoclast Exhibit, which pairs Northwest Arkansas artists and chefs -- Eve Smith (painter)/Case Dighero (self employed); Emily Smith (mixed media)/Shayla Holder (chocolatier, Conscious Coco); Kat Wilson (photographer)/Emily Lawson (Pink House Alchemy); Houston Hughes (spoken word poet)/K.J. Zumwault (Caribe Restaurant); and Amber Perrodin (painter)/Daniel Hintz (chef, self employed) -- exploring equal pay for women and minorities.

• Sarah Hearn's "An Unnatural History," an installation that documents the discovery of a (fictional) taxonomy of marine life "containing and cooperating with the elements from the periodic table."

The center will hold a reception at 7 p.m. Sept. 6. Both exhibits remain on display through Sept. 22. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Call (479) 751-5441, email [email protected] or visit acozarks.org.

Ballet auditions I

Moscow Ballet will hold auditions at 9 a.m. Sept. 8 at Dancers Corner, 7509 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, for dancers age 6-17 for its two Little Rock Great Russian Nutcracker performances, 3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 27 at Robinson Center Performance Hall. Ballerina Yuriy Kuzo will audition youngsters with at least one year of ballet training to play Party Children, Mice, Snowflakes, Snow Maidens and other roles. There is no fee to audition but there may be a casting fee. Register online at nutcracker.com/auditions.

Ballet auditions II

Western Arkansas Ballet, 4701 Grand Ave., Fort Smith, will hold combined open auditions Sept. 22 for two ballets -- Cinderella and The Nutcracker. Candidates should be at least 6 years old with at least two years' dance or gymnastics experience; there are also parts for boys and adults with little or no dance experience. The schedule:

Girls, 6-8: registration 10-10:30 a.m., audition 10:30 a.m.-noon; 9-10: registration 12:15-12:45 p.m., audition 12:45-2:15; 11 and up: registration 2:30-3 p.m., audition 3-4. Boys 6-8: registration 10-10:30 a.m., audition 10:30-11:30 a.m.; 9-10: registration 12:15-12:45 p.m.; audition 12:45-1:45 p.m.; 11 and up: registration 2:30-3 p.m., audition 3-3:30 p.m.

Auditioners should wear appropriate dance clothing. There is a $45 audition fee, $25 of which is refundable to those not cast; for each individual ballet, $35 ($25 of which is refundable). Nutcracker performances will be Dec. 15-16. Cinderella will be onstage April 5-6.

The company will hold a pre-audition workshop, 4:30-6 p.m. Sept. 21 to provide advance training in the choreography, how to dress for an audition, hair tips, audition hints and dance practice. The workshop will include a craft and a light snack. Fee is $20.

Call (479) 785-0152, email [email protected] or visit waballet.org.

Opera season

Opera in the Rock has two fully staged productions on its schedule for 2018-19:

• Nov. 9, 11: One-act comedic operas Part of the Act by Liam Wades and Mavra by Igor Stravinsky (7:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday), Studio Theater, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. VIP ticket-holders to the Nov. 9 performance get lagniappe: A 6:30 pre-show performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's one-act, The Telephone.

• May 17 and 19: Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (in Italian with English supertitles) with 27 players from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock (7:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday). A portion of ticket sales (prices TBA) will benefit the theater.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit oitr.org.

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Ballet Folklorico performs Friday for the annual Frisco Festival in downtown Rogers.

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Baseodiscus+pinniasm by Sarah Hearn pairs fictional marine life with chemical elements in “An Un- natural History” at the Arts Cen- ter of the Ozarks in Springdale.

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