ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY Gospel choir
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Gospel Chorale will perform at 7:30 p.m. today in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (501) 569-3294.
Bard owls
Three actors — Matthew Glover, Hillary Bell and Sarah Scott Blakey — will take on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
[revised] for Saline County Shakes, 7 p.m. today-Saturday at the Juli Busken Amphitheater, Tyndall Park, 913 E. Sevier St., Benton. Admission is free; take a blanket or chair (to soften the seat on the amphitheater concrete) and food. Call (501) 249-3169 or visit facebook. com/SalineCountyShakes.
Milsap at Hope
Country singer Ronnie Milsap will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Hempstead Hall, University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, 2500 S. Main St., Hope. The concert is in conjunction with the Arkansas Lions State Convention. Tickets are $20-$45. Call (870) 722-8565 or visit hempsteadhall.com.
Harrison comedy
The Ozark Arts Council and the Northark Drama and Theatre Company of the Ozarks are staging Richard Bean’s comedy
One Man, Two Guvnors, 7 p.m. today-Saturday and May 4-6 and 2 p.m. Sunday and May 7 at the Lyric Theater, 113 W. Rush Ave., Harrison. The show has adult language and themes; parental guidance is recommended. Tickets are $12, $10 for senior citizens and students, $5 for Northark students with ID. Call (870) 391-3504 or visit TheLyricHarrison.org.
FRIDAY Monster Jam
Customized high-powered Monster Jam Speedsters, Monster Jam ATVs and the Monster Jam trucks vie to top the competition in the Monster Jam, 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. Competitors are slated to include Grave Digger, driven by Krysten Anderson; El Toro Loco, driven by Armando Castro; Pirate’s Curse, driven by Camden Murphy; Megalodon, driven by Justin Sipes; Alien Invasion, driven by Bernard Lyght; Zombie, driven by Ami Houde; Monster Mutt Rottweiler, driven by J.R. Seasock; and Blue Thunder, driven by Matt Cody. (Trucks and drivers are subject to change.) Tickets are $17, $27, $37 (plus service fees). MetroPCS is offering ticket vouchers for pit passes (the Pit Party, 4:30-6 p.m. Saturday, provides a chance to meet the drivers and get close to the trucks). Call (800) 745-3000 or visit Ticketmaster.com.
Organ memorial
Organist Monica Czausz, working on a combined bachelor’s/master’s degree in organ performance at Rice University in Houston, will give the 14th annual concert honoring the life of late Henderson State University faculty member Robert Young Ellis, 8 p.m. Friday, First Presbyterian Church, 800 Scott St., Little Rock. The program: Capriccio by John Ireland; three Chorale Preludes — “All Glory Be to God on High,” BWV 664; “Savior of the Nations, Come,” BWV 659; and “Rejoice, Beloved Christians,“BWV 734 — by Johann Sebastian Bach; Deuxieme Fantaisie by Jehan Alain; “Blithely Breezing Along,” from Baronian Suite by Stephen Paulus; “The World Awaiting the Savior,” from Symphonie-Passion, op.23, by Marcel Dupre; “Choral” from Symphonie romane, op.73, by Charles-Marie Widor; “Allegretto” from Sonata in e-flat minor, op.65, by Horatio Parker; and the “Finale” from Hommage a Igor Stravinsky by Naji Hakim. The concert is under the auspices of the central Arkansas chapter, American Guild of Organists. Admission is free. Call (501) 372-1804.
SATURDAY ‘Hold Your Piece’?
Award-winning slam poet Ed Mabrey will perform as part of “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece,” 7 p.m. Saturday at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. The event is in partnership with the Foreign Tongues Poetry Troupe, whose members will also perform. Doors open at 6. Admission is free; seating is limited. Call (501) 683-3593 or visit mosaictemplarscenter.com.
Jonesboro ballet
The Foundation of Arts in Jonesboro will stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream ballet, choreographed by LeeAnn King, Jessica Maddox and Alisa Becton to the incidental music for Shakespeare’s play by Felix Mendelssohn, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday and 2 p.m. Sunday at The Forum Theatre, 328 S. Main St., Jonesboro. Tickets are $17; $15 for military, Arkansas State University students and adults 60-plus; $8 for children 12 and younger. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
SUNDAY Community orchestra
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community Orchestra will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at UALR. The program will include the “March” from the Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius; the second movement, “Andante con moto,” from the Symphony No. 4 by Felix Mendelssohn; Salute d’amour by Edward Elgar; the “Galop” from Jeux d’Enfants by Georges Bizet; The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson; A Salute to Richard Rodgers, arranged by Ted Ricketts; and music from My Fair Lady and Pirates of the Caribbean. Admission is free. Call (501) 569-3294.
TICKETS Luke Bryan at Verizon
Tickets — $75 and $49.75 plus service charges — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for country singer Luke Bryan’s “Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Every Day” tour with “special guests” Brett Eldredge and Seth Ennis, 7 p.m. June 9 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. There is a six-ticket limit per household. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or LiveNation.com.