ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY Road to Camelot
Journalists Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, authors of The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign, will provide a behind-thescenes account of John F. Kennedy’s campaign for the White House, 6 p.m. today, Sturgis Hall, University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. A book signing will follow. Admission is free; reserve seats by calling (501) 683-5239 or by emailing publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu.
Trombone choir
The University of Central Arkansas trombone choir, BearBones, performs at 7:30 p.m. today, Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The 31-trombone ensemble will play Celebration by Walter
Hartley; Seven Trombones of
the Apocalypse by Santiago Miguel Alarcon; “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” from the St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach; 6.35 by Steven Verhelst; Musical Sequences by Vladislay Blazhevich; Full Tilt by Anthony DiLorenzo; Inveni David by Anton Bruckner; and the Olympic Fanfare by John Williams. Justin Cook conducts. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-3333 or email jcook@uca.edu.
WEDNESDAY Petty tribute
Arkansas musicians will gather to pay tribute to the late Tom Petty, who died earlier this month of cardiac failure, 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Rev Room, 300 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Doors open at 7. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 day of show. Proceeds benefit cardiac research; doctors from Arkansas Heart Hospital will be on hand to give advice on heart attack prevention and provide coupons for checkups and heart scans. Call (501) 823-0090 or visit Arkansaslivemusic.com.
Navy Day
Wednesday is Navy Day, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on the parade ground of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in MacArthur Park, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. It’s at the center of Navy Week in the capital city. Navy personnel will be on hand to talk about robotics, scuba diving and other naval subjects. Fairwinds, the Navy Band Southeast’s woodwind trio, will perform at 10:30 a.m. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602 or visit the website, arkmilitaryheritage.com.
The trio will also give a “Lunchtime Concert,” noon-1 p.m. Friday at the Old State House, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9685.
TICKETS Les Mis at LR
Tickets — $26-$82 — are now on sale for Cameron Mackintosh’s new touring production of Les Miserables (music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer based on the original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton, original adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird), which Celebrity Attractions will have onstage, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2-3 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. Call (501) 2448800 or visit ticketmaster. com. Harlem Globetrotters
Tickets — $28.50-$131.50 (plus service charges) — go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday for the Harlem Globetrotters’ 2018 World Tour appearance at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena, 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit the websites, harlemglobetrotters.com or ticketmaster.com.
AUDITIONS Jonesboro tryouts
Jonesboro’s Foundation of Arts will hold open auditions for A Charlie Brown Christmas (Eric Schaeffer’s stage adaptation of the Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson TV special, characters and dialogue by Charles M. Schulz, with songs by Vince Guaraldi), 10 a.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Foundation of Arts Center, 328 S. Main St., Jonesboro. Director Elea Pulliam and music director Damon Wright will cast adults for the “Peanuts” characters via readings from the script (performers should expect to sing a portion of one of the songs) and a children’s chorus. Production dates are Dec. 14-19. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.