ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Mississippi bluesman
Mississippi bluesman Leo Bud Welch, 83, performs at 7:30 p.m. today at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock, part of The Oxford
American Magazine’s 201516 Concert Series and Archetypes & Troubadours sub-series. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with restaurant food and drinks for sale. Jimbo Mathus and his trio will open the show and supplement Welch’s band. Sponsors are the Esse Purse Museum & Store, the Summer Foundation and the Capital Hotel. Tickets are $12-$22. Call (800) 293-5949 or visit Metrotix. com.
Reefer Madness
The Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., will stage
Reefer Madness, a musical satire of the 1936 cult classic film warning of the dangers of marijuana (music and book by Dan Studney, lyrics and book by Kevin Murphy), 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Oct. 29-31 and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $40 for tonight’s opening gala, which includes a 6 p.m. pre-show buffet catered by Markham Street Pub, a show poster autographed by the cast and a complimentary glass of wine or beer; for all other shows, $20, $15 for students and senior citizens. Visit Evenbrite.com.
Dance on screen
Lincoln Center at the Movies will present Great American Dance – Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at 7 p.m. today at the Colonel Glenn 18 and Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock, the Tinseltown 14 in Benton and the Conway Towne Center in Conway. The film features performances of four works: Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Ronald K. Brown’s Grace, Robert Battle’s Takademe and Ailey’s Revelations, plus behind-the-scenes content and exclusive interviews with the performers. Ticket information is available online at fathomevents.com.
Tenor trio
Three Mo’ Tenors — Phumzile Sojola, Victor Robertson and Duane Moody — will will sing gospel, Motown, classical, jazz and blues as they kick off the 2015-16 Warfield Concert series at 7:30 p.m. today in Lily Peter Auditorium, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 1000 Campus Road, Helena-West Helena. Sponsor is the Delta Cultural Center as part of its 25th anniversary celebration; the Ophelia Polk Moore Trust is sponsoring a series of master classes connected to the concert. Download free tickets at warfieldconcerts.com; call (870) 338-8327.
FRIDAY
The Devil’s Supper
Teretha Lowe will stage her play The Devil’s Supper — “not a spooky play,” she says; “It openly shows the tricks of the devil such as lust, deception, fornication, strife and much more” — 7 p.m. Friday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Tickets are $20 in advance, available at Uncle T’s Food Mart, 1509 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive, Little Rock, or online at lujcm.org, $25 at the door. Call (501) 3512876 or (501) 455-4945.
Halloween fashion
Wear your original Halloween costume and compete with the designers at “YOU vs. Designers! Cupidon’s Halloween Fashion Show,” 6-9:30 p.m. Friday at the Statehouse Convention Center, Markham and Main streets, Little Rock. Models are competing for a chance to travel to the Fashion Collections Showcase in London on Oct. 31. Doors open at 5 p.m. for VIP ticket holders ($125 in advance, $175 at the door), 5:30 for general admission ($50 in advance, $75 at the door). Proceeds benefit IQEdu-Scientific USA, a scientific learning foundation for teen scholars. Call (501) 749-9479, email cupanifashion@gmail.com or visit cupanifashion.com (click on “Store”) or facebook.com/ cupanifashion.
Folk generation
Folk musicians under 21 perform as part of the Next Generation Concert, 7 p.m. Friday at the Ozark Folk Center State Park, 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View. The lineup includes Sibling Rivalry, Pretty Lil’ Miss, Possum Juice, Twang, Prestin Garey and Clancey Ferguson. Tickets are $12; call (870) 269-3851 or visit OzarkFolkCenter.com.
Also at the Folk Center this weekend, the Poor Valley Girls — Heather Pace and Madison Brown — carry on the Carter Family musical tradition with a pair of performances of traditional Appalachian songs as well as favorites from the Carter Family catalog Saturday, 2-3 p.m. in the craft village and 7 p.m. in the Large Auditorium. Tickets to each show are $12; combination tickets for both shows are $19.50.
‘Rainy’ homecoming
Harding University’s theater department will stage the musical Singin’ in the Rain (music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed, book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on the 1952 MGM film) at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday in Benson Auditorium on the university’s Searcy campus, part of Harding’s 91st annual Homecoming weekend. Tickets are $15-$18. Call (501) 279-5315 or visit hardingtickets.com.
SATURDAY
Folk duo
Loren and Mark (Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb), a U.S.-New Zealand guitar duo, will perform under the auspices of the Little Rock Folk Club at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Thompson Hall, Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, 1818 Reservoir Road, Little Rock. Tickets are $15, $8 for students with ID, free for accompanied children 12 and younger. Call (501) 663-0634 or visit littlerockfolkclub. org.
TICKETS
Def Leppard tickets
Tickets — $53.50, $64.50, $96 and $119 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a 7 p.m. Feb. 9 concert by Def Leppard, with Styx and Tesla, at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. There is an eight-ticket limit and the arena is using its credit card entry (formerly paperless ticketing) system. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Paisley at ASU
Tickets — $32.75, $52.75 and $65, plus applicable service fees — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21 concert by country star Brad Paisley, with “special guests” Eric Paslay and Cam, part of Paisley’s “Crushin’ It World Tour,” at Arkansas State University’s Convocation Center, 217 Olympic Ave., Jonesboro. Call (870) 972-2781 or (800) 745-3000 or visit Tickets.AState.edu or Ticketmaster.com.