ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Abstract musical
A six-member cast (Jeremy Hall, LaDarius L. Jamerson, Stephanie Judkins, Erin Martinez, Lindsey Kay Ray and Greg Robinson) will stage Songs for a New
World (music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown), on the boundary between a musical and a song cycle, about “the moment of decision,” 7 p.m. today-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock, Tickets are $20, $15 for children and senior citizens. Call (501) 374-2615, email thestudiotheatre@gmail.com or visit eventbrite.com.
FRIDAY
Organ premieres
Jason A. Pennington, organist at North Little Rock’s St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, will premiere the three neo-Baroque Dance Suites by the late Dr. Steven Kemp in a memorial concert, titled “Prisms,” 7 p.m. Friday at the church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. The program, part of the church’s St. Luke’s Festival of the Senses series, will also include works by J.S. Bach, Max Reger and Dietrich Buxtehude. Proceeds from a silent auction of an original artwork by Suzette Patterson will benefit Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Admission is free; donations to Children’s Hospital will be accepted. A meet-theartist reception will follow in the parish hall. Call (501) 753-4281.
Visiting jazzmen
Musicians from the Monterey Jazz Festival — Raul Midon on guitar and vocals; Ravi Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophones; Nicholas Payton on trumpet; musical director Gerald Clayton on piano; Joe Sanders on bass; and Gregory Hutchinson on drums — will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. It’s part of the Monterey Jazz Festival’s fourth North American Tour. Tickets are $30-$40, free for students. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
SATURDAY
To the moon, Jeremy
Jeremy Matthey plays a young astronaut who learns it takes math, science, physical stamina, mental perseverance and, of course, a dream to succeed in Apollo to the Moon by Mary Hall Surface, an Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre touring show, onstage at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Ritz Civic Center, 306 W. Main St., Blytheville, under the auspices of the Arts Council of Mississippi County and the Delta Gateway Museum. Tickets are $10, $5 for children 6-11, free for children 5 and younger. Call (870) 762-1744 or visit artsmissco.org. Former NASA engineer Jerrell M. Thomas will share stories of his involvement in the space program after the performance. Guests can meet and visit with him at the Apollo Exhibit on display at the Delta Gateway Museum, in the nearby former Kress building on Main Street.
Bolshoi’s Bard
The Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot, kicks off the “201516 Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema” spring season, 12:55 p.m. Sunday at the Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock. Tickets are $15-$17. Visit fathomevents.com.
SUNDAY
Big band ball
The Stardust Big Band will perform for a dance at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Crystal Ballroom of the Arlington Resort Hotel, 239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. Admission is $10, free for K-12 students. Attire is casual to Sunday best. Call (501) 7675482.
TICKETS
Cowboy comic
Tickets — $29.75 and $44.75, $179.75 VIP (plus applicable service charges) — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at all Ticketmaster outlets and the Verizon Arena box office for a 7 p.m. March 12 “Here Comes the Truth Tour” show by cowboy comedian Rodney Carrington at the North Little Rock arena. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.