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THEATER

‘Cinderella’ onstage

The Judy Kohn Tenenbaum Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, phases Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and April 25-29 together with 2 p.m. reveals Saturday and April 23. Tickets are $25 for previews this Wednesday-Thursday, $35 for all different performances, $50 (plus taxes and costs) VIP (consists of early entry, a reserved assigned seat within the balcony, non-public bar, non-public restrooms, a commemorative present tumbler, a bag of popcorn and “a special fairy-tale surprise.” The theater is donating 10% of ticket gross sales to twister aid efforts in North Little Rock and offering free tickets to households with younger kids who misplaced houses. Visit ArgentaCommunityTheater.org.

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the musical model of the basic fairy story for a March 31, 1957, CBS broadcast with Julie Andrews within the title position. This manufacturing, with Kristen Phantazia Smith as Cinderella and Caleb Allen because the Prince, is usually based mostly on that unique broadcast with additions from a 1965 model that starred Leslie Ann Warren. The solid additionally consists of Katie Eisenhower because the Stepmother, Kyra Hatley as Portia, Amelia Migliore as Joy, Emily Swenskie because the Godmother, D.C. Miles as King Maximillian, Leslie Heister because the Queen and Steven Jones because the Herald. 

‘Chicken & Biscuits’

Rival sisters (Kathy Tyree and Tameka Bob) try to bury their father with out killing one another first, however when a household secret is revealed on the church altar, decorum flies out the stained glass window in “Chicken & Biscuits” by Douglas Lyons. TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring St., Fayetteville, opens its manufacturing on Wednesday, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and seven:30 p.m. Saturday and a pair of p.m. Sunday by way of May 14. Tickets are $20-$54. Call (479) 777-7477 or go to theatre2.org.

EXHIBITS

‘Doolittle Raiders’

The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, opens an exhibition, “From Shangri-La to Tokyo: The Story of the Doolittle Raiders,” with a 5:30 p.m. reception Tuesday.

The exhibit has two Arkansas connections:

Jeff Thatcher, a museum commissioner, is the son of Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, a member of the Doolittle Raiders, who launched a daring April 1942 bombing raid on Tokyo and different Japanese cities from the decks of early naval carriers. He was a part of Crew No. 7 and helped hold a number of of his comrades alive till they have been rescued once they crash-landed after the raid. He will probably be giving a number of remarks about his father and the Doolittle Raid.

A photograph of Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, a member of the Doolittle Raiders, and the medals he earned throughout World War II are a part of the “From Shangri-La to Tokyo: The Story of the Doolittle Raiders” exhibition, occurring show Tuesday at Little Rock’s MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

Reveille Isgrig, a museum program coordinator who helped put collectively the exhibit, is the granddaughter of Thomas McMillan Calder Jr., a sailor stationed aboard the plane service USS Hornet, from which the Doolittle Raiders launched. (He was additionally aboard when the Hornet was sunk and rescued after eight hours within the water.)

The exhibit will stay up for not less than a 12 months. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Monday. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602.

The museum may also display screen the documentary “Unsettled History: America, China and the Doolittle Raid” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, a part of its “Movies at MacArthur” sequence. Admission, popcorn and smooth drinks are free.

DANCE

‘Asleep’ in Van Buren

Guest dancers Samuel Lawson from Southeast Missouri State; Julian Cottrell from the University of Oklahoma; and Western Arkansas Ballet’s Brianna Mesa and Jared Mesa lead a solid of greater than 60 space dancers, together with members of Western Arkansas Ballet’s pre-professional firm, in Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty,” 7 p.m. Friday and a pair of p.m. Saturday and April 23 on the King Opera House, 427 Main St., Van Buren. Presenting sponsor is James & Company, CPAs. Tickets are $15-$25 plus charges. Call (479) 785-0152 or go to waballet.org.

Joffrey workshop

Western Arkansas Ballet can be internet hosting a Joffrey Summer Dance Workshop in ballet and variations for dancers 9 and older, June 6-7 at their studios, 4701 Grand Ave., Fort Smith. Instructors are Mauro Villanueva and Kenny Borchard. Cost is $179. For extra particulars and to register, joffreyworkshop.com.

MUSIC

Operatic alumni

Opera within the Ozarks alumni Katrina Thurman, soprano, and Powell Brumm, baritone, will carry out arias, artwork songs and well-liked tunes with pianist Hyun Kim, 2:30 p.m. April 23 at Thaden School, 800 S.E. C St., Bentonville. The recital kicks off the Eureka Springs-based opera coaching program and summer time music competition’s Spring 2023 Alumni Recital Concert Series, pairing veteran opera alums with more moderen program graduates.

Thurman sang with Opera within the Ozarks in 1997 and has since constructed a strong repute performing conventional operatic repertoire whereas additionally specializing in modern opera and musical theater. Her greater than 45 roles in six languages have taken her to the Metropolitan Opera and greater than a dozen different main opera homes all through the world. Brumm, who joined Opera within the Ozarks in the summertime of 2018, has sung with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Tickets are $20 ($10 for college students underneath 18). Call (479) 253-8595 or go to opera.org. The recital may also be accessible by way of streamed protection through an online hyperlink despatched instantly following the efficiency and which can stay energetic for 14 days after the live performance date.

The remainder of the Recital Concert Series lineup, each concert events 2:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 195 Huntsville Road, Eureka Springs:

■ June 11: Soprano Holly Gash and baritone Evan Julius Nelson

■ June 25: Soprano Lori Ernest and mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook.

Tickets for each recitals are $20, $10 for college students underneath 18. Visit opera.org.

LECTURES AND CLASSES

Architecture lecture

Tom Fennell, founding accomplice of Fennell Purifoy Architects, discusses “Forgotten Little Rock: An Exploration of Little Rock’s Historic Neighborhoods,” 6 p.m. Tuesday on the Windgate Center of Art + Design, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S University Ave., Little Rock. A 5:30 p.m. reception precedes the speak, a part of the Architecture and Design Network’s 2022-23 June Freeman lecture sequence. Admission is free. Email ArchDesignNetwork@gmail.com.

Architect Tom Fennell discusses “Forgotten Little Rock: An Exploration of Little Rocks Historic Neighborhoods,” Tuesday on the Windgate Center of Art + Design on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

Tom and his spouse, Ellen Fennell, are the creators and maintainers of the non-public “Forgotten Little Rock” Facebook web page that now has virtually 14,000 followers.

Butterfly gardening

Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, 4703 N. Crossover Road, Fayetteville, hosts a “Butterfly Gardening” class, 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The backyard’s Butterfly House Mentor, Kitty Sanders, will talk about the fundamentals of growing your personal butterfly backyard. Guests will study what host and nectar crops they want, recommendations on design, and which native butterfly species could also be drawn to their gardens. The objective, in response to a information launch, is to “help to improve our natural environment in a variety of ways.” Tickets are $15 for the general public free for members. Visit bgozarks.org/events.