Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts this weekend:
THEATER: ‘American Idiot’
Benton’s Young Players Second Stage presents “Green Day’s American Idiot,” 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and Jan. 12-14 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Jan. 15 at the Royal Theatre, 111 N. Market St., Benton.
The electric-rock musical (music by Green Day, lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong, book by Armstrong and Michael Meyer) includes every song from Green Day’s Grammy-winning album, as well as several songs from its follow-up release, “21st Century Breakdown,” while focusing on three young men (Eli Butler, Luke Ferguson, Jack Clay) struggling to find meaning in a post Sept. 11 world.
Sponsor is Arvest Bank. Tickets are $18; $15 senior citizens 60-plus, members of the military and college students with valid ID; $8 students grade 12 and below. Visit TheRoyalPlayers.TicketLeap.com. For more information, call (501)…
