Friday, May 2“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” 7:30 p.m. May 2 to 3 and 2:30 p.m. May 4, South Pointe High School, Rock Hill. Tickets, $5 students and chidlren and $10 adults, available at the door. Features a cast of 30, plus nine children from the Rock Hill Honors Children’s Choir.
“The Sound of Music,” 7 p.m. May 2 and 3, presented by the Westminster Catawba Chrisan School Fine Arts Department, Catawba campus gym. Tickets, $10 in advance and $12 at the door, with children 5 and younger free. Daniel Truhitte, who portrayed young German offier Rolf, who sang “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” in the original film version, will attend Friday’s opening niight. Details, Brenda Fisher, (803) 328-5460.
Catawba Care Coalition’s fifth annual Dazzle ‘n’ Denim, 7 to 11 p.m. May 2, Springs Dairy Barn, Fort Mill, with food, music and dancing, silent and live auctions. Admission, $40 per person by April 28 or $50 per person after that. Details, 909-6363, Ext. 243, or visit www.catawbacare.org.
Merry Pranksters Theatrical Troupe present “Cartablanca,” May 2 to 4, Johnson Hall, Winthrop University. Watch the residents of a fictitious Rocking Hill retirement home as they prepare to put on the play, “Cartablance,” in a show written by Candy Clapp Randall for members of the acting troupe for the mentally disabled. Celebrity actors include Anne Springs Close, Betty Jo Rhea, Gary Williams and the Winthrop University dancers. Shows at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission, $10 general and $5 for Winthrop students, with tickets available at the Rock Hill PRT office, City Hall, and at the Boyd Hill Recreation Center. Details, Wendy Waddle, 329-5659 or www.rockhillrocks.com.
Violin-piano duo Opus Two, 8 p.m. May 2, Barnes Recital Hall, Winthrop University, presented by the Rock Hill Music Club and Lancaster Music Study club. Free, part of the state convetion of the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs meeting in Rock Hill. Pianist Andrew Cooperstock, formerly of Rock Hill, is chair of the keyboard department of the Universioty of Colorado, and violinist William Terwilliger teaches violin and chamber music at the University if South Carolina.
Fort Mill Community Playhouse presents “The Mousetrap: A Play by Agatha Christia” a murder-mystery drama and dessert production, May 2 and 3 at the playhouse, 615 Banks St., Fort Mill. A young couple have started a new hotel in the converted Monkswell Manor and are snowed in with four guests and an additonal traveler who ran his car into a snowdrift. A detective arrives on skis to inform the group that he believes a murderer is on his way to the hotel after the death of Miss Maureen Lyon in London. When one of the guests is killed, they realize that the murderer is already there. The play is known for its twist ending. Details, call 548-8102 or visit fortmillplayhouse.org.
Interior Design Senior Exhibition, through May 9, Lewandowski Student Gallery, Winthrop University.
20th annual Undergraduate Juried Show, through June 19, Rutledge Gallery, and MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 11 to June 19, Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop University. Spring reception, 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 11, Rutledge Gallery.
Theatre Charlotte presents “Little Shop of Horrors,” the story of an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood, May 2 to 4, 8 to 11 and 15 to 18, 2008, 501 Queens Road, Charlotte. Tickets, $24 adults, $22 seniors and $10 students. Tickets, (704) 335-1010 or www.theatrecharlotte.org.
ARPA 10 Exhibition, through May 17, Center for the Arts, 121 E. Main St., downtown Rock Hill, featuring 10 artists who were residents at the McColl Center for the Visual Arts in Charlotte in the summer of 2005. They are J. Michael Simpson, Paula Smith, Linda Brown, Alyssa Wood, Jennifer Gilomen, Felicia Van Bork, Laura McCarthy, Amy Sanders, Charles McMurray and David Edgar. Opening reception, 6 p.m. April 10, free and open to the public. Details, Arts Council of York County, 328-2787.