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Drama one and two classes of the South Arkansas Arts Center will work together this semester as they bring to the stage the pint-sized, pin-striped classic musical “Bugsy Malone Jr.”

Classes will begin on Jan. 15, and registration is currently under way, according to Darrin Riley at the arts center.

“Bugsy Malone Jr.” is the stage version of the 1976 film musical “Bugsy Malone,” which is very loosely based on events in Chicago during the Prohibition era; specifically, the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone as dramatized in cinema. The tongue-in-cheek play stars child...