Greek Theatre Announces Performance Headliners for Season

Stevie Nicks, the Judds and a teaming of Bernadette Peters and Peter Allen top the 1989 season at the Greek Theatre, which was announced Wednesday.

Peters and Allen will perform July 28, the Judds will be joined by Restless Heart and Carl Perkins on Sept. 28-29, and Nicks, making her first Southland appearance in three years, will be at the Greek Oct. 10-11.

Tickets to those and 28 other shows accounting for 40 dates between May and October are available starting today to subscribers to the Greek’s Premiere Club. Subscribers will be allowed to choose five or more dates from the announced schedule at this time, with individual show sales to come as the season progresses.

New nonsmoking sections have been designated in the top two price ranges.

The lineup represents about half of the summer schedule for the open-air, 6,200-seat Griffith Park facility, according to Alex Hodges, vice president of the Nederlander Organization, which operates the theater. Acts on the schedule range from two old-time rock ‘n’ roll packages (a show celebrating the 35th anniversary of “American Bandstand” on Aug. 11 and KRTH’s “Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll” on Oct. 6) to two nights with the Bolshoi Ballet (Aug. 1-2).

Of particular interest are three festival-type presentations: The Reggae Sunsplash World Tour headlined by Steel Pulse on May 27-28 will be preceded by an international food and crafts fair; a June 25 festival of “Wave” music presented by radio station KTWV-FM will feature an afternoon wine and cheese fair, and an Aug. 6 Cajun Fest starring Doug Kershaw and Queen Ida will offer a Cajun food fair.

“We’ve had very good luck with that, and part of that is due to the ambient feeling of the theater,” Hodges said.

Such events, he said, also help draw attention to shows in what he termed a very competitive market. “Our efforts to make these shows into events in various ways, whether through promotion concepts or the food fairs, take full advantage of the surroundings.”

The rest of the schedule:

June 15, Amy Grant; July 8, Harry Belafonte; July 20, Steve Miller; July 22, Fela Kuti; July 23, Judy Collins; July 27, Freddie Jackson; July 29, Hiroshima; Aug. 5, David Benoit; Aug. 13, George Strait; Aug. 18, Everly Brothers; Aug. 26-27, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King; Aug. 31-Sept. 2, Al Jarreau and Take 6; Sept. 5, Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe, “An Evening of Yes Music, Plus”; Sept. 9, Jean-Luc Ponty; Sept. 12, Little Feat; Sept. 15, King Sunny Ade; Sept. 16, Temptations and O’Jays; Sept. 22-23, Tom Jones; Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Jose Jose.

Concerts by the Gregg Allman Band and Air Supply are to be announced.