April Openings: Sid & Imogene, Stephen Sondheim and a Lizard King

April theater brings a happy mix of old-time comedians, modern-day Marlboro men, yuppies, contract players, chanteuses and priests--plus a famous dead rock star and famous dead writer. The openings include:

Today: Obie winner Bradley Rand Smith focuses on a disparate group of modern-day cowboys and Indians in “Mojave,” a lab production at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A. Charles Otte directs.

Monday: The West Coast Committee of Equity Fights AIDS kicks off a weekly cabaret series at the Gardenia in Hollywood with an appearance by Andrea Marcovicci. Upcoming performers include Jeannie Brittan, Carolyn Mignini and Glenn Mehrbach & Friends.

Tuesday: Santa Monica Playhouse hosts the premiere of Chris De Carlo and Evelyn Rudie’s futuristic “1994: A Telling of Tomorrow,” a collaboration between SMP’s Actors Repertory Theatre and Young Professionals Company.

Tuesday: Just when you thought Truman Capote was gone for good . . . Tony winner Robert Morse returns to Hollywood’s Henry Fonda Theatre for a four-week encore engagement in Jay Presson Allen’s one-man show, “Tru.”

Wednesday: Set in 1940s Chinatown, “Canton Jazz Club,” a new Asian-American musical with book by Dom Magwili, lyrics by Tim Dang and music by Nathan Wang and Joel Iwataki, opens at East West Players in Hollywood.

Thursday: Glynis Johns, Lois Nettleton and John McMartin star in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony-winning “A Little Night Music” at Hollywood’s Doolittle Theatre.

Saturday: Pipeline presents “Aleph 5,” the fifth in an ongoing series of original and eclectic theater, opening at the Daniel Saxon Gallery in West Hollywood. The program includes works by Tom Stringer, Mary Tamaki, Tony Barsha and Michael Ventura.

Saturday: 1940s teen-age stars get the studio treatment in the popular and critically acclaimed musical “Babes,” reopening at the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood. It was conceived and directed by Michael Michette, with book by Bill Sawyer, music and lyrics by Brian Shucker.

April 14: A group of urban guerrilla socialites aspire to be among the literati in Richard Greenberg’s comedy “The Maderati,” opening on the Tiffany’s other stage. Ron Link directs.

April 17: David Steen’s “Avenue ‘A,’ ” a dark comedy about the struggle for the American Dream, opens at the Cast Theatre in Hollywood. Jim Holmes directs.

April 19: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca reunite in “Together Again,” a trip down memory lane with some of the comedy team’s most famous sketches, opening at the Westwood Playhouse.

April 19: Hollywood’s Friends and Artists Theatre commemorates the 20th anniversary of the death of the Doors’ Jim Morrison with the U.S. premiere of Jay Jeffrey Jones’ “The Lizard King.”

April 28: Poking fun at Broadway’s best-loved musicals and stars, a touring production of “Forbidden Broadway” comes to Pepperdine University’s Smothers Theatre for one performance.