MUSICBowling With Brooks: A July 14 acoustic...

MUSIC

Bowling With Brooks: A July 14 acoustic concert by country star Garth Brooks, accompanied in part by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and benefiting the charity One Voice, highlights an eclectic World Cup Week programming taking place at the Hollywood Bowl. The programming kicks off July 11 with musician Van Cliburn and the Moscow Philharmonic, followed July 12 by Itzhak Perlman, with John Williams conducting the L.A. Philharmonic and Linda Ronstadt singing arrangements by Nelson Riddle. On July 15, the flamenco group Gipsy Kings and singer Jose Luis Rodriguez perform in a program hosted by comedian Paul Rodriguez, and on July 16, singer Lea Salonga joins the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in the family program “Aladdin’s Lamp--An Arabian Night at the Hollywood Bowl.” Tickets go on sale May 22, except the Cliburn show, which is on sale now.

Streisand Tix Open Up: At least 150 tickets for Barbara Streisand’s upcoming Anaheim shows starting Wednesday that were earmarked for charity have been returned and will be sold publicly through the Anaheim Pond box office and Ticketmaster. The $350 tickets were to have been sold for $1,000 by the Alliance for Children’s Rights, but not enough big-bucks buyers could be found.

THE ARTS

50% State Cut Proposed: The state Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee on Wednesday recommended a 50% cut in allocations to the California Arts Council for 1994-95, which would reduce the financially strapped organization’s general fund allocation by about $6 million, taking its total budget down to about $7 million. The council also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts License Plates.

TELEVISION

Reba’s Movie: Country star Reba McEntire and actor Keith Carradine will star in “Is There Life Out There?,” an upcoming CBS TV movie inspired by McEntire’s song and music video of the same title. The movie stars McEntire as Lily, a wife and mother who, after a close brush with breast cancer and the death of her father, returns to college to pursue her dream.

MOVIES

Restorations Abound: Three newly restored films with re-mastered soundtracks--”The Bridge on the River Kwai,” “The Guns of Navarone” and “Tommy”--come to the big screen for the Columbia Classics Festival, Friday through June 16 at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. . . . Another recently restored classic, the 1961 epic “El Cid” starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, will air June 26 on NBC. It will be the film’s first network broadcast in almost a quarter century and the first telecast of the restored version.

STAGE

N.Y. Critics Hail ‘Twilight’: Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Three Tall Women,” beat out Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: Perestroika” on Tuesday for the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award for the year’s best play. However, one work that originated in Los Angeles, “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” earned a special citation for “unique contribution to theatrical form” for writer-performer Anna Deavere Smith. The critics’ circle decided not to award a prize for best musical.

L.A. Changes: Judy Kuhn will become the first major “Sunset Boulevard” cast member to leave the Shubert Theatre production after Sunday’s performances. The just-announced Tony nominee (“She Loves Me”), who plays Betty Schaefer in “Sunset,” won’t join the New York “Sunset” cast along with Glenn Close and Alan Campbell--Kuhn is expecting a baby in late October. She’ll be replaced here by her understudy, Anastasia Barzee. . . . The Pasadena Civic Auditorium has booked two musicals into its summer season: the national touring production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” with Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson (July 5-10) and “Camelot,” starring Robert Goulet (July 20-24).

QUICK TAKES

TV journalist Bill Moyers underwent successful heart bypass surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Tuesday. Moyers, 59, was hospitalized in February for removal of a blockage in an artery. . . . Actors James Earl Jones and Diane Ladd, theatrical producer Gordon Davidson, dancer Loretta Livingston and opera singer Frederica Von Stade were honored Wednesday as 1993 Distinguished Artists by the Music Center’s Club 100. . . . Elizabeth Taylor, still recuperating from her March hip replacement surgery, won’t make it to New York for Monday’s premiere of “The Flintstones,” in which she plays Fred’s mother-in-law. “Although I will not be there in person, I will be there in heart and soul, and, of course, on the big screen,” Taylor said Wednesday.