POP/ROCKGoing to Woodstock: Woodstock ’94 made its...

POP/ROCK

Going to Woodstock: Woodstock ’94 made its first full program announcement Monday, naming a slate of top acts including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Aerosmith, Melissa Etheridge, Peter Gabriel, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Santana, Spin Doctors, Arrested Development and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Also named for the two-day festival in Saugerties, N.Y., were Los Angeles rappers Cypress Hill, the Cranberries, Nine Inch Nails, Porno for Pyros, Alice in Chains, Metallica, the Neville Brothers, Joe Cocker, the Allman Brothers Band, Rollins Band, Green Day and Jimmy Cliff’s All Star Reggae Jam, featuring Rita Marley and Shabba Ranks. Initial tickets for theAug. 13-14 event, which will feature two main stages with simultaneous performances, go on sale Wednesday. The first batch of tickets will be for travel packages including bus fare (through Ticketmaster phone lines) or air fare (through (800) ROCK-AIR). Remaining tickets, at $135 each, are tentatively scheduled to go on sale through Ticketmaster phone lines on June 26. To encourage car pooling to the concert site, those tickets will be sold only in blocks of four with one parking pass per ticket block. Organizers have also set up a Woodstock ’94 hot line number: (212) ROK-1994.

* Literacy Campaign: Country stars John Berry, Charlie Daniels, Tanya Tucker, Suzy Bogguss and Billy Dean are recording “Literacy. Pass It On,” a musical cassette spotlighting the problem of adult illiteracy. Actor Danny Glover will tape a spoken introduction for the cassette, which is a part of Coors’ “Literacy, Pass It On” campaign. The tape will debut in September, which is National Literacy Month.

TELEVISION

CBS’ Summer Fare: “Hotel Malibu,” an ensemble drama from “Homefront” producers Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick starring Joanna Cassidy as the widowed matriarch of a family-owned luxury hotel, is among three new summer series announced Monday by CBS. Also announced Monday was “One West Waikiki,” a drama from “Magnum P.I.” and “Quincy” producer Glen A. Larson that will star former “Charlie’s Angel” Cheryl Ladd as a forensic pathologist who teams up with a detective (Richard Burgi) to solve crimes in Hawaii. Also joining the CBS summer schedule will be the comedy “Muddling Through,” starring Stephanie Hodge as a parolee released from jail after accidentally shooting her philandering husband. “Hotel Malibu” begins its 10 p.m. Thursday night run on Aug. 4; “One West Waikiki” airs Thursday nights at 8, starting with a special two-hour episode on Aug. 4, and “Muddling Through” airs Saturdays at 9 p.m., starting July 9.

THE ARTS

Rivers Says ‘Bye to Broadway: Joan Rivers’ Broadway vehicle, “Sally Marr . . . and her escorts,” will close this Sunday after 50 performances and 27 previews. Rivers, who plays Lenny Bruce’s mother in the show, was nominated for a Tony Award but on Sunday lost to Diana Rigg, who won for “Medea.” Plans are under way for a national tour of “Sally Marr.”

* Beating Drums: Top African percussionists and choreographers will meet in Atlanta Aug. 1 for the 1994 World Drum and Dance Summit, an intensive series of workshops and master classes under the direction of Senegalese percussionist Mor Thiam, who was introduced to American audiences by choreographer Katherine Dunham and has toured with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. The weeklong summit is part of “Celebrate Africa!,” a 10-day celebration of African culture that is part of a Cultural Olympiad being held in conjunction with the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

QUICK TAKES

Entertainer Vicki Lawrence is in discussions with other companies to take over production of her syndicated talk show “Vicki!,” which has been canceled by Group W Productions because of low ratings. Group W, meanwhile, will produce a new syndicated talk show, hosted by actress Marilu Henner (“Taxi,” “Evening Shade”). . . . Former Los Angeles “Phantom of the Opera” star Dale Kristien, who played Christine for four and a half years, will open the summer season of Burbank’s Starlight Bowl on July 9 in a concert with the Burbank Symphony. . . . Talk-show host Phil Donahue has taken his bid to broadcast the North Carolina execution of convicted murderer David Lawson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Donahue’s lawyers have asked the court to override lower court decisions blocking him from taping the execution, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday.