STAGE’Assassins’ Skipping a Week: There will be...

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‘Assassins’ Skipping a Week: There will be no performances of “Assassins” at Los Angeles Theatre Center tonight through Sunday because of low advance ticket sales for the holiday week. Anyone who holds a ticket and hasn’t been contacted can call (213) 466-1767 to arrange for a later date or a refund. The show will resume on April 21, performing only four times over that weekend, instead of the previous eight each week, because of low weekday sales. It then will extend at least four performances (April 27-29) beyond the previously announced closing date of April 23. The show will be dark April 30 because Fiesta Broadway will block access to the theater.

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Ahmanson’s Plans: “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” and the Royal National Theatre production of “Carousel” will be among the offerings at the Ahmanson Theatre during the 1995-96 season, according to a flyer that Center Theatre Group mailed to potential subscribers. A spokesman for the theater said that dates are not yet set and that other shows are also in the works.

MOVIES

When You’re Hot . . . : Martin Lawrence, co-star of the weekend’s box-office leader, “Bad Boys,” has been signed by Savoy Pictures for his first feature film directing effort. Lawrence will also star in the movie, playing a nightclub party promoter in what Savoy describes as “a fast-paced comic thriller.” Producers of the film, “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate,” will be Doug McHenry and George Jackson, whose company produced “Jason’s Lyric” and “New Jack City.” Jackson and McHenry previously worked with Lawrence on “House Party 2,” which they produced as well as co-directed. Filming is set for summer when Lawrence is on hiatus from his Fox TV series, “Martin.” Savoy boss Robert N. Fried said the company plans to release the film on Jan. 10, prior to the three-day weekend celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Better Than a Raincheck: A Newark, N.J., rainstorm wiped out a day of shooting for a new Whoopi Goldberg movie, but it brought a windfall to a nearby homeless shelter. The downpour on Saturday delayed filming of an elaborate traffic jam for the movie, “Bogus.” Steaks, chickens, pork loins and fresh fruit that had been prepared for the crew were instead donated to St. Rocco’s homeless shelter. “Bogus” is the story of a Newark businesswoman who inherits responsibility for a dead friend’s son. Gerard Depardieu co-stars.

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An L.A. Story: “My Family,” which chronicles a Mexican American family in Los Angeles from the 1920s to the ‘80s, will open with a benefit premiere April 27 at the Cinerama Dome. The New Line Cinema release of a Francis Ford Coppola presentation by “El Norte” producers Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas stars Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales and Edward James Olmos. Beneficiary of the premiere will be the National Latino Communications Center, marking its 20th anniversary as a Latino arts and production resource center. Tickets are $100. Information: (213) 663-8294 or (800) 316-2109. The film opens nationwide May 3.

TELEVISION

A Hoofer Returns: Two 36-year-old television one-hour specials of “The Gene Kelly Show,” which have not been seen since 1959, will be shown April 19 in the Academy Plaza Theatre in North Hollywood. The programs, restored following their discovery in the UCLA Film & Television Archive last year, include the TV debut of 13-year-old Liza Minnelli. The UCLA archive and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is presenting the showing. Tickets are free but reservations are required. For information, call (818) 754-2892.

QUICK TAKES

Actor Sylvester Stallone, 48, and swimsuit model-actress Angie Everhart, 25, announced their engagement. No date has been set for the wedding, his third and her first. . . . Kenneth Branagh’s 1987 play “Public Enemy,” about a James Cagney-obsessed youth in war-torn Belfast, will open at the Court Theatre June 10 for a run slated through July 2. . . . Deep-voiced radio personality Gary Owens gets inducted into the National Assn. of Broadcasters Hall of Fame at ceremonies today in Las Vegas. Carol Burnett was inducted Monday for her television work. . . . Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright turned Czech republic president, will be the speaker at Harvard University’s June 8 commencement. . . . If your name is Shakespeare--well, why wouldn’t it be?--you can get free admission and join in a birthday celebration for the Bard at the April 23 matinee of “. . .And to My Daughter” at the Tiffany Theatre. The play is about Shakespeare’s family.