1 pm: Family

Fans of the Old West, take note. Actor and storyteller David L. Krebs will breathe life into the hardscrabble denizens of Bodie, the California Gold Rush town that’s the subject of the current exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Center. Krebs’ dramatic interpretations of material drawn from a book by Ella Cain, whose family has been largely responsible for preserving Bodie as a ghost town, will re-create life as it was during the late 1800s in this town high in the mountains near the Nevada border.

* Storyteller David L. Krebs, Fullerton Museum Center, 301 N. Pomona Ave., Fullerton. Also 2 and 3 p.m. Saturday and 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Feb. 7 and March 7. Included with museum admission, $1-$3; children under 12 free. (714) 738-6545.

8 pm: Music

In Glendale, the acclaimed coloratura soprano of the L.A. and Metropolitan Opera companies, Sumi Jo, returns in recital. She will be assisted by L.A. Opera musical factotum William Vendice at the piano. Among composers listed on the Korean singer’s program are Rossini, Debussy, Arditi, Bellini and Verdi.

* Sumi Jo appears at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. $42.50-$50. (800) 233-3123.

all day: Art

“Manuel Neri: Early Works, 1953-1978,” opening at the Orange County Museum of Art, is the first major exhibition to focus on the sculptor’s contributions to the Bay Area Figuration movement of the 1950s and 1960s. While the primary proponents of this movement were painters Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Joan Brown, Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bishoff, Neri was the only sculptor, and his heavily textured and often painted sculptures reveal the shared interest. Neri will give a lecture about his work at 1 p.m. in the museum’s Lyon Auditorium.

* “Manuel Neri: Early Works, 1953-1978,” Orange County Museum of Art, 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach. Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $5; seniors and students, $4; children under 16 and museum members, free. Ends April 19. (714) 759-1122. Lecture, 1 p.m., Lyon Auditorium. General admission, $10; students, seniors and museum members, $8 (includes museum admission). (714) 759-1122, Ext. 204, for required preregistration.

all day: Sports

Instead of playing Monday morning quarterback, go one better by watching Nike’s Air-It-Out Flag Football Festival at Balboa Sports Center in Encino. Four-on-four teams of men, women and children will compete Saturday and Sunday in flag football games on a scaled-down football field.

* Air-It-Out Flag Football Festival, Balboa Sports Center, 17015 Burbank Blvd., Encino. Saturday-Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to spectators. (310) 838-1444.

1 pm: Family

Mildred D. Taylor’s Newberry Award-winning book, “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” adapted for stage by ed shockley, is Serendipity Theatre Company’s newest youth theater offering at Burbank Little Theater. The drama, for ages 7 and up, is about a proud black Southern family’s triumph over racial violence and humiliation in rural Depression-era Mississippi.

* “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” Serendipity Theatre Company at Burbank Little Theatre, George Izay Park, 1100 W. Clark St., Burbank, Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 1 p.m.; Sundays, 1 and 4 p.m. Ends Feb. 8. $6-$12. (818) 557-0505, Ext. 2.

8 pm: Theater

English playwright-film director Mike Leigh’s gritty slice-of-life comedy-drama “Ecstasy,” about twentysomething working-class Brits, is presented by Roadworks Theatre Company of Chicago at the Odyssey Theatre.

* “Ecstasy,” Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A., Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m., except Jan. 25, Feb. 8, 2 p.m. only. $18.50-$22.50; Saturday opening, $25. (310) 477-2055.

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FREEBIE: Stories and crafts from West Africa for kids, Glendale Public Library, 2 p.m. (818) 548-2035.