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7:30 pm: Movies

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Eight choice films will screen in various Westwood Village Mann Theaters as part of the fourth annual “Westwood Village Classic Film Festival.” This year’s lineup: “It Happened One Night” (1934), “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940), “Rebel Without a Cause” (1953), “The Graduate” (1967), “MASH” (1970), “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Saturday Night Fever” (1977) and “Pulp Fiction” (1994). The screenings are free, but here’s the catch: all the films screen simultaneously, so you can only pick one. Decision, decisions. . . .

* Westwood Village Classic Film Festival, various Mann Theaters, Westwood Village. See schedule, Page XX. Free. Reservations (310) 824-6365.

8 pm: Theater

Dorian Harewood, Christine Ebersole and Peter Scolari headline in the 1954 Richard Adler-Jerry Ross-George Abbott classic “The Pajama Game,” as Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert launches its second season of semistaged musicals.

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* “The Pajama Game,” UCLA’s Freud Playhouse (parking in Lot 3), Westwood, tonight-Saturday and May 12-16, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Ends May 17. $45-$50.

8 pm: Theater

“Chicago--the Musical,” the sexy, ‘20s-era Tony Award-winning hit about a woman who kills her boyfriend makes two local stops on its national tour. With Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, Charlotte d’Amboise as murderous chorus girl Roxie, Jasmine Guy as her rival, Velma, Brent Barrett as slick lawyer Billy Flynn and Ron Orbach as hapless husband Amos. (Alan Thicke plays Flynn in the Orange County Performing Arts Center run.)

* “Chicago--the Musical,” Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays (through June 14), 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m.; also Thursday matinees June 18, June 25, July 2, 2 p.m. Ends July 5. $25-$70. (213) 628-2772. Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, July 7-11, 8 p.m.; July 12, 7:30 p.m.; July 11-12, 2 p.m. $21-$52.50. (714) 740-7878, (213) 365-3500.

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