ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

ARTS

Pageant Goes Vegas: Las Vegas was slated to get a taste of Orange County on Wednesday, when volunteers from the 66-year-old Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters were scheduled to re-create their famous living artworks for an employee-of-the-year dinner at the Strip’s Mirage hotel. Pageant narrator Skip Conover was to execute his usual duties with the help of a 39-piece orchestra, according to Pageant spokeswoman Mary Post, who said she believed the road show was the pageant’s first. The Mirage is owned by Mirage Resorts Inc., whose chairman, Steven Wynn, recently opened a gallery selling multimillion-dollar paintings and sculptures at his new Bellagio resort in Las Vegas. It was, however, Mirage president Mark Schorr, not Wynn, who requested the pageant show, a Mirage spokeswoman said.

MUSIC

New Orchestra Exec: Catherine M. Michaels, formerly executive director of the Children’s Museum at La Habra and managing director of the St. Joseph Ballet in Santa Ana, has been named managing director of the Mozart Classical Orchestra, effective immediately. Her position is funded partly from grants from the Clarence E. Heller Foundation in San Francisco and the California Arts Council. Her duties will include fund-raising for the Laguna Hills-based chamber orchestra, which was founded in 1985 by conductor Ami Porat.

POP/ROCK

Eurythmics Together Again: Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart are reuniting as the Eurythmics, with plans to release their first album together in 10 years this fall. Stewart and Lennox have been recording new material together over the last two months, and are planning a world tour after the album’s release.

Spears Stays on Top: Britney Spears cemented her second straight week at No. 1 on the nation’s album chart with a 26% surge in sales, according to SoundScan. The 17-year-old Spears sold 229,000 copies last week of her debut album, “ . . . Baby One More Time,” easily outpacing the No. 2 performer, the Offspring’s “Americana” (129,000 copies sold last week). The No. 1 single: Monica’s “Angel of Mine.”

Something Rotten on VH1: Former Sex Pistols leader Johnny Rotten will host pre- and post-show Grammy Awards specials Wednesday on cable’s VH1. VH1 called the stint a “test” for Rotten, who will get a weekly magazine-style show on the network later this year.