7pm: Pop Music

With Marilyn Manson’s theatrics and Courtney Love’s antics, the high-profile Manson-Hole tour rolls into the Southland like an underground-rock mutation of the Ringling Bros. circus parade. And don’t forget potent opener Monster Magnet (see story, Page 30).

* Marilyn Manson, Hole and Monster Magnet, Arrowhead Pond, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 7 p.m. $35. (714) 704-2500. Also Sunday at the Great Western Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood, 7 p.m. $35. (310) 419-3100; Tuesday at the San Diego Sports Arena, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., San Diego, 7 p.m. $29.50. (619) 225-9813.

8pm: Irish Cabaret

Just in time for the coming St. Paddy’s holiday, Doyle’s Irish Cabaret takes a break from its 20-year run at Dublin’s Burlington Hotel to make a pair of emerald appearances in Southern California. The Celtic Sons, singers Paul Hennessey and Anarine McAllister, the Mae Cream Dancers and comedian Noel V. Ginnity headline this shamrockin’ event.

* Doyle’s Irish Cabaret, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Ceritos. $29 to $44. Also Sunday, 2 p.m., at Bridges Auditorium, Claremont Colleges, 4th Street at College Way, Claremont. $17 to $27; seniors and Claremont students and staff, $14 to $23. (909) 621-8032.

all day: Festivals

Leave it to the same people who brought you green beer to start partying five days early. Both Pasadena and Hermosa Beach will hold their St. Patrick’s Day festivities this weekend. Pasadena’s two-day festival starts Saturday at Memorial Park, with a parade on Sunday. Hermosa Beach’s parade is Saturday with festival to follow.

* Pasadena St. Patrick’s Day festival in Memorial Park, 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; parade at noon Sunday starting at City Hall and marching down Holly and Raymond streets. (626) 791-9893. Hermosa Beach parade Saturday starting at City Hall, 11 a.m., heading down Pier and Hermosa avenues. Festival on Hermosa Avenue between 14th and 10th streets. (310) 374-1365.

8pm: Theater

The well-regarded Road Theatre Company premieres John Rafter Lee’s drama “Hitler’s Head,” an exploration of art and responsibility as a sculptor is in a Berlin jail cell in 1945, awaiting his American interrogators and facing the moral implications of his decisions to remain above politics.

* “Hitler’s Head,” Road Theatre Company, 5108 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. Dark March 21 and April 2 to 4. Ends May 9. $15. (818) 761-8838.

8pm: Pop Music

For more than 25 years, vocal foursome Manhattan Transfer--Janis Siegel, Cheryl Bentyne, Alan Paul and Tim Hauser--have brought hip sophistication and velvety harmonies to pop and jazz tunes. Lately, they’ve been applying their brand of vocalese to swing and dance music, often with touches of Nashville, turning “King Porter Stomp” into an aerobic exercise.

* Manhattan Transfer, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. $29 to $54. (805) 449-2787.

8pm: Theater

Husband-and-wife acting-writing team, Academy and Emmy Award nominees Renee Taylor (“The Nanny”) and Joe Bologna wrote and star in “If You Ever Leave Me . . . I’m Going With You,” their autobiographical comedy spanning their 30-year stage and film collaboration. It ranges from their courtship and wedding reception on “The Merv Griffin Show” to scenes from such Broadway, off-Broadway and film comedies as “It Had to Be You” and “Lovers and Other Strangers.”

* “If You Ever Leave Me . . . I’m Going With You,” Can~on Theatre, 205 N. Can~on Drive, Beverly Hills, Saturdays, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m.; Mondays, 8 p.m. Ends April 26. $40 to $45.

Freebies

Storyteller Milbre Burch, and the Art of the Dance Academy perform “A Tap of the Toe and a Wag of the Tongue: Irish Dance and Story” at 24th Street Theatre, 1117 W. 24th St., 1 p.m. (213) 745-6516.

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The Tournament of Gems will feature 40 display cases full of lapidary, silver-smithing and jewelry art, San Marino Masonic Temple, 3130 Huntington Drive., San Marino, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (626) 797-2953. Also Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.