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

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Coliseum Millennium Show Canceled: The Los Angeles Millennium Show, a family-oriented L.A. Coliseum program that had been billed as the city’s largest New Year’s Eve event, has been canceled because of poor advance ticket sales. “Our dreams and vision were greater than the dollars available to make it a reality,” executive producer Mark Poncher said Wednesday. An event spokeswoman said that only a “small number” of tickets had been sold, and though there were “big promises for group sales,” producers couldn’t go forward without the actual money in hand. The event was to have included a street festival with three entertainment stages as well as a show within the Coliseum featuring USC’s marching band, a 1,000-member choir, a midnight laser and fireworks show, and performances by Los Lobos and Howie Mandel. Ticket refunds are available through Ticketmaster.

Santana Tops Pop Chart: Santana’s comeback magic continues as “Supernatural” ascends this week to the top of the nation’s album chart, giving Carlos Santana’s veteran rock outfit its first No. 1 album since “Santana III” in 1971. However, the album sold only 170,000 copies last week, an unusually low number for the top spot. Creed, the Backstreet Boys, Lou Bega and Britney Spears round out the new Top 5, while the Garth Brooks pop music experiment “. . . In the Life of Chris Gaines” plummets 10 spots to No. 15. The strongest debut of the week was by the band 311, whose “Soundsystem” lands at No. 9.

Cash Hospitalized: Johnny Cash, 67, was listed in serious condition Wednesday in a Nashville hospital where he is being treated for pneumonia. Cash, who also suffers from Shy-Drager syndrome, a degenerative nerve disease, nearly died from pneumonia last fall. “He was readmitted on Sunday after spending several days here last week,” a hospital spokeswoman said. “He is not critical; his life is not in danger.”

Long Beach Expansion: For its 2000 season, Long Beach’s International City Theatre will present five--instead of four-- plays at the Center Theater, and will use 349 instead of 190 seats. The lineup of shows includes Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” (Feb. 11-March 6), the West Coast premiere of the Rodgers and Hart revue “Beguiled Again” (May 12-June 4), Matthew Witten’s “The Deal” (June 23-July 16), the West Coast premiere of the Laurence Klavan-Polly Pen musical “Bed and Sofa” (Sept. 1-24) and Joe Orton’s “Loot” (Nov. 10-Dec. 10, 2000).

QUICK TAKES

Emmet Miller has been named co-anchor of “KTLA Morning News: Early Edition,” joining Sharon Tay on the 5:30-7 a.m. weekday newscast. Miller joins KTLA from the Boston Fox affiliate. Carlos Amezcua, who had been co-anchoring the early-morning broadcast, will continue to do sports for the 5:30 a.m. newscast in addition to his regular 7 a.m. anchor job. . . . Early 1989 and 1990 Canadian recordings by pop-tinged country star Shania Twain, including experiments in arena rock and mainstream dance music, are available for free download through Oct. 30 at https://www.musicmaker.com. . . . Perhaps emboldened by the relative lack of damage done by last weekend’s 7.1 desert quake, ABC has scheduled an hourlong special, “World’s Deadliest Earthquakes,” for Nov. 6. . . . Touchstone Pictures will bring back Tim Burton’s 1993 stop-motion animated feature, “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” for a Halloween engagement at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre Oct. 29-31. . . . NBC has rescheduled “Mr. Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story,” which was preempted Sunday by baseball playoffs, for Oct. 31 at 9 p.m. However, the TV movie could get bumped yet again if the World Series stretches to seven games.