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Music

Closing the 78th Hollywood Bowl summer season, John Mauceri and his Hollywood Bowl Orchestra put on their “Party of the Century” to celebrate the millennium. Guest stars appearing with the orchestra will include Alan Cumming, performing excerpts from “Cabaret”; veteran movie dancer Ann Miller; Welsh vocal prodigy Charlotte Church; and comedian Lea DeLaria. This celebration will go on for three nights, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., $3 to $100. (323) 850-2000.

Theater

Ellen Geer directs Shakespeare’s comedy about misguided husbands, young love, old jealousies and a well-deserved comeuppance as “The Merry Wives of Windsor” closes Sunday at the Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, 4 p.m. $12 to $17. (310) 455-3723.

B.J. Ward returns with her breezy primer on all things operatic in “Stand-Up Opera,” closing Sunday at the Tiffany Theater, 8532 Sunset Blvd. Today-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 5 p.m. $25 to $30. (310) 289-2999.

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Museums

Two exhibitions focusing on the art that shaped the success of British stage actress Sarah Siddons will close Sunday. “Cultivating Celebrity: Portraiture as Publicity in the Career of Sarah Siddons” finishes its run at the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Today-Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Adults, $8.50; seniors, $8; students 12-18, $6; children under 12, free. (626) 405-2141. “A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists” will also close Sunday at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles. Today and Friday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission free; reservations required: (310) 440-7300.

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