8 pm: Movie

“Around the World in 80 Days” caused quite a stir when it won the Academy Award for best picture of 1956, beating out John Ford’s “The Searchers” and George Stevens’ epic “Giant.” Still, the Mike Todd-produced super-spectacle version of the Jules Verne tale is an entertaining travelogue with more celebrity cameos than you can count, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich, John Gielgud, Buster Keaton and Peter Lorre among them.

* “Around the World in 80 Days,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach. 8 p.m. $5. (562) 985-7000.

8 pm: Music

The Pacific Symphony hosts the internationally successful American soprano Deborah Voigt in twin concerts this weekend. Voigt will sing R. Strauss’ Four Last Songs and arias by Verdi. In addition, the orchestra, conducted by Carl St.Clair, will give the world premiere of the first of two works commissioned from its resident composer, Richard Danielpour, and called “The Night Rainbow.” At 6 p.m. Friday, there will be a singles’ event prior to the concert, “Classic Encounters for Singles,” at the nearby Westin South Coast Plaza.

* The Pacific Symphony, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 8 p.m. Also Saturday at 8 p.m. $18 to $50. For tickets and information on the singles’ event: (714) 755-5799.

8 pm: Theater

Arte Johnson plays the Supreme Being in “The Nightingale and the Rose,” Stefan Rudnicki’s new drama based on romantic short stories and poetry by Oscar Wilde, which is set at a private New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City.

* “The Nightingale and the Rose,” Knightsbridge Theatre, Braley Building, 35 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Fridays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, noon. Also Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Ends Feb. 14. $18. (626) 440-0821.

8, 9:30 & 11 pm: Jazz

The opening of a new jazz venue is always an event and this one holds special promise. Vocalist-photographer Jim Britt, one of the founding members of the revered Jazz Bakery, has joined with restaurant owner Rick Clemente to open the Jazz Spot, an intimate room inside Clemente’s new restaurant, Los Feliz (at the site of the old Los Feliz Inn). The 70-seat space with its 9-foot Yamaha grand piano and Britt’s oversized photos of jazz greats adorning its walls, premieres with pianist John Wood’s trio tonight with Britt himself joining the trio Saturday. Future weeks will feature pianists Gerald Wiggins and Jon Mayer, singer Julie Kelly and a special visit from saxophonist Plas Johnson on Jan. 28 and 29.

* John Wood Trio, the Jazz Spot, Los Feliz, 2138 Hillhurst Ave. 8, 9:30 and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. $10 cover, no minimum. (323) 666-8666.

8 pm: Dance

In its 10th anniversary season, the Fountain Theatre is moving its acclaimed dance series from its intimate Hollywood home to a larger stage and auditorium at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. First attraction: “Herencia Flamenca” (Flamenco Heritage), featuring dancer Yolanda Arroyo and her guitarist husband, Paco Arroyo, both familiar from the Fountain’s “Embrujo de Espana” and “Fuego Flamenco” productions. Guest artists include flutist Pedro Eustache, along with singers Jesus (“El Genio Gitano”) Montoya and Charo Monge. Past reviews in these pages have especially appreciated Yolanda Arroyo’s “dazzling sharpness,” calling her solos “something wild, sensual and elegant.”

* “Herencia Flamenca,” Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown Los Angeles. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. $24 to $30. (323) 663-1525.

all day: Movies

Two hallmarks of erotic, sophisticated and intelligent cinema--”Last Tango in Paris” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”--will screen at the New Beverly Cinema for two days. Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 “Last Tango” stars Marlon Brando as an American living in France who enters into an intense and anonymous sexual relationship with a beautiful stranger (Maria Schneider). This famous film, which was spectacularly shot by Vittorio Storaro, is still a shocker. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is director Philip Kaufman’s stunning film adaptation of the Milan Kundera novel (Kaufman co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carriere) about a trio of lovers (Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin, Juliette Binoche) set against the backdrop of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

* “Last Tango in Paris” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd. Friday: “Last Tango in Paris,” 7:30 p.m., “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” 9:55 p.m. Saturday: “Last Tango in Paris,” 4 and 9:35 p.m., “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” 12:50 and 6:25 p.m. $3 to $6. (323) 938-4038.

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FREEBIES: World music instruments from the UCLA department of ethnomusicology are on display at the Edmund D. Edelman Hollywood Bowl Museum, 2301 N. Highland Ave., L.A. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (323) 850-2058.

Pianist Terry Trotter’s trio with bassist Tom Warrington and drummer Joe LaBarbera appears at LACMA, 5900 Wilshire Blvd. 5:30-8:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.