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

POP MUSIC

No Show?: When tickets for KIIS-FM’s two Wango Tango concerts at Dodger Stadium go on sale today, one of the draws is Moby, who is listed third on the bill for the June 16 date, behind Ricky Martin and the Backstreet Boys. But Moby’s representatives say he won’t be there. “There was a miscommunication between Moby and the concert organizers,” a spokeswoman for the musician said. “Because he is involved in recording a new album, he never agreed to perform at Wango Tango.” Though a spokesman for Moby’s label, V2 records, said Friday that KIIS-FM has been informed that Moby won’t show, the station’s president, Roy Laughlin, said he hasn’t been notified. Laughlin cites a February letter from V2 saying the artist “will make himself available” for the show, and says he expects Moby to honor that letter. “We’ve advertised [names] based on that with every artist,” Laughlin said Friday. “We’ve done this for five years and never had a problem and we don’t expect to have one now.”

THEATER

Breaking the Barrier: Riding a $15-million advance sale and critical raves, producers of “The Producers” have decided to raise the show’s top ticket price from $91 to $100--the first time that a Broadway musical with an open-ended run has charged that much for most of its seats. That move gives the show, which opened Thursday night at Manhattan’s St. James Theater, a potential weekly gross of about $1.1 million. The production, based on the 1968 Mel Brooks movie, stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. According to the New York Times, Tom Viertel, one of the musical’s producers, chalked the price hike up to unexpectedly strong consumer demand, exorbitant fees charged by scalpers, the need to pay back investors and comparable prices charged for events such as the Metropolitan Opera and Knicks basketball games.

TELEVISION

Stuntman Update: Brian Carson, a stunt driver injured Tuesday during filming of a stunt for Fox’s “Titus,” was in serious but stable condition Friday and was expected to remain hospitalized for a few weeks with five broken ribs and other injuries. The exact cause of Carson’s injuries remains unknown. A 20th Century Fox spokesman said that, although Carson was found unconscious after the stunt was completed, the sequence went off as expected and the footage may still be used on the program.

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Just Kidding: Tom Green, who told “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno Wednesday that he and his wife, Drew Barrymore, were expecting their first child, has acknowledged that it isn’t true. “Jay and I were joking around and I thought the audience was in on it,” the director-star of the new release “Freddy Got Fingered” said in a prepared statement. “We are not pregnant now, but do hope to be blessed with children in the future.”

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Contestants’ Call: NBC’s newest hit, “Weakest Link”--the American version of the British game show hosted by Anne Robinson--is holding auditions for Los Angeles-area contestants at NBC Studios, 3000 W. Alameda Ave., in Burbank, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. RSVPs: (818) 520-6264. . . . Meanwhile, ABC is seeking players for its second season of the staged, unscripted series “The Mole.” An open-call audition is scheduled for April 28 at Cafe Tu Tu Tango at Universal CityWalk. Information: https://www.ABC.com.

ART

Lost and Found: The Miho Museum, a major new antiquities museum near Kyoto, Japan, has acknowledged that one of its masterpieces, a rare Buddhist statue from China, had been stolen from Shandong Province, China, in 1994. The New York Times reports that the museum, which bought the item from a London art dealer the following year, agreed to return the statue to the Chinese government without payment. Though museum officials decline to say how much they paid for the 6th century figure, it’s estimated to be worth about $830,000. Miho officials said the piece was stolen from a garden at a public building in Boxing, Shandong Province, but because a written report detailing the theft was lost, the piece was never placed on an international list of stolen articles. Four years later, scholars noticed the statue in the Miho catalog, which triggered an investigation.

QUICK TAKES

Clifton Oliver was replaced by understudy Alan Mingle Thursday night when he left the stage during the evening’s performance of “The Lion King” at the Pantages Theatre due to a stubbed toe. A spokeswoman for the show said Oliver’s injury was minor and he was expected to return to the musical Friday. . . . After four years as general manager of KCSN-FM (88.5), Rene Engel is leaving July 1 to become program director at jazz outlet KLON-FM (88.1). . . . Tickets go on sale Sunday at 10 a.m. for James Taylor’s Oct. 6 Hollywood Bowl show. . . . Although the promotional campaign for the tour of “Contact,” the hit musical playing at the Ahmanson Theatre June 29-Sept. 1, displays photos of the actors who appeared in the Broadway production, the cast here will be different. Holly Cruikshank will play the Girl in the Yellow Dress and Alan Campbell, co-star of the L.A. version of “Sunset Boulevard,” will take the role Boyd Gaines played in the original.