BEST BETS Friday 2/9

FULLERTON

8pm

Theater

In the words of its author, Tennessee Williams, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” aims to “catch the true quality of experience in a group of people, that cloudy, flickering, evanescent--fiercely charged!--interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis.” Alcoholism, homosexuality, greed, marriages turned loathsome and lies, lies and more lies are the stuff of this 1955 play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and later was made into a film starring Burl Ives as the dying Big Daddy, Paul Newman as his alcohol-benumbed son Brick, and Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie the Cat, the life force who keeps on clawing.

* “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” produced by A Noise Within, Plummer Auditorium, 201 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton. $20 to $25. (714) 278-3371.

ANAHEIM

8pm

Pop Music

The Knitters--the moonlighting roots-folk project started by members of X and the Blasters--rubbed shoulders with blues-rock bassist Lee Rocker last summer at the annual Hootenanny Festival. Now they’re teaming for what should be an evening of slap-happy primal rock, blues and country music Friday at House of Blues.

* The Knitters, Lee Rocker, House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim. 8 p.m. $23.50. (714) 778-2583.

LAGUNA HILLS

8pm

Music

Catrin Finch, recently appointed to a two-year post as Royal Harpist to The Prince of Wales, will be among the soloists of this “Young Stars of the Future” program by the Aliso Viejo Symphony led by Barry Silverman. A native of Llanon, Wales, Finch will play Debussy’s “Danses sacree et profane.” Four winners of the orchestra’s second annual soloists competition also will appear. The four were selected from an initial field of 31 applicants.

* Aliso Viejo Symphony, Lake Hills Church, 23331 Moulton Parkway, Laguna Hills. 8 p.m. $15 to $18. ($8 student rush ticket one-half hour before concert starts.) (714) 731-8079.