all day: Leisure

More than 2 million postcards, cigar labels, valentines, autographs, posters, prints, travel brochures and other paper collectibles will be on display at the San Gabriel Valley Postcard & Paper Collectibles Show in Arcadia. Free appraisals of all old collectibles are included with the price of admission.* San Gabriel Valley Postcard & Paper Collectibles Show, Masonic Lodge, 50 W. Duarte Road, Arcadia, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $5 for both days. (626) 287-6066.

7 pm: Family

The Cashore Marionettes, Joseph Cashore’s remarkably fluid and expressive creations--Maestro Janos Zelinka, Old Mike, who digs through trash to the tune of Aaron Copland’s “Corral Nocturne”; a mother and baby, a horse named Cyclone and more--perform “Simple Gifts,” a series of funny and poignant vignettes set to classical music. The evocative show is recommended for adults and children ages 6 and up.* “Simple Gifts,” Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, 7 p.m. $15, adults; $12, children. (805) 650-9688, (805) 646-8907.

8 pm: Theater

Angela Lansbury, Carol Channing and Bernadette Peters head a star-studded tribute to Broadway icon Jerry Herman in “Tap Your Troubles Away: The Words & Music of Jerry Herman.” The S.T.A.G.E. too Production, a benefit for the Actors’ Fund of America, will also present Herman with its Hedda Harrigan Logan Award. The big star-studded cast, performing songs from such shows as “Mame,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “La Cage Aux Folles,” also includes Tyne Daly, Nancy Dussault, Jason Graae, Andrea Marcovicci, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Rita Moreno and many, many other stage veterans.

* “Tap Your Troubles Away: The Words & Music of Jerry Herman,” Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Drive, L.A., 8 p.m. $30-$100; VIP tickets (with post-show party), $250. (323) 933-9266, Ext. 54.

8 pm: Theater

Oliver Mayer (“Blade to the Heat”) examines American identity at a wartime crossroads of race, patriotism and music as boxing legend Joe Louis and jazz artists reveal their aches and dreams in “Joe Louis Blues,” set in a 1940s Harlem jazz club.* “Joe Louis Blues,” Tiffany Theater, 8532 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Ends Dec. 23. $32-$37.50. (310) 289-2999.

8 pm: Comedy

After the Sept. 11 attacks, while most comedians were keeping a low profile, Bill Maher was out there with his friends and enemies on the late-night ABC show “Politically Incorrect,” letting all his opinions hang out. His comments, which often provoke debate even in peacetime, drew the ire of White House officials in the days after the attack. Love him or hate him, Maher calls it as he sees it, so expect no-holds-barred comedy and commentary during his appearance in Long Beach.* Bill Maher, Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach, 8 p.m. $30-$35. (562) 985-7000.

8 pm: Theater

A woman with amnesia is being tended by a doctor in a white-tiled, windowless room--but is he really a doctor? Is she really in a hospital? [Inside] the Ford’s “Hot Properties” series of world premiere plays, fostered by A.S.K. Theater Projects, launches with the Evidence Room’s production of “Delirium Palace,” Gordon Dahlquist’s metaphysical thriller.

* “Delirium Palace,” [Inside] the Ford, John Anson Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, Thursdays through Satur-days, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Also Wednesday, 8 p.m. Dark Nov. 22. Ends Dec. 16. $15-$20. (323) 461-3673.

7 pm: Music

British conductor Sir David Willcocks leads the Los Angeles Festival of Children’s Choirs--Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Robles Children’s Choir, the Paulist Choristers and the South Bay Children’s Choir--in his own composition, “The Glories of Shakespeare,” at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. More than 200 young people will participate.

* Los Angeles Festival of Children’s Choirs, Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 7 p.m. $5-$10. (626) 793-4231.

7 pm: Pop Music

The bad news is that the third annual Family Values Tour scales back some of the genre-jumping of its first two rounds, with no more hip-hop or electronica to temper the rock barrage. The good news: Stone Temple Pilots, Staind and Linkin Park are some of rock’s most intriguing entries.

* Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Linkin Park, Static-X, Deadsy, Arrowhead Pond, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 7 p.m. $42.50. Sold out. (714) 704-2500.

Freebies

* “PXL This Eleven,” featuring videos of all genres made with a PXL-2000 toy camera, will screen at the Midnight Special Bookstore, 1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7 and 9 p.m. (310) 393-2923.

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* Roberto Cani plays Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Burbank Philharmonic, with Steven Kerstein conducting, in the Hall of Liberty, Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Burbank, 7:30 p.m. (818) 848-8841.