SPOTLIGHT

DONNY OSMOND AT THE CENTER

Forever he will be enshrined in memory as a teenage heartthrob. But

Donny Osmond is more than just the cute one of the Osmond Brothers, the

sibling of Marie. He’s a singer in his own right -- as his tour and

reviews a few years ago in the lead role of “Joseph and the Amazing

Technicolor Dreamcoat” will attest.

Osmond will be performing for one night, Saturday, at the Orange

County Performing Arts Center, giving fans a chance to catch his toothy

grin before he hits the road again.

The concert will feature songs from such Broadway shows as “Rent,”

“Jekyll & Hyde,” “Seussical the Musical,” “Whistle Down the Wind,”

“Riverdance” and “Guys and Dolls.” He will also sing numbers included on

his latest recording, “This Is The Moment.”

Who knows, maybe he’ll even pull out his “Soldier of Love” ditty from

the 80s.

FYI

Where: Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive,

Costa Mesa

When: 8 p.m. Saturday

Cost: $39.50-$59.50

Call: (714) 556-2787

Young players keep those wheels turning

SCR’S TEEN AND JUNIOR TEEN PLAYERS

South Coast Repertory’s Teen and Junior Teen Players will present two

public performances in June -- “The Wheels Keep Turning” and “The Weather

Started Getting Rough.” “Wheels,” which premieres Saturday, is the story

of a wheelchair-bound girl who goes back to the Middle Ages to find her

knight in shining armor. “Weather” finds Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”

relocated to “Gilligan’s Island.”

FYI

What: “The Wheels Keep Turning”

Where: SCR, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa

When: 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 4 p.m. June 3

Cost: $5

Call: (714) 708-5555

What: “The Weather Started Getting Rough”

When: 1 and 4 p.m. June 9 and 10

Where: SCR, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa

Cost: $5

Call: (714) 708-5555

PLANNING AHEAD

ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA

The Orange County Performing Arts Center will present Jamie-Lynn

Sigler of “The Sopranos” and Eartha Kitt in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s

“Cinderella.”

Tuesday, June 5, through Sunday, June 10

CITIZEN OF THE YEAR LUNCHEON

Newport Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce will tell us who they have

picked for Citizen of the Year.

Wednesday, June 13

NUMERICALLY SPEAKING

4: The number of theaters in Newport Mesa showing the film “Pearl

Harbor” over Memorial Day weekend.