BEST BETS / Saturday 7/8

2 & 7pm Music

Still tickling the ivories and his listeners’ sensibilities after all these years, pianist-entertainer Victor Borge--who was born in Denmark in 1909--is now concluding a 12-city tour that began in Carnegie Hall in May and includes two shows at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

* Victor Borge, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos. 2 and 7 p.m. $47 to $57. (800) 300-4345.

7:30pm

Theater

In “The Show Goes On, a Portfolio of Theatre Songs,” Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, creators of “The Fantasticks,” which just celebrated its 40th year in New York, headline in the West Coast premiere of the musical revue of their work. The show features “Try to Remember,” “My Cup Runneth Over” and many other standards from the team’s career.

* “The Show Goes On, a Portfolio of Theatre Songs,” Laguna Playhouse at Moulton Theatre, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends July 30. $40 to $45. (949) 497-ARTS.

8pm

Pop Music

While the stage musical based on his life continues at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, the real Randy Newman goes about his business of amusing the masses. Do you suppose he’ll add Manhattan Beach Boulevard to the litany of thoroughfares in “I Love L.A.”?

* Randy Newman, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Redondo Beach. 8 p.m. $38.50 and $45. (310) 406-8838.

8pm

Theater

“Harold and Maude,” Colin Higgins’ adaptation of his 1971 cult film about a melancholy young man obsessed with funerals and an 80-year-old free spirit, opens at Theatricum Botanicum. Ellen Geer, who had a memorable impact as one of Harold’s computer dates in the film, plays Maude.

* “Harold and Maude,” Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. Saturdays at 8 p.m. through July 22; Sundays at 7:30 p.m. through Sept. 24; also Saturdays at 4 p.m. Sept. 9-30. Ends Sept. 30. $13 to $20. (310) 455-3723.

8pm & 5:30pm

Theater

Two world premiere plays by noted Los Angeles playwright Lynn Manning open at different venues this weekend: Watts Village Theater Company’s production of “The Last Outpost,” a seriocomic look at post-riot race relations set in a mid-Wilshire cocktail lounge; and “Weights,” an autobiographical tour through South-Central L.A. presented by the Mark Taper Forum’s Taper, Too series.

* “The Last Outpost,” Watts Village Theater Company at Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown L.A. Fridays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m., through July 30. $15. (213) 485-1681.

* “Weights,” Taper, Too at Actors’ Gang, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Mondays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 5:30 p.m., through July 17. $20. (213) 628-2772.

8:30pm

Music

Celebrating its 200th performance, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by its founding leader, John Mauceri, hosts two of Broadway’s most successful singing stars, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, in “An Evening of Song” at the outdoor amphitheater.

* Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald sing with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, 2701 N. Highland Ave. 8:30 p.m. $5 to $70. (323) 850-2050.

Freebie

Renowned political satirist Mort Sahl performs as part of the Beverly Hills Summer Arts Festival 2000’s “Plaza Sweets” series at Beverly Hills Civic Center Plaza, Rexford Avenue just south of Santa Monica Boulevard, 8 p.m. (310) 285-1045.