7:30 pm: Pop Music
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Blame it on the Boys. Britney, Christina, ‘N Sync, LFO, 98 Degrees, B*Witched and all the other current teen-pop hit-makers owe a cut from their royalties to Nick, Howie, Brian, AJ and Kevin, the guys who made the charts safe for adolescence. Are the originals still the greatest? The fans voted resoundingly when the Backstreet Boys’ entire 39-city North American tour sold out in about an hour.
* Backstreet Boys, today and Friday at the Arrowhead Pond, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 7:30 p.m. Sold out. (714) 704-2500. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Great Western Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood, 7 p.m. Sold out. (310) 419-3100.
8 pm: Theater
Famed female impressionist Jim Bailey plays Tallulah Bankhead, former MGM musical star Betty Garrett plays Bankhead’s best friend, and George Tovar plays Tennessee Williams in “Tallulah and Tennessee,” by Charles Rome Smith.
* “Tallulah and Tennessee,” Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles. Thursdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Ends Nov. 7. $15. (888) 551-WEST.
8 pm: Music
Esa-Pekka Salonen began his eighth year as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this month. Tonight he launches the orchestra’s winter subscription season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the group’s 81st season. The program features the music of Mahler, starting with the composer’s rarely heard movement, “Blumine,” and concluding with the First Symphony. In between, the distinguished veteran baritone Jose van Dam will sing the five “Ruckert” songs.
* The L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles, 8 p.m. $15 to $70. Also, 8 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. (213) 365-3500.
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FREEBIE: The CalArts School of Dance has an open-house concert in Theatre II, CalArts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, 6 p.m. (661) 253-7832.
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