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SANTA ANA

8pm

Pop Music

The Fenians return to the scene of the good time that results in their latest album, “Band of Rogues,” which the wide-ranging Irish band recorded live last fall at the Galaxy in Santa Ana.

* The Fenians, Galaxy Concert Theatre, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana. With Citizen Joe, Tamblyn. 8 p.m. $15-$17. (714) 957-0600.

BREA

8pm

Theater

The Marx Brothers aren’t the only ones to milk farcical humor out of a night at the opera. “Lend Me a Tenor,” by Ken Ludwig, aims for belly laughs as it brings that reliable old premise--the comedy of mistaken identity--to the operatic stage. An opera company in a second-tier city awaits the arrival of an Italian singing great, with the company’s fortunes riding on a successful evening. When the star tenor becomes unexpectedly indisposed, the comical improvisations begin.

* “Lend Me a Tenor,” by Ken Ludwig, presented by the Vanguard Theatre Ensemble at the Curtis Theatre, 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Through June 11. $5-$15. (714) 990-7722.

FULLERTON

8pm

Theater

The West Coast Ten-Minute Play Festival celebrates the theatrical equivalent of the sprint with “Six at Eight,” an evening of 10-minute plays. The program offers the three top prize winners in the O.C.-based competition’s seventh annual contest, along with three plays culled from the nation’s most prominent 10-minute play showcase, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky. The first-place winner, “Steel Springs,” is a war story with the ironic bite of a good episode of “The Twilight Zone.”

* “Six at Eight,” presented by the Vanguard Theatre Ensemble and the West Coast Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Vanguard Theatre, 699-A S. State College Blvd., Fullerton. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 5 p.m. Through June 18. $5-$15; $17 for opening night. (714) 526-8007.

NEWPORT BEACH

Dusk

Film

Going to the movies and languishing on the beach are two of the eternal memories of summer. Now, at the Newport Dunes Resort, you can do both at the same time. The “Family Flicks” series, in which films are screened on the sand, opens this weekend with two popular favorites: David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated “The Straight Story,” a true-life tale of a man who takes a cross-country voyage on his tractor, opens the series Friday, while Tim Burton’s classic fantasy “Beetlejuice,” about a newly dead couple who enlist an “exorcist ghost” to help scare off the new residents of their house, follows it the next night.

* “The Straight Story” (1999), Newport Dunes Resort, 1131 Backbay Drive, Newport Beach. Screening begins at dusk. Free, $7 for parking. “Beetlejuice” (1988) screens at dusk Saturday. (949) 729-3863.