The Arts on TV: Isabella Rossellini; ‘Forever Plaid’; auditions at the Met
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“Josh Groban Command Performance: 10 Years With Public Television” 8:30 p.m., Friday KOCE: A compilation of performances.
“Isabella Rossellini: My Wild Life” 12:30 p.m., Saturday Sundance: Profile of the artist.
“Forever Plaid” 7 p.m., Saturday KCET: The off-Broadway musical revue centers on four young male singers killed in a car crash on the way to their first major show; narrator David Hyde Pierce.
“Great Performances” 9 p.m., Saturday KOCE; 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., Sunday KOCE: Jackie Evancho: Dream With Me in Concert -- Jackie Evancho’s solo concert supports her first full-length album, “Dream With Me.”
“Great Performances at the Met” 2 a.m., Saturday KVCR: The Audition: Behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions.
“e2 Design” 9:30 a.m., Sunday Sundance: Architecture: Carbon neutral buildings by 2030.
“Soulful Symphony With Darin Atwater: Song in a Strange Land” Noon, Sunday KOCE: Artistic director Atwater conducts an 85-member orchestra in compositions exhibiting styles ranging through gospel, jazz and symphonic music.
“Movie: Room Service” *** (1938) 9:15 p.m., Monday TCM: The Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball. Broadway producers and their entourage hole up in a hotel, waiting for a sucker to back their play.
“Movie: Guys and Dolls” *** (1955) 10:30 p.m., Tuesday TCM: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons. A Broadway gambler bets that a Runyonesque high roller cannot take a sidewalk soul-saver on a date to Havana.
“Kathy Griffin: Gurrl Down!” 9 and 11 p.m., Wednesday Bravo: Before a live, sold-old out crowd at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston.
-- Compiled by Ed Stockly