10 “BUYER AND CELLAR”: New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco presents Jonathan Tolins’ funny and touching solo show starring J. Conrad Frank about a struggling actor who lands a job tending to Barbra Streisand’s famed underground private shopping mall (the shops really exist, the story is fiction). Details: In previews March 18-25, main run is March 26 through April 24; New Conservatory Theatre complex, San Francisco; $15-$30 (opening night gala is $40-$50); www.nctcsf.org.

Daytime events, Morning events will be at Memorial Park and will start with a pancake breakfast for early risers, The breakfast, hosted by the De Anza Optimist Club, will be at Quinlan Community Center, 10185 N, Stelling Road and will run from 7 to 11 a.m, The cost for adults is $8 for three pancakes, two sausages and coffee, hot chocolate, or tea, ballet shoes in target Children 12 and under can munch on two pancakes and one sausage for $5, Milk and hot chocolate will also be served, A flag raising ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m, at the Cupertino Veterans Memorial located in Memorial Park, At 10 a.m, a children’s parade will run through the park, beginning at the nearby softball field, Attendees are encouraged to wear red, white and blue outfits and decorate their bikes, scooters and strollers..

The show’s director is John McCluggage, who is a first-timer at City Lights but a well-known figure in South Bay theater. He was associate artistic director from 1989 to 2006 at San Jose Rep, where he founded the outreach-based Red Ladder Theater Company. Though he works a great deal in New England, McCluggage is often back in the South Bay. In the past couple years, he and Kramer have also worked together several times on ShakesBEERience, the beer-fueled staged readings of Shakespeare plays that take place quarterly at Cafe Stritch.

Ion Ficior, 90, He was incarcerated for the deaths of ballet shoes in target 103 political inmates while in charge of a communist-era labor camp in Romania, Sept, 26, Marty Balin, 76, A patron of the 1960s “San Francisco Sound” both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other bands performed, Sept, 27, Joe Masteroff, 98, The Tony Award-winning story writer of the brilliant, edgy musical “Cabaret” and the touching, romantic “She Loves Me.” Sept, 28..

While the cast lacks some of the nuance of previous incarnations, “Lion King” is buoyed by its dazzling use of puppetry, which ranges from Japanese Bunraku puppets to Indonesian shadow puppets. Certainly there have been plays that have explored the parameters of the art with more depth, such as “War Horse” and “The Wild Bride,” but no one has thrust puppetry more successfully into mainstream musical theater than Taymor. From the wildebeest stampede to the lioness ballet, the musical takes pains to personify the natural world so that each animal seems like a wondrous creation.