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7:30 pm

Pop Music

More and more, it seems, writers who want to describe the excesses, cliches and absurdities of the ‘70s-vintage hard-rock world are reduced to just two words: “Spinal Tap.” The titular subject of Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary, the hapless headbangers have endured beyond the screen, and fiction turns flesh once again as the quartet headlines the Greek Theatre. O.C. fans anxious to hear the group crank it to 11 will want to remember that Spinal Tap’s show originally scheduled for Wednesday at the Sun Theatre in Anaheim has been postponed to July 15.

* Spinal Tap, with the Folksmen, Greek Theatre, 2700 Vermont Canyon Road, 7:30 p.m. $25 to $58.50. (213) 480-3232.

8pm

Pop Music

There aren’t many 86-year-old guitar heroes around, but Les Paul more than qualifies--after all, his name is virtually synonymous with the solid-body electric guitar, which he invented in the 1940s. He can play the thing too, and sparks figure to fly when the Wizard of Waukesha is joined onstage by such disciples as Dave Edmunds, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Eric Sardinas.

* Les Paul, House of Blues, Anaheim, 1530 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, 8 p.m. $40. (714) 778-2583. Also Saturday, House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 9 p.m. $40. (323) 848-5100.

8pm

Theater

You’ve seen the movie, now see the play: “Rear Window” moves from the screen to the ultra-intimate stage of the Hunger Artists Theater. Melissa Petro, the company’s artistic director, has adapted and directed this new take on Hitchock’s classic comic thriller, now retitled “Voyeur.” The 1954 original starred Jimmy Stewart as a laid-up photographer who spends his time spying on neighbors through his zoom lens; Grace Kelly was his girlfriend and Raymond Burr the bloody-minded villain. The Hunger Artists are keeping the 1950s setting for their adaptation, but they still aim for contemporary resonance at a time when the technology for snooping and privacy invasion has gone far beyond the zoom lens.

“Voyeur,” Hunger Artists Theater, 204 E. 4th St., Suite I, Santa Ana. Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 p.m., Sundays 7:30 p.m. Also Monday, June 18, 8:30 p.m. Ends June 24. $10-$12. (714) 547-9100.