But at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Egan will be back at the Academic Arts Theatre – which, he says, was brand-new when he arrived on campus in 1981 – for “Cabaret for a Cause,” a benefit to raise money for future performing-arts students.

Tickets are $60 general admission and include a dessert reception. For $100, you get a reserved seat and a copy of Egan’s new CD “Count the Stars,” a charming mix of Broadway standards and songs you might have heard at the Egan home in Larchmont when the actor’s dad – a lawyer who called himself “a saloon singer” – started singing.

At WCC, Egan will be joined by Scarsdale’s Steven Silverstein at the piano, Paul Ivory on bass and, on drums, Joe Brady, who teaches music at Mamaroneck High School.

Egan says he’s likely to sing a medley from “The Producers,” in which he played Max Bialystock, the director Roger de Bris and the Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind. (Should be quite a medley.)

At the Academic Arts Theatre, 75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla. 914-606-6558.

Other noteworthy events this week:

• Penguin Rep hosts a screening of “Hats Off,” a documentary about 93-year-old actress Mimi Weddell, at 2 p.m. Friday at the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Rockland Community College. After the screening, Weddell will be on hand to answer questions and, no doubt, to recite her favorite maxim: “90 is the new 40.” Tickets are $12. 845-786-2873.

• Play On Productions presents “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” – with a cast of teachers and theatrical insiders – at Pelham Memorial High School this weekend. Directed by Neil Schleifer with musical direction by George Croom, the cast features: Mark Finegan (Pelham physical-education teacher) as Charlie Brown; Tom Beck (Pelham English teacher) as Snoopy; Joseph J. Egan (Pelham guest artist, set designer and Nyack High School’s director) as Linus; Katie Luekens Chan Chee (Pelham guest artist) as Lucy; Cindy Finegan as Sally; and George Croom as Schroeder. At 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. $10 in advance; $12 at the door. At Pelham Memorial High School Auditorium, 640 Colonial Ave., Pelham. 914-740-7076.

• Infinity Repertory Theatre Company in Bedford Hills presents “Notes from a Hospital Bed” a staging of the creative-writing output by patients at the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla – at 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $75. Proceeds will support the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department at the hospital. The performance will be preceded at 3 p.m. by a reception and silent auction. At The Pulse Performing Arts Studio’s Theater District, 196 Route 117 Bypass Road, Bedford Hills. Call 914-864-1880.

Let’s start with the kids. The tap-happy “42nd Street� plays North Salem High School this weekend only. Tickets are just $10 for the feel-good musical that includes such toe-tappers as “We’re in the Money� and “Lullaby of Broadway.� (914-669-5414) (Photo by Frank Becerra Jr.)

If you want something a little deeper, consider Richard Knipe Jr.’s memory play “Schooling Giacomo� at Garrison’s Philipstown Depot Theatre. It’s about a man whose daughter’s illness triggers a flood of memories from his Bronx childhood. It opens this weekend and runs through March 2nd, with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2. Tickets are $15. (845-424-3900) (Photo by George Petkanas)

How about a classic? Consider Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,� the story of the Salem witch hunts. The Schoolhouse Theater’s excellent production has transferred from Croton Falls to the Arclight Theater on West 71st Street in Manhattan for a four-week run. Tickets are $40, $35 for students and seniors. (212-352-3101 or www.TheaterMania.com.) (Photo by Ron Marotta)

Not up for a witchhunt? How about some Crickets? Starting next Thursday, you can check out “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,� the next offering at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford. The musical stars Pat McRoberts as the rocker from Lubbock, Texas whose death Don McLean called “the day the music died.� “Buddy� runs through April 19th. Tickets are $60 to $73 with a meal. (914-592-2222 or www.broadwaytheatre.com) (Photo courtesy Westchester Broadway Theatre)

Maybe murder’s your thing. If so, consider taking in the last weekend of the wickedly funny show “Murderers� at Mamaroneck’s Emelin Theater. Three actors, three monologues and a body count to rival “The Sopranos.� (914-698-0098 or www.emelin.org) (Photo by Adrien Goulet)

That’s what you’ll get to do on Feb. 9 in Stony Point, when “Dancing with the Stars” star Anna Trebunskaya lends her quick feet to Rockland Country Day School. Joining Trebunskaya will be “Dancing with the Starsâ€? guest performers Jose DeCamps and Joanna Zacharewicz and PBS’ “America’s Ballroom Challengeâ€? performers Pasha Pashkov and Inna Brayer.

The Valentine’s Ballroom Dance Benefit starts with dinner at 6 p.m. at the Clubhouse at Patriot Hills in Stony Point.

Afterwards, the audience gets up-close views of the stars doing the waltz, mambo, rumba, foxtrot, swing, tango and the cha-cha-cha. Then the fun begins, when people can bid on which star they’d like to dance with. (Organizers say no dance experience is needed; the stars, apparently, will lead.)

Proceeds from this event benefit Rockland Country Day School (RCDS) in Congers, whose alumni includes actress Tyne Daley. The event is open to the public and to students 10 years and older. Tickets are $150 to $300 each. For
more information and tickets call RCDS at 845-268-6802, ext. 202 or
visit rocklandcds.org.

So has he been burning the midnight oil on Library Lane, thinking and planning?

Nope.

He hasn’t had time.

Bush has been in Pittsburgh, mounting a production of “Murderers,” Jeffrey Hatcher’s laugh-out-loud comedy about three people who take lives in a Florida retirement community.

What he’s doing in Pittsburgh this fall will bear fruit in Westchester in the spring, when “Murderers,” which just received an excellent production from the Croton-on-Hudson-based Hudson Stage Company, comes to Mamaroneck. The woman playing Lucy in Pittsburgh, Jennifer Harmon, will reprise the role at the Emelin.

“Murderers” opened Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Yesterday, Bush came back to New York. Tomorrow, it’s time for “Theater in Concert.”

A busy week, to be sure.

Bush has said the festival will introduce his aesthetic to theatergoers in Westchester. He has called it a tasting menu of things he’s been involved in while working at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., where Bush is an artistic adviser and oversees the theater’s popular Cabaret and Performance Conference.

There’s cabaret in the festival and plenty of theater.

But don’t expect lavish sets.

“It’ll be a bare stage, with maybe the Steinway concert grand,” says Bush.

It’s not about the sets, he says. It’s about the work, which he guarantees will be of high artistic quality.

“If I can get them in the door, everyone will leave happy,” he says.

Some theatergoers haven’t been happy this week, with the strike by stagehands canceling performances.

Bush, ready to satisfy, is even trying to please those folks.

“I don’t want to sound like a carpetbagger, and say ‘Hey, you can’t go into New York, why not come to the Emelin?’ – because I’m a member of the league,” he says via phone from Pittsburgh.

“The situation is horrible no matter how you look at it, but I would say to anyone in Westchester, that there’s some really exciting stuff going on at the Emelin … ”

To make the point even finer, Bush says that if the strike extends into the weekend, he’ll offer patrons holding tickets to canceled Broadway shows a 50 percent discount at the Emelin.

“The people who are really suffering and have nothing to do with this standoff are the audiences,” Bush said. “It’s the least I can do for someone who was planning to go to the theater and because of the strike cannot,” he says.

The show goes on in Mamaroneck.

If you go
“Everyone Expects me to Write Another Streetcar” - Jeremy Lawrence as Tennessee Williams in a one-man show about the playwright in the 1970s. 8 p.m. Saturday ($35); 2 p.m. Sunday ($32).
“Try to Remember: A Look Back at Off-Broadway” - Rita Gardner from “The Fantasticks” reminisces. 8 p.m. Sunday ($35); 8 p.m. Nov. 28 ($35).
“Friends in Deed” - Emmy-winner and Tony-nominee Penny Fuller, straight from New York’s Metropolitan Room. 8 p.m. Nov. 23 ($35); 2 p.m. Nov. 25 ($32).
Joel Silberman in “Politics and Poker” and Gretha Boston in “Familiar Love” - Acclaimed pianist and award winning Cabaret singer Joel Silberman was Leonard Bernstein’s protege before becoming a political consultant; Gretha Boston celebrates her personal journey through musical theatre.Two fascinating shows on one bill. 8 p.m. Nov. 24 ($35); 5 p.m. Nov. 25 ($32).
“The Kleinbort Collection: Songs of Barry Kleinbort” - Penny Fuller, Rita Gardner and Karen Mason sing the theater songs of Barry Kleinbort. 8 p.m. Nov. 29 ($35); 8 p.m. Nov. 30 ($35).
“A Tribute to the Bluebird Cafe: The Sounds of Nashville” - Grammy-winner Marcus Hummon, Sherrie Austin, Roxy Dean and Don Henry sing country’s latest and greatest. 8 p.m. Dec. 1 ($35); 2 p.m. Dec. 2 ($32).
“Becoming Tennessee” - A staged reading of a world premiere musical about a young Tennessee Williams and his first visit to New Orleans, played by Brian Charles Rooney, featuring Gretha Boston and others. 2 p.m. Dec. 1 ($25); 5 p.m. Dec. 2 ($25).
“Emelin’s Broadway Cabaret” - Stars from the festival return to sing seasonal songs. 8 p.m. Dec. 6 ($40)

Packages: Combine any 4 shows and get a 10 percent discount; combine any 8 shows and get a 15 percent discount.

Call: 914-698-0098.

Web: www.emelin.org.

Coward’s comedy involves a man, his wife and the ghost of his first wife. There’s plenty of sleight of hand and supernatural hocus pocus afoot in this comedy.

All performances are at the Van Cortlandtville School on Route 6 in Mohegan Lake directly across from the Cortlandt Town Shopping Center.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. Call 914-528-4145.

“Blithe Spirit” stars husband and wife Robert J. D’Amato and Christine D’Amato of Yonkers as husband and wife Charles and Ruth Condomine. Charles is a writer working on a book about the occult. Before long, there’s a seance.

Also in the cast, Dawn Bernitt-Perito (Poughkeepsie), Danae MacDonald (Croton-on-Hudson), Tim Simonds (Garrison), Abby Jennings (Shrub Oak), and Carolin Schuetze (Pleasantville).

Karina Ramsey, of Millwood, makes her YCP TheaterWorks directorial debut with “Blithe Spirit.�

Pictured, from left, in a YCP TheaterWorks’ photo: Christine D’Amato, of Yonkers, Carolin Schuetze of Pleasantville and Robert J. D’Amato, of Yonkers.