"As You" can see

This summer's "IT" Shakespeare play -- as you might have guessed from this posting's not too subtle heading, appears to be "As You Like It."

The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum has one up and running with Geer company mainstay Wilow Geer as Rosalind. That one will figures to be traditionally staged since most the company's Bard plays are. Performances are Sundays at 3 p.m. through Sept. 28. (310) 455-3723, www.theatricum.com.

Come to learn that the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival on the campus of Cal Lutheran will open their summer season with "As You" set in the 1970s and featuring Shakespeare's lyrics set to the tunes of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin. It opens the 27th and runs through July 13.

Both sites are outdoors.

There might be one more, although this one right now is nothing more than a program tease.

Christine Lakin, who has worked in several shows with the Troubadour Theater Co. has put in her program bio for "Dog Sees God" (currently at the Hudson Backstage. Oh, and see it) that she'll appear in the Troubies' "As U2 Like It" in August of 08 at the Falcon Theatre.

OK, that production -- if it will in fact exist -- is not mentioned on either the Troubadour Website (www.troubie.com), nor the Falcon's (www.falcontheatre.com). Doesn't mean it's not happening. Just means if it is, they haven't confirmed it yet.

If "As U2 Like It" -- which would, duh, superimpose the music of U2 onto "As You Like It" -- does come to the Falcon, it will likely fall into rotating repertory with the Troubies' summer sequel: "Alice in One Hit Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass." Folks who came to last year's "One Hit Wonderland" may remember Lewis Carroll's tale positively infested with the music of one-hit wonders. "Through the Looking Glass" begins previews July 17 and runs through Oct. 12 which means the Falcon will have no difficulty filling seats for the next few months. Fall (818) 955-8101 for tix.

Lakin, BTW, played Alice. Since she's in "Dog Sees God" through July 6, I'm figuring she won't be available to put on the pinafore again.