As the search for missing Escondido teenager Amber Dubois stretches into its seventh week, her family has announced plans for a fund-raising concert this weekend in Kit Carson Park.

Several local teen bands will perform from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday in the Escondido park's amphitheater. Admission will be free, but donations will go toward the search effort for the 14-year-old, who disappeared without a trace on her way to school Feb. 13.

Visit bringamberhome.com or call (760) 743-7343.

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North Coast Repertory Theatre has announced its 2009-10 season, and it features a world premiere, two San Diego premieres, two Pulitzer Prize winners, two musicals and a Shakespearean collaboration with MiraCosta College.

The season begins Sept. 2 with the local premiere of the off-Broadway hit "I Love You Because," a modern-day musical retelling of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," by Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham. It runs through Sept. 27.

Next up is "Talley's Folly," Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1980 drama about an unlikely couple who find long-delayed happiness in WWII-era Missouri, running Oct. 18-Nov. 8.

For the third year in a row, Jacqueline Goldfinger's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" will be presented (as a non-season extra) Dec. 9-27.

"Glorious," a comedy by Peter Quilter, subtitled "The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World," will have its San Diego premiere on Jan. 13, 2010. Rosina Reynolds (director of this season's hit farce "Don't Dress for Dinner") helms the play about the real-life 1940s sensation, which runs through Feb. 7.

The world premiere of Goldfinger's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel "Little Women" runs Feb. 17-March 14, 2010. It will be directed by Kirsten Brandt, the former artistic chief of San Diego's Sledgehammer Theatre.

The next season slot is filled with Henrik Ibsen's classic "Ghosts," starring Rosina Reynolds, running April 7-May 10. This is followed by John Olive's "The Voice of the Prairie," running May 26-June 20, 2010. It's the story of a 1920s raconteur who makes his mark on a Central Plains radio station.

The season's final slot in July 2010 will be filled with the San Diego premiere of an as-yet unannounced Tony-winning musical.

Also scheduled for a season extra is William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," starring Vista actor Jonathan McMurtry as Prospero. The play is being co-produced with MiraCosta College and will be presented at MiraCosta with reduced ticket prices for North Coast Rep subscribers.

Call (858) 481-1055 or visit www.northcoastrep.org.

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Producers of the reality romance TV series "The Bachelor" are on the hunt for new guys, this time without the matinee idol looks, for an upcoming series called "Big Heart."

The series is seeking "large and lovable" single men who don't mind dating women with curves. Although no local auditions are scheduled, applicants can submit a video to the casting directors. Find details online at kasstinginc.com.

Oh, and if you do happen to have washboard abs and movie-star good looks, the producers are still looking for a star for their 14th season of "The Bachelor."

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"The 39 Steps," the Broadway smash based on the Alfred Hitchcock film thriller, will be part of the La Jolla Playhouse's 2009-10 season.

The Tony-winning whodunit British comedy, featuring four actors playing more than 150 zany characters, will replace the season's previously announced Page to Stage production of "The Hudsucker Proxy." Artistic director Christopher Ashley said that economic conditions make it too costly to produce the "Hudsucker" workshop, and by eliminating the Page to Stage production, he can make room for "39 Steps," which will run Aug. 11-Sept. 13.

Although "The Hudsucker Proxy" is out for this season, it isn't dead. "The project is still very much alive, and we sincerely hope to bring it back during a future Playhouse season, when we can give it the full treatment it deserves," Ashley said in a statement.

Although there will be no Page to Stage production next season, Ashley announced that two new plays will be produced through its The Edge program for more adventurous work.

Master puppeteer Basil Twist, creator of the Playhouse's "Peter and Wendy" a few years ago, will return with "Dogugaeshi," a play that blends Japanese dogugaeshi puppet theater technique (where sliding screens create different landscapes and images) with other theatrical techniques and live music on the shamisen (a Japanese string instrument). It will run June 10-14.

The second Edge production, running Sept. 8-13, will be "Hoover: Tanned, Rested and Ready to Rock" by Sean Cunningham with songs by Michael Friedman. Created by Les Freres Corbusier theater troupe, it's the story of the disgraced and long-dead U.S. president Herbert Hoover attempting an Elvis-style TV rock concert comeback.

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Tuesday was Ralph Bryan Day in San Diego, an honor bestowed by the city and county of San Diego upon the board chairman of La Jolla Playhouse.

Bryan was honored for helping the Playhouse finish its seven-year, $40 million capital campaign and other fundraising efforts. Bryan, who has served on the Playhouse board for the past eight years, is the managing director of investments for Bryan-Billauer-Kozo, an asset management group of Wells Fargo Advisers based in La Jolla.

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The Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation is offering $750 performing arts scholarships to graduating high school seniors this month. The scholarships are named for John Steiger, a longtime Oceanside Realtor and onetime councilman who died last year at age 88.

Deadline is April 20 to submit by mail an application packet that includes a typed, 1- to 2-page application with contact information, a list of performing arts course work and extracurricular arts experience, future educational and career goals, how the scholarship will benefit the student and why they deserve it, as well as a letter of recommendation from their high school arts teacher and a 5-minute (or less) performance video or CD. Mail it to Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation, P.O. Box, 3054, Oceanside, CA 92051. For quetions, e-mail Eliane Weidauer at meliane@cox.net.

Pam Kragen is the arts editor of the North County Times.