On The Town:

The place to be to exercise and socialize is Disco Night on a Friday night at the Glendale Curves on West Kenneth Road.

Last Friday evening’s Disco Night was no exception. Down came the daytime lights, up came the red and blue disco spotlights, pounding disco music and twirling disco ball. Owner Zovig Injejikian likes to have fun and makes sure her exercise patrons do, too. Glendale residents and Curves members Ritta Hovsepian, her niece Ashley Barsamian and Aida Kanchian let their hair down and discoed. Manager Arlene Artinian made sure their technique was strictly Curves-approved.

Disco Night was rolled out this summer and is popular with members. About 25 of them dropped in for disco. Other diversions while exercising are a putting green, tic-tac-toe game and collecting Curves Bucks, which can be traded for silent-auction merchandise like exercise bags and clothing.

This West Kenneth Curves is the only Curves in the surrounding communities open during the noon hour.

When Injejikian decided to buy it in June 2007, she said her husband warned her, “This isn’t like buying shoes, it’s a business.” Injejikian treats it like one, but has fun doing it.

A late summer night under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl had its share of surprises on Aug. 26. South Korean conductor Shi-Yeon Sung replaced an ailing Edo de Waart. Sung led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an all-German program of Wagner, Schumann and Brahms.

The bowl audience of 6,285 had a smattering of Glendale residents including Dex DuPont, Richard Sowby and yours truly. Chinese pianist Sa Chen, making her bowl debut like conductor Sung, made the piano’s tone glisten.

It helped that the bowl’s amplification system was on its best behavior.

The Pasadena Playhouse was the scene of a pre-Broadway tryout of “Vanities, A New Musical.” The tryout worked. “Vanities” has just been scheduled for a February 2009 opening date in New York.

Some Glendale residents who decided on a “staycation” instead of going out of town for the Labor Day weekend spent their Saturday afternoon at the playhouse.

They included David Rans and his mother, Sybil Rans. The Rans family saw the original, nonmusical version of “Vanities” in the 1970s and was curious to see how the play translated into a musical. They approved.