If mime premier Marcel Marceau wanted to shake things up after 50 years in show business, he’d sneak over to the Frank Sinatra Jr. concert and act out “The Lady Is a Tramp.” But Marceau would have less success mimicking these three celebrity appearances: “Angela’s Ashes” author Frank McCourt speaks at 8 p.m. Saturday at Dominican University Center Stage, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, $40, 708-524-6942; “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker is at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Glenbrook High School, 4000 W. Lake Ave., Glenview, $95, 847-459-1300; Chinese dissident poet Bei Dao reads at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Columbia College’s Conaway Performance Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., free, 312-344-8100. Marceau mimes at 7 p.m. Sunday at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 22nd Street between Lambert Road and Park Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, $42, 630-942-4000. Sinatra Jr. leads a 36-piece orchestra at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Arts Centre, 8 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora, $85, 630-264-7203.
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