Newsday from New York, New York • 114

By Kaplan CM 10 Cab galore this weekend at the annual Westchester show Childe Hassam's work right is on view at the Mark Hotel Mikveh makes its Long Island debut Sunday in Great Neck Whiskers in Westchester The annual Westchester Cat Show will feature more than 250 fab felines this weekend at WeBtchester County Center Bronx River Parkway and Central Avenue White Plains Admission is $8 $6 seniors $3 under 12 914-739-5408 Hassam: An American More than 90 oils and watercolors as well as several pastels by the American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) are on exhibit at the Adelson Galleries in the Mark Hotel 25 77th St Manhattan Mondays-Fridays from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm and Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm through Dec 15 Call 212-439-6800 Mikveh Five women who are no strangers to the klozmcr music scene have joined toother to form Mikveh See vocalist Adrienne Gooixt (iccnrdioniMt Lauren Brody violinist Alicin Svignls clarinetist Marmot Ix'verett and double-bassist Nicki Parrott in their Island debut Sunday at 3 pm at (irenl Neck North High School 33 Polo Kd Grant Neck Tickets are $18 Gull 518-773-1713 Best-Selling Authors Long Island novelists Nelson DeMille and Susan Isaacs discuss their work Sunday at 2 pm at the Walt Whitman Birthplace 246 Old Walt Whitman Kd Huntington Station Admission which includes a wine and cheese reception is $18 in advance $20 at the door $15 students Call 516-427-5240 University Highlights Brushed-Up Shakespeare and Brian Stokns Mitchell and Marin Mazda starring in Ms Indeed not Just Another Kill ME KATE Music and lyrics by Cols Porter book by Samuel and Bella Spewack directed by Michael Blakemore With sets by Robin Wagner costumes by Martin Pakledinaz lights by Peter Kaczorowski music direction by Paul Gemignanl Martin Beck Theatre 45th Street west of Eighth Avenue Seen at Tuesday's preview By Linda Winer STAFF WHITKR MOVIES -The World Is Not B3 -Slrapy B9 -All About My B9 -HomePage" BIO FCt3 DAY Dinner Tonight Menus B31 Dining News Notes 1132 City Bites B32 Cooking With a Pro B33 Dining Out: Sul B33 1 1 -Kiss Me Kate" B2 -Wizard of Ox" B41 B47 rxc-jvs wt "Inverted Odysseys" Death in Vegas B19 Brian Stokes Mitchell Michael great- looking mostly smart and defiantly straightforward production deftly calms that opening immortal show-biz angst about job you hope will This one is a keeper Would we rather have seen Kevin Kline or some of the other famed enticements that have been dangled in front of possible revivals through the years? Sure almost always rather have Kline in anything But Mitchell best known for creating the heroic role of Coalhouse Walker in and Maz-zie the original Mother in the same show are suave and stylish and often far more as hambone Fred Petru-chio and diva Lilli Katharine the tempestuous divorced stars of musical on the tryout road in Balti- more i i There are times in the first act when BEGINS IN a magical back-stage hush this first full Broadway revival of Me since Cole Porter's best show swept the first musical Tony Awards in 1948 The orchestra is tuning up A worker mops the boards One by one stagehands move on with a sense of purpose and as people start bustling through the massive loading doors the music begins to take an almost mythically familiar shape The melody turns out to be Opening Another officially Another though for connoisseurs of the golden age of musical comedy the long-promised revival that opened so confidently last night at the Martin Beck Theatre is hardly just another show The play-with- in-a-play yes within-a- play has piles of such witty and dreamy Porter songs as in Dam and Up Your With a winking inside-outside back-stage of the bode by Sam and Bella Spewack and handsomely i adorable performances' by oast topped by Marin Macxie- and Also Inside Advice B57 Bridge B48 Comics B48-50 Crossword BRO Cryploquot B50 Events B25 Kidsday B51 Movie Clips Timetable B4 Radio B61 Television B60-63 Video B63 For Kids A guide to events for children Plus Family Filmgoer a guide to which movies ere right for the young filmgoen in your household B25 Wwilij Photo Ari Mints we wonder if Mitchell and Mazzie have the comic instincts to match their ro- identic strengths He has a stirring i mallow baritone that seems able to il lift.