Music Box

Back in 2007, when Daryl Hall came up with the idea for his online music show Live From Daryl's House, he was motivated in part by being able to go to work without leaving home. "I've been traveling around the world forever," says Hall, the 65-year-old Pottstown native who, along with John Oates, made up one of the best-selling duos in music history, with No. 1 hits that included "Kiss on My List," "Private Eyes," and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do). " "But the Internet allows you to turn everything upside down," says Hall, on the phone this week from his house in Dutchess County, N.Y., where Live From Daryl's House is filmed.

"Music Box" has seized the early lead in the race for worst movie of the year by boldly equating Nazism with love of the Three Stooges. Such aggressive stupidity would normally keep people away, but I'm afraid the Costa-Gavras pedigree and the presence of actress Jessica Lange will probably draw people to see "Music Box" despite its galling, chowderheaded metaphors. Be forewarned, however, that "Music Box" does indeed suggest that war criminals disguised as ordinary U.S. citizens reveal their hidden, darker side while watching Larry, Moe and Curly.

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000, theborgata.com. "Two Funny Philly Guys," Joe Conklin and Big Daddy Graham, 9 tonight (Music Box), $35. Elaine Page, 9 p.m. tomorrow (Music Box), $65 and $55. "Classical Mystery Tour," Beatles tribute with Bay Atlantic Orchestra, 3 p.m. Sunday (Music Box), $65 and $50. Caesars Atlantic City, Boardwalk at Arkansas Avenue, 609-348-4411, caesarsac.com. Vina Morales & the Boyfriends, 9 p.m. tomorrow, $147-$55.25. Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, 777 Harrah's Blvd.

Bally's Atlantic City, Boardwalk at Park Place, 609-340-2000, ballysac.com. "Let's Make a Deal Live" starring Alan Thicke, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $25 and $20. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000, theborgata.com. Crosby & Nash, 9 tonight (Music Box), $86 and $76. Larry King, 9 p.m. tomorrow (Music Box), $75 and $65. Caesars Atlantic City, Boardwalk at Arkansas Avenue, 609-348-4411, caesarsac.com. The Doobie Brothers, 9 p.m. tomorrow, $65, $55 and $45. Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, 777 Harrah's Blvd., 800-342-7724, harrahsresort.com.

SOME MUSICIANS still have nothing but contempt for the Internet. Others, at least, open themselves to the fact that fan-captured, YouTube-posted videos of their concert performances are a positive, viral marketing tool. Then there's the unique and daring ploy Daryl Hall has taken with "Live from Daryl's House," a popular, Internet-only TV show that tonight makes the leap to the stage of the intimate Music Box at the Borgata in Atlantic City, co-starring Hall's kindred spirit and fellow Philadelphian Todd Rundgren.

Back in 2007, when Daryl Hall came up with the idea for his online music show Live From Daryl's House, he was motivated in part by being able to go to work without leaving home. "I've been traveling around the world forever," says Hall, the 65-year-old Pottstown native who, along with John Oates, made up one of the best-selling duos in music history, with No. 1 hits that included "Kiss on My List," "Private Eyes," and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do). " "But the Internet allows you to turn everything upside down," says Hall, on the phone this week from his house in Dutchess County, N.Y., where Live From Daryl's House is filmed.

Significant collaborations here: Network for New Music, with its connections to area composers and its long-standing interest in sung words, joined forces with Felyx M (the Mendelssohn Club's 24-member chamber choir) and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, which has an intelligent subscription base and skill at presenting inexpensive concerts in congenial places. What came out of it was the 80-minute intermissionless program "Philadelphia Voices: O My Earth" Sunday night at the Independence Seaport Museum - an all-vocal program of music by Cynthia Folio, Jennifer Higdon, Thomas Whitman, Jan Krzywicki, James Primosch, and Donald St. Pierre.

CASINOS WALK ON THE MILD SIDE With so much of contemporary stand-up comedy dominated by practitioners who favor the raw and coarse, Rita Rudner stands out like a bond trader in a three-piece suit at an Occupy Wall Street rally. The veteran entertainer, who performs tomorrow at the Music Box at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, specializes in G-rated material that tends toward the self-deprecating, and which is never insulting or rude. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, One Borgata Way, Atlantic City, 9 p.m. tomorrow, $45 and $35, 866-900-4849, theborgata.com.

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia opened its season with a coup: The local debut of British trumpeter Alison Balsom, 32, who in recent years has emerged as the kind of artist who redefines what her instrument can do - though here in an overly lightweight program. As a composer himself, music director Dirk Brossé blew all kinds of life into the Hummel Trumpet Concerto (Balsom's vehicle) and Schubert's Symphony No. 3 - the two works that dominated the program - but neither gives you a lot to take home, even when rendered to the high performance standard heard Sunday at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater.

ACH, Boardwalk at Boston Avenue, 609-347-7111, hiltonac.com. The Guess Who, 8 p.m. tomorrow, $40. Bally's Atlantic City, Boardwalk at Park Place, 609-340-2000, ballysac.com. "Legends in Concert," 7 and 10 p.m. tomorrow, 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, $30. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000, theborgata.com. Interpol, 9 tonight (Music Box), $39.50 and $34.50. Jay Leno, 8 p.m. tomorrow (Event Center), $85, $75 and $65. Adam Carolla, 9 p.m. tomorrow (Music Box)

Memorial Day weekend will again offer a variety of country sales, with at least one getting in the holiday spirit of nostalgia: The liquidation of a collection of A.C. Gilbert Erector sets. It is one of two sales during the next two weeks that will revive almost-forgotten mechanical diversions. The Erector sets and related toy-construction kits will be offered by Ron Gilligan Auctioneering beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at 4209 Scotch Valley Rd. in Hollidaysburg, near Altoona. They were collected by Hollidaysburg resident Alton Sternagle, a Gilbert specialist who cowrote Greenberg's Guide to Gilbert Erector Sets 1913-1932 . The A.C. Gilbert Co. was founded in 1909 as a provider of magicians' supplies by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who, in 1911, began Erector, a construction-toy set similar to the European Meccano.