Entertainment suggestions that might fly under your radar.

Books

Do you find it impossible to imagine a world not lived to a soundtrack of show tunes? What Would Barbra Do? How Musicals Changed My Life by Emma Brockes is for you.

Clothing

You’ve got your headbands, metallic leggings and satin skating jacket. All you lack is a Xanadude T-shirt, inspired by the sorta-classic Olivia Newton-John cult flick, also a new Broadway musical. Visit www.cafepress.com/ricknsteve/3169312 to order. Your neon light will shine for you, Xanadude!

DVDs

Kitsch abounds on these trashy melodramas from the ‘60s and ‘70s that explore the forbidden love between two ladies. Just the Two of Us finds two lonely housewives pawing at each other when their husbands are away, while That Tender Touch is the entertaining story of a lesbian who gets her head turned by a man.

Music

Sure, we love our doggie friends, but some things just defy logic—like doggie T-shirts, doggie birthday parties and Happy 2B A Dog Lover, a compilation of feel-good songs to listen to with your pooch. Buy it for the kitsch value, but don’t expect your pooch to get it. We’re sure he’d just as soon head to the park to sniff other dogs’ rears.

Show Tunes

The week after quietly coming out in a print interview, David Hyde Pierce snagged a Tony Award for his portrayal of a musical theater-loving detective in Curtains, the last collaboration between Broadway legends John Kander and Fred Ebb. In addition to Hyde Pierce’s wry gumshoe, the new cast album captures performances by Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba and Jason Danieley.

Although The Pirate Queen lasted a mere 85 performances on Broadway this season, the latest Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg extravaganza has all of the musical grandiosity we’ve come to expect from the boys who gave us Les Misérable and Miss Saigon. With a saucy Irish lass as a sea captain giving Queen Elizabeth I plenty of attitude, the posthumous cast album includes plenty of power ballads that should keep the score living on in cabarets everywhere.