If you're in Southern California and would like to see Dick Van Dyke in person, you have three upcoming opportunities that I know of. There will probably be many, here and in other towns, since he's going to be out promoting his new autobiography, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir. The book comes out May 3 and you can advance order it here.
He'll be signing copies on Tuesday, May 10 at the big Barnes and Noble in The Grove here in Los Angeles at the Farmers Market. (For those of you in New York, he'll be at the Union Square Barnes and Noble on Wednesday, May 4. I assume we'll see him on many of the New York-based talk shows that week, as well. By the way, the Barnes and Noble in The Grove will have Albert Brooks there on May 17 signing his new novel.)
Even better is what happens the evening of May 31 in Beverly Hills. I have written here before about a fine group called Writers Bloc which stages events where one celebrity interviews another, then the one who has a new book out signs copies for those who wish to purchase one. They did that Dick Cavett-Mel Brooks evening I wrote about. On May 31, they have Carl Reiner interviewing Dick Van Dyke. How can that not be wonderful? If you want to attend, get a reservation now because it's not a big theater and it'll sell out before long.
(And here's another by-the-way: On May 12, the very same Mr. Reiner is interviewing Betty White at another Writers Bloc evening.)
Mr. Van Dyke will also be performing July 29 and 30 at the Hollywood Bowl along with Michael Feinstein in an evening called "Michael Feinstein and the Singing Stars of Television." And he told some of us on Sunday evening that he expected to restart his one-man show at the Geffen Playhouse. You may recall that it closed after one night due to an injury to its one man.
All in all, it looks like a good couple of months for Dick Van Dyke fans in the Southland. I may see you at a couple of these events.