If Philly begins to look a tad more courant in coming weeks, it's because TLC's What Not to Wear was in town last week to ambush four local women and make over their wardrobes.

"They're four very different women and all interesting characters," says cohost Clinton Kelly, who works with fellow fashionista Stacy London.

Kelly and London yesterday were back in New York working out the new look of Moriah Rose Lit, 23, a moving-company appraiser and part-time clown. Lit's fashion faux pas: wearing hand-me-downs from her mother, who is a foot shorter and at least twice her size. Kelly says he and London ambushed her at the Philadelphia Zoo. They fed giraffes while Lit rode on a swan boat. Lit's episode is scheduled for Nov. 14.

Nov. 21's victim will be Yorine Belizaire, 24, a nutritionist who wears scrubs to work - and many other places. Producers say she's worn black scrubs on a date. She was nabbed at Reading Terminal Market.

Tami Levin, 42, director of the Victim/Witness Services Unit for the District Attorney's Office, was apprehended at Eastern State Penitentiary in Fairmount. Levin, whose episode is scheduled for Dec. 5, is known for wearing workout gear to work and told producers she owned more than 50 pairs of sneakers. Kelly says he and London took great pleasure in throwing away Levin's clothes - one of the show's trademarks - outside Al Capone's cell at the historic site.

The episode of Paoli's Marianna Epright, 36, an executive assistant, is up for Dec. 12. Producers consider her the "designated poster child for a holiday episode" because she's known for fuzzy reindeer sweaters, as well as red, white and blue getups every July Fourth. She was ambushed at her office.

 

Isaac Hayes tickets

The Mann Center has canceled Friday's "Celebrating 50 Years of Stax Records" concert due to the death of headliner Isaac Hayes. A Mann rep says tickets purchased with a credit card will be automatically refunded. The Mann box office or its main office (123 S. Broad St., Suite 1930, Philadelphia 19109) will refund cash or check purchases.

 

Briefly noted

WXPN (88.5) nabbed three prizes over the weekend at Radio & Records' Triple A Industry Achievement Awards in Boulder, Colo. Jim McGuinn won personality of the year, Bruce Warren won program director of the year, and the station itself was noncommercial station of the year.

CBS's The Price Is Right is doing a national search for a new model. Come on down to open auditions: noon to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Applebee's at 215 S. 15th St. Details at www.cbs3.com.

 

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Broadway actor Gary Beach has starred in a lot of popular shows - he was renowned theatrical director Roger DeBris in The Producers and Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast - but "never has there been an audience as friendly as this one," he says.

It's for Spamalot, the Monty Python show, which opens at the Academy of Music Thursday.

There's a lot of audience participation, acknowledges Beach, who wraps his bit as King Arthur when the show folds its local tent Aug. 31; he's been doing eight shows a week pretty much nonstop since February 2001 and is looking forward to a vacation at his place in Milford, Pike County. "We have people come to this in costume, and they look better than we do. One guy came out in full armor. A mom brought her two sons, dressed as King Arthur and Patsy. . . . We can hear them saying the lines with us."

 

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Contact columnist Michael Klein at 215-854-5514 or mklein@phillynews.com. See his recent work at http://go.philly.com/michaelklein.