It's a big day for Island actress-singer Loretta Ables Sayre, who makes her Broadway musical theater debut tonight in "South Pacific" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. She plays Bloody Mary, the Tonkinese hawker of souvenirs, and delivers "Bali Ha'i," one of the hit songs from the Rodgers & Hammerstein score.

Ables Sayre is set to be on NBC's "Today" show sometime between 8:30 and 9 a.m. today, with segments filmed in Hawai'i and New York as she prepped for tonight's premiere. And she earns a mention in this week's Newsweek magazine's feature on the "South Pacific" revival on Broadway after nearly 60 years.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

WEDDING MOOD FOR BEYONCÉ

What pushed Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles to take out a marriage license the other day in Scarsdale, N.Y., as the tabloids report?

Perhaps their weekend in Philadelphia put them in the mood. The couple, together since 2002, seemed dewy-eyed Saturday at the hotel wedding of Jay-Z assistant Robin Broughton to Ronald Smith, who works for the state of Pennsylvania. Jay-Z performed the next night in town with Mary J. Blige.

CAREY BEATS ELVIS IN MOST NO. 1 HITS

Elvis Presley, who held the record for the most No. 1 hits in the rock era after the Beatles, has been knocked off his perch by Mariah Carey.

Carey's "Touch My Body" has become her 18th chart-topper, says Billboard, putting her on the list just under the boys from Liverpool, who have 20 No. 1's.

Madonna also has beaten out Elvis for most songs in the top 10. Madonna's new "4 Minutes" is her 37th song to land in the top 10, giving her the most top 10s ever.

FARRAH FAWCETT SNOOPED ON

LOS ANGELES — Months before UCLA Medical Center caught staffers snooping in the medical records of Britney Spears, '70s TV icon Farrah Fawcett learned that a hospital worker had peeked at her cancer treatment records there. Fawcett's lawyers said the information apparently was leaked to the National Enquirer — which revealed online that her cancer had returned.