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Free Music Friday is a new series at the American Folk Art Museum. The first performance is A Musical Tribute to Broadway, featuring both classic and contemporary favorites, plus behind-the-scenes stories from actors and singers who have appeared in shows including Phantom of the Opera; Wicked, Mamma Mia, West Side Story, The Producers and Shrek. The FREE performance is 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 [...] The Oscars may be at home in Los Angeles, but The Big Apple is the star of dozens of Oscar-winning films. The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebates the Oscars all weekend with showings of award-winning films set right here, in New York City. Saturday, Mar. 6, Oscar-winning movies set in New York City are: Klute (1971) – Jane Fonda, [...] The blockbuster movie for spring is Brooklyn’s Finest, a fast-paced cop drama pitting good guys against bad guys. From the looks of the movie trailer, some of those bad guys are wearing NYPD uniforms. Brooklyn’s Finest is from the same director as Training Day, the blockbuster police drama from a few years ago starring Denzel [...] A new Off-Broadway show titled “Daddy” features CSI’s Gerald McCullough in the starring role. The play is about two close friends who examine their lives and their twenty year long relationship when one of them falls for a younger man. The play has a limited run, through February 13, at the TBG Arts Center, 213 West 36th Street. Performances are at 8 [...] Off-Broadway theater tickets are two-for-one for three weeks in February, thanks to NYC & Company, the Big Apple’s marketing, tourism and partnership organization. The program is called On the House and it is designed to boost ticket sales at 25 Off Broadway theater productions. The promotion is good for performances between February 8 and February 28. Productions participating in On [...] Love basketball? The New York Knicks have just put a block of tickets on sale at 55% off for two upcoming games, and you get a free Knicks T-shirt. There are a limited number of seats in the 300 Level and Mezzanine at Madison Square Garden are now just $20, instead of $44.50, for the Wednesday, Feb. 3 game against [...] It’s enough to make you hungry. The Big Apple’s famous NYC Restaurant Week begins Monday, Jan. 25, and luckily for us, runs for two weeks, not one, through Sunday, Feb. 7. It’s a spectacular opportunity to have a three-course lunch in 266 of the city’s best restaurants for $24.07 or dinner for $35.00. Plus beverages and tips, of [...] It’s called the ”Sound Playground,” and it shows kids the musical possibilities of everyday objects, at Carnegie Hall. Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer of Polygraph Lounge, and the ”musical MacGyvers” take things like a baseball bat, a metal bowl, a bouncy ball and a rubber glove, and turn them into a musical instrument. Kids will experience traditional, classical, and zany instruments. [...] |
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