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THURSDAY kind of purple
for funky pop rock with Maroon 5 at the Beaumont Club,4050 Pennsylvania Ave. in Kansas City.Catch the Los Angeles-based quintet on its first national headlining tour.Michael Tolcher will open for this all-ages show, starting at 6:30 p.m.Tickets are just $13.50 and available through Ticketmaster. Or, take a proactive role in your music enjoyment and fine-tune your fiddling skills at Rodney Miller's Fiddle Workshop at the Americana Music Academy,1419 Massachusetts St. Learn Miller's acclaimed fiddling techniques during this one-day event from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance,$25 on the workshop date and $17.50 for members. For more information, call 830-9640.
Maroon 5
SATURDAY sit down or get down. The Music Man
got down. The Music Man opens tonight at the Lied Center for one night only. This is the second stop of the Lied Center's Broadway and Beyond Series. Starting at 7:30 p.m., enjoy the eight-time Tony Award-winning show the Lied Center calls, "all-American salute to music, romance and fast-talking flim-flam." Tickets range from $18.50 to $42. For more information, call the Lied Center ticket office at 864-2787. Lawrence has trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St., where Dance!Dance! Revolution will make you shake your booty. This latest installment of our favorite neo-Marxist dance party will once again be complete with a guard-monitored must-dance section of the floor. Get ready to flail your arms to the spinnings of DJs J8, Q3, and X9. Watch for fliers as cost and start time will be announced later. Just remember your red and black attire, kiddies. It's been known to lower the entry cost.
SUNDAY worlds a stage.
Love potions, money and marriage fill L'Elisir d'amore opera, or The Elixir of Love. The main character Adina, intends to marry Sergeant Belcore, but Nemorino is in love with Adina and will do anything to gain her love. He buys a love potion, which is actually just an ordinary wine, and begins his pursuit. Float over to Kansas City's Lyric Opera, 1029 Central Ave., and see what transpires at 2 p.m. The opera will be performed in Italian, but will have English translations above the stage. You can get a $5 rush ticket one hour before the show begins or preorder your ticket and receive a 30 percent student discount. To love is good, but to laugh is divine at the Topeka Civic Theatre, 3028 SW Eighth Ave. Head here to see Stones in His Pockets, a play which takes place in an Irish village invaded by an American film company that is trying to find extras for its next movie. The two cultures clash and offbeat comedy ensues. Tickets are $10 and the show begins at 2 p.m.
TUESDAY swallow down
You might find tonight's entertainment a bit hard to swallow. Not that that's a bad thing. First off, The Capsules will offer a dynamic and driving rock sound that would fill a fistful of horse pills. Them, along with Namelessnumberheadman and Red Authentic, will relieve your boredom at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., and keep your fistful of dollars safely in your pocket. Tickets are $5 if under 21, and $3 if over. Then down in the depths of Kansas City, you have the opportunity to dig one of the worst horror movies ever as part of the 14th Annual Bad Film Festival. It'll be the type of thing so bad it's scary. And Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters, appears to be truly truly horrible. Catch it with a date at the Kansas City Public Library, 625 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kan., at 6 pm. Admission is free.
WEDNESDAY right round, baby. KJHK's WaxClash has become
FRIDAY scantily
event to see the cream of the Lawrence DJ crop. Turntablists will show their skills tonight to an 18-and over Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., crowd of hip fans and b-boys yearning to be impressed. Show up early so you can pick your favorite and give him or her support throughout the tournament. The competition begins at 10 p.m. and you can get it for only $3. Lawrence's favorite glam band Vibralux and hardcore Topeka group Human Ritual will open for Ultrafix,the Jim Beam unsigned band of the year, at The Bottleneck,737 New Hampshire.The cost is $7.Anyone over 18 is welcome.
CIAO. What college student doesn't appreciate a disclaimer for "adult subject matter, strong language and partial nudity?" The University Theatre opens Cabaret tonight. Sally Bowles (Allison Gabbard) will have nine chances to choose between sleaze and prestige before the show finishes its run in Murphy Hall Nov. 23. Tickets are $10 for students and $18 for the public. Watch nearly naked bodies bump and grind, rather than can-can, at a local hip-hop extravaganza at the Pool Room, 925 Iowa St. Kansas City's Deep Thinkers and Approach are celebrating new releases with Sounds Good, Josh Powers, EMC and cha-chE. The 18-and-over-show starts at 10 p.m., costs $3 to $5 and is all but guaranteed to be hot.
MONDAY ladies' night
Hesta Prynn doesn't wear a scarlet "A." She doesn't wear stripper shoes either. Prynn, a.k.a. Julie Potash, is one-third of Northern State, a women's hip-hop group whose smart rhymes and casual, sneaker-wearing style often get them compared to the Beastie Boys. Catch Prynn and her bandmates Correne "Guinea Love" Spero and Robyn "DJ Sprout" Goodmark at the Girlz Garage Tour at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Also appearing on the tour are bands Lillix, Lennon, Brassy and The Peak Show. The all-ages show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12.50. Or you can get a testosterone fix at The Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., where The Esoteric will be performing as Last Caress, a Misfits cover band. The show starts at 10 p.m. and $2 will get you in, but, alas, you have to be 21.
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