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THURSDAY style & glass.
FRIDAY rock wit' the bard.
Tennessee Williams fix at the English Alternative Theatre's rendition of The Glass Menagerie. Director Paul Stephen Lim has brought the play back by popular demand. Although the original version takes place in 1939, the setting will be closer to present-day Amsterdam, gay bars and all. The show is at 8 tonight and tomorrow night and 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Student tickets are $6, general admission tickets are $10. If you can't go out tonight, but would like to relax for a bit, walk over to the Kansas Union lobby and enjoy free tea and cookies from 3.p.m.to 4 p.m.
Cross-dressing, mistaken identity and usurping brothers? It must be Shakespeare. Check out the opening night of Shakespeare's As You Like It, at 7:30 tonight., at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Guest director D. Scott Glasser
Bone Thugs N Harmony
in 1961 in a dukedom on the French-Italian Riviera in the forest of Arden. The romantic comedy is a tale of young lovers. Orlando is a love-struck youth who roams the forest hanging poetry and carving his beloved's name in tree trunks. Rosalind, who, in the disguise of a man, mischievously gives Orlando tips on how to successfully capture the object of his affections. For those who don't find romance hardcore enough for a Friday night, a show featuring Insane Clown Posse, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Tchn9ne and Kottonmouth Kings will certainly kick your ass. This over-the-top medley of heavy rap artists begins at 6:45 p.m. at Memorial Hall, 600 N 7th St., in Kansas City, Mo. Tickets range from $27.50 to $30 for the all-ages show.
SATURDAY be blue, not bored. Open up your ears! To right the town.
be crawling with blue men and heavy metal gurus. First you can experience the surreal antics of the modern art favorite Blue Man Group at
Starlight Theater, 6601 Swope Parkway, Kansas City, Mo. These guardians of the avant take their experimental music and synthesize it into what their Web site calls a "rock concert experience" of songs from their new album, The Complex. Tickets range from $29.50 to $49.50. If your tastes run a bit heavier than
Blue Man Group
art-house theater-rock, see Slayer bare its heavy metal teeth at Memorial Hall, 600 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Mo. Slayer, along with Hatebreed and Arch Enemy, promise a night of diabolical decibels bone crushing guitars and plain old vocal cord bruising fun. General admission tickets are $29.50.
TUESDAY
free for all. Even if you're broke, there's a grand night ahead.
Make your first stop the Video Game Tour at 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union lobby. Game Live Events, a national video game tour, is bringing 50 game systems and lots of games. Game consoles include PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Cube. All game play is free and there will be opportunities to win prizes and test new games. For more human interaction, head to the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., for its free movie night. Every Tuesday, the folks at the Replay show two feature-length films outside on
cranky old men
the climate-controlled patio, with free popcorn and $2 Boulevard pints. This week is Death Ray 2000 at 10 p.m. and Mad Max at midnight. There is no charge, but you must be 21 to enter. Sherman Alexie won't come to campus until the 29th, but you can see his work tonight at the Kansas Union. Alexie, a Native-American author and poet, is best known for his 1998 movie Smoke Signals. SUA is showing his newest film, The Business of Fancydancing, at 8 p.m.at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The film exposes the issues facing contemporary Americans and deconstructs the stereotypes that surround them. Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA movie pass.
your Grandaddy's music. Puns aside, the super-fun California space-pop group Grandaddy brings its latest tour to Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., tonight. The quarter is traveling to promote Sumday, its fourth fuli-length release, which features the popular single Now it's On. Starlight Mints and Elbow open this all-ages show; tickets are $13.50. If it's laughs you're looking for, check out veteran humorist George Carlin at the Midland Theater, 1228 Main, Kansas City, Mo., as he insults everything on the planet. You should recognize Carlin from scores of cameos in hit comedies such as Dogma and the Bill and Ted movies. Tickets are $37.50 to $42.50 for the all-ages show.
MONDAY
mmmmm, nachos. Fans of football and/or
free food will want to high-tail it to the Kansas Union tonight. At 7:00 p.m. SUA will kick off Loungin' With Lew in the Hawk's Nest on the first level. Stop by to catch the Atlanta vs. St. Louis game and graze the nacho bar alongside Lew Perkins, the University's new athletics director. Coke products will be on hand and the event is free.
Seymour (Evan Adams) gets an earful from Ari (Gene Tagaban) in *The Business of Fancydancing*.
WEDNESDAY
groove thing.
Get out and shake
your tail feather tonight with free dance lessons in Lawrence and Kansas City. In Lawrence, ballroom dance lessons will help you look swell at the next wedding you attend. The KU Ballroom Dance Club will be teaching the finer points of salsa and swing from 7 p.m.to 9 p.m.in the Hawk's Nest on the first level of the Kansas Union. Learn the dance of seduction in Kansas City at Westport Presbyterian, 201 Westport Road, Kansas City, Mo. Tango lessons start at 8:15 p.m. and are followed an hour later by open dancing, accompanied by the band Tango Lorca. Don't worry if you don't have a date, the instructors separate you from your partner during lessons anyway. It's a great way to meet new people and show off your favorite slinky outfit.
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