What's Happening in New York on April 20th, 2007

Buffy Sing-A-Long

TIME: Midnight (This event also happens tomorrow, Saturday April 21)
PLACE: IFC Center, 323 6th Ave at W 3rd St
COST: $15

SUMMARY:”It’s that time again. Here’s our monthly New York City edition of the audience interactive Buffy Sing-a-Long, which takes the Slayer’s musical episode that you all know and love and adds dancing with dry cleaning, evil bunnies, a theatre filled sexy sexy smoke, and YOU singing like a crazy person! Plus before the show we have an all new round of Jeopardy-style interactive trivia (see if you know more than Giles) and a round of “you ARE the show” Buffy-oke. Play along and you can win our Sing-a-Long Party kit, to throw your own at-home version of the show, or one of our lovely new Buffy lapel pins (also on sale at the show), a sure way for you to tell everyone you meet on the street, “Hey, I died twice!”.

RELATED:
- Shannon’s Review: “Here’s a tip I learned about the IFC: they let people drinking in the bar next door into the theatre first…”

TIME: 10pm (This event also happens tomorrow, April 21)
PLACE: Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church St at White St
COST:$15

SUMMARY: “Hollywood. The 1930s. It was the heyday of the Pinchbottom Motion Picture Company, the years when the studio produced their best-known work: the madcap black and white comedies featuring the antics of the vaudevillian troupe THE PINCH BROTHERS (also sisters). The last of these films, entitled “THE BAWDY HOUSE”, was so salacious for its time that some consider it singlehandedly responsible for the institution of the Motion Picture Production Code.”

TIME: 10pm
PLACE: Not posted by request of Rubulad. . . (If you really want to go, you’ll figure out where it is)
COST:$10 in costume or before 11, $15 after

SUMMARY: “Dance ourselves into a frenzy to summon the spring…Dress: it’ a pagan, wood sprite goddess flower thing.”

“You can help us continue to have a Rubulad in this space by being quiet coming and going, staying inside the space during the event and not pissing all over the sidewalk as soon as you get around the corner – which, incidentally, does attract the police and they will write you a summons.”

8pm — Friday April 20

WHERE:Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th St
COST:$27
SUMMARY:”Nanguan music, which traces its roots back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) is known for its slow tempos, delicate melodies, and the exquisite and graceful movements of its opera singers. Taiwan’s Gang-a-tsui Ensemble, dedicated to the preservation and modernization of nanguan, will perform a program which includes an excerpt from a nanguan opera, a drum song, love songs, and Pu, one of the most famous nanguan compositions.”

TIME: 2-6:30pm
PLACE: New York Academy of Sciences, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Floor between Park Place and Murray St

COST: $20

SUMMARY: “Ever wish you could spend an afternoon with some of the world’s top scientific thinkers and ask them about their work and the state of scientific inquiry? Here’s your chance. Join the New York Academy of Sciences and Wiley-Blackwell Publishing for a special event, “Great Minds at Work,” and hear from four of the most prestigious and eloquent figures in science today.” With Paul S. Appelbaum, Brian Greene, Laurie Garrett and Daniel Dennett,

TIME: 1-6pm
PLACE: Sideshows by the Seashore, Surf Avenue and West 12th St, Coney Island
COST: FREE (to enter and watch)

SUMMARY: “Sideshow performers in general are invited to showcase their best strange and unusual material (excluding any stunt that draws blood!) to set or break a world record. Record Holders Republic will judge all talent and a talent scout from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not will attend to seek talent for Ripley publications.

Please Note: All record holders MUST register with Dr. David Adamovich of Record Holders Republic ahead of time. No entrants will be admitted to the stage without first registering with Dr. Adamovich. Information on registration is here.

Please note that is an open event with no schedule other than start at 1 and end at 6. So there might be low points between those who do show up to do their thing.”