Union Hall
702 Union St. at Fifth Ave.
Friday, August 22, $8, 8:00
718-638-4400
www.unionhallny.com
John Hughes was one of the architects of our teen years, showing us the possibilities of what life and love have to offer in such seminal coming-of-age flicks as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful. For us, it wasn’t WWJD but WWDD (What would Duckie do?) Although it’s probably best that writer, director, and producer Hughes, who died in 2009 at the age of fifty-nine, never revisited these teen characters (although there were multiple editions of Vacation and Home Alone), we occasionally wonder what might have happened to Sam Baker, Ted the Geek, Claire and Bender, Blane, Gary and Wyatt, Watts, and, of course, Bueller . . . Bueller . . . Bueller. Well, we can find out August 22 at Union Hall in Brooklyn when Emily Flake, Rupinder Gill, Todd Hanson, Lux Alptraum, Liam McEneaney, and host Joe Garden gather together for “Forty-Six Candles: An Evening of Fiction in Which John Hughes Characters Grow the F&ck Up,” sharing their tales of where they all are today. Here’s hoping we don’t find out what happened to Curly Sue.