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TICKET GIVEAWAY: SEX ON THE BEACH

Roy Arias is back in award-winning one-man show SEX ON THE BEACH

Roy Arias Theaters
Times Square Arts Center
300 West 43rd St. at Eighth Ave., fifth floor
May 6 – July 3, $25-$47.50
www.royariasstudios.com/sex-on-the-beach

Five years ago Roy Arias’s one-man show about the Caribbean sex industry, Sex on the Beach, won an HOLA (Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors) award and was nominated for an ACE by the Association of Latino Critics. It’s now back in a new production directed by Alfred Preisser, the founding artistic director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem. The play follows three people who turn to the world’s oldest profession to get by: Puerto Rican transvestite La Caramelo, Dominican hustler Brazo E’ Niño, and Cuban jinetera Esperanza. SOTB features scenic design by Samantha Shoffner, lighting by Tracy Wertheimer, and costumes by Mia Stephenson.

The show runs May 6 – July 3 at the Times Square Arts Center, and twi-ny has four pairs of tickets to give away for select performances on Thursday and Friday nights (in English) and Sunday afternoons (in Spanish). Just send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com by Friday, April 29, at 12 noon to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; four winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Christopher Sieber and Harvey Fierstein have taken over the lead roles in Tony-winning Broadway revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (photo by Joan Marcus)

Longacre Theater
220 West 48th St. between Broadway & Eighth Ave.
Tickets: $47.50 – $79.50 with this special offer
www.lacage.com

La Cage Aux Folles began its life as a 1973 French play written by and starring Jean Poiret with Michel Serrault, about a young man who is introducing his fiancée’s conservative parents to his father and his father’s rather flamboyant drag-performing lover. Five years later it was turned into a film by Édouard Molinaro starring Ugo Tognazzi and Serrault, and in 1983 it became a hit Broadway musical, winning six Tonys, including Best Book of a Musical (Harvey Fierstein), Best Original Score (Jerry Herman), and Best Musical. In 1996, Mike Nichols remade the original film as The Birdcage, with Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Gene Hackman. And now the musical is back on Broadway, in a new production at the Longacre Theatre that earned 2010 Tonys for Best Musical Revival as well as Best Actor (Douglas Hodge) and Best Director (Terry Johnson).

The cast has just undergone a number of changes, the most exciting of which has Fierstein playing Albin/Zaza for the first time ever; in addition, Christopher Sieber is the new Georges, replacing Jeffrey Tambor, who lasted a mere nine days taking over for Tony nominee Kelsey Grammer; other current cast members include A. J. Shively as Jean-Michel, Mike McShane as M. Renaud/M. Dindon, Alyce Beasley as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud, Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Jacob, and Elena Shaddow as Anne. La Cage Aux Folles, which features such songs as “We Are What We Are,” “I Am What I Am,” “Song on the Sand,” “Masculinity,” and “The Best of Times,” is currently running a special discount offer that saves you forty percent, but twi-ny also has two pairs of tickets to give away for free, good for Tuesdays at 8:00, Wednesdays at 2:30 and 8:00, Thursdays at 8:00, and Saturdays at 2:30 through May 1. To be eligible to win, just send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com by Monday, April 4, at 12 noon. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; two winners will be selected at random.

TICKET GIVEAWAY: THE ROAD TO QATAR!

York Theatre Company
619 Lexington Ave. at 54th St.
January 25 – February 27, $67.50
212-935-5820
www.yorktheatre.org
www.roadtoqatar.com

Commissioned by the Emir of Qatar to write a huge Broadway-style production for a thousand of his closest friends and starring more than one hundred actors, forty camels, seventeen fire-eating jugglers, and boxing icon Muhammad Ali, a pair of “short Jewish writers” (James Beaman and Keith Gerchak) head off on a Bing Crosby / Bob Hope journey through Dubai, London, and Bratislava on THE ROAD TO QATAR! Directed by Phillip George, the “New True! Musical Comedy” features book and lyrics by Stephen Cole, music by David Krane, and choreography by Bob Richard; Bill Nolte, Sarah Stiles, and Bruce Warren fill out the cast.

THE ROAD TO QATAR! runs January 25 through February 27 at Midtown’s intimate York Theatre, “where musicals come to life,” and twi-ny has four pairs of tickets to give away for the opening two weeks. Just send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com by Thursday, January 13, at 12 noon to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; four winners will be selected at random.

TWI-NY TICKET GIVEAWAY: DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND

Everett Quinton stars in campy throwback spoof at New World Stages

New World Stages
340 West 59th St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
Through December 18, $65-$89.50
www.devilboysfrombeyond.com

Longtime star of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Everett Quinton is currently acting up a storm in Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott’s campy sci-fi spoof, DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND. Quinton plays Florence Wexler, joined by Andy Halliday as Dotty Primrose, Paul Pecorino as Mattie Van Buren, and Chris Dell’Armo as Lucinda Marsh, all caught up in a possible alien invasion in their small 1957 American town. Special kudos go to costume designer Gail Baldoni and wig and hair designer Gerard Kelly, who do a particularly impressive job with the actors who appear in drag. A hit at the 2009 Fringe Festival, DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND is enjoying a limited run at New World Stages. Tickets are selling fast, but twi-ny has four pairs to give away for free. Just send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com by Tuesday, November 9, at 12 noon to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; four winners will be selected at random.

TWI-NY TICKET GIVEAWAY: NEON INDIAN / PRINCE RAMA / APACHE BEAT

Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave.
Friday, October 29, $15, 9:00
718-963-3369
www.brooklynbowl.com

If you missed CMJ this month, you can get a great taste of what it was like by checking out three of the festival’s most-talked-about bands, who will be teaming up for a hot triple bill at Brooklyn Bowl on Friday night. Taking the stage first is the local group Apache Beat, who played a cool set at the Siren Festival this summer and are highlighting songs from their inaugural full-length, LAST CHANTS (Beverly Martel, October 2010). Next up are sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson and Michael Collins, who met on a Gainesville Hare Krishna commune and later formed Prince Rama of Ayodhya, now known as just Prince Rama. The trippy trio are touring behind their fourth record, SHADOW TEMPLE, which was just released on Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks label. The headliners, Neon Indian, formed by Alan Palomo in Denton, Texas, last year, have been making a name for themselves all over the indie map, scoring big with the psychedelic electronic tape music featured on their well-received debut disc, PSYCHIC CHASMS. The night will also include a Halloween costume contest.

Tickets are $15 each, but twi-ny has a pair to give away to one lucky reader. To enter the contest, send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com no later than Friday, October 29, at 12 noon. All entrants must be at least twenty-one years of age. One winner will be chosen at random. Good luck!

TWI-NY TICKET GIVEAWAY: THE 39 STEPS

Richard Hannay is on the run in Tony-winning play THE 39 STEPS

New World Stages
340 West 50th St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
Tickets: $69.50-$149.50 – or free through twi-ny!
www.39stepsny.com

Patrick Barlow’s Tony- and Drama Desk-winning play, directed by Maria Aitken, opened in June 2005 in England, moved to Broadway in January 2008, and has settled in for an extended run at New World Stages. Based on John Buchan’s 1915 novel and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic film, the production currently stars John Behlmann as Richard Hannay, with Kate MacCluggage as Annabella Schmidt, Pamela, and Margaret, and Cameron Folmar and Jamie Jackson handling the other roles, some 140 all told. What are the 39 steps? The only way to find out is to see the play, and This Week in New York has four pairs of tickets to give away for free as part of a special Halloween promotion. To enter to win a pair good for select performances through December 17, send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com no later than Monday, November 1, at 12 noon. All entrants must be at least twenty-one years of age. Four winners will be chosen at random. Good luck!

TICKET GIVEAWAY: PATTERN IS MOVEMENT / GLASS GHOST

Pattern Is Movement will join Glass Ghost aboard music cruise — and twi-ny has free tix to give away

The Boat: The Star of Palm Beach
Pier 40, Houston St. & the West Side Highway
Friday, July 16, 7:00 & 10:00
Tickets: $15 ($30 for open tap)
www.marqueeconcerts.com
www.myspace.com/patternismovement

There seem to be more concerts on the water this year than ever, with at least three major promoters staging shows on board boats making their way across the East and Hudson Rivers, offering spectacular evening views of the city in addition to great music. On Friday, July 16, Philly duo Andrew Thiboldeaux and Chris Ward, better known as Pattern Is Movement, will be teaming up with Brooklyn-based duo Eliot Krimsky and Mike Johnson, who make up Glass Ghost, for a pair of sets on The Star of Palm Beach as part of the Boat series. We have a pair of tickets to give away for either of the July 16 sets of jazzy, offbeat electronic noise and thumping indie club music. Just send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com no later than Monday, July 12, at 3:00 pm. You must be at least twenty-one years of age to enter, and the winner will be chosen at random. Good luck!