Events for October 10th, 2008
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Friday - October 10th
Theater / Comedy
Friday the Halloweenth: The 3D Murderous Musical!
iO - 3541 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
A satire of '80s slasher films features hot virgins, goofy guys and cloaked murderers. The audience gets splattered with (washable) "blood," rain and more.
Events / Recreation Event
Fireworks Paddle
Kayak Chicago - 1501 N. Magnolia Ave. - Chicago (West Town)
Navy Pier fireworks highlight a six-mile paddle along the Chicago River.
Theater / Comedy
pHrenzy
Stage Left Theatre - 3408 N. Sheffield Ave. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Eight improv artists compete for audience votes and suffer arbitrary eliminations during a fast-paced show.
Music / Rock
Stereolab
Vic Theatre/Brew & View - 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
8 p.m.
Le Loup, Monade.
Theater / Theater Event
Haywire!
Bailiwick Arts Center - 1229 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
8 p.m. preview
In this campy drag parody of B-horror flicks, a female circus star's charmed life comes crashing down. Suspicions mount when she returns from a mental hospital and gruesome accidents occur.
Theater / Comedy
pHamily the Musical
Stage Left Theatre - 3408 N. Sheffield Ave. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Improv artists create a family based on audience suggestion then develop and perform a musical that incorporates the new characters. BYOB.
Theater / Comedy
The Improv Jam
iO - 3541 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Volunteer audience members perform improv scenes with veteran I.O. comics. Local funnymen Brett Lyons and Nathan Jensen host.
Events / Recreation Event
Brown Bag Stitching Salon
Jane Addams Hull House Museum - 800 S. Halsted St. - Chicago (Little Italy/University Village)
A lunchtime gathering for knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, weavers and other crafters. Includes coffee and cookies. BYO lunch.
Theater / Theater Event
Chiaroscuro (a Study in Shadow)
Bailiwick Arts Center - 1229 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A reimagined historical drama in which poetry, memory torture and lust come into play when the artist Caravaggio hires a beautiful, young farmer off the streets of Renaissance Rome to pose for a painting.
Theater / Theater Event
Candide
Theatre Building Chicago - 1225 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
In Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler's adaptation of Voltaire's comedic adventure novel of the same title, a man is expelled from home, drafted into the Bulgarian army, brought before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a fortune, shipwrecked on a desert isle and repeatedly separated from his...
