Events for December 5th, 2008
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Friday - December 5th
Music / Rock
Theater / Theater Event
The Screwtape Letters
Mercury Theatre - 3745 N. Southport Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A new adaptation of C.S. Lewis' darkly comic novel of the same title, in which human faith and virtue fall prey to the manipulations of devils who, from their office workplace in hell, teach an apprentice demon how to undermine a young man’s recent conversion to Christianity.
Theater / Theater Event
Bing Faithful & The Bing Faithful 5 in Bing Faithful's Very Merry Nondenominational Holiday Special
The Annoyance Theatre - 4830 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
In local actor Bob Kulhan's loosely scripted, partially improvised two-act play, a crooner learns, moments before he takes the stage, that his entire band has died in a bus accident, leaving him to sing all five parts and harmonies to audience-requested holiday songs. In the second act, the ghosts...
Theater / Theater Event
Co-Ed Prison Sluts
The Annoyance Theatre - 4830 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
The Annoyance Theatre remounts its long-running inaugural production, a campy musical comedy about the adventures of male and female inmates serving time for sex offenses.
Theater / Theater Event
The David Bowie Hepzikat Velvet Flarney Solstice Spectacular…Live From Space! (David Bowie's Christmas Special 1977 Network Edit)
National Pastime Theater - 4139 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
Characters portraying Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Nipsey Russell, Charo, the ghost of Freddie Mercury and yes, David Bowie appear in a fictional '70s TV-style Christmas special.
Events / Tours and Vacation
Chicago Supernatural Tour
Goose Island Brewpub - 1800 N. Clybourn Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Ghosthunter Richard T. Crowe's four-hour bus tour of 13 allegedly haunted sites includes Resurrection Cemetery, the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and more. Bring money for a food stop at Billy Goat Tavern (430 N. Michigan Ave.) en route.
Theater / Theater Event
The Other Cinderella
Black Ensemble Theater - 4520 N. Beacon St. - Chicago (Uptown)
Black Ensemble Theatre remounts an updated version of its 1976 debut production, Jackie Taylor's urban musical adaptation of the classic fairytale, in which a "fairy godmama" arrives from Jamaica to help the housing project-dwelling heroine.
Theater / Theater Event
Men of Tortuga
Profiles Theatre - 4147 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
In an undisclosed location, three men scheme with a weapons specialist to eliminate the opposition in this dark comedy of negotiation, conspiracy and assassination by Jason Wells ("Perfect Mendacity").
Music / Jazz
Museums / Museum Exhibit
In the Dark
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum - 2430 N. Cannon Drive - Chicago (Lincoln Park)
An interactive exhibition explores the sights and sounds of nature's night shift using computer games, mechanical displays and other elements.
