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Events on April 25th For Chicago, IL 60603

Dinner and a Show: Tony n' Tina's Wedding

Piper's Alley (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $60.00 - $70.00   Our Price: $30.00 - $35.00*
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Come see the acclaimed Chicago theater mainstay Tony n' Tina's Wedding as it celebrates 15 years on stage. Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, where you won't just see a show—you'll be a part of it! Tony n' Tina's Wedding includes a pre-wedding cocktail cash bar, a ceremony full of mishaps and madcap comedy, and an evening of dinner, music and dancing.  Learn More

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy! — Improv and Sketch Comedy Showcase

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 10:30pm (Auggie Large, Basic Eight, and Cornwallis)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents their Comedy Showcase featuring local improv and sketch comedy groups performing on stage with a hilarious stand-up comic as host. A laugh-out-loud great night out!  Learn More

Massages & More at Lincoln Park Massage Spa

Lincoln Park Massage Spa (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $85.00 - $190.00   Our Price: $42.50 - $95.00*
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Lincoln Park Massage Spa invites you to a sanctuary in the city, created with your satisfaction in mind. Discover comfort, serenity and balance while you enjoy a Swedish, Deep Tissue or Couple's Massage, or a specialty service such as a Sugar Body Polish.  Learn More

The Audience Chooses: "The Harold" at iO

ImprovOlympic Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 - $14.00   Our Price: $6.00 - $7.00*
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A night of laughs where the audience rules: Created by Del Close and Charna Halpern, The Harold begins with an audience suggestion. A team of improvisers fully explore the suggestion through scenes and games, creaing disparate stories, characters and themes the eventually weave together seamlessly, like the instruments of a jazz band.  Learn More

Massages, Facials and More from Amber Spa

Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $75.00 - $160.00   Our Price: $37.50 - $80.00*
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Amber Spa combines a peaceful and beautifully modern environment with a highly trained, friendly staff to offer the most advanced spa services available. Enjoy facials, massages, manicures, pedicures, waxing and body treatments, and more in a tranquil atmosphere with beautiful paintings and stained glass works on display.  Learn More

Bodyslam! The Rise and Fall of CAWC - A Comedy about Wrestling

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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Bodyslam! The Rise and Fall of CAWC follows the journey of Rufus and Preston Dreamwater through the flamboyant world of Professional Wrestling. With characters like Baron Hittem Von Smashem, "Horny" Rick Powers, Moonshine Misty Morgan and Man Sized Baby, as well as original songs, crazy costumes and an actual ring in the theatre, Bodyslam! offers a comedic theatrical experience unlike any other.  Learn More

Bear Force One - A Gay Parody of the Film Air Force One

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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After a series of unexpected assassinations, Secretary of Agriculture Buck Marshall finds himself the first gay "bear" President of the United States. Like his chest, the world he steps into is quite hairy. All Buck wants to do is escape to Key West with his "First Cub," daughter India-China, and his newly assembled queer cabinet. But as he boards "Air Force One" for some R & R, his enemies have plans of their own!  Learn More

Live Comedy at Jokes & Notes

Jokes & Notes Comedy Club (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 10:30pm (Evan Lionel)
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Jokes & Notes Comedy Club presents an evening of hilarious stand-up comedy. A great line-up of comics is scheduled to appear, including headliners from across the Midwest and beyond.  Learn More

Bronte, A Victorian Literary Drama About the Bronte Sisters

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
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This inventive drama examines the lives of three of the most studied and discussed writers of all time. Spurred by their brother's tumultuous personal life, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte write from their remote home on the Yorkshire moors. The real and the imagined collide as the characters the sisters have created come to life.  Learn More

Italian Farce Lust, Lies and Marriage from Piccolo Theatre

Piccolo Theatre (Evanston, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.50 - $25.00   Our Price: $6.25 - $12.50*
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Dottore tells his daughter she'll be marrying Lelio when all she wants to do is marry the handsome Orazio. A foreign woman named Celia falls in love with the same Orazio while another gentleman named Odoardo falls in love with her. What's a servant or two to do but dress up in disguise and help lovestruck masters figure the whole mess out?  Learn More

The Beastly Bombing — L.A.'s Cult Theatre Hit Comes to Chicago

Trap Door Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
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Framed by the plot mechanisms and charming music of a 19th-century Gilbert and Sullivan-esque comic operetta, The Beastly Bombing is a romance about white supremacists and Al Qaeda terrorists plotting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. The show's controversial but hilarious take on modern politics, fundamentalism and the war on terror has produced a touchstone event, leading to debate about which issues comedy can address in our polarized society.  Learn More

Tennessee Williams' First Full-Length Play, Candles to the Sun

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $12.50*
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Eclipse Theatre Company presents the Chicago premiere of Tennessee Williams' first full-length play, Candles to the Sun. Set during the Great Depression in Alabama's Red Hills coal mining region, Candles to the Sun paints a portrait of the bleak lives of the miners' families and their attempts to unionize. Recent Jeff-award winning director Steven Fedoruk (who directed Eclipse's hit Blues for an Alabama Sky) will return to direct Williams's rarely produced piece.  Learn More

Jazz-Filled Tale of Love: Carter's Way at the Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $34.00*
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Carter's Way, a jazz-filled tale of love, the mob and an artist's integrity, featuring original music by Darrell Leonard, written and directed by Oscar-winning ensemble member Eric Simonson. It's 1935, the middle of the Great Depression, and the peak of Kansas City's legendary jazz era, when renowned black saxophonist Oriole Carter is falling head over heels for the white girlfriend of a local mobster.  Learn More

Sizzling Swordplay in Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished) from Babes With Blades

Raven West Stage (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Set in 16th-century Spain, Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished) explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail—and lots of swordplay!  Learn More

Judy in Disguise with Glasses, a One-Woman Comedy Show

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents Angie McMahon's Judy in Disguise with Glasses. The character Judy McClure has been performed as part of CIC's Christmas shows for several years, but in 2007 McMahon used some of her written material to be part of CIC's Comedy Festival Snubfest. She now brings the revamped show to CIC for a limited engagement.  Learn More

Ceres: Factory Theater Presents Tense Drama About Insurance Industry

Prop Thtr (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Set against the backdrop of Chicago's Financial District and one broker's surreal subconscious, Heather Tyler's Ceres takes us into the lions' den of hot-shot investment insurance brokers, sneaking a glimpse into the dubious actions of clandestine Unit 57 and its Board of Directors.  Learn More

Dead Man's Cell Phone, A Quirky Comic Adventure at Steppenwolf Theatre

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: FREE - $34.00*
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Jean is sleepwalking through her life until she answers a dead man's cell phone. It turns out to be a wake-up call that sends her on a date with the dead man's brother, a drinking binge with his wife, and a mysterious rendezvous with his mistress—leading Jean to rediscover herself.  Learn More

Midwest Premiere of Neil LaBute's Acclaimed Play In A Dark Dark House

Profiles Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two brothers find themselves brought face-to-face with each other's involvement in their traumatic past. In Neil LaBute's powerful new play, these siblings must struggle to come to grips with their troubled legacy, both inside and outside their dark family home.  Learn More

Burlesque Revue The Flaming Dames in Vegas Baby

The Spot (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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The Flaming Dames, Chicago's most frequently running burlesque revue, are back and raising the stakes once more with their latest revue, The Flaming Dames in Vegas Baby. This time around the ladies are paying homage to everything glitzy, glamorous and sexy about Las Vegas. Returning once again to Uptown's The Spot, the dames are ready to entice with brand new strip-tastic dances and two hot new hosts.  Learn More

Driving Miss Daisy, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play, from First Folio

Mayslake Peabody Estate (Oak Brook, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 - $26.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $13.00*
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First Folio presents Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy. This beloved story details the relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish matron and her African-American chauffeur over the span of several decades. In this delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old, Uhry has created two outsiders who come to a mutual respect based on their independence, strength and stubborn integrity.  Learn More

Noel Coward's "Spirited Comedy" Blithe Spirit

Historic Pleasant Home (Oak Park, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $27.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $13.50*
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Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Noel Coward's witty drawing-room farce Blithe Spirit. Charles is a novelist who, while doing research on the supernatural, mistakenly brings back the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. His second wife, Ruth, is appalled. This odd threesome becomes entangled in a comedic web of love, jealousy and attempted murder.  Learn More

Picked Up: Six New TV Pilots — Audience Picks the Winner

The Neo-Futurarium (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm (Office Prison Break)
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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The Neo-Futurists present Picked Up: a series of six television pilots simply begging to be picked up by corporate network America. One new pilot will be acted out on stage each week, and the audience will decide which show gets "picked up." See full event description for show schedule.  Learn More

Omniscience: Dystopian Thriller at Stage Left Theatre

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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In a dystopian future, Channel One employee Warren struggles to finish editing a war documentary shot by his partner, who disappeared while filming in the battle zone. Under constant pressure from government surveillance, Warren might be cracking up... or is he coming to see the truth of his world? Stage Left Theatre presents the US premiere of Canadian playwright Tim Carlson's Omniscience.  Learn More

Dreamlandia, a Crisp, Comic Adventure from Teatro Vista

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $35.00   Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
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Crisp and comic, Dreamlandia is where dreams and reality collide for a family living on the US/Mexico border as they deal with NAFTA, narcotics and illegal immigration. Epic, inventive and full of "street-cred," this vibrant play is witness to a clear and potent political voice.  Learn More

Raw Bones & Other Stories: An Exciting Evening of Theatrical Dance

Lund Auditorium (River Forest, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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Experience the world's only universal language—body language—through an emotionally charged and riveting collection of dance works. Bringing together some of the best talent in the Chicago area, Dominican theatre arts faculty member Julie Petry produces this event featuring her performance and choreographic work, in collaboration with many talented artists.  Learn More

Neil Simon's Fools at Saint Sebastian Players Theatre

Saint Sebastian Players Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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Saint Sebastian Players present Fools, Neil Simon's comedy about the Ukranian village of Kulyenchikov, which is cursed with stupidity. Dr. Zubritsky and his wife hire a teacher from outside the village for their lovely daughter. When the teacher falls in love with his pupil, he vows to break the town's curse; hilarity ensues.  Learn More

Hilarious Satire Urinetown, the Musical from Big Noise Theatre

Prairie Lakes Theatre (Des Plaines, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $21.00   Our Price: $10.50*
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One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years, the Tony award-winning Urinetown is a tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution. Set in a future where water is scarce and the government enforces a ban on private toilets, one hero rises up and leads the people to fight for their basic rights.  Learn More

Comedian Jim Short at Chicago Improv of Schaumburg

Chicago Improv of Schaumburg (Schaumburg, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 10:15pm
Full Price: $17.00 - $19.00   Our Price: $8.50 - $9.50*
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Chicago Improv of Schaumburg welcomes comedian Jim Short. Short was the winner of the San Francisco Comedy Competition 2004, and has been seen on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and Comedy Central's "Premium Blend."  Learn More

The Last Play Standing - A Live Theater Competition

RedTwist Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
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Each night two scenes from 3 plays go up for the first time with no prior review. On-stage the director and actors work both scenes while the audience hurls fish as constructive criticism. Afterwards, the audience votes for the winner and offers feedback to help the playwright develop the script.  Learn More

Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates — A Historical Adventure with a Twist

National Pastime Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Apr. 25 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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This bitingly funny commentary about America's hubris in domestic and foreign policy follows the cleverly imagined, two-century journey of explorers Lewis and Clark from the Louisiana Purchase to the Spanish-American, Vietnam and Iraq wars. Along the way they meet a variety of "characters," including Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Sacagawea, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld.  Learn More

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