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Events on April 18th For San Francisco, CA 94109

Beach Blanket Babylon at Club Fugazi

Club Fugazi (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 6:30pm
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 9:30pm
Full Price: $46.00 - $49.00   Our Price: $23.00 - $24.50*
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See the best-loved musical comedy revue that has been wowing audiences for more than 30 years: Beach Blanket Babylon! This zany musical spoof of pop culture is world-renowned for its extravagant costumes, huge hats and biting satire.  Learn More

Vampire Tour of San Francisco - The Best of the Bay! 

Vampire Tour of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Explore the Gothic side of San Francisco's Nob Hill with this incredible Vampire Tour, led by Mina Harker, a real vampiress. This tour combines San Francisco history with vampire lore and humor, and has been delighting Goldstar Events' customers since January 2004!  Learn More

Massage, Facials & Beauty at re:fresh Spa in San Francisco

Re:fresh Day Spa, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $75.00 - $165.00   Our Price: FREE - $82.50*
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Indulge in a luxurious spa treatment at re:fresh, the gorgeous day spa that SanFrancisco.com calls a "rare San Francisco spa haven." Choose from a Deep Tissue Massage, Botanical Bliss Facial, Aloe Valerian Wrap and other lush treatments.  Learn More

Big City Improv at the Shelton Theater

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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The award-winning Big City Improv performs improvisational comedy in the style of TV's Whose Line Is It Anyway? and they are appearing live at The Shelton Theatre.  Learn More

Facial and Body Therapies from Caramella Skin Couture

Caramella Skin Couture (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $14.00 - $140.00   Our Price: $47.50 - $70.00*
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Caramella Skin Couture combines traditional European skin and body care with the latest advances in facial therapy and body sculpting. The spa offers a variety of luxurious, effective treatments.  Learn More

Massages, Facials and Body Treatments from Exotic Faces Day Spa

Exotic Faces Day Spa Richmond (Richmond, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $34.00 - $260.00   Our Price: $17.00 - $130.00*
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Exotic Faces is an environment designed to help restore your mind, body and soul. The spa is dedicated to promoting beauty from within through proper understanding and nurturing. Be it a glamorous makeover, invigorating massage or a revitalizing facial, Exotic Faces does its best to ensure your visit will be a pleasant and memorable experience.  Learn More

Shopping! The Musical - A Brand New Musical Comedy Revue

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $29.00   Our Price: $14.50*
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Shopping! The Musical is a new musical comedy revue by award-winning writer Morris Bobrow about everyone's second favorite (in some cases, favorite) activity. Hilarious songs and sketches about the frustrations, annoyances and occasional joys of shopping — how men and women do it, dealing with customers, clerks and store environments, shopping online and on TV and other familiar situations.  Learn More

Beauty and Relaxation Treatments at Rejouvenance

Rejouvenance (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $80.00 - $250.00   Our Price: $40.00 - $125.00*
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You are invited to leave your stress at the door and replace it with comfort, relaxation, serenity and purity. Rejuvenate and revitalize your life with state of the art beauty treatments in this gorgeous and private Caribbean spa setting.  Learn More

Gourmet Dinner and a Show: The Spectacular Teatro ZinZanni

Teatro ZinZanni (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $124.50 - $143.50   Our Price: $78.00*
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Set along San Francisco's historic waterfront, Teatro ZinZanni is a bewitching evening of European cabaret, cirque, divas and madmen, spectacle and sensuality with live music and a gourmet five-course dinner — set in the nightclub of your dreams. Now in its seventh year, Teatro ZinZanni has become a Bay Area entertainment institution.  Learn More

Spa Treatments at Pampered Day Spa

Pampered (Oakland, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $75.00 - $145.00   Our Price: $37.50 - $72.50*
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Pampered Day Spa is a relaxing oasis in Oakland (near Lake Merritt) offering a wide variety of spa services for men and women. Choose from facials, massage, or special combination packages. Great as a gift—or treat yourself!  Learn More

San Francisco Architecture Walking Tour: Discover the City's Gems

Architecture Walking Tour - Galleria Park Hotel Lobby (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Discover the rich history of San Francisco architecture. Rick Evans' two-hour tour is loaded with secret gems and hidden jewels of the city! In addition to learning about the history of the architecture in the Financial District, you'll also see hidden outdoor spaces, including several rooftop gardens that can only be found on foot.  Learn More

First Draft: Synergy Theatre's New Improv Comedy Show

Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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Synergy Theatre and Piano Fight productions present First Draft, a hilarious new late-night improv comedy show. Aided by audience suggestions, a talented team of improvisers will generate a full-length play on the spot. Every show is completely different!  Learn More

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

Swiss Louis Restaurant (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $85.50 - $115.00   Our Price: $42.75 - $57.50*
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Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, and you won't just see a show — you'll be a part of it! The fun starts with the happy couple's wedding ceremony, then it's time for the all-inclusive reception featuring a family-style pasta dinner, champagne toast, wedding cake, dancing and lots of laughs!  Learn More

Insignificant Others: Love Unfolds In The City

Theatre 39 (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $46.00   Our Price: FREE - $23.00*
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This musical, transferring to Pier 39 after a successful run at the Zeum Theater, tells a tale of love and friendship. Five friends move to San Francisco from the Midwest, only to find themselves falling in love with each other, with the city itself, and facing any number of challenges to that love. Sexuality, faith and the ups and downs of love all come together for a rollicking, romantic, magical musical.  Learn More

Smart, Existential Comedy Luv at Actors Theatre of San Francisco

Actors Theatre San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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Held over by popular demand! Originally staged in 1964 starring Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, Luv was the second longest running comedy of its era. The story takes place on a suspension bridge, where three friends turn their existential woes into neuroses of vaudevillian proportions.  Learn More

David and Amy Sedaris's Hysterical Comedy The Book of Liz

Custom Stage @ Off-Market (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
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Custom Made Theatre Co. performs The Book of Liz, a play written by David Sedaris (NPR, Me Talk Pretty One Day) and his sister Amy Sedaris (Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy). It's a wacky and outrageous parable about the adventures of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, a devoted maker of cheese balls who takes a job as a waitress.  Learn More

Kansas City Royals vs. Oakland Athletics in Major League Baseball 

McAfee Coliseum of Oakland (Oakland, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 7:05pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $18.00*
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Friday night baseball comes to the Bay when the Oakland A's take on the Kansas City Royals. The A's are looking forward to an exciting season as they field a team loaded with returning veterans and top young talent. With players such as Daric Barton, Kurt Suzuki and Joe Blanton, Oakland will look to make an early statement against the Royals.  Learn More

Chilling Musical Drama Thrill Me at New Conservatory Theatre Center

New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $34.00   Our Price: $11.00 - $17.00*
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Nathan Leopold was passionate about Richard Loeb, who was passionate about crime and excitement. Thrill Me reveals the series of events in 1924 Chicago that led about-to-be law students Leopold and Loeb to be forever remembered as "The Thrill Killers."  Learn More

Maureen McGovern: A Long and Winding Road Pays Tribute To '60s Musical Icons

Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $50.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $25.00 - $30.00*
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Maureen McGovern, the chart-topping and Grammy-winning singer who also appeared in such movies as Airplane! and The Towering Inferno, presents A Long and Winding Road, a concert paying tribute to the musicians and songwriters of the '60s and '70s. The show features songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Randy Newman, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, Paul Simon, Carole King, and more. McGovern recently recorded an album of the same name.  Learn More

Politicians Behaving Badly in The Government Inspector at A.C.T.

A.C.T. (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 2:00pm
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 - $67.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $34.50*
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The Government Inspector is one part political parody, one part "Waiting for Guffman"—and scathingly funny through-and-through. This famous ensemble comedy by Nikolai Gogol plays out in a backwater Russian village, where government leaders and local cronies are willing to give a visiting official money, women, and whatever else he wants...but are they even bribing the right man?  Learn More

7 Sins: James Judd's Hilarious One-Man Show at Theatre Rhinoceros

Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
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Comedian and writer James Judd presents 7 Sins, a collection of hilarious true stories from his life. A hit across the country and on the Canadian festival circuit, the show follows Judd from his childhood (when his mother paid him to watch soap operas while she was at work, then re-enact them for her) through a series of failed jobs (including dot-com journalist and criminal defense attorney).  Learn More

August Wilson's Fences at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre

The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $36.00   Our Price: $11.00 - $18.00*
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Winner of every major award including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, Fences is the second installment of August Wilson's extraordinary ten-play cycle exploring the African-American experience in the 20th century. It is a powerful drama about Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues, who is working as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh.  Learn More

Guerrilla Rep Presents hotshot, a World Premiere Tragicomedy

Mama Calizo's Voice Factory (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
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hotshot goes in for a close up and relentless look into the secret and darkly comic lives of three San Francisco men driven together and ultimately betrayed by their boundless obsessions - for sex, for love and for crystal meth.  Learn More

Anti-War Drama The Trojan Women at Aurora Theatre Company

Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $42.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $21.00*
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Inspired by Euripides' classic anti-war tragedy, Ellen McLaughlin's The Trojan Women vividly recounts the final moments of Trojan civilization in the aftermath of the city's sacking by the invading Greeks. Queen Hecuba, the slave-concubine Andromache and the mythic Helen, meet in the ruins and together find victory in the female spirit amid the horrors visited upon them by both gods and men.  Learn More

Award-Winning Travel Writer Jeff Greenwald's Strange Travel Suggestions at The Marsh

The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $11.00*
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"Strange travel suggestions," Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote, "are dancing lessons from God." It's those sudden inspirations and unpredictable encounters that make world travel so wild and illuminating. Travel writer Jeff Greenwald (Shopping for Buddhas) brings the hand of destiny into this series of improvised monologues inspired by the vagaries of wanderlust. Audience members spin a Wheel of Fortune, and where it stops, Greenwald's tales begin....  Learn More

Monkey Room: World Premiere of Gripping Comedy-Drama About AIDS Research

The Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $45.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $22.50*
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Four monkeys in an HIV research lab do not become sick despite repeated injections of the virus - but why? Ava, the new head of the lab, must solve the mystery to find a breakthrough vaccine before her funding is cut. This daring new comic drama explores the lengths people go to fight for what they believe in. Playwright Kevin Fisher is a researcher himself, and was a presenter at the 14th International AIDS Conference.  Learn More

Audience Picks Winner in Short-Play Competition ShortLived

Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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ShortLived is a three-month competition of fully staged short plays by a myriad of writers, where each piece is scored by the audience. The two lowest-scoring pieces are then replaced two weeks later by two new fully staged shorts. The writer whose script receives the highest score will be invited to write an upcoming full-length PianoFight play with a four-week run.  Learn More

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Musical Cinderella at Lesher Center for the Arts

Lesher Center for the Arts (Walnut Creek, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $34.00 - $39.00   Our Price: $17.00 - $19.50*
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Take a cruel stepmother and two vain stepsisters, add a kindly fairy godmother, a pair of glass slippers and a handsome prince, and you have the recipe for this magical, romantic fairy tale. Cinderella features such beloved songs as "In My Own Little Corner," "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" and "Ten Minutes Ago" by Broadway's legendary songwriting duo, Rodgers and Hammerstein.  Learn More

Bow Wow Bash: A "Dogs-Allowed" Benefit Party at Kookez Cafe

Kookez Cafe (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $25.00*
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Come to Kookez Cafe for the Pooch Coach's Bow Wow Bash. The party includes free food, discounted drinks, a free raffle ticket, a silent auction, live entertainment and free treat samples for your dog. Well-mannered pups are allowed at the party. Proceeds from this benefit go to Share-A-Pet.  Learn More

A Marriage Unravels in Riches at the Phoenix Theatre

Phoenix Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Award-winning playwright Lee Blessing's Riches depicts an "everything is right" marriage in which everything goes horribly wrong. On a romantic getaway to celebrate their twenty-first wedding anniversary, a seemingly close, happy couple discovers just how far apart they really are.  Learn More

Provocative French Drama: Jean Genet's The Maids, with All-Male Cast

SF Playhouse Stage 2 (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: FREE - $11.00*
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Two sisters, Solange and Claire, simultaneously hate and love their employer. Trapped in the confines of Madam's world, their inability to escape draws them into a realm of deep introspection. The action revolves around the eccentricities of power and its resulting loneliness, exploring murder, enslavement and much more. This production is performed by an all-male cast.  Learn More

Little Shop of Horrors: Hit Musical at San Mateo Performing Arts Center

San Mateo Performing Arts Center (San Mateo, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
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Broadway by the Bay presents Little Shop of Horrors. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's over-the-top musical, based on a '60s horror film, tells the story of Seymour, a nerdy florist whose pact with a man-eating plant leads to chaos. The show was turned into a 1986 film, which starred Rick Moranis and Steve Martin.  Learn More

Flaming Sin: London's Grand Guignol Features U.S. Premiere of Noel Coward Play

Hypnodrome (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $69.00   Our Price: FREE - $34.50*
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The Hypnodrome presents Flaming Sin, featuring two plays which opened at London's notorious Grand Guignol in the early 1920s. The bill features the American premiere of Noel Coward's scandalous The Better Half, a skewering of British sexual mores that was lost for 85 years before being recently discovered. Also featured: André de Lorde and Alfred Binet's horrifying The Old Women, or A Crime in a Madhouse, plus an assortment of sensational variety acts.  Learn More

move(men)t - A Men's Dance Festival

975howard / The Garage (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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SAFEhouse presents a new annual festival that highlights the unique contributions of men in the field of Bay Area contemporary dance. This year's festival is a provocative combination of veteran choreographers (Scott Wells and Eric Kupers from Dandelion Dance Theater), trans-men (Joshua Klipp from Freeplay Dance Crew) and a full slate of emerging choreographers. move(men)t features two programs and promises to become an important new addition to the Bay Area's cultural landscape.  Learn More

Ty Barnett from Last Comic Standing at Cobb's

Cobb's Comedy Club (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 10:15pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
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Last Comic Standing's Ty Barnett takes the stage at Cobb's. Ty performs regularly on Jimmy Kimmel Live and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and has headlined with top names like Al Green, Chris Rock, and Robert Schimmel. He opened for Donna Summer at the Universal Amphitheater, for an audience of 6,000 people.  Learn More

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