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Events on May 17th For San Francisco, CA 94109

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

Vampire Tour of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Explore the Gothic side of San Francisco's Nob Hill with this incredible Vampire Tour, led by Mina Harker, a real vampress. This tour has been delighting Goldstar Events' customers since January 2004!  Learn More

Facial and Body Therapies from Caramella Skin Couture

Caramella Skin Couture (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $95.00 - $140.00   Our Price: $47.50 - $70.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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

Shopping! The Musical - A Brand New Musical Comedy Revue

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $29.00   Our Price: FREE - $14.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
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)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $80.00 - $250.00   Our Price: $40.00 - $125.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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

Naked Comedy — Live Stand-Up Comedy at the Clubhouse!

The Clubhouse @ SF Comedy College (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 9:00pm (Joe Klocek)
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
No additives, no preservatives—just good stand-up comedy. This comedy showcase features some of the best comedians in town, including those local favorites from the bigger clubs—without the two-drink minimum of those other clubs. Lineups change every week, so check the Clubhouse website for the latest updates.  Learn More

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

Architecture Walking Tour - Galleria Park Hotel Lobby (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
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

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

Swiss Louis Restaurant (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $115.00   Our Price: $57.50*
Rated: 2.6 stars
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)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $46.00   Our Price: FREE - $23.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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

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

Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
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

Audience Picks Winner in Short-Play Competition ShortLived

Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
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

Legendary Songwriting Duo Ashford & Simpson in Concert

Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $50.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $25.00 - $30.00*
Rated: 3.9 stars
The husband and wife duo Ashford and Simpson have had dual careers as performers and songwriters, having provided many iconic artists with their biggest hits. Legends such as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye and many others have recorded the duo's songs. Now they're making a rare SF appearance at the Rrazz Room.  Learn More

Neil Simon's The Odd Couple — A Timeless Classic at Custom Made Theatre Co.

Custom Stage @ Off-Market (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Oscar, a typical slovenly bachelor, is living in his beautifully decorated, but now trashed, apartment since his wife left him. Felix, a compulsive neat-freak, has also just been dumped by his spouse. Thinking the company would do him good, not to mention the rent reduction, Oscar invites Felix to live with him...and so begins one of theatre's most famous marriages.  Learn More

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

Hypnodrome (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $69.00   Our Price: FREE - $34.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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

Direct from New York, Singer-Pianist Tony DeSare and His Trio in Concert

Osher Marin Jewish Community Center (San Rafael, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Tony DeSare, jazz pianist and crooner, returns to Osher Marin for an evening of swinging music. Tony performs in the tradition of Frank Sinatra and the next generation of jazz/cabaret/American songbook greats such as Harry Connick, Jr. and John Pizzarelli. This talented young singer-pianist-composer earned rave reviews for his recent debut at the legendary Cafe Carlyle.  Learn More

SF Playhouse Presents Bug, a Creepy Psychological Thriller

The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $38.00   Our Price: FREE - $19.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Walk on the wild side with Tracy Letts' Bug, a Bay Area premiere from the author of Killer Joe and current Broadway darling August: Osage County. Bug is a psychological thriller about love, fear...and little tiny bugs. This play will seduce you and get under your skin. Scratch the itch — don't miss it!  Learn More

Lamplighters' Gilbert & Sullivan: Straight Up, With A Twist! Tells Story of Musical Duo

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00   Our Price: $19.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
The Lamplighter's Gilbert & Sullivan: Straight Up, With A Twist! is the real story behind one of the greatest partnerships in theater history, told in their own words, with musical highlights from all 13 of their comic operas. You'll meet Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert, overhear their creative infighting, and enjoy a large selection of songs and choruses, both oft-performed favorites and beauties from infrequently staged productions.  Learn More

Classic Family Comedy Life With Father at Chanticleers Theatre

Chanticleers Theatre (Castro Valley, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 2.2 stars
In late 19th-century New York, a Wall Street broker likes to think he's in charge of his household...but much of what happens is beyond his control. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of selling patent medicine. When it comes to light that he has never been baptized, things really start to come undone.  Learn More

Celebrated Baritone Matthias Goerne Sings Songs by Shostakovich, Brahms, Wolf

Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $49.00   Our Price: $15.00 - $24.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
San Francisco Performances welcomes baritone Matthias Goerne to the Herbst Theatre for a program featuring the last songs written by three composers. The program includes Shostakovich's Suite on Verses by Michelangelo, Hugo Wolf's Michelangelo Lieder, and Brahms' Four Serious Songs, all of which grapple with issues of mortality and the artistic legacy.  Learn More

Václav Havel's Vanek, a Trio of Short Plays

Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (Berkeley, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Eastenders Repertory Company presents an ambitious production of one-act plays by former Czech president, and acclaimed playwright, Václav Havel. This trilogy centers on the author's fictional alter ego Ferdinand Vanek, who, like the playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident.  Learn More

Ilkhom Theatre Presents Ecstasy with the Pomegranate

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $35.00   Our Price: $17.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts honors Ilkhom Theatre's artistic director, Mark Weil, and his company on its U.S. tour by presenting Ecstasy with the Pomegranate, the last work Weil produced before his untimely death. Beautiful, funny and experimental, Ecstasy revives history to illuminate contemporary issues of identity.  Learn More

12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival: An Evening of Short Plays at Thick House

Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
The 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given full production to deliver what the Examiner calls, "as entertaining and thought-provoking as anything on stage at The City's major theaters these days."  Learn More

Sam Shepard's Satire Curse of the Starving Class at A.C.T.

A.C.T. (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 - $67.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $34.50*
Rated: 2.8 stars
A dark satire by Pulitzer Prize winner and Academy Award nominee Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class is at once hilarious and profound, frighteningly true and delightfully surreal. The story follows a malnourished and rather bizarre family searching for freedom, security and their piece of the American pie.  Learn More

Theater: The Musical — An Improvised Musical from Un-Scripted Theater Company

SF Playhouse Stage 2 (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
At each performance, the Un-Scripted Theater Company will improvise a new, full-length musical as if it were written by one of your favorite playwrights. In the mood for musical comedy? How about musical drama? The audience supplies the playwright, and Un-Scripted delivers an original musical—created just for you.  Learn More

Jazz Legend Barbara Morrison in Concert at Pearl's

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $150.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $75.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Barbara Morrison, a perennial favorite of Goldstar's members, celebrates her 30th year in the music industry. Over the past three decades she has performed with a virtual "who's who" of the jazz and the blues worlds, and appeared on over 20 recordings. Now she's coming to Jazz at Pearl's.  Learn More

Campy Mystery It's Murder, Mary! at New Conservatory Theatre Center

New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm (Opening Night)
Full Price: $22.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $11.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
This action-packed comedy is modeled after the classic "whodunit" murder-mystery genre. Set at an exclusive Russian River resort, this campy yet tension-filled play will keep you guessing (and laughing) until the last body falls.  Learn More

An Evening with Ben Vereen at Kanbar Hall

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $68.00   Our Price: $34.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Broadway legend Ben Vereen makes a rare appearance bringing his "Old Razzle-Dazzle" to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco's Kanbar Hall. He'll chart the course of his illustrious career, and pay tribute to his idol Sammy Davis Jr.  Learn More

Peddling Rainbows: The Songs and Poetry of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg

Eureka Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $38.00   Our Price: $11.00 - $19.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Enjoy an evening of great songs like "It's Only a Paper Moon," "April in Paris," "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "Over the Rainbow," "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?", "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe," "Can't Help Singing" and "Old Devil Moon" by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and his composer-collaborators Harold Arlen, Burton Lane, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, Vernon Duke and more.  Learn More

SAFEhouse Presents The Book of Mark

975howard / The Garage (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Ever wonder how to feed 5,000 guests who just happen to pop in for dinner? How to walk on water? Ever try to give swimming lessons to 2,000 pigs? These are just some of the complex perplexities encountered in The Book of Mark, the story of one man's journey into eternity.  Learn More

Ann Randolph's Wickedly Funny One-Woman Show Squeeze Box at the Marsh

The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Originally produced by Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, Ann Randolph's one-woman show Squeeze Box was an off-Broadway hit. This is her strange and wonderful tale of working at a woman's shelter while pursuing Harold, "the accordionist of her dreams." Wickedly funny and poignant, the show makes its Bay Area debut, and will be followed by excerpts from Randolph's next production.  Learn More

American Bach Soloists Present Sound the Trumpet

First Congregational Church of Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Baroque trumpeter John Thiessen, whose playing has been called "flawless" and "effervescent," joins American Bach Soloists at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley to celebrate the anniversaries of two contemporaries of Bach — Johann Friedrich Fasch and Guiseppe Torelli — with a program of virtuoso trumpet concertos.  Learn More

San Francisco Giants vs. Chicago White Sox, Plus Promotions Baseball 2008

AT&T Park (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 6:05pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 6:05pm
Full Price: $42.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
The San Francisco Giants host the Chicago White Sox in a weekend series at AT&T Park. Both of these games feature exciting promotions: bring your cameras on May 17 for On-Field Photo Night, while May 18 is the Coca-Cola G-Men Retro Game, in which the first 7500 fans 14 or under receive a set of "army men"-style toy baseball players.  Learn More

Alexander String Quartet with Lecturer Robert Greenberg at Herbst Theatre

Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $34.00   Our Price: $17.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
San Francisco Performances presents the latest concert in its Saturday morning "Inspirations" series: a world-class performance from its resident ensemble, the Alexander String Quartet, combined with an educational and entertaining lecture from music historian Robert Greenberg. This program features Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden, and George Crumb's Black Angels (Images I) for electric string quartet.  Learn More

Sweeney Todd Spoof Sweetie Tanya: The Demon Barista of Valencia Street

EXIT Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Catch the musical parody that SF Weekly calls "a vicious theatrical treat." On the run from creditors after a failed sexual harassment suit against her powerful boss, Tanya ends up working in the dingiest coffee shop in the Mission. Instead of a haven, she finds a lecherous boss, creepy patrons and her destiny as a force of vengeance!  Learn More

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