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Events on May 31st For San Francisco, CA 94109

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

Vampire Tour of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 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 vampress. This tour has been delighting Goldstar Events' customers since January 2004!  Learn More

Shopping! The Musical - A Brand New Musical Comedy Revue

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $29.00   Our Price: FREE - $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

Battle-of-the-Bay Theatresports from BATS Improv

Bayfront Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $6.00 - $7.50*
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In this annual summer tournament, six teams representing neighborhoods all over the Bay Area battle for the right to compete against Los Angeles Theatresports in the championships. Each night, two teams of improvisers face off in a series of scenes, games and songs, vying for points awarded by judges. The audience is involved throughout the show, shouting suggestions, voting for their favorite scenes, and volunteers are invited to participate in one of the rounds.  Learn More

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

The Clubhouse @ SF Comedy College (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 9:00pm (Hasan Minhaj)
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
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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 

Architecture Walking Tour - Galleria Park Hotel Lobby (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 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

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

Swiss Louis Restaurant (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ Noon
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $115.00   Our Price: $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)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $46.00   Our Price: $9.95 - $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

Beth Custer Ensemble and the Black Olive Babes

Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (Berkeley, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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Blending jazz, funk and Latin rock, The Beth Custer Ensemble has produced a diverse array of projects—from musical theater productions to silent film scores to avant-pop compositions. Black Olive Babes, a new project led by Juliana Graffagna (17-year veteran of women's vocal ensemble KITKA) kick off the evening with a mix of concert and dance tunes derived from Albanian, Romani, Greek and American traditions.  Learn More

Donizetti's Delightful Comedy Don Pasquale from Pocket Opera

Florence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $34.00   Our Price: $17.00*
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Donizetti's 64th opera, thought by some to be his wittiest, tells of an old man who decides to cheat his nephew out of his inheritance by marrying a much younger girl. The stage is set for a comic clash of wills, invigorated by some of Donizetti's most intoxicating music, that leads to a happy ending for all concerned.  Learn More

Audience Picks Winner in Short-Play Competition ShortLived

Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 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

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

Custom Stage @ Off-Market (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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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. 31 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

SF Playhouse Presents Bug, a Creepy Psychological Thriller

The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $38.00   Our Price: FREE - $19.00*
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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

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

SF Playhouse Stage 2 (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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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

Kim Nalley and Johnny Nocturne Band Reunion at Pearl's

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $150.00   Our Price: $15.00 - $75.00*
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The Johnny Nocturne Band, a finely-honed, 9-piece jump blues and swing group led by wailing tenor sax man John Firmin, propels audiences into the swirling cauldron of some seriously ferocious swing. They've been charging that beat since the '80s, when they were front and center at the vanguard of the whirlwind vintage swing revival. Don't miss this special one-time reunion with Kim Nalley 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. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $34.00   Our Price: $14.00 - $17.00*
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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

Elton John and Tim Rice's Musical Aida at Hillbarn Theatre

Hillbarn Theatre (Foster City, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $26.00 - $28.00   Our Price: $13.00 - $14.00*
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This pop-rock musical by Elton John and Tim Rice (The Lion King) is the passionate tale of a captured Nubian princess taken as a slave to Egypt, where she becomes involved in a love triangle with her captor, the Egyptian captain Radames, and the daughter of the Pharaoh, Princess Amneris, who is bethrothed to Radames.  Learn More

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

The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
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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

Sam Shepard's Buried Child at Actors Theatre of San Francisco

Actors Theatre San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
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Buried Child won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a play premiering Off-Broadway, propelling Sam Shepard into the national spotlight. Exploring a dark side of the American Dream, the play chronicles three generations of a Midwestern family struggling against each other. From its darkly humorous opening to an implosive final act, the play examines the corrosive effects of a long-held secret in a family ravaged by guilt and shame.  Learn More

Giants of Jazz on Film Presents "Soundies": 1940s Music Videos of Ellington, Armstrong, More

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $24.00   Our Price: $12.00*
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The acclaimed Giants of Jazz on Film series continues with an evening of "soundies" — the music videos of the 1940s. These rarely screened three-minute films, produced for the Mill Panoram (a jukebox with a screen), feature jazz legends including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Dandridge, Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, and literally dozens more.  Learn More

Men in Uniform: A Provocative Evening of Short Theatre Exploring Masculinity

New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $22.00 - $34.00   Our Price: $11.00 - $17.00*
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Can real men drop their masculinity issues long enough to actually connect with one another? Featuring the work of local playwrights, Men in Uniform provocatively examines men beneath their masculine attire. Written by eight local writers involved in NCTC's gay playwrights program, the show consists of eight short works with intertwining themes.  Learn More

I'm Still Standing: A Celebration of the Music of Elton John at Zeum Theater

Zeum Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 2:00pm (Preview)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 7:30pm (Opening Night)
Full Price: $20.50   Our Price: $10.50*
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When 17-year-old pop phenom Bennie trades in Hollywood fame, a movie star boyfriend, and her outrageous diva agent Crystal Shine for the simple life at a Wisconsin high school, she learns what being a teenager is all about. The renowned A.C.T. Young Conservatory presents this energetic, music-filled take on Elton John's greatest hits.  Learn More

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

EXIT Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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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 through a series of failed jobs (including dot-com journalist and criminal defense attorney). Following a successful run at Theatre Rhinoceros, the show moves to the EXIT Theatre en route to an Off-Broadway engagement and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Learn More

San Francisco Giants vs. San Diego Padres 

AT&T Park (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 1:05pm
Full Price: $42.00   Our Price: $20.00*
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It's a battle of NL West rivals as the San Diego Padres travel north to take on the San Francisco Giants. It's a weekend series at AT&T Park, so gather up your friends and family and enjoy an afternoon at the ballpark.  Learn More

Soprano Nuccia Focile and Tenor Paul Charles Clarke Sing Opera, Broadway Standards at Hertz Hall

Hertz Hall (Berkeley, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $48.00   Our Price: FREE*
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Nuccia Focile joins forces with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and conductor Robert Cole for another performance of great music from both opera and the American musical theater. The acclaimed Italian soprano is joined by her husband, British tenor Paul Charles Clarke, in a program of duets and arias from Carmen, Turandot, Carousel, West Side Story, and others.  Learn More

Mordake, Erling Wold's Multimedia Opera Project at Shotwell Studios

Shotwell Studios (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
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Mordake has been created by a team led by San Francisco composer Erling Wold and German computer engineer and sound designer Frieder Weiss, along with tenor John Duykers, director Melissa Weaver and poet Douglas Kearney's libretto. The plot is inspired by the strange case of Edward Mordake and his "devil twin"—a man tormented by a voice coming from a woman's face on the back of his head.  Learn More

On Golden Pond: Classic Comedy at Altarena Playhouse

Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Retired couple Ethel and Norman Thayer spend every summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter visits, bringing along her fiance and his 13-year-old son. The Thayers spend the summer getting to know their soon-to-be grandson while confronting the realities of their marriage's twilight years. The Altarena's intimate, in-the-round setting is the perfect venue for this touching comedy.  Learn More

Cristina Moura: California Premiere of Brazilian Choreographer's like an idiot

Dance Mission Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 9:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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A solo performance by Brazilian dancer/choreographer Cristina Moura, like an idiot is a performance that combines a unique dance vocabulary with performance art. Utilizing otherworldly recorded music and idiosyncratic choreographic movement, Cristina moves about the stage as if possessed, drawing pictures in midair, speaking, with her hands, head, arms and body creating a mosaic of images, sounds and gestures. Presented as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.  Learn More

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Dance Mission Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 8:15pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
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San Francisco International Arts Festival bresents the Bay Area premiere of an attic an exit, by lean to productions, the long-time modern dance collaboration between Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters. With precision physicality and haunting imagery, the performers present five scenes taking place in a single room, weaving dance, theater, humor and horror to create a spellbinding dreamscape.  Learn More

Modern Dance Double Bill: US Premieres of Angels of Suderac and Physics of Empathy

Dance Mission Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 31 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
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The San Francisco International Arts Festival presents a double bill of innovative modern dance. Croatia's Kate Foley Dance Ensemble presents Angels of Suderac, based on the vilenice, a group of 17th-century Eastern European shamans. Scott Wells and Sonja Pregrad present Physics of Empathy, which mixes physically demanding dance with deconstructive questioning. Both works make their US premieres.  Learn More

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