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July 30, 2010

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9:30 am- 10:00 pm	Madame Tussauds New York. Participate in the action. Mix Music with R&B Megastar Usher, Sing for Simon on American Idol (R) or if you dare enter Chamber o… Madame Tussauds New York. (Arts - Gallery Walk). 800-246-8872
10:00 am	David Schnuckel presents Parenthetical Admission. Parenthetical Admission (Things Eventually Recognized After the Fact.) is an exhibition of work that is inspired by the essence… UrbanGlass. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 718-625-3685
10:00 am- 5:45 pm	Julie Mehretu: Grey Area. The exhibition features semiabstract works inspired by multiple sources including historical photographs, urban planning grids,… Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-423-3500
10:30 am- 6:30 pm	Summer Group Show of Innovative Artists. Axelle Fine Arts Galerie presents a summer group installation featuring works by Albert Hadjiganev, Francois Bard, and Brian Ste… Axelle Fine Arts. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-226-2262
11:00 am- 4:00 pm	Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. The acclaimed permanent exhibition tells the unfolding story of Jewish culture and identity through 800 works of art, archaeolog… The Jewish Museum. (Arts - Gallery Walk). 212-423-3337
11:00 am- 6:00 pm	Journey into Art. The exhibition features a captivating selection of original works from emerging and established artists. An impressive selectio… Agora Gallery - Chelsea. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-226-4151
11:00 am- 6:00 pm	Big Picture. Kamrooz Aram, Colleen Asper, Paul Brainard, John Copeland, Holly Coulis, Justin Craun, Van Hanos, Dan Heidkamp, Aaron Johnson, E… Priska C. Juschka Fine Art. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-594-5452
11:00 am- 7:00 pm	Mint&Serf Special Graffiti Unit. An exhibition featuring new work by New York visual artists Mint&Serf. Lyons Wier Gallery. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-242-6220
12:00 pm- 7:00 pm	Marked: A Show of Figure. In the works exhibited during Marked, six artists use the figure to reflect personal narratives of their own design. Opening Re… Like the Spice, Art Studio. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 718-388-5388
12:00 pm- 9:00 pm	Usable Pasts 2009-10 Artists in Residence. In this year's installment of the much-anticipated Artist-in-Residence exhibition, Mequitta Ahuja (b. 1976), Lauren Kelley (b. 1… Studio Museum in Harlem. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-864-4500
12:00 pm- 9:00 pm	Zwelethu Mthethwa. The first New York museum exhibition of South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa (b. 1960, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Afri… Studio Museum in Harlem. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-864-4500
12:00 pm- 9:00 pm	Harlem Postcards Summer 2010. Available free of charge in the Museum lobby, the postcards offer intimate views of and new perspectives on this famous neighbor… Studio Museum in Harlem. (Arts - Gallery Walk). 212-864-4500
1:00 pm- 6:00 pm	Nachleben. 'Nachleben,' meaning both "afterlife" and "survival," a display of contemporary art works and a series of related programs. Ope… Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-439-8700
1:00 pm	Shakespeare in the Pagoda. EBE Ensemble presents Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare's classic tragedy of youthful love. Directed by Dev Bondarin,. Music Pagoda. (Performance - Theater).
4:00 pm	Shakespeare in the Pagoda. EBE Ensemble presents Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a highly-charged exploration of power, jealousy, and revenge. Directed by Kr… Music Pagoda. (Performance - Theater).
7:00 pm	Tony n' Tina's Wedding. This long-running interactive mock wedding exploits the stereotype of the melodramatic Italian. As an invited guest you will da… Vinnie Black's Colliseum at the Edison Hotel. (Performance - Show Comedy). 212-352-3101
7:00 pm	Blue Man Group. Three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percuss… Astor Place Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 800-BLUE-MAN
8:00 pm	Chicago. This Tony-Award winning musical tells a story of two showgirls who kill their lovers and how their smooth lawyer propels them in… Ambassador Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	South Pacific. The musical is based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, and features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hamm… Vivian Beaumont Theater. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	The Lion King. Disney's Tony Award winning musical about Simba, a young cub, and his journey from childhood to adulthood and eventually the thr… Minskoff Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-869-0550
8:00 pm	The Phantom of the Opera. The unforgettable tale of a mysterious figure haunting the Paris Opera House. Majestic Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Jersey Boys. A new Broadway musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito an… August Wilson Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Wicked. The story of two girls born in the Land of Oz. One has green skin as is fiery and misunderstood, the other beautiful and popula… Gershwin Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Stomp. This international percussion ensemble used everyday objects to create amazing sounds and rhythms. Orpheum Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	RockStarsNYC. The newest Off-Broadway Theater event to stage dive into the intensified rock concert experience combining dance & live rock n r… Polly Esther's NY. (Performance - Theater). 212-714-ROCK
8:00 pm	Altar Boyz. This musical comedy spoof follows a Christian boy band that includes one Jewish boy. The performances are held at New World Stag… New World Stages. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm- 11:00 pm	The Distant Sound. 2010 Bard SummerScape Festival Presents First U.S. Staging of Franz Schreker's Opera 'The Distant Sound' featuring the festival'… Sosnoff Theater. (Arts - Opera). 845-758-7900
8:00 pm	Billy Elliott: The Musical. This moving new musical is the story of a boy who discovers he has a special talent for dance, while the boys all around him are… Imperial Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. Hair follows a group of hopeful, free-spirited young people. The score includes the musical numbers "Let the Sun Shine In," "Aq… Al Hirschfeld Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Memphis - The Musical. The story of Huey Calhoun, a white radio DJ whose love of good music transcends race lines and airwaves. Set in the turbulent s… Shubert Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Next to Normal. A modern musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. Booth Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Rock of Ages. It's 1987 and the final countdown is on for a legendary Hollywood rock club facing its demise at the hands of eager developers.… Brooks Atkinson Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Fela!. This new musical, based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Directed an… Eugene O'Neill Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	A Little Night Music. A Little Night Music is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, lon… Walter Kerr Theater. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Race. A riveting new play in which three attorneys, two black and one white, are offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a… The Barrymore Theater. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Pilobolus. Pilobolus brings a powerful line-up of new and classic works to its 40th anniversary celebration with three separate programs pe… The Joyce Theater. (Performance - Dance). 212-242-0800
8:00 pm	The Addams Family. The Addams Family is an all-new musical comedy starring two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and M… Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Sting. Featuring the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. (Arts - Concerts). 866-781-2922
8:00 pm- 11:00 pm	Rooftop Films: Animation Block Party. Some call it punk rock, some call it grass roots, but labels aside, NYC-based Animation Block Party is dedicated to exhibiting t… Automotive High School. (Performance - Movies). 718-417-7362
8:00 pm- 10:00 pm	The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All. When Mexican lesbian nun and playwright Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz was deprived of writing materials as penance, she used her own… Surreal Estate NYC. (Arts - Opera). 574-536-7648
8:00 pm	The Grand Manner. A playwright by A.R. Gurney, The Grand Manner is a love letter to this fabled actress and a heartfelt look back at the glorious… Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. (Performance - Theater).
8:00 pm	Come Fly Away. A new musical from director/choreographer Twyla Tharp. Follows four couples as they fall in and our of love during one song and… Marquis Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Lend Me a Tenor. Set in the 1930s, this comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, a famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make… Music Box Theater. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	American Idiot. Follows working-class characters from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East, as they seek redemption in a world filled with… St. James Theater. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Promises, Promises. In an effort to advance at Consolidated Life Insurance Company, employee Check Baxter lends executives his apartment for their e… Broadway Theatre. (Performance - Show Comedy). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Spiritualized. English space rock band performing live in concert. Radio City Music Hall. (Arts - Concerts). 212-307-7171
8:00 pm	The Screwtape Letters. From the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view. Performance is at the upstairs theater.. Westside Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-315-2302
8:00 pm	Love, Loss, and What I Wore. An intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron based on the book by Ilene Beckerman. A portion of ticket sale… Westside Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-315-2302
8:00 pm	The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All. An experimental, documentary opera following Helene Weigel, Bertolt Brecht's wife and "the greatest actress who ever lived". Surreal Estate NYC. (Arts - Opera).
8:00 pm	90 ways to Wake From Drowning. Utilizing a twisting narrative, "Wake" bends epic storytelling into an immediate visceral experience set amidst a visual wonderl… Joyce SoHo. (Performance - Theater). 212-242-0800
8:00 pm	Love's Gonna Get Ya!. An inspirational stage play with music based on the true story of eight singles and their passionate search for true love. Roy Arias Studios & Theatres. (Performance - Theater). 212-352-3101
8:00 pm	Victor Manuelle. Performing live in concert. B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. (Arts - Concerts). 212-924-8471
8:30 pm	The World Stand Up Comedy. Featuring the best mix of national TV headliners from Letterman, Leno, Conan and Comedy Central as well as the hottest young com… The World at The Broadway Comedy Club. (Performance - Comedic). 646-229-6430
10:00 pm	Blue Man Group. Three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percuss… Astor Place Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 800-BLUE-MAN
10:30 pm- 11:30 pm	Too Much Light Makes the Baby go Blind. Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is the New York Neo-Futurists, the wildly prolific writers/directors/performers, race-aga… Kraine Theater. (Performance - Theater). 212-352-3101
10:30 pm	Naked Boys Singing. Playing on Stage 5, this all-male, all-nude musical has been running since 1999 and delivers exactly what it's title promises.. New World Stages. (Performance - Musical). 212-871-1730
10:30 pm	The World Stand Up Comedy. Featuring the best mix of national TV headliners from Letterman, Leno, Conan and Comedy Central as well as the hottest young com… The World at The Broadway Comedy Club. (Performance - Comedic). 646-229-6430
10:30 pm	A Night in Vegas. An off-broadway production, about the flamboyant Vegas nightlife all through the door of one hotel room. Topics include male pro… Bleecker Street Theatre. (Performance). 212-260-8250
12:00 am	The World Stand Up Comedy. Featuring the best mix of national TV headliners from Letterman, Leno, Conan and Comedy Central as well as the hottest young com… The World at The Broadway Comedy Club. (Performance - Comedic). 646-229-6430
	Mamma Mia!. The story of a forty-something mother planning her daughter's wedding. Incorporating 22 of the band ABBA's songs. Schedule var… Winter Garden Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
	Mary Poppins. Based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the Oscar-winning 1964 Walt Disney film. The show fatures original film score by Rober… New Amsterdam Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-282-2900
	In the Heights. In the Heights is a new musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights. Schedule varies, please check ahead. Richard Rodgers Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
	here: remembering 9/11. "here: remembering 9/11" features a selection of photographs from the "here is new york: a democracy of photographs" exhibition,… Ground Zero. (Arts - Photography Exhibit).
	La Cage Aux Folles. Can a camp man (and his lover) pretend not to be gay just to meet his son's prospective parents-in-law? Schedule varies, please… Longacre Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
	Million Dollar Quartet. A new musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together four of the most legendary figures in the histo… Nederlander Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-921-8000
	Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. Schedule varies, pl… Helen Hayes Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
	Time Stands Still. Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? This is one of many questions Pulitzer… Cort Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
	Literary Lives: The World of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller. Shirley Hazzard unlocks her private collection of personal photographs and books that gives a first-ever look at the life she sh… The New York Society Library. (Arts - Photography Exhibit). 212-288-6900
	Collecting Woodstock: Recent Museum Acquisitions. This exhibition features photographs, objects, and ephemera from the 1969 Woodstock festival. Included are thirty new Woodstock… Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 866-781-2922
	Secrets of the Trade. In show business, it's all about who you know. Or is it? Andy Lipman, a smart, ambitious kid from Long Island dreams of a care… 59E59 Theaters. (Performance - Theater). 212-840-9705

Sports

7:10 pm	New York Mets vs. Arizona Diamondbacks. MLB Baseball Game. Citi Field. (Sports - Pro Baseball). 877-507-TIXX
7:30 pm	New York Liberty vs. Los Angeles Sparks. WNBA Basketball Game. Madison Square Garden. (Sports - Pro Basketball). 212-307-7171

For Children

3:30 pm	Global Story Hour. Global Story Hour focuses on books on diverse countries and cultures that promote inclusive behavior and development of early ch… Mercy Corps Action Center. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-537-0511
7:00 pm	The Gazillion Bubble Show. This Guiness record holder has blown the biggest soap bubble. Fan Yang presents a show filed with lighting effects, maagic and b… New World Stages. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-871-1730
7:30 pm	The Gazillion Bubble Show. This Guiness record holder has blown the biggest soap bubble. Fan Yang presents a show filed with lighting effects, maagic and b… New World Stages. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-871-1730
8:00 pm	The Gazillion Bubble Show. This Guiness record holder has blown the biggest soap bubble. Fan Yang presents a show filed with lighting effects, maagic and b… New World Stages. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-871-1730
	Summer Theatre Camp. Young actors will sharpen acting skills, play theater games and develop unique characters as playmakers. Campers will also have… The New Acting Company at The Childrens Aid Society. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-254-3074

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