Let's face it, this weekend was made for bonding with your couch, napping and eating leftovers. But if you really want to go against the flow, here are some things to get you out of the house...

THEATER: Gutenberg! The Musical did so well at the recent New York Musical Theatre Festival that it’s moved on up to 59E59. (The show was directed by Alex Timbers, who most recently helmed Hell House.) In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights, Bud and Doug, perform a backers' audition for their new project — a “great big musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. Accompanied by Larry, their pianist, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic, using only baseball caps to differentiate the show's 30 characters.” Time Out NY noticed “the same mix of affection, scorn, and wonderfully bad songs that made Waiting for Guffman such a pleasure.” - John Del Signore

8:15 pm // 59E59 Theaters [59 East 59th Street] // Tickets are $35

SHOPPING: If you're in to the whole "shopping during the busiest shopping days ever" thing...have we got the place for you. Head up to Woodbury Commons for their After Thanksgiving Weeekend Sale. Doors opened to this massive outlet-wide sale yesterday at midnight, but we're sure there is plenty left to pick through.

All Weekend // Woodbury Commons Premium Outlets [498 Red Apple Court, Central Valley, NY]

THEATER: London-based troupe I'm a Camera has brought its hit Murder Mystery Blues to the town of its original author, Woody Allen. The noir jazz “play-with-music” is adapted from six short stories Allen published in The New Yorker. Here's the low-down: “Private Eye Kaiser Lupowitz has seen it all, then a dynamite brunette asks him to find the most elusive Guy in the whole of New York.” The Sunday Times of London declares it "an ideal evening for thinking jokers and joking thinkers." - John Del Signore

Saturday // 2pm and 8pm // 59E59 Theaters [59 East 59th Street] // Tickets are $45

MUSIC: If you missed out on Texas is the Reason tickets for this weekend, there are plenty of other shows going on, as always. Mixel Pixel plays Saturday night at The Knitting Factory. The Brooklyn band has brought folk and electronic together, and have somehow made it work.

7:30pm // The Knitting Factory main space [74 Leonard St] // $8

THEATER: Luminous Work presents the final performance of Like Decorations in a Cemetery, a solo interpretation of Wallace Stevens's 50-stanza poem, "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery." Laylage Courie, who stages the text as a tea party, explains that the poem “references the African-American tradition, necessitated by poverty, of marking graves with pots, broken glass, metal scraps, plants, and other detritus. Like these decorations, the stanzas are humble, necessary,
impoverished, yet comforting 'decorations around the theme of death'.” On our invitation to the tea party, we’re told that “hat & gloves are optional, but bourbon is recommended.” Since it’s at the liquor-licensed Bowery Poetry Club, that shouldn’t be a problem. - John Del Signore

Sunday // 6pm // Bowery Poetry Club [308 Bowery @ Bleecker] // $10

Don't forget, it's also a great weekend to hit the movie theater, here are our picks for the weekend. And the Origami Tree is up!