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MOVIE: Nessie's taking off from the Marine Park salt marsh in Brooklyn, but you can catch the creature on the big screen. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep stars Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin and traces a boy's discovery of a mysterious egg that hatches into the sea creature of the Scottish legend. Way better than finding a sea monkey.

Various times and theaters, details here

MUSIC: If for some reason you just couldn't get enough of Jack Black's 2003 rockbuster movie, School of Rock, fear not - there's more. Sort of. Tonight B.B. King's brings in some School of Rock kids for a live show. Don't expect to see JB himself, but Paul Green and a troupe of kid-rockers will be on hand to deliver the classics. More info here.

7pm // B.B. King’s [237 W 42nd St] // $20

COMEDY: It's the year-end Improv Slam! "A few of the UCBT's best and brightest come together to celebrate 2007 and blow-out your Christmas hangover with some kickass improv comedy." Relive the year through improv-tinted glasses and laugh away your holiday hangover, all at once.

8pm // UCB Theater [307 26th St] // $5

THEATER: A hit at the 2006 Fringe Festival, The City That Cried Wolf plucks characters from nursery rhymes and tosses them into a noir mystery thriller. The situations are sordid but the effect is comic; it all starts when Humpty Dumpty hires private dick Jack B Nimble to verify that Little Bo Peep is cheating on him. The job leads Jack on a Chandleresque series of run-ins with the various habitués of the nursery rhyme underworld, a place where trouble and romance pour out in equal doses. Lisa Ferber found the show hilarious. “The dialogue here is just so good, as it combines the genres flawlessly: In describing Humpty Dumpty after his death: “‘He was a big egg with a thin shell.’” – John Del Signore

8:30pm // 59E59 [59 East 59th St] // Tickets cost $20.