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THEATER: Everything’s coming up roses for Patti LuPone, whose sensational turn in a short run of Gypsy at City Center last year drew enough accolades to fuel a Broadway production, which has now opened to rave reviews. You might think the 1959 musical, composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents, has been done to death by now – Bernadette Peters starred in the last Broadway rendition; before that there was Tyne Daly and, further back, Angela Lansbury. But big Ben Brantley at the Times says this latest incarnation “of Gypsy, the 1959 fable of the last days of vaudeville, shines with a magnified transparency that lets you see right down to the naked core of characters so hungry for attention that it warps them.” Go, but watch out for falling debris! – John Del Signore
2 p.m. & 8 p.m. // St. James Theatre [246 W 44th St] // Ticket prices vary
7 p.m. // Rose Bar [345 Grand St, Williamsburg] // Free
MUSIC: It's still a little cold for the beach, but it's always the right season for Beach House! The duo (pictured) take the Bowery stage tonight along with Papercuts, and tickets are still on sale. Listen: Master of None.mp3 - Beach House
8 p.m. // Bowery Ballroom [6 Delancey St] // $15
Meanwhile, over in Hoboken (it's just a short PATH ride away, people) there's a headliner at Maxwell's worth the ride to Jerz: Anathallo. This band played our show at SXSW this year and charmed the crowd with their new and old tunes; even if you haven't heard them before, you probably have -- one of their songs is in a highly-rotated commercial. The multi-talented multi-taskers are even blogging themselves these days; tomorrow they play Mercury Lounge.
8 p.m. // Maxwell's [1039 Washington St, Hoboken] // $10
EVENT: It's time to get nerdy again with another out-of-this-world installment of Secret Science Club. This time around they're "blasting off with Ben Oppenheimer, the principal investigator of the Lyot Project, an ambitious mission to discover and record images of planets outside our solar system. He’ll discuss the challenges scientists face in probing for exoplanets and reveal some of the Lyot team’s latest results." The cocktail for this event is called: the George Jetson.
8 p.m. // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // Free
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