HOLIDAY EVENT
Scuba Santa
Make the standard mall visit to santa an extreme underwater adventure this year at Underwater World, in the Mall of America. Practice your underwater communication skills
in order to tell santa what is first on your list this year. —Kate McDonald
12-5:30 p.m., Underwater Adventures Aquarium, 4715 W. Broadway Ave., Bloomington; 952-883-0202.
MUSIC
A Capella with Holiday Cheer
Who needs instruments when you have Christmas cheer? The group Tonic Sol-Fa
is a college, a cappella, cult favorite, and their holiday tour promises to
show that pure human voices are all you need to drum up
festive merriment. Hark! These herald angels sing sans harps. —Kate McDonald
7:30 p.m., Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Ave S Minneapolis; 612-371-5656; $20-32.
Another Holiday, Another Year. Go Back 20.
If holiday music isn’t your thing — perhaps you haven’t quite gotten the bug yet — why not indulge yourself a bit by traveling back a couple of decades. It’s time to bring out the angry girl of the ’80s. Remember her? She somehow managed to get you bouncing with her screams. Odd, no? Well, this angry girl was probably born in the ’80s, while the original angry girls were busy screaming, but The Friendly Enemies sure capture the mood. They’re no strangers to the Twin Cities. They play around town rather often, in fact. But somehow, in the midst of all the holiday cheer, they seem appropriate.. and fun.. a way to let off a little holiday steam. It ain’t easy, after all.
9 p.m., Triple Rock Social Club, 629 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-333-7399; free.
THEATER & PERFORMANCE
The Holiday Pageant
This gypsy-style retelling of
the nativity story is well on its way to becoming a camp classic. Open
Eye Figure Theatre’s mastermind Michael Sommers created the rather
scrappy production, which features an endearing blend of puppets, child
actors, and marginal musicianship—not to mention the acting chops of
local luminaries like Kevin Kling, Luverne Seifert, and Sarah Agnew. If
these virtues aren’t enough to make you buy a ticket, then consider
this: Sommers himself will appear onstage; and he’s grizzled and kind
of hot. (In fact, Frank Theatre’s Wendy Knox recently named him one of
the sexiest local actors.) Playing Lucifer, Sommers appears onstage in
red pleather and fur pants. But this glorious spectacle is all too
fleeting, my friends. The Holiday Pageant plays for one show only—and
that’s tonight. —Christy DeSmith
7:30 p.m., Pantages Theatre, 710 Hennepin
Ave., Minneapolis; for $25 tickets without the fees, visit the Pantages
Theatre box office in person.
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