Can't Miss It: Thursday

GOING ORGONE: Los Angeles ten-piece band Orgone is one of the finer funk/soul groups we've come across. Rooted in the dancier sounds of the late 60s and 70s, Orgone is basically equal parts funk and soul with just the right amount of reggae and disco to spice things up. Never overly psychedelic but plenty sonically off-kilter, Orgone equally entertains the loose of foot and the aurally needy. With New Zealand genre hoppers Sola Rosa and Seattle "hard-ass-soul" vets The Staxx Brothers.

8:00 p.m. // Neumos 925 E Pike St. // $15

JESUS CHRIST POSER: John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany has inspired a number of things (according to the internet): the film Simon Birch, Jimmy Eat World's "Goodbye Sky Harbor," the LA Lakers, and most importantly for us today, Book-It Repertory Theatre's annual holiday favorite, Owen Meany's Christmas Pageant . Owen Meany has one of those charming messiah-complexes, which leads to his determination to play an overgrown Christ-child in the town's Christmas Pageant. The adaptation by Myra Platt and Jane Jones, who also directs, brings a more refreshing sort of holiday madness to the season every year.

7:30 p.m. // Center House Theatre 305 Harrison St. // $25-$44

RE-MARKABLE: For those interested in a less yuletide-happiness theatre experience, Fremont's West of Lenin (located, predictably, just west of the Lenin statue) presents A Pale & Lovely Place, a cult-hit, musical monologue first presented in the 1996 Seattle Fringe Festival before spreading to the rest of the world. Three characters in one try to sell the audience a strange covenant, performing songs and telling frightening, evil tales. The award-winning show, written by Kevin Joyce (co-founder of UMO Ensemble and Teatro Zinzanni Director/Performer), returns tonight after a 12-year hiatus.

8:00 p.m. // West of Lenin 203 N 36th St. // $19-$21