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If you just want a sing-along, Grease (at 5th Avenue Theatre through May 30, Tickets $22-83) will suit you fine. However, if you're looking for the character development or chemistry of the movie, this production will disappoint. Oh, and this Taylor Hicks guy (American Idol Season 6 winner), who's almost being touted as the show's star, makes nothing more than a glittery cameo.

    

ONE WEEKEND ONLY

, you can get in for $20. All you have to do is head to the box office, which is already open, and tell them the special discount code "downtown" when buying your ticket. It's one ticket per customer, cash-only, in-person, so bring your date and $40 if you don't want to go alone.

Loosely based on the life of "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips, the new musical (at the 5th Avenue Theatre; Tues.-Wed. 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sat. 2 p.m. & Sun. 1:30 p.m., through Feb. 15; tix $29-$81) tells the story of dj Huey Calhoun, who faces down segregation and racism in 1950s Tennessee to become one of the progenitors of rock and roll and rhythm and blues by crossing over the racial barrier and putting black musicians on white radio.

     

A loud, garish co-production with American Musical Theatre of San Jose and St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, this Cabaret steers clear of good taste in more ways than one. Its Kit Kat Klub has an authentically German, middlebrow's-night-on-the-town feel. As directed by Billy Berry and choreographed by Bob Richard, the show is miles away from the seventies sleaze of the Bob Fosse film or the sexual apocalypse of the show emceed by Alan Cumming, yet borrows touches from both. (We also liked the faux Burberry outfits for the English schoolgirl skit.)

At last, Patrick and Agnes find the decadent apartment of his only living relative, Auntie Mame Dennis and, well, this is where it gets good. Did we say good? We meant marvelous, fabulous, breathtaking, spectacular and any number of other big words meant to convey a sense of awe and grandeur.