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Sorry about the two sports posts in a row. Hope you non-sportballers have scrolling capability.

For one night only—Friday at Town Hall—Sean Nelson made a sizable dent in prolific yet forgotten 60s/70s singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson's extensive discography. Oh, but he didn't engage in such a lofty task alone. Instead, he ended up having somewhere around nine hundred other musicians assembled as a rock orchestra, which included theater-pop troupe "Awesome," three violinists, a brass section (including tuba), a trio of back-up chick singers, and a pajama-clad group of kids known as the Cougar Choir, all of whom were led by Nelson and producer-composer-pianist extraordinaire Mark Nichols (who also had a hand in the songs' arrangements). Now that's a lot of talent on one stage. Nelson covered a great deal of Nilsson's repertoire, from the poppy-sad songs about his bad relationship with his father to the poppy-sad songs about his bad relationships with women.

It'd be easy to miss out on . It hasn't gotten much advance press, and in fact, we only heard of the "evening of three bizarre comedies" because we were at another show when we came across a poster. Since we're always suckers for a witty title, that alone was enough to pique our interest. So there we were, at the Re-Bar last Friday night, not knowing what kind of show to anticipate. We did know one thing: the set-up on the stage was not what we had expected. Because there were instruments, like there was gonna be a band. Oh, there was gonna be a band alright...but it was just going to consist of one guy.