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Following up on their announcement that Seattle would be one of the nine cities on the 20th anniversary of Doolittle tour, the Pixies will be playing the Paramount November 12 and 13. Both nights are all ages shows with general admission on the floor and reserved seating in the balcony. Tickets are a woof-inducing $58 not including fees and go on sale August 1 (that's this Saturday) at 10 a.m.

The somehow multi-platinum Grammy winner (whaaaaa?) is set to perform a free show at the Paramount July 17th. It's all part of the Samsung AT&T Summer Krush, a "Private Summer Music Experience Features Today's Hottest Artists In The Hippest Locations, and Offers Consumers A Chance To Experience the New Samsung JACK™ Mobile Phone!" [sic up the wazoo]. Portions of the night's hour-long set will air that evening on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and after two hours of corporate phone-related shilling, the performance starts at 8:00 p.m. Mark your calendar, y'know, if you're into this sort of thing.

After much speculation, it was just announced that the original incarnation of local emo legends Sunny Day Real Estate (Nate Mendel, William Goldsmith, Dan Hoerner, and Jeremy Enigk) will reunited for a 20-date US tour starting September 17th. Additionally, Sub Pop is reissuing remastered versions of the band's first two albums, with bonus tracks (ooooh) and new liner notes (ahhhhh). The tour kicks off in Vancouver and ends--home again, home again, jiggity jig--at the Paramount on October 16th. Tix will be $28 and go on sale sometime next week. Full list of tour dates here.

Although the bohemian residents of Avenue A proclaim they're not going to pay "Rent," we would happily pay to hear them sing it again after Tuesday's solid opening night. Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal are reprising their original 1996 Broadway roles as Mark and Roger in the famed rock opera by the late Jonathan Larson in RENT: The Broadway Tour.

        

All in all, opening night of SIFF this year wasn't half-bad. The movie was good, the weather cooperated, and unlike last year, there was actually free food and drinks. Of course, the program didn't start until 20 minutes late, which means after all the introductions and thank yous, the film was on at 8 p.m. instead of 7. You know, SIFF stuff.

Cats was one of Broadway's longest standing musical productions, having debuted there in 1982 and running until September of 2000, although it lives on around the country in a Broadway Across America tour (now at the Paramount through this weekend) and, no doubt, on community stages far and wide.

Each of these shows is monumental in its own right, but the fact that they're both going on sale on the same day--this Saturday--must indicate something apocalyptic is afoot, straight out of 2012, or at least Know1ng. First: Kenny G on Tuesday, November 17 at the Paramount Theatre, with tickets running $35-65. Now as that's sinking in, consider this: New Kids on the Block at White River Amphitheatre on Tuesday, July 7. Tickets are $19.50-79.50, with specially-priced $10 lawn tickets available on Saturday only. Somebody call Roland Emmerich and greenlight this disaster.

Just announced: The Shins are set to play two shows at the Showbox on Monday, May 4 at 9:00 p.m. (all ages) and Tuesday, May 5 at 9:00 p.m. (21+) . Tickets are $34.99 (yowza), not including those delightful Ticketmaster fees. Tix go on sale this Friday, March 27 at 10 a.m. We'd advise you to save a few bucks by buying your tickets directly from the Showbox box office. Also on sale via Ticketmaster/Live Nation this Friday/Saturday: Death Cab/New Pornographers/Ra Ra Riot at Marymoor Park July 18, Ben Folds at the Paramount May 14, and Phish at the Gorge for two nights (*shudder*) August 7 and 8.

(Forgive the most obvious headline ever. We're distracted by the glowing orb in the sky.)

When Seattlest was living in New York City and our then-six-year-old niece came to visit, it made perfect sense to take her to see The Lion King on Broadway. After all, it was a Disney production, based on the cartoon movie by the same name. We joked around with her before the show about how silly it felt to be an adult at a Disney play (even then she liked to goad us sarcastically about such things). But then the lights went low, the music started, and suddenly both us and our little niece were spellbound by the story and the incredible costumes, choreography, and score.

The other night, it was raining, and Seattlest had spent the entire day in our tiny studio apartment with the shades drawn. Next thing we knew, we found ourselves at that back of a particular dark, dank Eastlake bar chatting with our editor for another job about how much we'd love to write a musical. The thing about musical theater, we contended, was that it was cheesy. Granted, we maintained, we love musical theater for all its glittery, flashy, jazz-hands-and-kick-ball-change cheesiness, but we recognize the wider world doesn't see an ounce of reality in Sutton Foster dressed like a flapper, killing the big notes at the end of "Gimme Gimme." Most people can recognize talent like that when they see it, but it doesn't resound with them the way that, say, Angelina Jolie's heaving breast during a close-up action scene would at any summer blockbuster.

Seattlest caught The Lion King on Broadway when we were living on that end of the urban archipelago. We chose that show because it was the only kid-friendly show we could get tickets to, and our niece (six at the time) was in town. We have to say we were surprised and impressed. It's an incredibly well-done show, and the costumes, in particular, are impressive. We suggest you go. The show opens at the Paramount in February, but tickets ($19.50-$75) go on sale next week, Oct. 24.

THAT'S FUNNY, BITCHES: Chris Rock is one of those people who can just stand there and we'll laugh. But when he opens his mouth, forget it. We kind of laugh so hard we can't even hear what he's saying half the time, cycling through our various laughs from chuckle to cackle and snort. So you're probably glad we won't be at the Paramount tonight for his show. We'd just distract everything, and he'd probably make fun of us. Which would be funny.

When Seattlest was a little girl, our mother rented the film version of A Chorus Line and, in that single theatrical moment, we were transported from little girl-dom straight to an imaginary world where we would grow up to be a chorus girl. As a young dancer, we saw a couple of different productions of the musical, and were always impressed with the athletic, highly demanding choreography. We were intimidated just watching it, imagining ourself growing up to head out to auditions where such incredibly dexterous moves would be demanded of us.

HOW MANY BOYS, HOW MANY GIRLS: A Chorus Line opens at the Paramount tonight. It's being sold on the TV commercials as the best Broadway musical EVAR, and we'd have to agree. Seattlest will be the one singing along with every single word (and dancing along with every bit of choreography in our seat). This is the show, at least in part, responsible for our life-long love affair with music and dance. You've got a week to fall in love yourself. No pressure.

NPR's quiz show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! hasn't taped an episode in Seattle since 2001, but last night at the Paramount, they had a sold-out venue full of Seattleites dressed up in their best fleeces eager to clap and guffaw on cue. Apparently, a radio show that runs about forty-five minutes on the air takes more than twice that live, including a humorously eerie segment at the end of the night where the cast quickly records disembodied do-overs of the lines they flubbed the first time around.

NPR IN DA HOUSE: Seattlest was kind of surprised to hear that tickets are still available for NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me live show at the Paramount tonight. We've never personally been to a live radio show before, but we do love the N to the PR, and we're guessing this'll be well worth your time. In case you don't mack on the NPR, it's the silly quiz show that takes a humorous look at current events. Good stuff.

GET A HAIRCUT, GET A REAL JOB: If you're among the throngs getting laid off thanks to this booming economy we're having, try skipping the liquid breakfast today. Roll out of bed early and get on down to Seattle Center with a stack of resumes. The Northwest Career Fair kicks off this morning at 11 and, with any luck, there should be at least something for which you're qualified. They're hiring for just about everything—from deli clerks to tech editors, forklift operators, bankers, PR people, line cooks...the list goes on.

By the time we made it to the Paramount for Avenue Q's opening night last night, just about everyone we know had told us how much we were going to love it. That's a high bar our friends and family set for this show. Now we know it's because they knew it could deliver.

FULL PUPPET NUDITY: You might have noticed that big banner on the side of the Paramount advertising puppet cleavage Avenue Q. Well, tonight is opening night, so if you haven't gotten your tickets for this ever-so-brief run of the Tony Award-winning show, now's your time. Seattlest will be there tonight for the kick-off, but then it's up to you to get out and see those puppets sing and swear all over the place.

Tonight, if you're not already at a SIFF film or checking out "Awesome" with side projects Jose Bold and the Half Brothers at the Sunset, head to the Comet to see local Mazzy Star-on-psychedelics Half Light. They're touring off their new album Sleep More, Take More Drugs, Do Whatever We Want.

TEENY BOPPER EXPRESS: Disney's High School Musical opens at the Paramount tonight, so maybe steer clear of the teenagers downtown. If you have your own teenager, maybe it's a good night to set them free with their friends so they can go sing along and goo-goo-ga-ga over the cute boys and dreaminess of this sensational teenfest.

Avenue Q is going to be hitting the Paramount this summer, and word on the street is that the banner they'll be hanging on the theater is simply scandalous.

The 4th Annual Care for the Market luncheon, held yesterday at The Paramount Theatre, was a wake-up call for us. When we think of Pike Place Market, we picture ourselves gorging on Beecher's macaroni and cheese. We envision ourselves carrying bundles of ginormous dahlias, sampling oh-my-god-these-are-good peaches, and listening to the funky sounds of street musicians. We don't necessarily think of meals and housing for low-income senior citizens, childcare for those who can't otherwise afford it, and a food bank that gives a quarter of a million bags of groceries to neighbors in need each year. But yesterday, were asked to think of the historical and social importance of the market.

Last week, Seattlest posed the question, "Just what is WaMu Theater?" According to the comments that followed this question, WaMu Theater is an "insincere" "characterless" "uninviting" "concrete cave" with "crappy sound".

First things first: Where the shit does one get something to eat in Downtown Tacoma? Seattlest spent yesterday evening wandering around the "Theater District" looking for a place to fill our bellies. We must've walked about a mile in all directions, only to find a McDonald's, a Pita Hut, a pizza-by-the-slice place, a couple sketchy pubs, lots of boarded-up storefronts, and approximately nine million coffeeshops. It was only when we got back in the car that we were able to find a half-block stretch of downtown with a few places that didn't look so bad. We settled on Meconi's for dinner and then Tacoma's version of Matador for dessert and drinks. When you don't have a row of restaurants, bars, and bistros catering to your captive audience of theater patrons, that's a problem.

MUSICALS: Camelot opens with previews tonight--the barely-recognizable celebrity they've pressganged into the production is Michael York, who you know from Austin Powers.

MUSIC: Other than at Sasquatch in May, tonight's your only chance to see Smoosh on their current tour, when they open for Bloc Party at the Paramount. Yeah, Bright Eyes are also playing over at the Showbox, but seriously, you'd try to get scalped tickets to go see them over Smoosh? Whatever.

7:30pm // The Paramount // sold out, but apparently people on Craigslist think it's worth $325 a ticket

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