DASSDance Company: This could be the show where you’ll walk away drenched with the desire to conserve water.
“Fighting Water” is a multimedia dance that uses performance art to encourage the audience to think about what humans are doing to the planet.
DASSDance Company has teamed up with Puget Soundkeeper Alliance to bring this dance phenomenon to Edmonds Community College.
The show is set on a rubber pond liner that encourages slip-and-slide entrances, exits and endless turns, yet gives the dancers enough grip to produce what the dance company has termed the high-impact athleticism of “the DASS signature All-Terrain style.”
“Fighting Water” is at 8 tonight and 8 p.m. Saturday at Black Box Theatre at Edmonds Community College, 20310 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood. Tickets are $20. Call 425-640-1448 or go to www.edcc.edu/blackbox.
“In the Mood”: Celebrate the sounds of swing and get in a patriotic mood.
This nostalgic journey takes audiences back to the 1940s when the nation’s common denominator was the Big Band music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and The Andrew Sisters.
“In the Mood” plays at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds Tickets are $15 to $35. Call 425-275-9595 or go to www.edmondscenterforthearts.org.
“Franc D’Ambrosio’s Broadway”: Franc D’Ambrosio’s nickname is “The Ironman of the Mask” because he has performed the role of Phantom in “The Phantom of the Opera” more than 3,000 times.
The concert will include favorites such as “The Impossible Dream,” “Mack the Knife,” “Speak Softly Love” and “Give my Regards to Broadway.”
A highlight will be a stirring “Phantom of the Opera” medley that will include a duet by the two young winners of the “Call for Christine and Raoul” competition.“
Franc D’Ambrosio’s Broadway” plays at 7:30 tonight at Northshore Performing Arts Center, 18125 92nd Ave. NE, Bothell. Tickets are $15 to $30. Call 425-408-7988 or go to www.npacf.org.
“Remember Being Born?”: Late Night at Taproot brings Solomon Davis’ one-man show to Friday nights after the performances of “Enchanted April.”
The comedy of Bill Cosby, Steve Martin and Kevin Kling merge into Davis’ own style, which is to tug at heart strings as he spins his tale from birth to baptism and everything in between.
“Remember Being Born?” takes place at 10:15 tonight and 10:15 p.m. Oct. 9, 16 and 23 at Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., Seattle. Tickets are $10 at the door, or $8 for patrons staying after “Enchanted April.” Call 206-781-9707 or go to www.taproottheatre.org.
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois”: Take a look at this conflicted man, a man who lived a life of contradictions, who would become president.
Intiman Theatre concludes its 2009 main stage season with Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which spans the years in which Abraham Lincoln grew to take responsibility for his conscience and his country.
As Sherwood describes, Lincoln lived much of his life in contradictions. He was social yet did not seek company. He had great ambition but also longed for the simpler life of a country lawyer. He was an antislavery moderate who eventually became America’s Great Emancipator.
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” opens at 7:30 tonight at Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer St., Seattle. Shows are at various times through Nov. 15. Tickets are $40 to $55. Call 206-269-1900 or go to www.intiman.org.
“Cannibal the Musical!”: The co-creator of “South Park,” Trey Parker brings us lots of singing and dancing and some flesh-eating as we follow an intrepid trekker and his companions through the Rocky Mountains.
This is the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America — Alferd Packer. He tells his harrowing tale as he awaits his execution. His story goes something like this: While searching for fortune, he and his companions lost their way and resorted to unthinkable horrors, including toe-tapping songs.
“Cannibal” opens at 8:30 tonight and runs at 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 1 at the Market Theatre, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle. Tickets are $15 at the door, $12 online. Call 800-838-3006 or go to www.brownpapertickets.com.
Jeffrey Ross presents his personal style of stand-up comedy that got him the name “The Meanest Man in Comedy” for his blistering performances at celebrity roasts honoring such stars as Hugh Hefner and Donald Trump.
As a standup comic, Ross has appeared on TV with David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien. In film, he has appeared in the Farrelly Brothers’ “Stuck on You,” Paul Weitz’s upcoming “American Dreamz” and “The Aristocrats.” His new book is “We Only Roast the Ones We Love: How to Bust Balls Without Burning Bridges” was released in September.
Ross performs at 8 and 10 tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday at Giggles Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle. Tickets are $20. Call 206-526-5653 or go to www.gigglescomedyclub.com.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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