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As a live music event, the 2010 version of "The Wall" is based on a shaky premise: that fans will pay as much as $200 a seat to hear Roger Waters and a cast of supporting musicians -- none of whom has anything to do with Pink Floyd -- perform from start to finish one of the most commercially successful, beloved and ambitious art-rock albums in history.
Things to do in KC on the first night of Halloween weekend:
The Medicine Theory is on a bill at the Brick, 1727 McGee, that also includes Cherokee Rock Rifle and Headhum.
He is an actor, a playwright and the founder of the Purple Rose Theater Co. in Chelsea, Mich. He is also a songwriter with four albums in his discography.
On paper, the adults-only Queensryche Cabaret looked like a worthwhile proposition: 18 of the band’s songs (including some new material) presented in a Cirque du Soleil meets Jim Rose format. In other words, lots of heavy rock plus some aerialists, acrobats, a drag queen, some S&M, lots of wardrobe changes and plenty of dancing women not wearing all that much.
Any day when I play my drums,” says the mighty Max Weinberg, “that’s a good day — a day I’m staying true to my true self.”
Your music choices for the evening:
The loud, hard, heavy, melodic and demonstrative Austin, Texas, trio Ume headlines tonight at the RecordBar, 1020 Westport Road.
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Jim Dandy, back in the day.
Halloween starts early Friday night at Crosstown Station, 1522, McGee: Joey Skidmore will premier his documentary “Legend of the Shoe Man,” a ghostly tale of murder and mayhem around the Lake of the Ozarks.
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