DON’T MISS!: DEUX-BLE PLAY
There’s nothing quite as American as a summer evening of baseball, hot dogs and . . . ballet? Monday night the Brooklyn Cyclones will join forces with the Brooklyn Ballet for “Ballet & Baseball: A History Lesson in Nine Innings.” Between innings, the troupe will perform short vignettes of moments in dance history, such as the introduction of Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker.”
If this doesn’t sound en pointe with the beer-guzzling ball fans, well, allow the ballet’s artistic director, Lynn Parkerson, to break it down.
“We’re always looking to bring ballet to spaces that you wouldn’t normally find it,” she says. “We want to bring ballet back to the people.”
Plus, she says, there are parallels between baseball and ballet everywhere — from the similar training to the diamond as “stage.”
Fans wearing tutus get a free hot dog and drink. Batter up!
MCU Park in Coney Island at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $9, brooklyncyclones.com
— Gregory E. Miller
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WATCH IT!: FIRST RESORT
Natalie Wood plays Hollywood’s very first Jewish-American princess in Irving Rapper’s rarely screened “Marjorie Morningstar’’ (1958). In this adaptation of Herman Wouk’s best seller (and a fascinating ancestor of “Dirty Dancing’’) Hunter College student Marjorie Morgenstern works at a summer camp in the Catskills (filmed in Schroon Lake, NY). There she meets and falls for the charming but arrogant Noel Airman, the 32-year-old social director at a nearby resort who has ambitions as a playwright. Jewish actor Danny Kaye pleaded to play Airman, but the part went to Gene Kelly who, like Wood, was not Jewish. It’s showing Monday at 6 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s tribute to the centennial of Kelly’s birth. 65th Street at Broadway, info: filmlinc.com
— Lou Lumenick
WARNER BROS
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GET SOUL!: SUPER TRY
The late soul icon Curtis Mayfield’s impeccable songwriting, lush arrangements and trademark falsetto would be talent enough for anyone. But, says Tunde Adebimpe of indie-rockers TV on the Radio, it was his ability to “talk about race in America inside pop music, and still reach an audience across color lines” that made him so inspiring. “While no one calls him a protest singer,” Adebimpe adds, “his work is highly political, [so] maybe people are really hearing what he’s saying.” A generation-spanning lineup uniting tonight for a 70th birthday tribute — “Here But I’m Gone” — is certainly hearing it. Artists performing Mayfield tunes such as “Keep on Pushing,” and “Superfly” include members of TVOTR, fellow soul pioneer Mavis Staples, hip-hop titans the Roots, Sinead O’Connor, William Bell and Mayfield’s original band, the Impressions. So people get ready, and come honor this legend and his unforgettable groove.
8 p.m. at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall; lincolncenterfestival.org; tickets start at $35
— Charlie Heller
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TAKE A BITE!: DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Just what kind of a weenie experience are you looking for? An original weenie experience for $45 — or are you more the “super-weenie experience” type for $75? These are the two kinds of tickets up for grabs at tomorrow’s seventh-annual Great Hot Dog Cookoff, to raise money for the nonprofit Food Bank of New York City. The Cookoff brings 24 different teams of amateur chefs to the grill (and five professionals) to compete for the title of best red hot. In the past this has meant a “lobster dog” (hot dog with lobster on top) or just a classic beef wiener with fried pickles and remoulade. “The first three years, it was in my backyard,” says founder, Kara Masi. Tomorrow, Masi is estimating a good 600 to 700 frankophiles will show up. There will be a DJ, beer, iced tea and ice cream to chase these dogs. 2 p.m., 630 Flushing Ave., Williamsburg; thegreathotdogcookoff.com
— Max Gross
New York Post
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TECH IT OUT!: WATCHING MACHINES
It’s an exhibit of tech-tonic proportions! “Ghosts in the Machine,” invading three floors of the New Museum, examines the ever-evolving relationship among humans, machines and art.
The massive new survey highlights works by artists from 15 countries and spans five decades. Along the way you’ll marvel at optical illusions, moving sculptures, computer-generated graphics and re-creations of works such as CGI pioneer Stan VanDerBeek’s “Movie-Drome,” a dome with film scenes flickering on the ceiling.
“We were talking about things that have been overlooked in the 20th century,” says curator Gary Carrion-Murayari about the concept for the expansive exhibit. “And we’re so dependent on our devices that they’ve become an extension of our bodies, but artists have been thinking about this [idea] already — works that express emotion about technology.”
235 Bowery; 212-219-1222, newmuseum.org. Admission: $10 to $14, free under 18
— Christina Amoroso
Courtesy of the new museum
