DON’T MISS!: PIPE DREAM
THE Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, a 1928 movie palace famous for 1950s rock concerts, closed its doors in 1962. But the venue’s mighty Wurlitzer organ — the city’s second largest theater organ, after Radio City Music Hall’s, with 2,000 pipes and 257 stops — continued playing for sporting events during the Paramount’s second life as Long Island University’s Schwartz Athletic Center. On Sunday at 3 p.m., the New York Theatre Organ Society will provide a rare opportunity to see a film at the old Paramount — which retains many original architectural elements — with a screening of the silent chiller “The Phantom of the Opera’’ (1925) starring Lon Chaney Sr., with live accompaniment by Bernie Anderson Jr. at the mighty Wurlitzer. Flatbush and DeKalb avenues, Brooklyn; info: nytos.org.
— Lou Lumenick
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SHAKE IT!: DANCE TO THE MUSIC
Electronic dance music fans in the rest of the world have been lucky enough to experience the concert extravaganza Sensation — it’s visited 20 countries since its 2000 inception. Now, New Yorkers can finally find out what all the fuss is about, with the show dubbed “Innerspace,” touching down at the Barclays Center tonight and tomorrow night.
“The audio and visual experience is second to none,” boasts Jason Miller, president of Live Nation, one of the partners putting on the event. “I lovingly refer to it as Cirque du Soleil meets dance music, or the Pink Floyd of dance music.”
“Innerspace” includes music with narrative elements, video, pyrotechnics, water, lasers, dancers, an emcee and a lineup featuring Mr. White, Danny Tenaglia, Dennis Ferrer and others.
Ticketholders are asked to dress in all white (non-white shoes are OK) — or they won’t be allowed in.
7 p.m. at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, Brooklyn; 917-618-6700, barclayscenter.com.
— Gregory E. Miller
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LAST CHANCE!: THE MOTOR CITY
It’s been a helluva year for Detroit: Not only are the Tigers in the World Series, but “Detroit” won raves in New York. Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, ends its critically acclaimed off-Broadway run Sunday with a stunning cast led by Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer. Just don’t expect anyone in the play to utter the name of that city. “[Detroit] is simply a metaphor,” says Ryan. “It’s the most obvious example of economic downfall, of people trying to keep up appearances while everything’s breaking.” Things break and even burn in “Detroit,” as Ryan’s anxious paralegal and her unemployed husband (Schwimmer) befriend the former drug addicts next door. Add booze, hip-hop music and blend — and you’ve got a shattering look at contemporary life on the edge in these United, slightly neurotic, States. Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St; 212-279-4200.
— Barbara Hoffman
AP
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EAT IT UP!: DRESSING ON THE SIDE
If wearing your food is your thing, the Brooklyn Kitchen and Brooklyn Brewery have a costume party Sunday just for you: GastroBall, the occasion to dress like your favorite tart (the pastry kind), or honey (the bee kind). “Ruth Bourdain inspired us,” says Brooklyn Kitchen’s Anna Klainbaum, referring to the fictional Twitter personality combining food legends Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain. “And dressing up is fun.” So fun, there’s a parade and contest too, with categories including Best Edible Costume and Best Ruth Bourdain Mash-up Costume. Or just come for the beer, and the bag full of treats, donated by locals such as Liddabit Sweets. Tickets are $10, with proceeds going to the Classrooms in the Kitchen program for NYC school kids. So get dressed and ready to party with identical-twin DJs Darin and Greg Bresnitz, 7 p.m. at Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N. 11th St., Williamsburg; thebrooklynkitchen.com.
— Sara Pepitone
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JUST SEE IT!: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Roger Dreyer has collected so much Houdini memorabilia since he started performing magic at age 11 that it threatened to overtake his Upper East Side apartment. The solution? Share it with the world.
At 50, he’s just opened the Houdini Museum of New York above his Fantasma Magic shop, unveiling a wide array of memorabilia and free escapist fun. The 2,000-square foot collection boasts more than 200 artifacts, including handcuffs, the gimmicks Houdini used to escape them, lithograph posters and — the featured item — a bust that was once stolen from Houdini’s grave at Queens’ Machpelah Cemetery.
“Houdini’s motto was, ‘My brain was the key that set me free,’ ’’ Dreyer says. “We want to show kids if they set their mind on something, they can accomplish anything.”
During a visit this week to the new museum, Dick Cavett, who recently found out his first office at ABC was once Houdini’s, said of the escape artist: “To my mind, he’s a part of New York.”
421 Seventh Ave., at 33rd Street; 212-924-8345.
— Tim Donnelly
AP
