DON’T MISS!: SOMETHING WILD
If you’ve been wondering where Maurice Sendak’s “Wild Things” are, you can find them starting Tuesday at the Society of Illustrators. The innovative characters that launched Sendak’s impressive career (and earned him a Caldecott Medal) will be on display, along with more than 200 studies, sketches, poster illustrations, theater designs and other works — never seen in public — in a comprehensive exhibit, “Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work.” Sendak died last year at 83.
“The ground floor will be a panorama of his work from the 1950s to the 1990s,” says Justin G. Schiller, a co-curator, along with Dennis M.V. David (the pair also wrote the catalog, published by Abrams). “We’re keeping the Wild Things in the basement,” he laughs.
“Maurice worked hard developing characters of substance different than the Wild Things,” says Schiller, a longtime friend of the artist, counting “Really Rosie,” “Little Bear” and “In the Night Kitchen” among his successes.
128 E. 63rd St.; 212-838-2560, societyillustrators.org.
— Billy Heller
Courtesy of the Estate of Maurice Sendak
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START LAUGHING!: TWIT WIT
Got a tweet tooth for comedy? Then three nights of Rob Delaney at Carolines on Broadway are sure to fill you up.
Delaney, 36, has more than 850,000 Twitter followers. And his musings in 140 characters or less — “Parenting is eating a dirt covered banana your toddler serves you to avoid a tantrum and liking it” — have earned him a Funniest Tweeter title from Comedy Central.
Still, it’s the comedy club where Delaney says he really feels at home.
“I would be sad if Twitter stopped existing today,” he says, “but I wouldn’t go jump in the ocean with rocks in my pockets. But if I couldn’t do stand-up, I’d consider that, seriously.”
Plus, he adds, “In a comedy cellar, you can smell the audience. I love that!” 8 and 10:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, 8 p.m. on Sunday. 1626 Broadway; 212-757-4100, carolines.com. Tickets start at $38.25.
— Gregory E. Miller
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WATCH IT!: BREAKING DWAN
A beloved barber (Grant Mitchell) who killed the man who murdered his brother returns to a small Southern town after 18 years behind bars in “Man to Man’’ (1930). He’s warmly received by all except his son (Phillips Holmes), who dropped out of college when his classmates started taunting him about his convict dad. Guess who ends up taking the blame when $2,000 disappears from the bank where junior works as a teller? This visually fluent, still-touching pre-Father’s Day treat is receiving rare screenings tonight at 8 and tomorrow afternoon at 2 at MoMA. It’s part of a month-long tribute to veteran director Allan Dwan, whose 50-year career (including the Shirley Temple version of “Heidi’’ and “Sands of Iwo Jima” starring John Wayne) spanned 1911 to 1961. West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Info: moma.org.
— Lou Lumenick
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TAKE A TASTE!: FANS OF FUSION
The Lower East Side has long been home to the Jewish and Chinese communities — and their cooking. The two rich cultures — with even richer food — will merge at Sunday’s 13th annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival at the Museum at Eldridge Street. The festivities roll out between noon and 4 p.m., but don’t be tardy — there are only 1,500 egg rolls and 200 bottles of chocolate syrup on hand.
“We wanted to celebrate both cultures,” says event spokesperson Hanna Griff-Sleven. “It’s an old Jewish neighborhood that’s still functioning — but dead center in the middle of Chinatown. There are so many similarities — we all need music, food and sacred objects. We’re kind of all the same.” Kids can make yarmulkes and fans at the fest, which leads to Griff-Sleven’s favorite part: “Seeing all these Chinese kids with yarmulkes on.”
Look for Yiddish and Chinese lessons, too. 12 Eldridge St.; 212-219-0302, eldridgestreet.org. Free.
— Doree Lewak
Zandy Mangold
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LISTEN UP!: MAD ABOUT BADU
Back in 2008, Erykah Badu’s highly conceptual “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” seemed ahead of its time, and so it stands to reason that the Texan singer has waited for five years to perform it in full. This weekend, she appears at BAM to play the album with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and, as usual, Badu has grand plans. “It’s going to be a mix of styles,” she explains. “We’re bringing together the worlds of classical, rock, hip-hop and blaxploitation. All of those themes are visited in the album, but this is not going to be a straight reproduction of the album. It’s going to be a lot more.” Rehearsals with the orchestra have been intensive but it helps that Badu also happens to have an apartment just down the street from BAM. “I get to walk to work — and I’ll probably walk home from the shows, too!” $35, tomorrow and Sunday, 7:30 p.m. at Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn; 718-636-4100, bam.org.
— Hardeep Phull
Kenneth Cappello
