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Urban Planner: February 9, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected].
An Evening with Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone will run for only six nights at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. Photo by Brigitte LaCombe.
THEATRE: Mandy Patinkin: revenge-crazed Spanish fencing master; flaky cop procedural star; Tony Award–winning Broadway star. All of these things are true, and tonight you’ll have the chance to see the man in action along with Patti LuPone, a veteran of the stage who made a name for herself starring opposite Patinkin during a 1980 production of Evita. “An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin” will run for six shows only, with LuPone and Patinkin performing a medley of pieces by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, and generally wowing the crowd. Royal Alexandra Theatre (260 King Street West), 8 p.m., $28–110.
FILM: As part of Black History Month, TD Bank and the Canadian Film Centre have assembled a very impressive lineup of filmmakers to discuss and celebrate the “Black Experience in Cinema.” The CFC Salutes Black History Month: Celebrating the Black Experience in Cinema will have Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo host a conversation between Academy Award–nominee Lee Daniels (Precious) and Norman Jewison. After the discussion will be a screening of Jewison’s 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night. All proceeds will go to CFC Diversity Scholarship. Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles Street West); 7 p.m. (discussion), 8:30 p.m. (screening); $20.
BENEFIT: CBC Radio’s The Vinyl Café with Stuart McLean encapsulates everything good and wholesome about small town (and big city) Canada. McLean has an uncanny knack for bringing out the good in everyone, so it’s appropriate that he be lending his incomparable storytelling prowess to Street Haven at the Crossroads, a women’s shelter in downtown Toronto. “An Evening with Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café” will include a silent auction and cocktails, followed by a Vinyl Café performance. All of the proceeds will go directly to Street Haven. Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront (235 Queens Quay West); 6 p.m. (silent auction and cocktails), 7:30 p.m. (Vinyl Café performance); $75 (with a $55 charitable tax receipt).
THEATRE: “No Sweetheart Required” is not exactly an anti-Valentine’s Day event—it’s more like a Valentine’s Day show for those without someone to lavish gifts on. It’s a cabaret evening with comedy, music, and sketches all on the theme of “love…or the lack thereof.” There will be performances by David Hein (co-creator of My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding), singer Marion Newman, jazz veteran Bremner Duthie, and comedians June Morrow and Liam Doherty. Whistler’s Grille and Café (995 Broadview Avenue), 8 p.m., $10 (tonight only, reserve by calling 416-653-5870).
HAITI: “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!” is a show, auction, and raffle at the Supermarket benefiting Haitian relief efforts. There’ll be performances by Northern Primitive, Hue, Sleep For The Nightlife, and Hands and Teeth. The long list of items to be given away or auctioned off includes photo prints by C.W. Heindl and Sharkvsbear, gift certificates from Sadie’s Diner and Spirit Bear Bed and Breakfast, band merchandise from Arts & Crafts and Fucked Up, art from Matthew Daley and Gord Auld, and other items such as a corset from Totally Waisted and the moustache of Peter U Nicorn of the Black Faxes (to be shaved off live if at least two hundred dollars is raised). Supermarket (268 Augusta Avenue), 9 p.m., $5 or pay-what-you-can.