WEEK OF AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 5 | BY BERRY ANDERSON
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FILM Guy Pearce is so unlawful in Lawless.
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FAT C I T Y This much bacon in one place might be unlawful, too.
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MUSIC FORECAST Does Umphree’s McGee look jammy to you?
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The Heartland Women’s Leadership Council wants to empower the women of Kansas City. Campaign 20/20 began as a way for the original 20 board members to reach out to E R MO 20 other women in the community and assist them with basic needs AT E N I ONL .COM and resources. As both PITCH membership and need have grown, resources have been stretched. Help some sisters out at Martinis, Women and Shoes, a fundraiser whose $35 ticket buys you plenty of ’tinis, hors d’oeuvres and foot ogling. The doors open at 6 p.m. at the Gallery Event Space above the Bristol (61 East 14th Street). See heartlandwomen.org to Paypal yourself a ticket.
EVENTS
LA CAGE AUX FOLLIES Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, in Swope Park) closes out its summer season with the musical La Cage aux Folles, a hit that has never lost popularity. Based on a 1973 French play, it debuted on Broadway in 1983 (music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein) and won six Tony Awards. La Cage was revived on Broadway and won a Tony in 2005 for Best Revival, then was revived on Broadway again in 2010 and received yet another Tony, this time
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for Best Revival of a Musical. Now, George Hamilton (above left) and Christopher Sieber star in the national tour that’s based on the 2010 revival. Oh, you want plot? Georges (Hamilton) is owner of a glitzy nightclub in Saint-Tropez, and his partner, Albin (Sieber), is one of the star drag attractions. Mayhem ensues when Georges’ son brings his fiancée and her ultraconservative parents to meet them. See kcstarlight.com or call 816-363-7827. — DEBORAH HIRSCH
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BIRD-WATCHING
Few local musicians have generated more goodwill than Megan Birdsall. The Detroitborn singer honed her craft in Kansas City, then decamped to Nashville in late 2009. At the time, she’d just finished Over the Bones, a haunting Americana album that subtly showed Birdsall’s jazz roots. Tonight she brings her band, MBird — co-songwriter Michael Smith and bass player Ben Leifer — to the Uptown Arts Bar (3611 Broadway, 816-960-4611) for her first KC show since her move. “This is also the same club we’ll be hosting our Artist Showcase at in September,” Birdsall tells The Pitch. The showcase, she says, is made up of “tons of local bands and performers, in stripped-down acoustic sets, and touring artists on their way through KC, as well as MCs, poets and essayists.” She adds: “Nashville continued on page 28
PARTY OF THE CENTURY
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e don’t know anyone who made it to Fatboy Slim’s fifth Big Beach Bootique this past June at Amex Community Stadium, in his hometown of Brighton, England. The electronic-music wizard, born Norman Cook, spun for 40,000 fans during the production, a performance shot to make Fatboy Slim Live: From the Big Beach Bootique. The movie screens tonight at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222), a one-off for which the X and the glow sticks are best left at home. It starts at 9:15; tickets cost $8.50. See tivolikc.com. pitch.com
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