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HALF PRICE TICKETS FOR
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013

Ponderosa Music presents Ludovico Einaudi
Venue: Chan Centre
Showtime: 8:00pm
Half-price tickets: $34.50
With Ludovico's classical style, you can hear echoes of baroque and Italian folk music, late romantic string textures and a wide variety of colours between percussions and electronics, appearing through a journey that transport the listener through a deep reflection on the concept of time.

Pacific Theatre presents How to Write a New Book for the Bible
Venue: Pacific Theatre
Showtime: 8:00pm
Half-price tickets: $19.00
Heartfelt and hilarious, the story of an aging mother's peculiarities and a son's flawed devotion. A celebration of what holds a family together, suffused with subtle theatrical magic. Canadian Premiere.

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Scared Scriptless
Venue: The Improv Centre
Showtime: 11:15pm
Half-price tickets: $10.25
Scared Scriptless is sixty-minutes of cutting edge improv! Using audience suggestions, our performers challenge themselves and the "rules" of the game. These multi-talented improvisers take familiar styles and games and push them to their limits. This is a night of improv where anything can happen...and usually does.

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Pants on Fire
Venue: The Improv Centre
Showtime: 7:30pm
Half-price tickets: $14.50
Vancouver TheatreSportsTM League presents PANTS ON FIRE, a hilarious new show where local celebrities hope to outwit a cast of veteran improvisers. Throughout the night our host will get outrageous stories and anecdotes from the esteemed guests life...but whether those stories are factual or not is up for debate. Along with your help, this award-winning cast will decide if the guest is telling the truth or telling a lie. Inspired by each round, they will create completely improvised scenes and sketches.

West End Productions presents Never Shoot A Stampede Queen
Venue: Granville Island Stage
Showtime: 2:00pm, 8:00pm
Half-price tickets: $15.75 / $20.75 / $25.75
Zachary Stevenson (the Arts Club's Buddy Holly) stars in the stage adaptation of Mark Leiren-Young'sNever Shoot A Stampede Queen -- winner of the Leacock Medal for humour. Stampede Queen follows the adventures of a big city (Vancouver) boy who arrives in the crime capital of BC (Williams Lake) and discovers stranger news, quirkier characters, and better friends than he ever could have imagined.

Yuk Yuk's presents Sean Proudlove with James Ball, MC Garrett Clark
Venue: Yuk Yuk's
Time: 8:00pm, 10:30pm
Half-price tickets: $13.25
In 1997, Sean performed stand-up for the first time. The show went better then he had bragged to his friends when he lied to them the week before claiming he had performed that night. Either way Sean was hooked, on stand up that is. For the next ten years Sean worked somewhat hard on his act, performed on many shows and traveled all over. He also produced successful comedy shows and still managed to dream of time travel.

The Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Chris Porter
Venue: The Comedy MIX
Time: 8:00pm, 10:30pm
Half-price tickets: $12.00
American comedian and Last Comic Standing finalist, Chris Porter has been a comedian for over 8 years and claims that the best part of a comic's lifestyle is "the complete lack of responsibility". This is a man who "wakes up at noon and does whatever he wants" and it's working out pretty well for him. Chris delivers a "rock ‘n' roll" style of comedy based on unique life observations told from a Midwest perspective, a distinct style that has captured the attention of comedy clubs and colleges across the continent. More recently Chris has appeared on The Bob & Tom Show, Comedy Central's Live Tour, "Comedy Central Presents" and "Live at Gotham".