Other nighttime entertainment includes music, magic shows and animal interactions.
"Thank you for the music, magic and memories.
FAMILY STORYTELLING FESTIVAL, City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street, is featuring music, magic and puppets.
With almost 200 shows in more than a dozen downtown spaces, the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival, which runs Friday through Aug. 29, is an almost-anything-goes assemblage of theatrical events: surrealism, music, magic, dance, burlesque, stand-up comedy, nudity, puppetry, drag performance and more will be on view.
"A crisscross of secret histories" is how the Whitney curator Jay Sanders describes the fugitive art actions — an amalgam of dance, theatre, music, magic show, standup comedy, cinema, and, in the case of Vito Acconci, masturbation and stalking — that were staged in the alternative spaces, private lofts, and public streets of downtown New York in the seventies.
Tickets: $10; children, $5. BENEFIT PARTY FOR VITAL CHILDREN'S THEATER, with workshops, music, magic, games and a raffle, Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m., in the Synod House of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at 112th Street, Morningside Heights.
Billed as a children's variety performance, the choreographed production will feature dance, as well as music and magic.
(Image Comics) "Phonogram is an urban fantasy comic, specifically about the idea that music is magic.
"It's all colors, all creeds, it's something in the music, the magic BPM".
Street entertainment, including live music and magic shows, starts at 11 30 a.m., an hour before the race.
