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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 23, 2014?

46 free events take place on Wednesday, April 23 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 23 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 23, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren signs copies of her book A Fighting Chance
free events nyc Violin Works by Prokofiev and Mozart
free events nyc All-Mozart Program: The Piano Quartets
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour


Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talk | Author Talk: Francine Prose


Francine Prose has written books of fiction and non-fiction, including Household Saints which was made into a movie by director Nancy Savoca and The New York Times bestseller Reading Like A Writer. She’s also regular contributor to many publications including The New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books. Her most recent novel is Lovers at the Chameleon Club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Book Signing | Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts signs copies of her book Everybody's Got Something


Books are to be purchased at the host bookstore. The event line will form outside the front entrance of the store. No memorabilia please. No posed photography. Event guidelines are subject to change. Please follow the instructions of the events team.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Juilliard Lab Orchestra


Juilliard performers share their talent with the community in this free, hour-long lunchtime concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Performance | Shakespeare on Toast


Who’s afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about everyone. He wrote too much and what he wrote is inaccessible and elitist. Right? Wrong. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of Shakespeare, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are: modern, thrilling, uplifting drama. The colorful words and vibrant world of the world’s greatest hack writer are brought brilliantly to life by actor Ben Crystal. Sweeping cobwebs from the Bard – his language, his life, his world - Crystal reveals man and work as relevant, accessible, alive. This Shakespeare is for everyone, whether you’re studying him for the first time or you’ve never set foot near one of his plays, but have always wanted to.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals: Baroque Violin, Tuba, Piano


4pm Da Young Kim, Violin 4pm Piano Performance Forum 6pm Haim Mazur, Tuba 6pm Laura Rubenstein-Salzado, Baroque Violin 8pm Kevin Liao, Violin 8pm Ruoyu Huang, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Dana Melamed's Behind the Grid


An exhibition of sculptures by New York-based artist Dana Melamed. This marks the artistʼs first solo exhibition at the gallery since joining in 2014, and is her eighth solo exhibition in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Senior Thesis Exhibition


With Mary Anderson, Kathryn Kendall, Molly Lambe, Sawyer Alexis Mitchell, Julie Stopper, Morgan Thomas and Kate Weigel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Mary Mattingly


Audiences are invited to engage in a conversation about the creative process across sectors featuring visual artist Mary Mattingly and an engineering firm. The conversation will focus on the process of developing and realizing ideas as they relate to art and engineering.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Stephen Maine


A lecture by artist, critic, curator and teacher Stephen Maine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Reading | Books Without Words Reading


Featuring readings by Rebecca Nison, Filip Noterdaeme and Joanna Valente and responses from book designers Samm Cohen, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson and Joseph A. W. Quintela.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Dmitri Nikulin discusses his book The Other Plato: The Tübingen Interpretation of Plato's Inner-Academic Teachings


Speakers include Professor Cinzia Arruzza, Professor Mitchell Miller, and Professor Dmitri Nikulin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Joshua Decter discusses his book Art Is a Problem


In New York-based writer, curator and art historian Joshua Decter’s new book, the author examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Libiamo! A Cultural History of Wine


With Alessandra Rotondi. The second part of the journey will begin with the Birth of Italy as a state through the celebration of wine on social media platforms, stopping by great minds of the Italian and International culture such as Carducci, Pascoli, Depero, Pablo Neruda, Fellini, ending up with a special guest from the Holy See coming from Argentina who has much to say about wine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Michael Nava reads from his book The City of Palaces


The City of Palaces is set in Mexico City in the years before and at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican Revolution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | On Social Verdicts: Classes, Identities, Trajectories


Society assigns places: it pronounces verdicts and marks us for life. It puts up frontiers and establishes hierarchies between individuals and groups. The role of critical thought is to shed light on these social mechanisms and on the logic of social domination and reproduction. Through an analysis of literary, philosophical and sociological texts, Didier Eribon proposes a new theory of political subjectivity. Speaker Didier Eribon is a professor at the School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University of Amiens.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Public Speaking: From Freak-Out to Fun


If "Just come up and say a few words" is the scariest thing anyone could say to you, then this program is for you. You'll learn to use your natural strengths to serve your audiences - rather than worrying about their judgments. You'll build your confidence as a presenter by honing your technique from page to stage - all in a fun and supportive environment. Nancy Ancowitz offers techniques to build your confidence as a presenter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Comedy in Society: Satire, Censorship and Swearing


This illustrated lecture investigates the relationship between comedy and morality. The author explores the role of the professional humorist in defining, and defying, society’s moral boundaries. From the satirists of ancient Rome to last night’s Daily Show, comedy has never been shy about taking on the moral issues of its time. With David Misch, author of Funny: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Comedy
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Nonfiction Forum: Peter Maass


Peter Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, an award-winning memoir of the war in Bosnia, and Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. He has written for the New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine about Edward Snowden, Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2012, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his next book, which will focus on the problems of surveillance in the post-9/11 era.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Redefining Realness: A Salon in Honor of Janet Mock


This salon focuses on a
 new memoir by writer Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path 
to Womanhood, Identity, Love & 
So Much More, which relates the author’s experience as a young 
trans woman of color working 
in mainstream media. In 2012,
 Mock, who served as a staff editor for People.com for five years, launched the social media project #GirlsLikeUs which aims to raise 
the visibility of trans women. She currently travels the country speaking about her experience of living at 
the intersections of identities. The evening begins with a reading by 
the author, followed by a discussion with scholars, activists, and writers whose work is engaged in the history of media and literary representations of women of color in the U.S., the importance of storytelling in social movements, trans women’s activism, and the role of community and personal relationships in establishing resilience to hostile environments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Andy Fitch reads from his book Sixty Morning Talks: Serial Interviews with Contemporary Authors


Rather than advance an overarching argument concerning “the state of poetry,” this book engages a broad range of authors often subdivided into ideological, aesthetic, generational, national and identity-based camps, and taps the accessibility of vernacular speech to offer new means of comparative study, cross-reference, and discursive collaboration. Fitch will be joined by Shanna Compton, Thom Donovan, Dorothea Lasky, Tan Lin, Christopher Schmidt, and Jenny Zhang for a series of readings and live conversations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Johan Grimonprez


Johan Grimonprez's curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, such as at the Hammer Museum (LA), the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich) and, the MOMA (NY). His works are part of the permanent collections of major museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Kanazawa Art Museum (Japan) and Tate Modern (London).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Toni Dove


Toni Dove creates hybrids of film, installation art and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants use interface technologies such as motion sensing and laser harp to “perform” on-screen avatars.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Double Take IX Reading


Three pairs of authors trade takes on a shared experience. Featuring: Mike Heppner & Joseph McElroy examine the Boston Marathon bombing Wendy S. Walters & Siddhartha Deb go west Catherine Texier & Minna Proctor get trapped in between Romance languages and real life
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Lecture | Gary Shteyngart reads from his book Little Failure


A reading by Gary Shteyngart from his new memoir followed by a discussion with the author.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Iraq War vet Kevin Powers reads from his book Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting


National Book Award finalist, Iraq War veteran, novelist, and poet Kevin Powers debuts a collection of poems about the various moments that comprise a soldier's life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jamal Joseph reads from his book Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention


Jamal Joseph is a writer, filmmaker, producer, poet, activist, and educator. He was one of the original Panther 21, incarcerated as a teenager for his participation in the Black Panther Party. During his time in prison, Joseph earned two college degrees and wrote five plays and two volumes of poetry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren signs copies of her book A Fighting Chance


An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works — and really doesn’t.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Talk | Project Y: Public. Art. Outreach


Speaker: Ravi Agarwal. Delhi's Yamuna River is a metaphor of changing times: caught between modernity and tradition, and a site for settlements for hundreds of years, it is now dirty and polluted, yet worshipped, ritualized, and also part of urban plans and investments. The riverbank has turned from a place in the margins where residue and the unwanted were discarded, to a riverfront park in a rapidly globalizing city of over 15 million inhabitants. Project Y: Public. Art. Outreach (2011) was a multi-dimensional public art and outreach project on the river's banks to help raise questions about the future of the river as an ecological space, and also to reconfigure ideas of our relationship to nature. The talk will present the project and the conceptual ideas behind it, as well as its ongoing outcomes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists


Publishing Triangle Literary Award finalists read from their nominated works. Attending authors include: Sara Farizan (If You Could Be Mine); Michael Klein (The Talking Day); Rick Whitaker (An Honest Ghost); and Charlie Bondhus (All The Heat We Could Carry).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Alex Depew, Horn 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Freshman Vocal Recital 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Jazz Room Series
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Violin Works by Prokofiev and Mozart


Program: MOZART Sonata in G Major, K. 379/373a PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, op. 80 CHAUSSON Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet in D Major, op. 21 Faculty Recital: Laurie Smukler, Violin; Jane Coop, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | All-Mozart Program: The Piano Quartets


Program: Mozart Quartet in G minor, K. 478, for piano, violin, viola, and cello and Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493, for piano, violin, viola, and cello Friends of Mozart concludes its 2013-14 season with performances of both of Mozart’s piano quartets, masterpieces written in 1785 and 1786, less than nine months apart. The works are renowned for a balance of concerto-like piano writing and intimate string chamber music idiom. This piano quartet concert is presented on the modern grand piano and violin, viola, and cello, to illustrate the distinct range of expressive possibilities afforded by contemporary instruments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Faculty Recital: Eduardus Halim, Piano


Eduardus Halim has captured the imagination of piano lovers the world over with the originality and maturity of his interpretations. An ethnic Chinese who was born in Indonesia and given a Muslim name, he studied the violin and piano as well as Javanese dancing before moving to New York, where he established himself as a pianistic force and earned the rare privilege of becoming the last pupil of the legendary Vladimir Horowitz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theaters, April 23, 2014, 04/23/2014, Musical about a Broadway legend

Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Concert | Christmas Concert

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Classical Music | Works by Mozart, Dvorak and More

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