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The nightly show
The Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart stands up, Nunsense returns to Boston, and more

Anchor’s away

Emmy. Peabody. Hillary. Jon Stewart has been raking in the dames — and deservedly so — on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, which has taken SNL’s old comedic-newsdesk routine and made of it must-see TV that often rivals any of the actual news programs broadcast on any given night. We’re almost loath to encourage his stand-up career, if only because it means he won’t be sitting down behind the desk for the duration. Be that as it may, Stewart will indeed be making a return visit to the Orpheum, 1 Hamilton Place in Boston, on March 20. Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m.; call (617) 931-2000.

Girls gotta habit

It’s possible that the 20th-anniversary tour of the musical comedy Nunsense will be appreciated more in places where it hasn’t been running more or less every night for all of those two decades. Still, if you’re ever going to see it, better to catch the all-star cast version — in which the Little Sisters of Hoboken are portrayed by the likes of Broadway Funny Girl Mimi Hines, former Miss America Lee Meriwether, Phil Spector protégée Darlene Love (uncredited lead on the Crystals’ "He’s a Rebel," among others), and TV vets Kaye Ballard and Georgia Engel. The tour, originally scheduled to hit the Shubert, has been moved across the street to the Wilbur, 246 Tremont Street in the Theater District, where it will play February 10 through 15. Tickets are $35 to $68; call (617) 931-2787.

Opera 101

Boston’s an opera town again, and if you haven’t jumped the bandwagon yet, we’ve got a quick and painless way on board: Opera unMet’s "Grandes Dames," a quickie starter course featuring local heavyweights Cynthia Miles Gray, D’Anna Fortunato, and Kim Bolling performing what amounts to a greatest-hits set of duets, trios, and arias from Carmen, Aida, Madama Butterfly, and La fille du régiment. It’s presented for one performance only, at 8 p.m. on January 31 at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston. Tickets are $20, $10 for students; call (617) 585-1260.

Gore in ’04

The hellspawn over at Metal Blade Records have been crunching the numbers, and as far as they can tell, all bias aside, the biggest-selling death-metal band of all time — or at least since the advent of SoudScan in the early ’90s — is Cannibal Corpse (558,929 units sold, including DVDs). Long the most slavishly cartoonish of the gore-core set — at least, that’s why we still cherish our well-worn cassette copy of their 1990 debut, Eaten Back to Life, a classic matched only by Gwar’s Scumdogs of the Universe, which was released the same year on the same labelthe band can thank Bob Dole (who in his pre–Daily Show career called out the Corpse long before anyone with short hair had ever heard of ’em) and Jim Carrey, who appreciated the comedy of the act enough to give them a cameo in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The band’s new The Wretched Spawn is due February 24, and on March 5 they’ll support the disc with a date at the Palladium, 261 Main Street in Worcester. Tickets are $16 in advance, $18 day of show; call (800) 477-6849.

 


Issue Date: January 16 - 22, 2004
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