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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
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The Lowdown
The Illustrious Blacks have been throwing one of the better parties in New York for years, and now they have moved it into a theater and given it a plot. Beyond the Stardust is billed as an Afro-disco-space-punk extravaganza, which is either the most honest tagline of the season or a dare.
Twelve original songs, aerialists, dancers and go-go performers, and a set called the Stardust Club that you are invited onto rather than politely seated in front of. Niegel Smith — the Flea's artistic director, who knows exactly what that room can take — conceived it with the Illustrious Blacks and directs and choreographs. Oscar Escobedo built the club, Kate McGee lit it, DeShon Elem dressed it.
Tickets start at $25, which for a live album with acrobats is a bargain. It runs September 10 through October 18 at the Flea's Thomas Street home in Tribeca. Dress for a dance floor, not a matinee.
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