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· Music round-up: Great Northern at the Viper Room; Butch Walker at the Hotel Café; The Blind Boys of Alabama do a Christmas Show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
· Comedian Brently Heilbron risks driving himself irreversibly insane by performing all 22 chapters of batshit R. Kelly opus Trapped in the Closet at M Bar. (A band and full complement of actors will be on hand to help shoulder some of the psychological load.) Elsewhere, Zach Galifianakis is rumored to be dropping in on the free stand-up and music show at Tiger Lily on Vermont.
· Cast members from Disney's High School Musical On Tour put on "The Afterschool Special" at the Knitting Factory, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.