Highlights this weekend include “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” star Marisha Wallace at Café Carlyle and a spooky-themed double feature at AMC movie theaters.
Also, free events include Green-Wood Cemetery’s “Day of the Dead” celebration, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s Halloween celebration and Hudson River Park’s “Pumpkin Smash.”
Music
Marisha Wallace
Café Carlyle —35 East 76th St., Manhattan (Upper East Side)
Oct. 31 – Nov. 1, 8:45 p.m.
Fresh off her star-turn in “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,” Marisha Wallace makes her New York City cabaret club debut at Café Carlyle —- the supper club where greats like Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt and Elaine Stritch ruled the roost with residencies decades ago.
“I knew how iconic it is to play in that room, and that they don’t let just anybody play in there,” she told The Daily News. “You have to be of a certain caliber and a certain salt. And, you know, I’m just coming back to the city after making my star rise on the West End. I didn’t know if they would like to take a chance on me this quickly, and they did, and it’s just been so exciting.”
In the spirit of Halloween, Wallace plans to conjure up the spirits of great female voices who are no longer with us: “I decided I wanted to resurrect all of the famous singers of the past from the cabaret scene like Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt. And I’m even bringing back Whitney… I want to bring back Amy Winehouse and other tragic and incredible blues singers and soul singers of the time.”
Accompanied by a four-piece band, Wallace — who just released her debut album, “Live In London” — will continue her mission to bring back “real music.”
She added: “I want to bring back the golden age of the voice [because] I feel like a lot of that has been lost, you know, in this era where we’re trying to be so modern and everything. But…they were doing something then that I think we need now, and that’s storytelling and really using the music to tell the story and the story was also universal.”
Tickets start at $120.
Film
“Halloween Double Feature: Hallow Road & Vincent Must Die”
AMC Theaters (check website for locations and showtimes)
Fri. Oct. 31
Halloween lands on a Friday this year and AMC Theaters is marking the occasion with its first theatrical first-run double feature in almost two decades.
Cinephiles who want to get spooked out can see both movies back-to-back—for the price of one ticket.
“Gone Girl” star Rosamund Pike joins Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) for BAFTA Award winner Babak Anvari’s psychological thriller “Hallow Road,” about a family’s life unraveling after their teenage daughter calls to say she killed a pedestrian on the road.
In “Vincent Must Die,” French theater actor-turned-filmmaker Stéphan Castang makes his feature-length directorial debut with a satirical black comedy thriller about a docile graphic designer (Karim Leklou) who learns that everyone he makes eye contact with is trying to kill him — because he was infected by a plague.
Tickets are $22.68.
Art
“Es Devlin: Congregation”
Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC)—251 Fulton St, Manhattan (Tribeca)
Through Nov. 1, various times.
There’s still time to catch Es Devlin’s “Congregation,” a tiered sculpture made up of large-scale chalk and charcoal portraits of 50 Londoners who have experienced forced displacement from their homelands.
Devlin is a British artist and stage designer whose credits include projects for U2, Beyoncé, Adele. and The Weeknd. She was inspired to create the work after being “moved” by the U.K.’s support to Ukrainian refugees: “I wanted to understand why we have not yet been drawn to show an equivalent abundance of support to those displaced in comparable circumstances from other countries including Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Eritrea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and many more,” she said.
Polyphonia composed the accompanying soundscape of “Congregation,” which also features poetry by JJ Bola and extracts from Max Richter’s “Recomposed.”
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Wish.
Family
“Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail”
The New York Botanical Garden—2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, (Bronx Park)
Through Nov. 30.
There’s no better way to bridge the time between Halloween and Christmas than with Tim Burton’s beloved 1993 Disney movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” which coming to life once again with an immersive outdoor trail featuring video projections, music, smoky cauldrons, giant pumpkins and scenes complete with characters such as Jack Skellington, Sally, Santa Claus, Zero and Oogie Boogie.
Appropriate for all ages, the trail boasts more than 8,300 square feet of light installations, interactive video projections and 3D-printed sculptures. This year’s exhibition includes four new scenes along with new refreshment and merchandise booths.
Tickets start at $33.
Celebrate
“Day Of The Dead Family Celebration”
Green-wood Cemetery— 25th St, Brooklyn (South Slope)
Sat. Nov. 1, 4-7 p.m.
The Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos will be commemorated with an event for families and friends to honor their deceased loved ones during an afternoon filled with crafts, music, dance performances and cuisine.
A highlight of this year’s festivities is acclaimed artist Laura Anderson Barbata‘s “Reposo y Recuerdo (Rest and Remember)” ofrenda installation, which has transformed Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel into a luminous, interactive altar and gathering space shaped by the contributions of the community.
Free but registration is recommended.
Outdoors
“Pumpkin Smash”
Hudson River Park—353 West St., Manhattan (Soho)
Sat., Nov. 1, 12-3 p.m.
After the “Monster Mash” on Halloween, folks can come out to Hudson River Park’s annual “Pumpkin Smash,” where they can bring their own gourds for crushing into seasonal waste to be used as a fertilizer.
Participants can choose from a selection of bats, hammers and shovels to get to smashing. 6,000 pounds of leftover pumpkins were crushed into compost during last year’s event.
Free.
Free
“Boo! KCM Halloween Celebration”
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music— 58 7th Ave., Brooklyn (Prospect Heights)
Fri. Oct. 31, 4-6 p.m.
The non-profit community music school is hosting a free, family-friendly Halloween garden party in its 144-year-old Victorian mansion — that some say is haunted. Organizers said attendees will experience “some talented musical spirits … giving a spine-chilling performance” as part of the Park Slope Halloween Parade.
The party will continue at 7:15 at the Old Stone House.
Free.
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