Get converted: Broadway across Canada’s production of the multiple Tony-winning musical The Book of Mormon, written by the South Park guys with tunes by the raunchy Avenue Q team, rolls into the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and runs until April 12. Tickets are hard to come by for the hotly anticipated show skewering the Mormon faith (among many other things) but there’s a nightly pre-show lottery making a limited number of tickets available at $25 each. Entries for the lottery will be accepted two and a half hours prior to the 8 p.m. show with the winners announced at 6 p.m. in the plaza courtyard.
Get heckled: The Gentlemen Hecklers (local comedians Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha and Shaun Stewart) offer play-by-play commentary for a screening of martial artist and living Internet meme Chuck Norris’ hard-hitting 1985 film Invasion USA, in which he plays a one-man army forced to take on an actual army.
Get whistfully entertained: Curiously named Glaswegian indie sextet Belle and Sebastien play the Vogue in support of new album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance. Perfume Genius open.
Get sad: The Cinematheque hosts the Vancouver premiere of Montreal filmmaker François Delisle's dark drama Chorus, about an estranged couple coping with news of the death of their son, who disappeared a decade earlier at eight years old. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and tonight is its final showing.
Get read to: Three authors offer their unique perspectives on Africa as part of the Vancouver Public Library’s free ongoing Incite reading series in the Alice MacKay room. Deni Béchard will read from The Last Bonobo, about the dwindling members of this endangered species, human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon’s Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen tells the story of a Congolese expatriate who returns to her beloved homeland, while Michael Wuitchik’s novel, My Heart is Not My Own, tells the story of a man haunted by his days as a relief doctor in Sierra Leone.
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