The Book of Mormon through Nov. 10 Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston St. 800-982-2787 orlandobroadway.com $50-$160 If the thought of the first Broadway musical by the creators of South Park and Team America: World Police, isn’t enough to get you excited, perhaps you’ll enjoy the idea of a super-hummable song with the catchy refrain, “Orlando, I love you!” Mormons were more of a hot topic when the musical by Matt Stone, Trey Parker and Robert Lopez first hit Broadway (what with Big Love on HBO and ol’ Mittens Romney on the campaign trail), but their fish-out-of-water/coming-of-age tale of a Utah missionary sent to Uganda is still fresh. Broadway Across America Orlando presents the touring production, which is likely to sell out well ahead of time – don’t say we didn’t warn you. – Jessica Bryce Young
Clamfight Friday, Nov. 8 with Hollow Leg, Shroud Eater, Ad Nauseum 9 p.m. Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-0009 facebook.com/orlandooom $5 Because they’re one of the dark South’s best, most underrated heavy bands and their latest album (Abysmal) is one of the best records to release this year, any time half-local stoner-sludge mammoth Hollow Leg plays is a big damn deal. But this Orlandooom Promotions show is especially momentous because of another similarly dope but unheralded band: Clamfight. With a high-riding, hard-grooving blend of stoner, sludge, hardcore and swaggering hard rock, these Jersey boys could easily run with the likes of High on Fire and Black Tusk. Released early this year on the Maple Forum, the official label of noted stoner/psych/doom music blog the Obelisk, their sophomore album (I Versus the Glacier) rolls in like boulders, blazes with glory and is all kickass. This one’s loaded with some great underground metal, and it’s gonna roar. – Bao Le-Huu
Culture Pop: Clothesline Show Friday, Nov. 8 7 p.m. Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland 407-539-2181 artandhistory.org $5 (free for A&H members) We have always loved the Culture and Cocktails series at Art & History Museums – Maitland, a monthly series where people gather on the gorgeous grounds of the historic Maitland Art Center to mingle and drink in stunning architecture and eclectic works of art along with their cocktails. This month, though, the series is re-launching with a new name – Culture Pop – and vision. Art won’t just be hanging on gallery walls at the event – it will be displayed all over the Art & History Museums campus, and it’ll include flash fiction from Maitland Poets and Writers, music by DJ Nigel and the Hooba Hoobas, beer from Founder’s Brewing Company and more. This month’s event will also feature a Clothesline Show in the Maitland Art Center main garden. Artwork will be on display pinned to a clothesline, everything will be for sale and nothing will cost more than $250, so score yourself a local original for a bargain. Also: This is the last event at the center before the property’s Germaine Marvel building is closed for remodeling. Everyone who attends can grab a Sharpie and leave their own bit of artwork on the walls. Snap a photo before you leave, though. When that interior becomes history, so will your original work of art. – Erin Sullivan
15th Annual Folk Art Festival Friday-Sunday, Nov. 8-10 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday House of Blues, Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista 407-934-2583 hob.com free Epcot might savor its food and wine offerings, while Magic Kingdom certainly goes all out for the holidays. But Downtown Disney holds its own by dipping into the visual art realm each year with the Festival of the Masters, a three-day sprawl of art displays, which are posted up along the outdoor pavement of the shopping-and-dining destination. During the weekend, we suggest venturing toward the Cirque end of the DD area and landing at House of Blues, where you’ll find a collection of outsider art by more than 40 artists participating in the venue’s annual Folk Art Fest. You might even recognize a few names, including Highwayman Robert L. Lewis, local illo gal Dawn Schreiner and Missionary Mary Proctor, whose painted works hung last year at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center. In keeping with the “Where Art Meets the Soul” festival theme, blues bands play live throughout the weekend, while Southern fare is dished out of the House of Blues kitchen. – Aimee Vitek
Cook Orlando Saturday, Nov. 9 Noon-4 p.m. Lake Eola Park, corner of East Central Boulevard and North Eola Drive hrc.org/cookorlando $40-$100 TV food competitions are terrible. It always makes us feel inadequate when the celebrity chefs whip up a five-star meal MacGyver-style in 20 minutes, using only three eggs, a couple of potatoes, a half-empty jar of peanut butter and a live chicken – while we watch and slurp up reheated ramen … that we burnt. But Cook Orlando, a food festival and competition to benefit the Human Rights Campaign, seems to have solved this problem by providing a tasty spread of local flavor from Orlando’s restaurant scene (including bites from Gringos Locos, K Restaurant, Whiskey Dicks and others). After you fill up on grub from the food and beverage stations, head over to the stage, where you can watch a collection of regional chefs duke it out. Dishing out $100 bucks for the VIP ticket lands you with an open bar and front-row seat to the heated kitchen battle. – James Austin
Hundred Waters Saturday, Nov. 9 7 p.m. The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $12 Shoegaze band on Arbutus Records.
SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque Saturday, Nov. 9 8 p.m. The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave. 407-228-1220 plazaliveorlando.com $20-$30 When the SuicideGirls website launched in 2001 with some naked pix of moody Portland punk rockers, it was like they’d launched a depth charge into the reigning bright-n-sunny, Britney-obsessed pop culture. These days, the tattooed/pierced/dyed aesthetic has a solid place in the current cultural hegemony – your NCIS-watching grandparents probably just love that cute Pauley Perrette – and SuicideGirls is less a sanctuary, more just another flavor of porn-lite. But when they launched the burlesque tour in 2003, founder Missy Suicide says, they were among the first to break with tradition. “We were excited to put on a sexy performance that didn’t involve feather boas and songs like ‘Big Spender.’ We wanted to use modern music.” (Advance info on the tour promises numbers based on Kill Bill, Game of Thrones, The Big Lebowski, Planet of the Apes, Doctor Who and more.) In the meantime, the rest of the world caught up, but after six years off the road, the SG troupe seems to have tired of watching others rake in the dough on an act they perfected. So look out: Those taped-and-tatted nü-lesque girls next door are back. – Jessica Bryce Young
Jug-ly Art & Antics 3: Carnal-val of the Absurd Saturday, Nov. 9 2 p.m. The Peacock Room, 1321 N. Mills Ave. 407-228-0048 thepeacockroom.com $5 donation As if this year’s post-Halloween hangover needed even more heavily punned craziness in the shape of a depraved variety show replete with bearded ladies, the Peacock Room is bringing the art of the sideshow (and just some art) to its parking-lot-turned-midway for one last dressed-up hurrah in the name of charity. Billed as a collection of “carnal-val” games – the Skunk Ape Dunk Tank, a rotten pumpkin toss, some Carnie Corn-hole, burlesque, a bearded “WoMAN” contest (!) and some chainsaw wood-carving – the afternoon of freakish interactivity also honors the Latin root of both “carnival” and “carnal” (fleshy meat!) by having Johnny’s Fillin’ Station on hand with a pig roast. Anyway, the fare will be capped off with a Florida-style swamp revival of music (the Bloody Jug Band, Slick Wood, Prison Wine, among others) and an indoor art show of repurposed junk. This hangover could get messy. – Billy Manes
Hello Kidney! A Precious Reunion Sunday, Nov. 10 with Marc With a C, Larry Fulford 8 p.m. Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. willspub.org $5 A degenerative kidney disorder has robbed Orlando of one of its most vital pop-rock songwriters and frontmen for too long. But that will change for one night only as the original lineup of Precious reunites for the first time in 10 years to raise funds to get band leader Steve Garron (also from Potsie) the medication he needs to wait out the time it takes to qualify for a kidney transplant. There will be shirts on sale emblazoned with the also-precious Hello Kitty show poster art for $10 toward this worthy cause, along with giveaways and donations accepted through stevegarron.com. As any Precious fan might remember, Garron is known to lyrically praise the greatest heroes – the normal people with regular lives – so it’s kind of fitting that the music community seeks an army of just such folks to benefit this true area talent. – Ashley Belanger