Morning roundup: podcasts, menopause and more

• Head over to TBPAC.ORG to listen to the newest podcast on the 0708 Broadway season! You can listen to it in mp3 format from our website, or sign up for the RSS feed to get new podcasts automatically.
• An extension for Menopause the Musical went on sale yesterday at noon. Tickets are now on sale through Sept. 2. Get your tickets sooner rather than later if you have an inclination to come, they're burning up like a hot flash.
• If you're coming out to Menopause, forget to show up at 6pm on Wednesdays for the Hot Flash Happy Hours.
• Jobsite Theater has posted a new PR shot from their upcoming production of Hurlyburly (disclaimer: ok, so I'm in the photo and a producer of the show)0
• A birdie tells me that this Saturday's 20th Birthday Party for TBPAC is already sold out. Wowsers!
• Don't forget to vote for all of your local favorites in Creative Loafing's 2007 Best of the Bay Awards!
  

Time change for Hot Flash Happy Hours

It's come to my attention that the Hot Flash Happy Hours happening on Wednesday nights in the Jaeb prior to Menopause the Musical begins at 6pm, not 6:30 as I'd previously said.

Come on down!

Hot Flash Happy Hour - Wed.'s starting 6/6

Come on down to the Jaeb Theater on Wed. nights at 6:00 to join in the food, drinks and fun prior to performances of Menopause the Musical. It's a Hot Flash Happy Hour! The first event takes place on June 6.

Drink specials include:

• I'm so Winey Spritzers
• Rushin' Night Sweats
• Estro-Gin and Tonics

Food specials include:

• Assorted Desserts
  
• Hot Dogs
• Cheese and Fruit Tray served with assorted Premium Crackers
• Peanut Noodles with Beef
• Coconut Noodles with Steamed Asian Vegetables
• Caesar Grilled Chicken Wrap with Terra Chips

Ladies Nights?

TBPAC is seemingly teeming with gynocentric programming over the summer: Menopause the Musical, Woman in Mind, The Sisters Rosensweig. We just had Patty Larkin and Lily Tomlin. I suppose Clay Aiken, though not a woman, fits in line as a very female-friendly artist.

Of course not all of those shows or artists have exclusively female appeal, but at least on the surface they all certainly do. Women account for the largest group of people who buy tickets for shows here at TBPAC, so that's not so bad.

Actually if you really want to get technical, we know our most regular ticket buyer is a woman between the ages of 45 and 55 who has at least some college education and a household income of over $75,000. So I won't act surprised that artists/shows like I listed above do very well here.

Menopause is certainly an event, and is an enormous draw. The show posted the single-best record for a show in the Jaeb Theater last summer. It sold more than a million dollars in tickets - simply amazing. It handily beat out heavyweights like Forever Plaid and Shear Madness in the process.

The show opens officially tonight and is currently on sale through the end of July. Tickets are going extremely fast - people will be hard-pressed to get decent seats unless you want to buy a minimum of two to three weeks in advance.

Get 'em while they're hot-flashing. Ok, ok ... I'll stop.

And you dudes? Depending on your age and sense of humor there's laughs to be had at Menopause, Woman in Mind should easily appeal to anyone with a like of BBC comedies like The Office, Fawlty Towers or old Python - and there's always that icon of male humor, Mel Brooks, who has a little musical coming back this summer that you might have heard of based on some movie.

We're not getting rid of the men's rooms. Promise.