Before you get ahead of yourself, this is not the Bingo that involves daubers, cards and senior citizens (well, possibly the latter). Instead, The New Orleans Bingo! Show — born in the back of a French Quarter fried chicken shack — is "a thrilling phenomenon and one of the very finest entertainments on the theatrical stage today." The show includes silent films, aerialists, dancers, ingénues, clowns, slapstick and, yes, maybe even a dauber or two. It runs at The Magnetic Field Thursday-Saturday, July 21-23. 8 p.m., $10. themagneticfield.com.
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We have also added a 10:30 p.m. show on Saturday, by popular demand.