There are classy dinner shows that feature full stage productions for tourists, and then there are intimate tango venues that provide more authentic shows for enthusiasts and local patrons.

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Be aware that dinner shows can be expensive, and some of the more hidden and intimate clubs offer a less expensive alternative -- many charging only for what is consumed.

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It will also be easier to spot big bettors, offering them tickets to shows or dinner reservations.

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After reading it, the visitor will not linger in the city centre but scuttle past the Radcliffe Camera and Magdalen Tower, over the Cherwell, and on to the Ultimate Picture Palace, where a projectionist, solemnly dinner-jacketed, shows art-house movies to a tiny and devoted audience.

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At dinner with friends in a Greenwich Village restaurant, two playwrights, one tragic (Larry Pine), one comic (Wallace Shawn), offer alternate versions of the same story: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, shows up, unannounced, at a dinner party held by old friends and intrudes upon their lives.

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Afterword, Kenny shows no need to wind down, even as dinner plans await with his wife Nicole, who accompanied him to Nashville.

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His wife (Alexandra Vandernoot) is appalled by the dinner game, and she storms out of the house just before the fool shows up.

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The free private event allows children who might not ordinarily get a chance to enjoy SeaWorld access to VIP private shows, a special Shamu spectacular, live animal meet and greets, dinner, visits from Santa, and gifts.

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