The Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo is one of the biggest conferences in the country. If you can’t afford the $2,000 platinum pass, you can shell out $25 to roam the Expo Hall at the Hilton New York. There, you can get info and see new products from world leaders in search – companies like Google, Yahoo, Sedo, Bing and Facebook. Learn more.

Based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire entitled “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” is a story about the witches of Oz before Dorothy arrives from Kansas. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell), Wicked tells tale of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West and her former best friend, Glinda, the Good Witch. Elphaba, born with emerald green skin and a fiery spirit befriends Glinda who is beautiful and popular while both are attending Shiz University.

The friendship starts shows cracks as Elphaba and Glinda’s personalities begin to form. Their disagreements on the Wizard’s ruling of Oz, their vastly different personalities and a rivalry over the same love interest threatens to upset the order at their university. Appropriate for children ages 8 and up. Find tickets for the show at the Gershwin Theatre, 222 West 51st St., New York, NY 10019.

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FEATURED ACT OUT OF GERMANY: Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson are behind the duo of VNV which stands for Victory, Not Vengeance, an electropop band from England. VNV combines strong electric beats and synthesized music with orchestral music and the band lives by their motto “one should strive to achieve, not sit in bitter regret”. Find Tickets.