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Old 97’s at the Vogue May 3. Details here. 

“Weird Al” Yankovic brings his Alpocalypse Tour to the Murat May 6. Details here. 

Garrison Keillor at Clowes Hall May 9. Details here.

First Friday, May 4, features gallery openings throughout downtown and surroundings. Details here. 

On May 3 at the Hasten Hebrew Academy Theater, pianist Richard Glazier celebrates music and the movies in a multimedia concert that includes video interviews with Mickey Rooney and Celeste Holm and footage of Judy Garland, with proceeds benefiting the Harriett Glazier Cultural Arts fund. Details here. 

Susan Klein tells of quitting her job and heading for Martha’s Vineyard in “East of the Vineyard,” the final offering in Storytelling Arts of Indiana’s season May 5 at the Indiana History Center. Details here. 

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton comes to the Jazz Kitchen May 4-5. Details here. 

Pianist Marianne Tobias and former ISO maestro Raymond Leppard pair up for “The Maestro and the Lady,” a May 9 concert benefiting Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre. Details here.

May 5

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Remember the stateroom scene from the Marx Brothers’ “A Night at the Opera,” in which a ship’s cabin was overcrowded to the point of explosion? Well, the stage of the Hilbert Circle Theatre will be close to that, as more than 200 singers of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir meet the full force of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The four brass bands required for the piece will have to take up temporary residence off stage. The cause for the musical excess is the conclusion of the ISC’s 75^th anniversary season. Details here. 

May 7

Clowes Hall

There are some newcomers this year (specifically, The Fourth Wall and Transient Music Festival), but the core pleasures of this annual event benefiting HIV prevention in Indiana is seeing what the regular returnees—Dance Kaleidoscope, Indianapolis Children’s Choir, the Phoenix Theatre and lip-sync-er Asia La Bouche offer. If you want to start getting out to see more live performances in Indy, the $15 lowest ticket price is a great way to get a sampling of some of the city’s leading companies. Details here. 

May 3-June 2

Indianapolis Museum of Art grounds

Bring your walking shoes, bring them again … and bring them a third time as No Exit Productions and Paper Strangers stage Sophocles’ trilogy (“Oedipus Rex,” “Oedipus at Colonus” and “Antigone”) at locations throughout the IMA grounds. Expect singing, dancing, and some good old-fashioned Greek tragedy in this rare opportunity to see three world classics filtered through some of the city’s most innovative theater creators. Details here.

May 4, 6

Clowes Hall

The first opera ever performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House (back in 1883, when it was only 24 years old), Gounod’s “Faust” is now a staple in the operatic repertoire. Yet while the basic premise is familiar to anyone who has seen “Bedazzled,” “Damn Yankees,” or any of dozens of its imitators, I’d venture to say those who attend Indianapolis Opera’s production won’t know in advance exactly what will happen once the aged title character gives up his soul to Mephistopheles. It’s the final production of the IO season, and it promises to be the grandest. IO vet Gran Wilson plays Faust. Maureen O’Flynn is his motivator, Marguerite, and Kevin Short (a frequent Porgy around the country) takes on the demonic bargain hunter. Details here.