Sweeney Ambrose, HAIR Tribe and More to Play Joe's Pub in January
By: Jessica Lewis Dec. 17, 2009
Today, Joe's Pub released a schedule of upcoming events January events. Broadway favorites included in the line-up are Julia Sweeney, the tribe of Hair, and Lauren Ambrose. Just added performers include Shemekia Copeland, Kristina Train, Mato Nanji and more (1/10), World Famous *BOB*: One Man Show (1/24), Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits (2/2) & Carrie Newcomer: CD Release (3/28). For more information, visit www.joespub.com.
2010: AN EQUALITY ODYSSEY! PRESENTED BY JOE'S PUB, BROADWAY IMPACT & THE TRIBE OF HAIR!
Friday, January 1 at 1:00 AM
After the ball drops, kick off the New Year with Broadway Impact at Joe's Pub.
2010: an Equality Odyssey! Join us to ring in the New Year with equality. Come start the year off on the right side of history!
The night will include launching into the new year with Music by DJ Theocracy (Theo Stockman) and performances by members of the HAIR Tribe along with special mystery guests!
Of course there will also be drinks and a raffle of prizes! 100% of the proceeds go to Broadway Impact!
Broadway Impact is a grassroots organization of the Theatre community and its fans, mobilizing in support of marriage equality. http://www.broadwayimpact.com
Joe's Pub is committed in 2010 to fight for equality for all of our LGBTQ friends and loved ones and we invite you to start the year off with us and our friends at Broadway Impact. $20
Julia Sweeney AND JILL SOBULE - THE JILL AND JULIA SHOW
Sunday, January 10 at 7:00 PM
The Jill And Julia Show is a delightful, poignant yet wildly entertaining mash-up of music, comedy, improvisation and monologues. This one-of-a-kind performance revolves around embedding Julia's stories into songs of Jill's that share a common theme creating a sum greater than the individual parts. The debut at the world renowned TED conference in 2007 has grown to a monthly residency in and around Chicago and will be touring nationwide in 2010 and beyond.
Known for her four-year run on Saturday Night Live and her powerful solo shows, Julia Sweeney continues to carve out her own territory in entertainment, one that moves between the personal and the political, the controversial and the comical.
Jill Sobule's work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic. Over seven albums and a decade of recording, Jill has mused on topics such as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence, and the Christian right. The NY Times called her "...topical, funny and more than a little poignant ...grown-up music for an adolescent age." $25
BURNT SUGAR
Sunday, January 10 at 11:30pm
As the story goes ...from a humble beginning of only two theaters and a torrent of negative reviews," Sweet Sweetback's Baasasssss Song eventually mushroomed to domestic box office receipts of $10,000,000.00 and landed on Daily Variety's list of top-grossing films for the year 1971. Incidentally Sweet Sweetback was the largest grossing independent film up to that time with its success kick-starting what became known as the Blaxplotation film movement.
Not as well documented is that Earth Wind and Fire performed the musical soundtrack on Sweetback. Here, thirty-nine years later, Mr. Melvin Van Peebles, the producer, writer, director, composer, editor and star of Sweet Sweetback has chosen Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber to be his 23rd-century Earth Wind and Fire.
The Arkestra Chamber will perform the soundtrack live, on-stage, for the theatrical world premiere at the Sons d'hiver Festival in Paris, France on February 19th and 20th, 2010. Want a taste and can't go to Paris in February? Joe's Pub has you covered!
On Sunday, January 10th, 2010, Joe's Pub Late Night will present Burnt Sugar for a baadasssss time of tunes from the soundtrack; an appearance by Mr. Melvin Van Peebles himself; and of course the conducted-improvisational mash-ups conductor Greg Tate and the Burnt Sugar crew are world-famous for.
Get your tickets early as the last Burnt Sugar/Joe's Pub performance in August stranded a bus-load of music lovers in The Public Theater lobby. The time is now, Be a witness! $15
CONNI'S AVANT GARDE RESTAURANT
Thursday, January 14 at 9:30 PM
"Conni's skewers Vegas-style dinner theater and avant-garde pretension on a single sharp kebab." -Time Out New York
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant (a NYTimes Urban Eye pick and Village Voice Choice) returns to Joe's Pub for an a-la-carte cabaret honoring the life's work of the legendary Miss Conni Convergence, beloved icon of stage and screen, who is scheduled to make a rare personal appearance. Join the ensemble as they re-live the greatest hits and failures from their extensive under-appreciated cannon of important work, on the very site where it all started. The evening will include a live cooking demonstration of Miss Conni's latest culinary innovation. $20
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: JACOB STERLING AT JOE'S PUB
Featuring David Pittu
Sunday, January 17 at 7:30, Monday, January 18 at 9:30
"For connoisseurs of atrocious musical theater - and/or whip-smart satire - the fictional Jacob Sterling is a godsend to be eternally grateful for."--Isherwood, NY Times
Tony-nominated actor David Pittu--last seen in this summer's triumphant Twelfth Night at the Delacorte--will return as his alter ego Jacob Sterling, the "living, American musical theater composer working in an age of terror" from last season's acclaimed What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, for three nights only in January at Joe's Pub. The evening will coincide with the CD release of What's That Smell through Shk-A-Boom, and will feature many classic hits from Jacob Sterling musicals like Private Benjamin and Mademoiselle Death (based on La Femme Nikita), as well as a sneak peak of what Jacob is working on for the new year. He will be joined by Peter Bartlett (as Jacob's pal and enthusiast Leonard Swagg) and others. Lyrics are by Mr Pittu and music is by Randy Redd. $25
SOJOURN AT ARARAT
Monday, January 18 at 7:30 PM
"The two gifted actors gently smooth out the crumpled-up pieces of paper...they symbolically string together the scattered beads & show that culture, any culture, lives on through the art its people creates." Patti Hartigan, Boston Globe
Sojourn at Ararat, the international award-winning sensation seen on four continents, will make its New York debut at Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre, by special invitation from The Public's Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis, for a one night only gala performance on Monday, January 18, 2010, at 7:30pm.
Originally premiering at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, with its creators, Nora Armani & Gerald Papasian, Sojourn at Ararat has been seen on 4 continents, in more than 25 cities worldwide, receiving accolades & awards. The show, about identity, home & love, brings to life the soul of the Armenian people through its poetry & literature. Sojourn at Ararat is a powerful vehicle for Genocide education, antiviolence & anti-war inspiration, with a strong message of peace, harmony & humanity, all in a highly entertaining evening. $15 in advance, $20 at the door
ONE CHILD BORN: THE MUSIC OF Laura Nyro
Tuesday, January 19 at 7:30 PM
One Child Born was developed through a residency at New York City's CAP21, had its New York Premiere to a sold out crowd at the Laurie Beechman Theater in July 2009, and now is thrilled to be at Joe's Pub! $12
WORLD RECORD NIGHT
Tuesday, January 19 at 9:30 PM
Dubbed "Best Oddball Night" by New York Magazine, the World Record Appreciation Society features an ever-changing lineup of eclectic performers setting unique world records. The night is hosted by the Universal Record Database (URDB.org), a Web site The New Yorker says "is to the Guinness World Records as Wikipedia is to the Encyclopedia Britannica." World records set at previous events have ranged from 'Most Cocktail Umbrellas Fit In Hair In One Minute' to 'Tallest Drawing Of A Midget' to 'Most Bananas Fit In A Pair Of Pants At Once.' URDB are regular guests on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and host thousands of unique records on their site.
"Our live events bring out a mix of individual bravery, group participation, hilarity, surprise and all-around general chaos," says URDB co-founder and event host Dan Rollman. "We've seen everything from a wedding proposal to the world's tallest carrot cake to 12 women standing on top of a man rolled up in a carpet." $12
THE Molly Pope SHOW
Wednesday, January 20 at 9:30 PM
"Transports the audience back to the thriving Greenwich Village nightclub scene of yesteryear, where girl singers with big, robust voices and gumption to match took their first bold steps up the ladder to stardom. She's got the stuff, and there may be a ladder for her yet." - Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
Molly Pope debuted The Diva-lution of MollyPope to rave reviews at Don't Tell Mama's last spring. Hailed for her powerful vocals and dynamic dramatic intensity, Molly's performances of such songs as Dietz & Schwartz' "By Myself" Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen's "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" and even The Cardigans' "Love Fool" provoked widespread comparison to a young Barbra Streisand. Tonight at Joe's Pub Molly Pope premieres her latest show, The Molly Pope Show! $15
Lauren Ambrose & THE LEISURE CLASS
Thursday, January 21 at 9:30 PM
The Leisure Class
Lauren Ambrose - vocals
Kip Beacco - mandolin, guitar, fiddle
Evan Palazzo - piano
Lyon Graulty - saxophone
Andy Bean - banjo
Brian Kantor - drums
Matt Downing - bass
Lauren Ambrose recently starred as Queen Marie in the Broadway revival of Eugene Ionesco's tragicomedy, "Exit the King." Ambrose was seen in the metaphysical drama "Cold Souls." This October, Ambrose lends her voice in the role of KW in the Warner Brothers live action adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" along with Paul Dano, Forest Whitaker and James Gandolfini. Directed by Spike Jonze, the film will be released on October 16th. Ambrose recently completed production on "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," opposite Natalie Portman. Written and directed by Don Roos ("The Opposite of Sex"), the film follows aspiring lawyer, Emilia Greenleaf (Portman) through her difficult relationship with her stepson. Ambrose's other film credits include: "A Dog Year," "Starting Out in the Evening," "Diggers," "Can't Hardly Wait." "Swimming," and "Psycho Beach Party."
Ambrose is most known for her work on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" as Claire Fisher. In April 2006, Ambrose made her Broadway debut, appearing in the Tony award-winning production of Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing!" In 2004, Ambrose made her stage debut at the National Theatre in London in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Buried Child," directed by Matthew Warchus. Ambrose currently resides in New York City. $15
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