Joe's Pub Announces Final Month of Performances Before Renovation

JUNE 26 - JULY 1

JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND

Sundays, June 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 9:30 PM

Join cabaret icon-in-residence Mx Justin V Bond in v's final Joe's Pub performance until the fall

STREEP TEASE

Monday, June 27 at 9:30 PM

Streep Tease: An Evening Of Meryl Streep Monologues Performed by an All-Male Cast, is a group of eight actors recreating scenes from the most unforgettable movies of one of the greatest actresses of all-time Meryl Streep

OUR HIT PARADE starring Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman & NEAL MEDLYN

Wednesday, June 29 at 9:30 PM
Surprise special guests join the OHP crew for a summer sendoff edition of our beloved top-10 cabaret spectacle

Nellie McKay - "I WANT TO LIVE!"

Thursday, June 30 at 9:30 PM

A "Brilliant, Zany Film-Noir Musical Biography" (The New York Times) of Barbara Graham, the Third Woman to Die in the Gas Chamber at San Quentin.

CANADA'S BIRTHDAY BASH featuring THE GREAT CANADIAN SONGBOOK

Friday, July 1 at 6:30 & 9:00 PM

Celebrate Canada's 144th birthday with this all-star celebration of the Great Canadian Songbook, produced and emcee'd by Jeff Breithaupt and featuring a stellar international line-up TBA

 

June 2, 2011 - For more information, photos, press tickets or artist contact information for the above upcoming shows, please read the full line up information below and send me an email. We've just added: Trapper Felides: Trapper's Bringing Down The House (6/17), Our Lady J: Sunshine & Silicone (6/23), Danger Zone Burlesque! The Top Gun Soundtrack Tribute (6/25), Streep Tease (6/27), Vanessa Carlton, Leonid Fedorov (Auktyon) and Vladimir Volkov (6/30), Nellie McKay: I Want to Live! (6/30) & Canada's Birthday Bash featuring the Great Canadian Songbook (7/1). Click any of the links to go to the show's page on JOESPUB.COM.

JUNE 26 - JULY 1
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND

June 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 9:30 PM; $25

"Justin Bond is a trans-Atlantic cabaret messiah" - Time Out London

 

Recently described as "A bar of gold in the new depression" by Hilton Als in the New Yorker, singer, songwriter and Tony-nominated performance artist Justin Bond is an Obie, Bessie and Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner and was named one of the top 40 favorite New Yorkers by Time Out New York and was listed by Time Out London as one of England's 50 Funniest People. His debut EP Pink Slip was released in July 2009. In 2008, he won rave reviews for his GLAAD nominated show Lustre which premiered at PS122 in the East Village and then went on to tour the UK with stops in Manchester, England as part of the It's Queer Up North Arts Festival and in a critically acclaimed run at London's Soho Theatre. Also in 2008, Justin appeared at The Southbank Center in London in the title role of Sinderella an original musical written by Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies. In 2007, he premiered Justin Bond is Close To You, a reinterpretation of the classic Carpenter's album Close To You performed in its entirety as part of Joe's Pub in the Park in Central Park and subsequently presented by The Sydney Opera House in Australia. He regularly Emcees the performance series Weimar New York which has played in such varied locations as the SFMOMA, The Speigeltent, and Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in New York.

 

As one-half of the Performance duo Kiki and Herb, Justin has toured the world headlining at Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and starred in successful runs on Broadway and off-Broadway. Kiki and Herb have released two cds, Do You Hear What We Hear?, Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall and a DVD Kiki and Herb Live at the Knitting Factory.

 

Film credits include a starring role in John Cameron Mitchell's feature Shortbus, Charles Hermann-Wurmfeld's Fancy's Persuasion as well as Imaginary Heroes and Jon Moritsugu's Mod Fuck Explosion. In 2006 Bond completed his MA Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Justin credits his career as a queer performer to Kate Bornstein who cast him as Herculine Barbin in her ground-breaking play Hidden: A Gender in 1991.

STREEP TEASE

Monday, June 27 at 9:30 PM; $25

Created by Roy Cruz, Streep Tease: An Evening Of Meryl Streep Monologues Performed by an All-Male Cast, is a group of eight actors recreating scenes from the most unforgettable movies of one of the greatest actresses of all-time Meryl Streep. The show aims to explore this all-male cast's fascination with the brilliant actress and the brilliant movies that she has starred in. The show is a combination of drama and comedy. Streep Tease has been playing to sold out audiences in Los Angeles for over 18 months! It has been featured in the Daily Variety, The Los Angeles Times and The Guardian UK. www.streeptease.net

OUR HIT PARADE starring Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman & NEAL MEDLYN

Wednesday, June 29 at 9:30 PM; $20

OUR HIT PARADE is a live top-ten countdown show created by Tony nominee and Obie winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb), carnal chanteuse Bridget Everett (At Least It's Pink at Ars Nova), pop song opera impresario Neal Medlyn (Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol at P.S. 122), producer and MTV cameraman Brendan Kennedy, and writers Ada Calhoun and Peter Schjeldahl. The show is inspired by the musical sketch series "Your Hit Parade" that ran on radio and then television from 1935 to 1959. On that show, cast members performed the week's most popular songs as comically literal skits. In this show, the hosts and special guest stars from the local performance scene present their renditions of current popular hits live on stage!

Nellie McKay - "I WANT TO LIVE!"

Thursday, June 30 at 9:30 PM; $20

Nellie McKay Earns Critical Acclaim for "I Want to Live!"

A "Brilliant, Zany Film-Noir Musical Biography" (The New York Times) of Barbara Graham, the Third Woman to Die in the Gas Chamber at San Quentin.

 

"In a matter of minutes Ms. McKay transports you from heaven into hell. Or is the other way around? She makes both worlds irresistibly seductive." - The New York Times

 

"I Want to Live!" a musical death row revue, conjures the life story of "a woman of dubious moral standards...often a guest in seedy bars..."

 

Inspired by the 1958 movie of the same name, "I Want to Live!" ...combines Ms. McKay's virtually unlimited gifts as a singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, ukulele player, mimic, satirist and comedian into a show that is much deeper than its surface might suggest," writes Stephen Holden for The New York Times. "In the most lighthearted way they evoke a heartless environment of social injustice in which people who fall through the cracks are invisible to everyone else." "Pretty darned unique," adds Michael Musto of the Village Voice. www.NellieMcKay.com

CANADA'S BIRTHDAY BASH featuring THE GREAT CANADIAN SONGBOOK

Friday, July 1 at 6:30 & 9:00 PM; $25

Celebrate Canada's 144th birthday with this all-star celebration of the Great Canadian Songbook, produced and emcee'd by Jeff Breithaupt and featuring a stellar international line-up (to be announced soon!), backed by the all-star "Workin' for the Weekend House Band" led by Music Director Peter Kiesewalter (Brooklyn Roadfunk Orkestrata, East Village Opera Company). Join the evening's sparkling cast of special guests as they lay down unforgettable versions of all your favorite Canuck anthems. From Cohen to Cockburn, Joni to Gino, Lightfoot to Lighthouse, Rufus to Raffi, Burton to Bryan, Nelly to Neil, you never know whose songs you might hear. We've been oot and aboot looking at the border from Both Sides Now, and we're rarin' to Share the Land north of the 49th with this town's Sweet City Women and Sk8er Boi's alike. Sure, Life Is a (Carefree) Highway, but on July 1, life is happening at 425 Lafayette Street. So, come on, Old Man, come on Girlfriend, come on Justin: let down your Hair, grab Mimi from the Beach, and take a Magic Carpet Ride to Joe's Pub for the year's rocking-est birthday bash! Think you know The Great Canadian Songbook? You Ain't [Heard] Nothin' Yet.

 

 

TICKETS

Online at joespub.com

Phone 212-967-7555,

In Person At The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC

 

For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.