Julie Wilson Performs Cabaret Show at Helen's, Dec. 12-21
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 27, 2005
The Hideaway Room at Helen's will conclude its 2005 season with a return engagement, beginning Monday, December 12, of a new show from "The Queen of Cabaret," Julie Wilson at 7 pm on December 12 and 19 and 9:30 pm on December 13, 14, 20 and 21.
Since returning to New York in 1983, Julie Wilson has established a reputation as one of the greatest cabaret performers of all time. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, she began her career in the nightclubs of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, starting with Earl Carroll's Vanities. As a featured singer at the Copacabana she introduced the song, "There's An Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil." Miami and Hollywood clubs dates followed, including the famous Mocambo. Over the decades that followed she performed in such musicals as Legs Diamond, Panama Hattie, Kiss Me, Kate, South Pacific, Bells Are Ringing, The Pajama Game, Kismet, Show Boat, Jimmy, Silk Stockings, Follies, Company and A Little Night Music.
"Her extraordinarily expressive face registers a thousand emotions as she reacts seismically to each word, seemingly channeling the past. And when the lyrics of a song are especially pungent, she invests them with the weight of a theatrical oracle… a distillation of a long life that remembers love, mourns loss and embraces laughter and a fierce will to continue, despite the loss," wrote Stephen Holden of The New York Times.
The Hideaway Room at Helen's is located at 169 Eighth Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets in New York City.
The show has a cover of $25 with a $15 food/drink minimum. Reservations are taken from 4 pm to 2 am daily. MasterCard, Visa and American Express Cards are accepted. For reservations or club information, please call 212-206-0609 or visit www.helensnyc.com.
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