Joe's Pub ANNOUNCES Meow Meow, Juan Carmona & Stephane Wrembel
By: Gabrielle Sierra Dec. 06, 2010
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.
JUST ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF Jackie Hoffman'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY
Friday December 24 at 7:30 pm; $30
Friday, December 31 at 7:00 PM; $40
Mondays, January 3, 17 at 7:30 PM; $30
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND Mondays, Jan 3 & 17 have just been added
Broadway's Jackie Hoffman, acclaimed for her hysterical scene-stealing performances in such shows as Hairspray, Xanadu and currently as ‘Grandma' in The Addams Family, will bring her all-new solo show Jackie Five-Oh!: A Celebration of Jackie Hoffman's First 50th Birthday to Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) beginning Monday, November 22 for four consecutive Monday evenings.
In the all-new Jackie Five-Oh!, the blisteringly funny, filter-free Hoffman muses on her own decay, as well as about her experiences playing ‘Grandma' and a host of other topics such as Haiti and Hollywood. Hoffman will also world premiere several new musical numbers, including two that she wrote for ‘Grandma'....if she were to have a solo number in The Addams Family, which of course she doesn't .....not that she's ever complained about that.
FUNK IT UP ABOUT NOTHING
Saturday, January 8 at 7:30 PM & Monday, January 10 at 11:30 AM; $15
"5 STARS--I defy you to go and come out without a gigantic grin on your face." - Time Out London
"A bawdy and fun remix! Exceedingly smart and funny... It's clever stuff. This lively and well-performed show will greatly amuse. When it comes to funking up the Bard, the Q's are your guys." - Chicago Tribune
From the minds and rhymes behind The Bomb-itty of Errors comes a new "ad-rap-tation" of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Winner of the 2008 Dress Circle Award for Best Musical Production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Q Brothers transform the Bard's romantic comedy into an exuberant hip-hop extravaganza, rapped to the rhythm of six MCs and a DJ.
Friday, January 8 at 11:30 PM & Sundays January 23, 30 at 9:30 PM; $20
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.
"Justin Bond is a trans-Atlantic cabaret messiah" ***** Time Out London
Sunday, January 9 at 9:30 PM; $25
Purr-fect post-post-modern diva Meow Meow's unique brand of kamikaze cabaret kitsch and performance art exotica has hypnotized, inspired and terrified audiences worldwide. With an extraordinary voice described as "Diamanda Galas drowned in cherry liquer", the spectacular crowd-surfing queen of song ‘drags cabaret kicking and screaming into the 21st century' (Time Out NY), with trail-blazing sell-out seasons from New York and Berlin to London's Soho Theatre, the West End and Sydney Opera House. Named top ten ‘Best of Cabaret' (Time Out NY), ‘A cabaret diva of the highest order' (New York Post), " SENSATIONAL ***** (The Times UK), and "A phenomenon" by the Australian press, multi-award winning Meow has been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Baryshnikov amongst others, and has created original works for numerous international arts festivals. Sequins and satire, original "chansons apocalyptiques", witty wicked Weimar, 1930's Shanghai showtunes, 60's French pop, Brel, Brecht, Casal, Kitt, Radiohead revisioned. Music. Politics. Mayhem. Magnificence.
"Catapults the genre of Entertainment into a hitherto unknown dimension" - Berliner Morgenpost
"Meow takes the art of cabaret and splits it open, exposing the disillusioned, yearning heart that beats under the sequins...Nothing less than revelatory" - The Australian
"A sequined sex-bomb waiting to detonate" - Sydney Central
"Cabaret will never be the same" - The List, Edinburgh
"She is sensational. ***** " - The Times
Meow was awarded the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival Prize 2010!
Lance Horne has received a 2008 Emmy Award for Best Original Song. As a singer and pianist, he has played this season with Amanda Palmer, Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Meow Meow, Nellie McKay, Justin Bond, Alan Cumming, and opened for Death Cab for Cutie, appearing in Carnegie's Berlin in Lights series, the David Bowie-curated HighLine Festival, Weimar NY at the Green Door, Shanghai, and with Meow in Berlin, Ann Arbor, Sydney, and Edinburgh Festivals, Pina Bausch Tanzfestival, and the Dresden Dolls Tour. More information about Lance can be found at lancehorne.com
To read more about Meow Meow's solo performances, collaborations, recordings, and upcoming performances, please visit her at www.meowmeowrevolution.com
JUAN CARMONA / STEPHANE WREMBEL
Monday, January 10 at 7:00; $20
One of the most innovative and virtuoso Flamenco guitarists of our time, Juan Carmona has been awarded countless awards such as the prestigious first prize in the Madrid de Paco de Lucia Competition. He recently garnered his third Latin Grammy nomination for ‘Best Flamenco Album' for his newest release El Sentido del Aire. His breathtaking performances have taken him to acclaimed venues around the world. This is a special opportunity to see such a great master in an intimate setting.
"Ravishing work drawing upon a vast vocabulary of flamenco techniques. Heroic rhythms, lyrical song forms, pulsing dance beats, brilliant finger technique--these elements and others reminded listeners of the syntax of flamenco, albeit expressed at an exalted technical level." ~ Chicago Tribune
http://www.juancarmona.com/
French virtuoso guitarist Stephane Wrembel is at the vanguard of the Gypsy Swing renaissance in the US. He seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt and has - quite literally - written the book on Gypsy Jazz: "Getting into Gypsy Jazz", published by Mel Bay. His new cd, Barbès Brooklyn, has Stephane and guests playing a mixture of standards and original, updating the classic Gypsy swing repertoire and reminding his audience that Stephane's music is solidly anchored in the present. Stephane Wrembel grew up in France where, for years, he studied guitar with the manouche (the French Gypsies). He has also gotten deep into various American vernacular musical styles - from Blue Grass to Jazz. He has performed and toured and recorded with such luminaries as Mark O'Connor and David Grisman (with whom he recorded the album Gypsy Rumble) and performed with Lionel Loueke, Les Paul and Angelo Debarre. He is a regular guest at Djangofests and festivals both in Europe and in the US. He will appear with his trio, which includes percussionist and washboard kit master David Langlois and bassist Jared Engel - as well as frequent collaborator violinist Olivier Manchon and special guests TBA. "The fastest fingers this side of Django Reinhardt" - Metro NY
www.stephanewrembel.com
BANANA BAG & BODICE DOES BEOWULF - A THOUSAND YEARS OF BAGGAGE
Monday, January 10 at 9:30 PM; $14 in advance, $17 at the door
"...joyfully raucous and silly...brings out the power and the color of the legend..." - The New Yorker
"Hilarious...clever...has the makings of a cult fave." - Variety
After a successful smash-hit run in April, 2009 at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City, and multiple gigs at Lower East Side music venues, Banana Bag & Bodice brings their award-winning epic SongPlay back to Joe's Pub.
Digging into the roots of the original epic poem, this re-imagined version of Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage hearkens back to the raw and rowdy style of storytelling in the old Scandinavian mead halls - with a passion for fierce poetry and a pint of thick beer.
Monsters and professors collide in blood-soaked Scandinavia as this hefty poem is rescued from 1,000 years of analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous dissertation on art and violence. With an 7-piece band including dueling trombones, bass clarinet, accordion and saw, Beowulf combines Weillian cabaret, 40's jazz harmony, indie rock, punk, electronica and Romantic lieder into a cacophonous swirl.
Written by Jason Craig
Music by Dave Malloy
Directed by Rod Hipskind & Mallory Catlett
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage received its World Premiere with The Shotgun Players, Berkeley, CA in May, 2008. Patrick Dooley, Artistic Director / Elizabeth Lisle, Managing Director
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.
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