TEN-FOOT RAT CABARET to Play UNDER St. Marks Next Month

It's April. The Ides of March have come and gone, and RATS FEED UPON THE CORPSE OF CAESAR! Come celebrate spring rebirth and the restoration of the Republic at Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret on Wednesday, April 5 at 9:30pm.

Featuring their inspired, curated monthly roster of smart comedy, thrilling music, clever storytelling, sexy burlesque, and theatrical vaudeville spectacle, the show that "forever and irrevocably altered the soul of variety in Old Gotham" offers an amazing lineup of new talent and the best of our returning nightlife superstars. Escape the chill of winter with physical comedy, old world decadence, sexuality, costumes, rock 'n roll, sketch comedy, theatrical characters, and stories.

Hosted by Stand Up Comic/Storyteller Jillian Thomas (MTV Live, The Toronto Show, The Buzz, Listen Missy, Much Music's Love Court), Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret presents the greatest music, best dancers, smartest comedians, funniest storytellers and just plain unique acts for one thrilling evening of entertainment. Talent from New York City and around the world takes the stage at the legendary UNDER St. Marks in the heart of the East Village for this monthly event.

The show on Wednesday, April 5 will feature a bevy of talent along with our Artist-in-Residence, the funny, brilliant, and strange Bill Chambers. Expect the unexpected, as he might tell a morbidly funny tale of Gotham apartment hunting, animate a dead Teddy Ruxpin a la Mary Shelly, arrange a special appearance by Neil Diamond, or shock you with his live murderbag (seen in the FRIGID Festival, Canuck Cabaret, and punk rock shows all across the Former Communist Bloc).

And this month Karina Libido is back! Glitter, glamour and flirtatiousness, the self-styled "Nesting Doll of Burlesque" has sojourned from the Eastern realms to bring us her Matryoshka Dance, with glorious costumes set to traditional Russian kalinka music.

Then there's Rory Scholl: master storyteller and comedian, he has performed as a hostage-taker for NYPD crisis training and rocked with the notorious underground BTK Band. What is he going to do with his giant tomato puppet?

Master of dark "German" nightclub humor and Continental kitsch, Gregory Levine as "Gregor of Berlin" will regale the audience with horrid tales of Teutonic childhood, decadence, morphine, prostitution, and of course, life in European show biz (seen in the Capital Fringe, FRIGID Festival, Travel Channel, Guilty Pleasures Cabaret and Guinness Book of World Records for Longest Continuous Variety Show).

Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret plays at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) every first Wednesday of the month at 9:30pm. Visit www.tenfootrat.com for the latest show information. Tickets ($15) are available for advance purchase at www.horseTRADE.info or at the box office before the show. In-theater bar serves craft beers, wine, Japanese sake, and hard cider. Admission is 21+ with ID to drink / 17+ or accompanied by guardian to attend the show.

FRIGID NEW YORK is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.

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