Wilson, Hoffman, et al. Features at Joe's Pub, 2/21-25

The following guests are set to appear at Joe's Pub from February 21-25:

JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF Jackie Hoffman'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY
Mondays, January 3, 17 & February 14 & 21 at 7:30 PM; $30
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.
 
Hoffman's previous outings at Joe's Pub (immortalized on the CD Jackie Hoffman: Live At Joe's Pub....NOT sold in the Lunt-Fontanne lobby) have garnered a cult following, as well as critical acclaim.  Charles Isherwood of The New York Times wrote, "Jackie Hoffman's solo shows at Joe's Pub have become a beloved ritual.  Ms. Hoffman radiates anything but love and charity as she reviews the year in outrage, both global and personal.  And who can blame her! " Adam Feldman in Time Out wrote that Jackie Hoffman "may be one of America's funniest women." 
 
Jackie Five-Oh! is written by Hoffman and Michael Schiralli, and directed by Schiralli.   Musical direction is by Bobby Peaco. Jackie Five-Oh! will be performed Monday, November 22; Monday, November 29; Monday, December 6; and Monday, December 13.  Performance time is 7:30 pm.  Tickets are $30.  For tickets, visit www.joespub.com or call (212) 967-7555.
 
Jackie Hoffman has performed on Broadway in Xanadu, Hairspray (Theatre World Award) and The Addams Family. Solo shows:  Whining In the Windy City, Scraping the Bottom, Jackie with a Z, Chanukah at Joe's Pub (Bistro Award), The Kvetching Continues (Time Out New York's Outstanding Achievement Award). Off-Broadway: Regrets Only, Manhattan Theatre Club Tribeca Theatre Festival,   The Book of Liz, (Obie Award) Straightjacket, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, (Lincoln Center Theatre Festival) and One Woman Shoe.  Regional: Second City Chicago (Jeff Award); The Sisters Rosensweig, Old Globe, San Diego.  Films:  The Extra Man, A Dirty Shame, Garden State, Legally Blonde II, Kissing Jessica Stein, Mo' Money.  Television: "30 Rock," "One Life to Live," "Starved," " Hope and Faith," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Strangers with Candy," "TV Funhouse," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," " Soulman," "Cosby."  Animation:  Dilbert and PB & J Otter, Robots, Queer Duck the movie.  Comedy Album: Jackie Hoffman Live At Joe's Pub.

Jake Wilson IS Justin BieberMonday, February 21 at 9:30 PM; $20
Pop music's biggest tween sensation, Justin Bieber, takes time out of his busy schedule for an exclusive, unplugged concert event at Joe's Pub.  This is the perfect medicine for your Bieber Fever.  Join Justin (and surprise special guests) for an acoustic version of his multi-platinum album "My World."

If you haven't yet heard of Jake Wilson, he's a pretty big deal.  The creator and star of the musical web series "The Battery's Down," makes his solo concert debut tackling the role of the puberty-inducing Justin Bieber.

OUR HIT PARADE STARRING Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman AND NEAL MEDLYN
Wednesdays, February 23 & March 30 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!
 
Lady Rizo: unescorted
Fridays February 25, March 18, May 20 & June 17 at 9:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door
"The brazen blonde belts out classics and pop tunes atop a piano"  -- Women's Wear Daily
"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo has, thankfully, upped the ante... throwing in enough hyperfemininity to blow your heart and go down on your mind." - Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice
"Lady Rizo and The Assettes brought down the house."- Men's Vogue
"Rizo's mischievous grin and banter hold the audience captive."  - NY Press
"adorably louche"-- Time Out
"Lady Rizo bring(s) out the Broadway in this chart-topper" --Rolling Stone
 
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence.  You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs. 
 
But here is your chance to have her all to yourself.   Her seamless mix of baudy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but its her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit. 
 

Photo Credit: Walter McBride/WM Photos

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