I hope the audience will learn something about the art and career of these extraordinary ladies, but also about me through a very personal lens. “My goal is to take a song and turn it into its own one-act play by telling personal stories about my life and relationships,” said Busch, “I loved that it is all very personal. Since Busch is fairly new to cabaret, he said the show’s emphasis is placed on the storytelling moments, rather than the music. Judson, who also has a Broadway background performing in the Roundabout Theater production of “Cabaret” at Studio 54 and in a national tour of “42nd Street,” will perform the music on piano. “I think the best cabaret performances are when the performer is projecting a version of themselves, very true to who they are, and somehow I am able to do that and still look like Ginger on ‘Gilligan’s Island.’”īusch describes the show as “65-percent music, 35-percent comedy,” featuring various selections from “The Great American Songbook,” as well as songs by Peter Allen and Stephen Sondheim. The item You should be so lucky : a new comedy, by Charles Busch represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. ![]() It’s kind of odd because a lot of people think of me as a female impersonator or drag performer, but to be quite honest, I don’t quite know why I’m wearing a wig on stage except that it’s something I’m known for,” said Busch, “I guess I am just so at ease with 40 years of doing this. “Joan Rivers was the closest I was with, and of course she’s not a singer but has a very distinctive voice so I tell all kinds of anecdotes from our friendship which shows her in a different way than the public may have seen her,” said Busch. Throughout his career, he said he made relationships with each of the performers through personal or professional experiences (Bergen starred in Busch’s 2006 film “A Very Serious Person,” for example). The actor, novelist, director and playwright has had a lengthy show business career that spans over four decades, including writing the Tony Award-nominated Broadway comedy play “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” which was presented in 2000 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for 777 performances. I wanted to tell personal stories, not just tell history,” said Busch, “I thought of all these extraordinary women I’ve been lucky to be friends with, who had a great degree of success in show business – particularly in cabaret which is a specific world – and I wanted to give them their due.” “I couldn’t just do an evening of Irving Berlin songs. Busch said he has performed a variety of cabaret shows throughout the country since 2012, but when he was invited to perform at the Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series in New York, he decided to put together the tribute show. With a blend of comedy and music, Busch, accompanied by his longtime pianist and musical director Tom Judson, will perform a selection of songs that are related to each of the female icons and their careers. Rosenberg, who’s estranged from his greedy but neglected daughter, Lenore (Cara Herman), takes a shine to Chris and it isn’t long before, in fairy godfather fashion, he’s buying Chris a tux and renting him a Rolls to attend a charity ball-where, yes, Chris meets his Prince Charming, a neurotic Jewish publicist (Joshua Brin).Broadway star and drag icon Charles Busch will pay tribute to five late cabaret legends – Joan Rivers, Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Mary Cleere Haran and Julie Wilson – all of whom were his personal friends, in his new cabaret show “The Lady at the Mic.”ĭonning a fiery red wig and glamorous attire, Tony Award-nominated Busch will present an intimate production of music and memories at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts for three showings on Thursday through Saturday, and again at the Purple Room in Palm Springs on March 17-18. Rosenberg (Neil Kasanofsky), who fainted outside the building. That all changes from the day Good Samaritan Chris helps out the elderly Mr. He’s constantly overshadowed by his very actressy actress sister, Polly (Jennifer Eddy), and he’s barely paying his bills. He’s a shy, gay, orphaned electrologist living in Greenwich Village who seldom goes out but makes friends instead with the senior citizens in his building. ![]() ![]() But then Busch’s main character in this show, Christopher (Parker Lawhorne), is not really of that decade so much as he is of an earlier era (there are allusions to the classic films Laura and I Want to Live as being among his influences). It’s also firmly set in the 1990s, which means references to Michael Jackson, Saddam Hussein and SCUD missiles that may just come off as dated rather than topical.
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