Lady Rizo: unescorted
Saturday, September 25, Fridays, October 22, November 19 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 bawdy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but it's 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.
Let her lashes beguile you as she interprets an irresistible mix of popular songs from all eras backed by some of the finest musicians in New York City. Even though she is venturing out solo, if you know Lady Rizo you won't be surprised if a couple special guests pop up.
ELEPHANT LARRY featuring ANDREW WK, JAKE & AMIR, AND MORE
Saturday, September 25 at 11:30 PM; $15
Elephant Larry & Friends
Elephant Larry (Village Voice's Best Sketch Comedy Group) teams up with some very special surprise guests at a very special venue for an extremely special night. Will you join us?
AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!
Sunday, September 26 at 7:30 PM; $15
"Amber has turned that Big Apple into a quivering pool of applesauce. Listening to her sing is like aural saline." -- Dina Martina
"Like watching Ruth Draper after she's come back from an acid trip during which she thought she was Janis Joplin... Fight for a ticket." -- Willamette Week
In the footsteps of comic character monologists such as Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo, and Whoopi Goldberg, acclaimed comedic performance artist Amber Martin brings her award winning chops to Joes Pub. Created and performed by Martin, Amber Alert! is an intimately mind-altering hour of meticulously chosen musical and comedic vignettes from Amber's strange and fascinating toybox of characters.
Blending music, video, monologues, movement, and acid-capped comedy with a pristine, multi-octave range singing voice, Amber Alert! is Amber Martin's own serio-comic multiple-personality trip.
Noted as a performer of many faces and voices with boundless energy to burn, performer Amber Martin has left such celebrity audience members as Joyce Dewitt, Michael Stipe, Karen Black, Chuck Palanhuik, Todd Haynes, Dina Martina, John Cameron Mitchell, and Justin Bond howling in ecstasy. So put on your thinking caps for an old school downtown-style cocktail performance by one of the next sensations of thought-provoking musical comedy... Miss Amber Martin.
LITTLE ANNIE
Sunday, September 26 at 9:30 PM; $15
Little Annie aka Annie Bandez, a smokey contralto, raconteur and restless spirit has spent the last 30 years creating a body of work that would take much more space than available to list. Having stepped onto her first stage at the age of 16 the Chanteuse/lyricist, self-taught painter, multimedia artist, and ordain interfaith minister, her music like her life, has defied categorization, limitation, restrictions. Annie's has recorded with vanguard figures of late twentieth century music such as Kid Congo Powers, Adrian Sherwood, Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sound Stable, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Bim Sherman, Coil, Anthony Hegarty, Marc Almond and many fine others) A prolific songwriter she has written for the late Bim Sherman, Paul Oakenfold and most recently Living Color. She has authored three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces and films.
2007 saw the release of successful SONGS FROM THE COAL MINE CANARY produced by Antony (of The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Jnana/Southern.
When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos followed and saw the creative relationship between Annie's with Paul Wallfisch (who dubbed Annie as Queen of torture Soul) finally made legit and put on record. The duo have spent much of their 11 year collaboration touring extensively bringing European audiences to tears. Annie and Paul gave birth to their second album Genderful which has just been released by Southern Records in the UK and garnering much critical acclaim.
Annie and the wondrous Baby Dee are presently collaborating on material for a future release and will be performing together tonight at Joe's Pub.
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.
