July 25 at the Gershwin Hotel
Sweet Soubrette's dark, edgy love songs feature the songwriting, vocals, and ukulele of former Mizz Greenpoint Ellia Bisker, a 3-time ASCAP Plus Award-winner, along with a sensational backing band of up to 8 musicians. Sweet Soubrette's music has been described as "dark vaudeville-pop" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "indie rock meets cabaret" (Worcester Magazine) and "a pinch of Regina Spektor quirk and a spoonful of old-timey burlesque" (Time Out NY). The 2012 EP What's My Desire received critical praise from reviewers, who called it "compelling bitter-sweet pop...of the highest order." Sweet Soubrette's third album, Burning City, is scheduled for release in fall 2013.
Doppelskope (Ora Fruchter and Christopher Scheer) is an interactive and absurd neo-vaudeville theatre group that makes wild, freewheeling new shows with puppetry, magic and clown in order to splatter your reality in an hour or less! Upcoming shows: Shrink: Puppet Therapy (a puppet improv show) August 8th at 8:00pm at The PIT.
Mistress B has appeared at The Box in NYC and London, the Museum of Sex, at Club XL, the Penthaus, and in burlesque/variety shows such as the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret and “Broadway Varietease,” for which she received rave reviews from Variety and The Village Voice. Internationally, she has been featured on the French TV special, “Sex Wiz Antione”, starring French celebrity Antione de Caunes. Her solo show, “Mistress B’s Latex Lounge” appeared at Vlada Lounge, the Bowery Poetry Club, and Club Helsinki in Hudson, NY. She appears weekly in NYC at Lips Restaurant, "The Ultimate in Drag Dining” and at the Cubbyhole Bar.
Matthew Silver performs at Union Square, Astor Place and Washington Square Park as the Village Idiot, getting people to act silly. You may have heard about him on the Gothamist, Timeout NY, The Village Voice, Brooklyn paper and Papermag or infamous sites like diehipster and Normalbobsmith. Just recently he made his TV debut on Discovery’s Science Channel show called Oddities. "My inspiration comes from my heart. I perform for smiles and laughter, loosening people’s armor, and opening up a portal for imagination, creativity and love."
Super (Hot Cheap) Fun Variety Coming
February 24 at the Living Theater
- Laura Witwer & Chris Delgado, physics-defying featery!
- The Good to Go Girls, hips that launch ships, wiles that crack smiles!
- Sabrina Chap, sultry chanteusery!
- Mistress B, your verst nightmare, or perhaps
your zeekret fantasy, ya? - Cobra Gold!, songs to befuddle and amuse!
- Charming Disaster, songs to inspire and confuse!
- Ambrose Martos, clowning to split sides and break hearts!
- New York Bike Dance, stealing hearts, riding bikes!
- More indescribable wonderments!
- Followed by a 9pm full set by Apocalypse Five and Dime!
PREVIOUS STARS OF THE SUPER FUN VARIETY SHOW
- Carla Rhodes & Cecil Sinclair: vexing ventriloquism!
- Rob Lok: death-defying daredevilry!
- Adam Kuchler: physics-bending feats!
- Jeff Seal: side-splitting comedy!
- David Boyd: mystifying magic!
- Zero Boy: sound-trip storytelling!
- Dale Seever: shocking spirit portraits!
- Chris Gethard: violence, tears, and literature!
- Paris: heart-stopping hip hop juggling !
- The Bad Advice Column: exactly what it advertises.
- Sweet Soubrette: songs to inspire and delight!
- Cobra Gold: songs to befuddle and confuse!
- Tanya Solomon, with precocious prestidigitation!
- Maria Sonevytsky with beautiful songs about medieval beasts
- Joel Jeske of Parallel Exit, with some serious clowning!
- Kyle Petersen, with unabashed unicycling!
- Carla Cantrelle, with words to entrance and ensorcel!
- Kate Brehm, with puppetish performance art!
- Team Toad, with the 2012 Oscar-nominated short film Time Freak!
- Alex Asher, with his wondrous wall of sound!
- Alissa Hunnicutt, with prodigious puppetry!
- Sweet Soubrette, with songs of love and heartache!
- Cobra Gold, with songs of sex and adventure!
- The worldwide poster art of Occupy Wall Street!
- Adam Kuchler, dazzling and awing with props and a smile!
- Magic Brian, magically doing that thing he magically does!
- Miss Ekatarina, bending in a fabulous contortion!
- Tanya Solomon, aka Cloris Flapp, making with the magic!
- Leroi Prince, with a gender-bendy elfsploitation number!
- Mike Dobson and Book Kennison, channeling the comedy stylings of Ira Glass!
- Spine Art, screening a riveting video short!
- Joel Jeske of Parallel Exit, with some serious clowning!
- Billy Dee Bedlam, clowning!
- Justin Walter, with a crazy synth trumpet piece!
Adam Kuchler |
Magic Brian |
Billy Dee Bedlam |
Book Kennison |
Miss Ekatarina |
LeRoi Prince |