SUCH EXCITING NEWS, EVERYONE: Demented drag legend Lady Bunny returns to Silverlake’s Cavern Club for an evening of laughs! Six shows only! Three nights only! September 19-21! Details after the jump!
One of NYC’s most beloved drag performers is back with an all-new show of song, “dance” and of course, the raunchy humor which has made Bunny a popular entertainer for three decades. Michael Musto called Clown’s Syndrome “the funniest show in town.” Expect oodles of new song parodies from crass to clever as the songstress re-works hits by artists as diverse as Prince, Adele, Katy Perry, Daft Punk, Bobbie Gentry and even Frank Sinatra. Her signature Laugh-In style routine of zingers zaps celebrities from Justin Bieber to Phillip Seymour Hoffmann and the Kardashians. There’s also a tribute to Dame Shirley Bassey’s more offbeat clas-sicks along with a wide variety of musical styles including pop, hip-hop and jazz. Side-splitting videos—including a raucously funny roast of Bunny by the late genius Joan Rivers—allow the “lady” to change into a succession of eccentric (and large) costumes which match her trademark eccentric and large bouffant hairdo. “I had to cut a lot of the dancing from my shows because people kept coming up and shoving a wooden spoon between my teeth,” says Bunny. If you ever wanted to see Honey Boo Boo all grown up, Clowns Syndrome is the show for you!
Since her last sold out and extended run of “That Ain’t No Lady!” at La Escuelita in 2011, Bunny has matured a little, so the fart jokes have graduated to shart jokes. There’s still plenty of jaw-dropping vulgarity, but a slightly more serious Bunny also slows down the daffiness occasionally to offer her own warped takes on Manhattan’s (and all major cities’) gentrification, getting lost in the tech matrix and the folly of political correct harpies becoming thought police. Clowns Syndrome is co-written by Bunny and the bitter and hysterical Facebook sensation Beryl Mendelbaum.
Bunny’s last cabaret venture at La Escuelita got a rave review from the NY Times’ David Rooney, who wrote: “Most of Bunny’s best lines are unprintable here, but more than any performer I saw this year ‘the old pig in a wig, as she calls herself, made we weep with laughter, often while groaning with disgust. And isn’t that what the best low comedy is all about?” The performances attracted a star-studded audience with Alan Cumming, Debbie Harry, Andy Cohen, Marc Almond and Nona Hendryx. “That Ain’t No Lady!” then toured Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Petersburg, Provincetown, Palm Springs, Puerta Vallarta and four cities in Australia.
The Cavern Club will host 6 performances of Clown’s Syndrome on:
9/19 at 8PM and 10PM
9/20 at 8PM and 10PM
9/21 at 7PM and 9PM.
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