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Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments (Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater)

I’ve been hearing the buzz about Bridget Everett for a while, but it was only recently that my friend Elizabeth and I experienced the full-frontal, uncensored, Mr. Toad’s wild ride that is a Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments show.  She spews wine, words and wisdom while changing from one revealing outfit to the next on the stage.  Bridget Everett is not for the faint of heart, but man, what a talent.

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Music, OtherKim Adler
The Red Shoes (Sadler's Wells, London) Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Directed and Choreographed by Matthew Bourne

What I believe that Matthew Bourne does better than anyone else alive is take the old, the known, the expected and turn it on it's head.  His absolutely brilliant Swan Lake in which all of the swans were male, aggressive (as male swans in reality are) and sexy as hell so mesmerized me when I saw it on Broadway years ago that when it returned to City Center several years later I ran to see it again.  His Sleeping Beauty had dark, luscious overtones of Stoker and I was sure that his Red Shoes would enchant.  I was not disappointed.

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OtherKim Adler