“I just want people to feel as alive as I do in that moment. “I don’t want to break up any marriages,” she said. The show is more structured but no less wild than her concert gigs. At Least It’s Pink Ars Nova 99 seats 25 top Production: An Ars Nova presentation of a musical in one act, with music and lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett, book by Michael Patrick. 16, she returns to Joe’s Pub with “Rock Bottom,” featuring original songs co-written with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (“Hairspray”), Matt Ray, and Adam (Ad-Rock) Horovitz, of the Beastie Boys. Many of them found a testing ground at “Our Hit Parade,” the ribald monthly series that Everett co-hosted, with Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn, from 2008 to 2012. She is now at the center of what’s sometimes called alt-cabaret (though it owes more to performance art), whose leading lights include Justin Vivian Bond, Cole Escola, Erin Markey, and Molly Pope. Growing up in Manhattan, Kansas, she revered not Barbara Cook but Debbie Harry and Richard Pryor. No wonder Patti LuPone, another woman of endless moxie, has performed with her, both downtown and at Carnegie Hall.įor the most part, though, Everett’s performances have little to do with the decorum of Café Carlyle. She’s a hot mess with absolute command over the room. And yet Everett’s shows are more complicated than burlesque, punctuated by monologues that drift into half-ironic melancholy before a power anthem (say, her signature song, “Titties”) comes along to jump-start the party. It would be transgressive if it weren’t so joyful. She describes her onstage persona as that of “a crazy maniac who doesn’t get laid enough, so I have to put my sexual energy somewhere.” Wearing scanty, ridiculous outfits that reveal her Rubenesque curves, she typically closes a show by pulling a man onstage and sitting on his face. If Everett has a dominant gift, it’s the ability to whip an audience into a frenzy.
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