BUCKETS, AND BENEFITS AND BINDERSUZE, OH MY!

🎶HAPPY HOLIDAAAAAYS! HAPPY HOLIDAAAAAAAYS! MAY THE MERRY BELLS KEEP RINGING, HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU! 🎶

BUCKETS AND BENEFITS AND BINDERSUZE, OH MY!

What’s been going on? I can honestly say, your girl’s been busy and is just starting to slow down a bit. *Back in November, the fabulous Bug Johnson debuted a staged reading of their play The Golden Ass as part of the reading series at Pete’s Candy Store. I’ve played the goddess Venus in this piece sincethey started working on it with The Playground Experiment and was thrilled to be part of this reading of the full play.

*A few days later, I was part of my first Voices of America monologue festival put on by the PGE. Each year, the PGE asks for submissions for this monologu festival AND book. I’ve wanted to be part of it for some time and this year was the year! There was so much great material, and so many fantastic performances. It’s a fab contribution, particularly as the monologues really are for all ages, races, gender expressions, and abilities.

*December opened up with being part of the Cabaret stalwart, Goldie Dver’s benefit for St. Jude’s Hospital. To get to sing with legends and emerging legends of the cabaret scene is such an honor and also just a heck of a good time.

*Following Goldie’s benefit, it was time for one of my other favorite benefits of the season: The Red Bucket Follies for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Being an offstage singer and “Vanna” for this event is an honor and pleasure and a JOY.

*And then suddenly, it was the 15th, the date of my show with collaborator Richard Binder. We debuted our live show last year at Don’t Tell Mama, performed it again in May at The Green Room 42, and then decided to make it cozy and perform our holiday version at Pangea. There was a lot of love in that room and we got a fantastic response to our old and new material, in particular the mashup we call 2 Drunk 4 Champagne. We mashed up the Dead Kennedy’s, Kiss, Amanda Lenore, Lita Ford and Lerner & Lowe. And it WORKED. (We should have a recording soon.)

*12/19 Binder and I will be with Madison Avenue Baptist Church for our Christmas Gala. Mozart! Haydn! It will be beautiful, so come on down

In the meantime, if you need this merry mixed mezzo for your concert, demo, play, film, pilot, etc, contact me HERE.

 Peace ✌🏽