8/16/2023 0 Comments Bridget everett stand upIf you don’t like Amy Shumer’s hot-mess beer-swilling bad-girl, “VAGINA”, schtick, her contemporary Bridget Everett probably won’t be your Long Island Iced Tea. Her sole props for the night were two water bottles and a clean towel, which struck us as…ominous. He works the front tables, ogling and teasing, slyly drawing laughs with practiced ease – most of the comedy tonight comes direct from the audience as he harnesses the almost too-low-hanging fruit in the form of white people dancing as he pits unwitting audience member’s moves against each other for very modest prizes.Īfter a short intermission, Bridget Everett descended. He bemoans the “basement in Brisbane” that he’s playing but gives a high-energy hour despite being a little visibly tour-wrecked and jetlagged. “I know what you’re thinking…is it a man or a woman up there? The answer is no.” Though he’s raised issue with the term “drag king”, Hill’s persona, born of an art-school graduate thesis over 20 years ago, was created in the image of a mostly-cheesy, little-bit-sleazy vaudeville MC in a three-piece suit, and turns gender on its head, slaps it on the ass and buys it a cocktail. We’d been lucky enough to see Murray HIll MCing for world-class showgirl Dita Von Teese last year – keeping a throbbing Tivoli crowd happy as the lovely Dita changed frocks with his sexy, high-pizazz “Mr Showbiz” energy, and we were eager for more tonight in Act 1. We were off to the Brisbane Powerhouse’s intimate Visy Theatre to see a double bill – cabaret comedians Murray Hill and Bridget Everett. Straight from NYC, alt-cabaret chums Murray Hill and Bridget Everett get up close and personal with the Queensland Cabaret Festival audience in a show no one’s forgetting in a hurry.
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