Watch This: A clip from Bearded Ladies' CONTRADICT THIS!

 
Final week to catch The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes at La MaMa through Saturday, June 29th!

6 Questions: ‘MOre’ Zimin from 13 FRUITCAKES

La MaMa presents
13 FRUITCAKES

Written & Directed by Byungkoo Ahn 
Song Cycle by Gihieh Lee 
Lyrics by Lorca, Wilde and Other Queer Poets 
Electronic Music by Los Angeles Laptop Collective 

Filled with movement and music, 13 Fruitcakes is a series of 13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures that influence humanity through their great achievements in the arts, politics, philosophy, and science. Moments in the lives of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dong Xian (董賢), King Hyegong, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Andersen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, Josephine Baker and Eleanor Roosevelt are staged along with a beautiful song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Mew, Whitman, Rimbaud and Lorca.

June 13 - June 16, 2019

Thursday - Saturday at 7PM; Sunday at 3PM

Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors

For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE

Video Teaser: 13 FRUITCAKES

La MaMa presents
13 FRUITCAKES
Written & Directed by Byungkoo Ahn 
Song Cycle by Gihieh Lee 
Lyrics by Lorca, Wilde and Other Queer Poets 
Electronic Music by Los Angeles Laptop Collective 

Filled with movement and music, 13 Fruitcakes is a series of 13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures that influence humanity through their great achievements in the arts, politics, philosophy, and science. Moments in the lives of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dong Xian (董賢), King Hyegong, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Andersen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, Josephine Baker and Eleanor Roosevelt are staged along with a beautiful song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Mew, Whitman, Rimbaud and Lorca.

June 13 - June 16, 2019

Thursday - Saturday at 7PM; Sunday at 3PM

Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors

For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE

Promo Video: Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes

La MaMa presents

Contradict This! 
A Birthday Funeral for Heroes

By The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

June 20 - June 29, 2019

Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Cake, coffin, gavel, choir, composers, live musical trolling! On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the much lauded homo poet Walt Whitman's birth and the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is throwing a pageant for the ancestors.

Part trial, part birthday, part funeral, this spectacle will feature original music performed by a host of misfits, drag artists, queers, and a local choir. Come with friends, complaints, heroes and villains alike. All are welcome to the death, birth, and reckoning of the great poet.

Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors

For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE

Open Call for Choir Participants for Upcoming La MaMa Show!

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, open call for choir participants for show at La Mama

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is a cabaret/theater company working on a project called Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heros, as part of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. The Bearded Ladies are throwing a party, a funeral, and a trial for Whitman, using him to explore what we do with our flawed heroes. For this pageant we are building a choir and are looking for singers who love to sing, can learn simple music quickly, are excited about working with The Bearded Ladies, and love glitter and fake facial hair.

There is no audition process, the show is looking for about 30 voices in total. It's a volunteer choir (all members will be fed at every rehearsal/performance). The music is fairly simple, and we're looking for all voice types. There may be some elements of physicality in the performance, but we're more interested in getting as many diverse voices and bodies in the room as possible.   

The production will be at LaMaMa, and the schedule we'd like for folx to make is the following:

June 17th 6-10p rehearsal (TBD Great Jones Room of LaMaMa)

June 18th 7-9pm spacing rehearsal at LaMaMa. 

June 19th 6p-10p tech rehearsal (we understand if people cannot make this commitment, the whole day long)

June 20th 5:30pm show call, 7:00pm show

June 21st 5:30pm show call, 7:00pm show

June 22nd 5:30pm show call, 7:00pm show

June 23rd 1:30pm show call, 3:00pm show

June 27th 5:30pm show call, 7:00pm show

June 28th 5:30pm show call, 7:00pm show

June 29th 5:30pm show call, 7:00pm show

If you would like to participate or would like more information, contact Director John Jarboe (he/she) at jtjarboe@gmail.com