Joe's Pub Announces December Line Up

The following performances have been just added to Joe's Pub's December line-up:

JUST ADDED
THE GAY AGENDA PRESENTS: A VERY MARY HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Monday, December 13 at 9:30 PM; $15
"Distinctively adorable and brimming with talent, Bucey and Williams put a gay twist on the classic double-act, with Bucey playing the manic funnyman to Williams' straightlaced sidekick. Bucey-who could be the love child of Charles Nelson Reilly and Jerry Lewis-transforms into dozens of madcap characters, while Williams calmly plays the piano (quite well, by the way) while occasionally looking vexed with Bucey's antics. Their songs are fresh, funny and surprisingly complex." - NEXT Magazine

"These are two crackerjack performers who have written some incredible songs, and I look forward to anything they do in the future." - nytheatre.com

"Micah and Nicholas are VERY TALENTED young men. Nicholas plays beautifully; they sing and harmonize like dreams; Micah can apparently do just about everything." - nytheatre.com
 
Your semi-favorite-two-man-musical-theatre-post-punk-band is back!  They've already Conquered Joe's Pub with their infectious melodies and lacerating lyrics. Now, with the help of Downtown's most flavorful performing personalities, The Gay Agenda returns to conquer no less than the entire Holiday Season! Mike Albo, Ruby Rims and a sleighful of queer comrades stop by to do their darndest to turn America's children gay in this tart tribute to Variety Shows of yesteryear. Come taste the fruitcake buffet as Micah, Nicholas and their faithful friends celebrate the birth of Christ, Capitalism, and Cultural Warfare with that most devious weapon of mass destruction...SHOW TUNES!!!

Created by Micah Bucey and Nicholas Williams
Directed by Josh Hecht
 
NO BS BRASS
Thursday, December 16 at 11:30 PM; $12
"Play it loud. The No BS Brass Band is one of the most consistently exciting live groups in Richmond. Its modus operandi is to set up in the middle of the audience and start blazing away in an infectious, top-and-bottom-heavy glory of drums and horns. " - Peter McElhinney, Style Weekly
"There isn't much music of any kind being produced today that feels as profoundly communal as what I heard from No BS!" - Eric Benson, Inverted Garden
 
NO BS! is a Richmond, VA.-based band combining the spirit of New Orleans with original compositions and arrangements of pop/rock hits from the '70s and '80s in an eclectic, virtuosic, and rowdy package. Members of NO BS! Brass have been trained in the conservatory and in the garage band and draw their inspiration from every conceivable source including funk, jazz, klezmer, Led Zeppelin, calypso, and delta blues.
 
 
DEC 19 - DEC 22
Everett Bradley'S HOLIDELICFriday - Sunday, December 17 - 19 at 7:00 PM, Monday, December 20 at 9:30 PM; $20
Matinee performance on Sunday, December 19 at 2:00 PM; $20 adults / $15 children under 12
HOLIDELIC is back, bigger, better, and funkier than ever!
Come celebrate the debut of HOLIDELIC - the new album - including their annual funky favorites plus 8 brand new songs!
The highly anticipated holiday bomb is scheduled to drop on the biggest shopping day of the year, November 26th, "Black Friday."
The record release party will be here at Joe's Pub Friday Dec 17-20th, the whole weekend before Christmas with even an additional kid's matinee show on Sunday Dec 19th. So brang your little elves!
HOLIDELIC is bumpin' new songs, new threads, new swag, and a new show, so get cho boots, your fro and your funky Fa La La on and take a New York Sleigh Ride this season with HOLIDELIC!!
 
THE LAMPSHADES
Sunday, December 19 at 9:30 PM; $15
The Lampshades is the funniest faux lounge act in Hollywood starring the Office's Kate Flannery and the very funny Scot Robinson. They cleverly spin 70's and 80's hits into comedy gold while they work out the kinks of their amusingly tortured relationship on stage. Flannery and Robinson have created these smart, wonderful lounge-singer characters with depth, heart and bravado in the vein of an Andy Kaufman or a Kiki and Herb. The Lampshades Hour is not to be missed. www.theLampshades.com
 
HEEB STORYTELLING: THE COMICS EDITION
Tuesday, December 21 at 7:00 PM; $15
Heeb introduces Heeb Storytelling: The Comics Edition. Part cabaret, part Catskills, this popular series pushes the very notion of a Jewish story to the brink. Guaranteed to be a fearlessly funny evening, Jewish comic-writers including Molly Crabapple, Sarah Gidden and Jeff Newelt will bring their comics to the screen-along with live tunes by the JazzComix Jam.
 
MORLEY
Tuesday, December 21 at 9:30 PM: $15 in advance / $18 at door
"Morley's harmonically interesting vibe is one that combines Nina Simone's coy wisdom with Joan Armatrading's vulnerable expressions of emotion." - Philadelphia Inquirer
 
Morley expertly combines an earthiness, sensuality, etherealness, intelligence and social consciousness, and melds it into sophisticated, globally-minded pop that would easily fit into your playlist amidst Sade, Joni Mitchell, Amadou & Mariam, Annie Lennox and Marvin Gaye...simultaneously gentle and urgent, humorous and sensual - a force that compels even the most cynical or apathetic to listen and be moved.
 
BROOKLYN RUNDFUNK ORKESTRATA: THE HILLS ARE ALIVE
Wednesday, December 22 at 7:30 PM; $25
Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata (BRO) is the highly anticipated new project from Peter Kiesewalter, leader and musical mind behind GRAMMY nominated Opera revisionists East Village Opera Company.

BRO's debut album (to be released early 2011) and live show is entitled "The Hills Are Alive," a genre-bending adaptation of the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconic musical "The Sound Of Music." Initially conceived as a one-time only concert, "The Hills Are Alive" caught the attention of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization who granted BRO unprecedented artistic license with the songs. So impressed was the RHO that they invited the group to participate in the filmed bonus segments on the upcoming blu-ray DVD re-release of the 1965 OSCAR winning movie "The Sound Of Music," to be released November 2, 2010.

The live show runs approximately 75-80 minutes (without intermission) and features BRO's dynamic versions of 14 songs from "The Sound Of Music." A minimum of seven onstage performers blend rock, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and country into a high octane musical mix that will thrill audiences of all ages - "Sound Of Music" purists and skeptics alike.
 
Rebecca Hart & THE SEXY CHILDREN
Wednesday, December 22 at 9:30 PM; $12
"impressively well-textured voice, sticky melodies, and an ultratight band... that packs a potent dose of downtown heat" - Time Out NY
"Folk, funk, and sultry rock" - L Magazine
"Broadway voice and rock star soul ... Hart is equal parts brash frontwoman and vulnerable deadpan comedian" - Dave Schultz, Earvolution.com
 
Rebecca Hart & the Sexy Children began 2009 with a sold-out Joe's Pub debut! This show resulted in their live EP "Rebecca Hart & the Sexy Children: LIVE at Joes Pub" (available here and at all shows).
 
A fixture in both the downtown music and theatre scenes (Public Shakespeare Lab 2008!), Hart is known for her "infectious stage presence and unique audience rapport" (BAM.org) as well as sultry vocals and witty, poetic songs. The 'funk-laced rockfolk' ensemble of the Sexy Children gratefully features members of the celebrated jazz/funk fusion outfit LICORICE. They are thrilled to be back at Joe's for their last NYC show of the year.