The Girl That I Marry

Critically acclaimed cabaret singer and longtime Cape summer resident Elaine St. George makes Provincetown debut with “romantic, sophisticated and subversive” show about same-sex marriage.

So you’re a lesbian in love and you’d like to get married? Simple – if you live in Massachusetts. Unfortunately for Elaine St. George, she doesn’t. Fortunately for Massachusetts audiences, she’s bringing her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Girl That I Marry to the Provincetown Fringe Festival at the Provincetown Inn.

With a sharp wit and an equally sharp musical sense, St. George delivers a stunning performance that is simultaneously entertaining and poignant, edgy but not “preachy.” Using the songs of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern and others as the framework for her show, St. George has woven threads of humor, banter and story between the songs to create a funny, gorgeous tapestry of a show on the hot-button issue of gay marriage. She is backed by her “honorary Lesbian” jazz pianist, David Epstein.

New York reviewers praised The Girl That I Marry after its June 2004 off-Broadway opening, calling it “romantic, sophisticated and subversive” (HX), “a breezy trip through the great American songbook,” (American Theater Web) and “a delightful, balanced, logical, reasoned and absolutely entertaining hour” (Cabaret Hotline). Time Out New York has written “Barbara Cook and Elaine St. George must have been separated at birth. St. George hits the same gorgeous, shimmery notes as the grande dame of cabaret.” New York magazine has called St. George a “show-stopping lesbian songstress.”

St. George has become a fixture on the cabaret scene with topical shows such as All I Need Is The Girl (1997); Do Re Mi, Democracy (2000)–which featured the New York debut of a love song by Senator Orrin Hatch–and Ain’t We Got Fun?, a 2002 show about looking for work that TheaterMania named the Best Concept Show of the year. Elaine St. George has been summering in the mid-Cape her whole life, and she got her first taste of live theater through Cape Cod’s straw-hat circuit. She vividly remembers attending her first “grown-up play,” a matinee of The Fantasticks at the Cape Playhouse, and, in subsequent years, seeing Rock Hudson as King Arthur in Camelot and her favorite star of 1930s movie musicals, Ruby Keeler, in No No, Nanette — both at the Melody Tent. (St. George’s love of 1930s music eventually led to her first recording – Just Around the Corner: songs of love and longing from the 1930s. Her most recent CD, That Old-Fashioned Love, is a sampler of songs from The Girl That I Marry.)

Box Office Hours: 20 minutes before showtime

Group Sales Number (5+): 508-487-2666

Appropriate For Ages: 16 and above

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