Kiki & Herb: Do You Hear What We Hear?

This holiday season, prepare yourself for sleighing belles, rabid yells, and tidings of joy from New York’s most iconic “octogenarian” lounge act, Kiki & Herb, created and performed by Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman. A match made in — depending on who you ask — a 1934 Western Pennsylvania children’s asylum, the ’90s San Francisco club circuit, or the dawn of time, this relentlessly fabulous duo will haunt audiences nationwide on a six city tour starting in Boston with a brand-new holiday spectacular. Hot off the heels of their sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music last year, this tour will be Kiki & Herb’s first shows out of NYC since 2007.

Whether it’s an evening at Carnegie Hall, a sold-out run at Joe’s Pub, or Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway (2008 Tony nomination), Bond and Mellman’s signature cocktail of boozy banter, pop-culture shmaltz, and claws-out cultural critique has charmed cities across this nation for more than two decades. The infamous duo make their way through a number of seasonal songs, belting Christmas classics off their long-out-of-print (but two tracks will be available on Spotify October 18) album Do You Hear What We Hear and slinging enough cheer to choke down even this helluva holiday season.