About This Show
Polyester-clad Murray Hill — “the hardest working middle-aged man in show business” — and cheeseburger-chomping champion of the arts, presents a knock-your-socks off entertainment series for HOWL!, the 2nd Annual Festival of East Village Arts featuring innovative talents from music, performance art, comedy, burlesque, and old-school showbiz.
SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, August 18
HOWLING:: Check your reality at the door. This performance encompasses the best of the very best of the talent and theatrics that made
Surf Reality a favorite art beacon to both starving and well-fed artists alike. At 7:30pm.
MIKE ALBO: I Can Only Come So Far: A speedy mix of Mike’s signature monologues, vignettes, dances, and rants about our hyper-commercial, over-designed, over-marketed lives. At 8:30pm.
ECHO LANE: A mixture of punk, hip hop, pop, and epic solo piano song writing. In 2002, Echo Lane released their debut EP Space Camp, and their full length record and DVD “Middle Finger Malfunction” will be release in the Fall. At 10:30pm.
Friday, August 20
Joan As Police Woman: The solo project of superfoxxx and indie rock icon Joan Wasser with Ben Perowsky on drums, and Rainy Orteca on bass. She changed the profile of the violin in rock music and now extends this innovative strength to singing and song writing. At 8:30pm.
BITCH
Bitch makes her debut solo New York performance, playing new songs from her forthcoming solo album, “Almost to the Water”. She busts out unapologetic political, twist your guts love and hate songs with punchy rhymes, defiant girl electric violin and bass with her uncensored performance style. At 10:30pm.
Saturday, August 21
MURRAY HILL: To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before: Old school comic sensation and infamous nightlife personality, Murray Hill is thrilled to debut his first ever one-man show devoted to all the ladies in his life (don’t worry folks, it’s only an hour). At 8:30pm.
FISHERMAN’S SAVAGE LOUNGE: The Vibraphonic Burlesque Orchestra-Primitive Tiki Exotica from the Urban Jungle sizzles with the primal energy created when top Burlesque dancers TAKE IT OFF to the pounding rhythms and mysterious melodies of a live band. At 10:30pm.
Sunday, August 22
TRACY + THE PLASTICS: An electronic art/new media punk band conceived and performed by Lesbian Feminist video artist Wynne Greenwood. At 9:30pm.
Monday, August 23
JULIE GOLDMAN: Melding stand up with characters and music, the irreverent comic takes you on the ride in her mind, bending and turning, and speeding right into her sweet, sweet lesbian rage. At 8:00pm
NEAL MEDLYN: THE PARIS HILTON OF PERFORMANCE ART: For one night only, Neal Medlyn, your reigning Mr. Lower East Side, will once again waste expensive cosmetics, spill blood, make out with unicorns and dance himself to death, all to music by the likes of R. Kelly, Kylie Minogue, and Khia. At 9:30pm