Performance tips in NYC the coming week

OUR LADY J: THE GOSPEL OF DOLLY
The Zipper Factory
Friday, December 19 @ 9:30 & 11:30 PM
Tickets: $20

Composer/performer Our Lady J returns to The Zipper with The Second Annual Gospel of Dolly, an inspiring evening focusing on Dolly Parton's most beloved music featuring the Pink Champagne Orchestra, the Train To Kill Gospel Choir, and special surprise guests. Come join the Church of Our Lady J! Read more: http://www.ourladyj.com/welcome.html.


MURRAY HILL: A MURRAY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
The Zipper Factory
Saturday, December 13 @ 8:00 PM & 10:30 PM
Saturday, December 20 @ 8:00 PM & 10:30 PM
Tickets: $30 - $55
($55 VIP ticket includes priority seating, signed show poster, and a Murray Hill holiday cocktail tumbler!)

MURRAY HILL, "the hardest working middle-aged man in show business", gives the gift of holiday entertainment to New York City with his legendary Yuletide tradition: A Murray Little Christmas. Everyone is invited as Murray re-creates one of his infamous holiday cocktail parties, live on stage. The show will be a cozy, chestnut warming, homey affair direct from his bachelor pad living room (one large enough to accommodate 10 merry musicians, 6 crooning carolers, 3 strutting Santa showgirls, two singing stars, and one showbiz legend named Murray Hill). A Murray Little Christmas is a cocktail-style variety show packed with silver bells and holiday hi-balls. It's the liveliest Christmas cocktail party of the season and everyone is guaranteed to have a gay old time! Featuring guest stars from the "Isle of Misfits": Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muz, Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman, Evil Hate Monkey & Trixi Little, Carmine Covelli (as Sebastian the Elf), The Peach Tartes, Broadway Brassy, Matt Barnes, Lil Miss Lixx, Mel Huckabee and The Fisherman Xylophonic Orchestra with Brian Newman on trumpet. Read more: http://www.mrmurrayhill.com


OH HOLY SH*T, IT'S CHRISTMAS!
The Cutting Room
Sunday, December 21 at 7:30pm.

Over 2000 years ago in the little hillside town of Bethlehem a miraculous birth occurred. You might think you know the real story, but you don't. Jesus' mother continues to sets the record straight with OH HOLY SH*T, IT'S CHRISTMAS!, a musical retelling of the months leading up to the birth of Christ. With the help of her sidekicks -- the jazz trio The Three Weissmans -- The Virgin Mary discusses why she really agreed to have God's baby, shows young Jesus' childhood woodwork, explains how the Holy Spirit came upon Mary and presents the Birth of Christ like you've never seen it before. This "inspiring" holiday show features original music, plus so-wrong-it's-right parodies of holiday favorites and Top 40 hits by the likes of The Pussycat Dolls, Beyonce and the more-famous Madonna. Drag star MIMI IMFURST continues to offer insight into the psyche of the young Virgin Mary with the World Premiere of OH HOLY SH*T, IT'S CHRISTMAS! In the 3rd annual installment of her Virgin Mary Trilogy, Imfurst focuses on Mary as a teen mother and the choices she had to make as a 13 year-old young bride. Conceived and delivered by writer/performer Mimi Imfurst and composer/lyricist/arranger Mike Pettry (winner of the 2007 Jonathan Larson and Fredrick Loewe Awards). Read more: http://www.virginmarylive.com.


JACKIE BEAT: DRAG NOG
The Cutting Room
December 12 - 14 at 7:30pm
December 13 and 9:00pm

It all started so innocently in 1998 with Jesus Christ, It's Your Birthday!, a delightful non-denominational holiday tribute featuring such seasonal fare as "Sleigh Ride in Leather With You" and "Black Christmas." When the show was prominently featured in The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Right's 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, an annual holiday tradition was born. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan or Satanism, JACKIE BEAT: DRAG NOG is the perfect holiday confection. This new holiday show will feature a thick & creamy serving of hilarious new material (including her seasonal slant on "I Kissed A Girl"), a jigger of classic Beat (like "Oops... It's Christmas Again," "Jew Christmas," "Alcoholidaze", "Sleigh Ride in Leather with You," and "Cancer Don't Care That It's Christmas") and a sprinkling of nutmeg to create a naughty Noel nightcap. Beat will also continue a new tradition that she started last December: "The Biggest Hits of the Year Medley," in which the most annoying and ubiquitous songs of 2008 are whipped into a tasteless froth. From Amy Winehouse to Cole Porter, Jackie's catchy and insidious song parodies just might have you asking Santa for a lobotomy! Read more here: http://www.JackieBeatRules.com.


HOLLY, JOLLY, JESSYE
The Cutting Room
Tuesday December 9 at 7:30pm
Wednesday December 10 at 9:30pm
Wednesday December 17 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20

HOLLY, JOLLY, JESSYE is a very special holiday concert featuring spirited banter and all of Jessye's classic arias, her favorite Christmas songs, a sampling of negro spirituals, and some Chanukah favorites. The set list for this very big show in a very small room includes Feliz Navidad, O Come All Ye Faithful, Kumbaya, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and much, much more. It certainly wont be a Silent Night! A Caribbean-born beauty with an astonishing five-octave vocal range, SHEQUIDA is the recipient of a Back Stage Bistro Award and is an Audelco Award nominee. Her recurring role as bartender Wendi Mercury on One Life to Live earned Shequida the distinction of being the first drag artist on a national soap opera. Shequida has showcased her acclaimed five-octave vocal range in theaters, concert halls, and nightclubs worldwide, and is particularly well-known in Germany and Spain. Her Off-Broadway shows "Shequida's Opera For Dummies" and "Popera!" have toured internationally, including extended runs at PS 122 and Westbeth Theater. In 1996, Shequida was the USA Networks spokesmodel for Latin America and Brazil. Get tickets here: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/632185.