Arias With a Twist 2011
Opening Night: September 14, 2011
Closing: October 16, 2011
Theater: Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement
This deliriously madcap fantasy revue, engorged from a world tour with all the beloved song stylings of Joey Arias enveloped in Basil Twist’s eye-popping theatrical enchantments that took New York by storm now returns with deluxe twists for your pleasure.
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September 18, 2011
The revival on Broadway of “Follies,” a eulogy to the age of Ziegfeld, has refocused New Yorkers’ thoughts on a long-vanished star-spangled chapter in showbiz. That was the age when long-limbed beauties were goddesses, and stages were spectacle-filled altars to their, er, talents. Such a sensibility is as dead as the Brooklyn Dodgers, of course, though you can still catch some arch nods to it in the mega-concerts of mega-pop stars like Lady Gaga.
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Joey Arias is a statuesque, raven-haired legend of the New York drag scene who croons like Billie Holiday and used to emcee for Cirque Du Soliel. Basil Twist is an award-winning puppeteer who once staged an all-puppet Petrushka at Lincoln Center and consulted on the third Harry Potter film.
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September 19, 2011
Bigger is better in the new version of Arias with a Twist, the visually stunning artistic collaboration between master puppeteer and designer Basil Twist and drag performer extraordinaire Joey Arias.
READ THE REVIEWSeptember 18, 2011
Drag diva Joey Arias is accustomed to the fantastical. After cementing himself as a foundational part of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, he landed in Las Vegas to emcee as the Mistress of Seduction in Cirque du Soleil’s "Zumanity."
READ THE REVIEWSeptember 18, 2011
Drag diva Joey Arias is accustomed to the fantastical. After cementing himself as a foundational part of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, he landed in Las Vegas to emcee as the Mistress of Seduction in Cirque du Soleil’s "Zumanity."
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