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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.

Feb 19 05: squee

The Tiger Lillies! Have brought Shockheaded Peter back to Broadway! And we have tickets!

Oh, I’m beside myself with excitement. The Tiger Lillies are this…gosh, how to describe? They’re a post-punk cabaret group. Bass, accordion, and found-objects percussion section, backing dark and/or sordid lyrics delivered by an astonishing countertenor. This show is a musical presentation of Dr. Heinrich Hoffman’s Struwwelpeter, a disturbing ninteenth-century children’s book. (Those who read Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol back in the day may recognize it as the source of the horrible Scissormen.) Anyway, we rarely go see shows, but there was no way I could pass this one up.

The Tiger Lillies have also done an album with the Kronos Quartet of songs based on unpublished verses by Edward Gorey. You will not be surprised to learn that it is deeply fabulous and that you should buy it immediately.

Commentary

Hi Andrew—So, what’s the inside word on Spamalot coming to Broadway? I have high hopes and bought tickets for when I’m back in NYC in April.
—Karen Anderson
aka Mysterious Traveler, mom of Kaylee and Zoe the Roomba Riders

posted by Karen Anderson, Feb 23 05 1:16 AM

Inside word is very good indeed, which is why I should really have bought my own tickets by now. Incidentally, have you seen its official website? Atrocious.

posted by Andrew, Feb 23 05 10:07 AM

Hmmm….don’t suppose that Flash qualifies as “camp” quite yet.

posted by Karen Anderson, Feb 24 05 1:28 AM

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