Kim David Smith’s Mostly Marlene at the Neue Galerie, November 16, 2023

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Australian cabaret performer Kim David Smith conjures the glitter, doom, and decadence of 1920's Berlin and beyond in his intimate celebration of Dietrich's musical and cultural legacy: Mostly Marlene. Queer mega-muses collide with Marlene's reimagined repertoire in Smith's luxurious musical rearrangements, stravaging from Weimar Berlin, to Hollywood, through to the battlefields of Europe and into the stratosphere with Dietrich's immortal "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss."

Musical direction is by award-winning accompanist Jon Webber, with costumes by Miodrag Guberinic (Gaga, Minaj, Madonna, etc.). Debuting at Club Cumming in March 2020, "Mostly Marlene" (littered with more than a modest modicum of Minogue, Madonna, Minnelli, and more!) enjoyed a sold-out Australian premiere at Alan Cumming's 2021 Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June, more sold-out antics at Club Cumming on the Coast (Kennebunkport, Maine, August 2021), a celebrated return to NYC's Club Cumming in September and October of 2022, and performances at Joe's Pub (2022), and Café Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie (2022, 2023).