BENEFIT FOR MARIANNE FAITHFULL All net proceeds go to Marianne Faithfull to assist in her recovery from long Covid.

Marianne Faithfull (manque) sings the songs that were written for and/or about her, ostensibly by other (less erudite) songwriters, but really through the prism of her dreams via uninvited intrusion into her unconscious mind. She will also cover some of her more well-known covers and perhaps she will tolerate a revisitation from a familiar phantom – all in the service of expanding upon the theme of identity, with spare arrangements suitable for the medium of cabaret (which is also Marianne’s sobriquet). Keys change, tunings melt, myths vanish. She might become someone else in the process, who knows. She comes in tears and horses.

Directed by Michael Schiralli

Artwork by Todd Johnson Photo by Marty Plevel

Band members: Richard Feridun, Joe McGinty, Jared Michael Nickerson, and Barry Reynolds

“Now, the downtown rock raconteuse Tammy Faye Starlite is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the album — ‘my magnum opus, my gesamtkunstwerk,’ she says, narrating the show as Ms. Faithfull — in ’Why’d Ya Do It,’ a hybrid of séance, lecture and concert…her mastery of Ms. Faithfull’s singing voice is extraordinary, down to the tremolo that punctuates some words like a stifled sob.” Elisabeth Vincentelli/NY Times

“Tammy Faye Starlite’s channeling of Marianne Faithfull is not so much tribute as celebration. She assumes Marianne’s persona with a sly and respectful humoresque, inhabiting the songs, constructing a virtual biography that interprets and reveals the inner artist who created Broken English, whose tale is one of triumph and transcendence Tammy’s resurrection is yet another life unfolding, in a performance that bares the soul and touches the heart.” – Lenny Kaye/Author of You Call It Madness/Little Steven’s Underground Garage SiriusXM

“Tammy Faye Starlite’s performance of Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English in Why’d You Do It? channels all of that album’s terror, ferocity and vulnerability — and then some. …her portrayal has grown more passionate, more visceral, more provocative, more unnerving. The lines between the two women fracture, and the result is shattering — and profoundly moving.” – Anthony DeCurtis/ Author of Lou Reed: A Life

“..brilliantly inhabits the outsized persona of Marianne Faithfull…. (an) alternately stark and darkly funny performance….” – Steve Futterman/The New Yorker

“Now, as Marianne Faithfull, British pop’s queen of survival, Starlite resurrects 1979’s Broken English as a thoroughly modern tale of adventure, abyss and hard-won vengeance — one of the most brutally frank albums of its time, made flesh again, in poignant lethally honest character.” – David Fricke/Rolling Stone

All Sales are Final. No refunds. There is a $20 minimum per person (food or beverage).

Tickets online are $25. Tickets at the door, if available, $30 cash only