"An appropriate air of disorderly fabulousness pervades “Jukebox Jackie,” a scrapbook of a show at La MaMa that pays spirited tribute to Jackie Curtis, one of the pioneering gender adventurers who orbited Andy Warhol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Conceived and directed by Scott Wittman, lyricist for the bubbly musical “Hairspray” and the television series “Smash,” the show features a cast of four embodying various aspects of the Curtis persona — or really I should say personae — as they reel through an evening of classic glitter-rock hits from the era, in between selections from Curtis’s songs, plays, poems and journals.
Center stage for much of the evening, in a slightly frumpy flowered frock and silver heels worn with black socks, is one of the current downtown scene’s leading lights, Justin Vivian Bond. Bond — who prefers not to be known as either a Mr. or a Ms. — is best known as the female half of Kiki & Herb, the brilliant imitation of a lounge act on the skids, who moved from cult fixtures of the East Village to Broadway headliners. Bond’s ambivalent attitude toward gender makes this performer an ideal embodiment of Curtis, whose attitude to his identity fluctuated from day to day..."
INFO:
"JUKEBOX JACKIE: SNATCHES OF JACKIE CURTIS"
LA MAMA THEATER, 66 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212) 475-7710, lamama.org.
Through Sunday June 10, 2012 ------- Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
(no personal review -have not seen it-my temptation to see it is to see how Scoot Wittman took one of the 1970's most enigmatic personalities and turned his/her, "just Jackie's" life into a coherent production, with Bond in the lead--I do love the music from "SMASH" & I loved "KIKI & HERB'S highly campy show years ago)
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