Last week I was in NYC to produce Mary Birdsong’s one woman show: “3 Days in the Tub.”
We got some props from Timeout NYC:
And a few bloggers:
www.ControlGeek.net – At Joe’s Pub last night, I saw the remarkable Mary Birdsong‘s new piece 3 Days in the Tub. It’s rough (I think this was only the second time the piece was in front of an audience) but there’s a lot of rich material there, and Birdsong is a prolifically creative, remarkably multi-talented tour de force, singing, acting, and impersonating everyone from her own mother to Judy Garland. Joe McGinty, who I’ve seen about 1000 times in the Losers Lounge (lots of my Losers photos here) was in the band, which was excellent. Birdsong is a great singer, and I hope she will add more music to the show, and I hope that this piece (with a bit of shaping) will find a future life.
www.beaconpass.com – I have a feeling that if your mother sat in a bathtub, fully clothed, for three days, you too would have a lot of material. You’ve probably seen Mary Birdsong before — as a correspondent on the Daily Show, or as Deputy Kimball on RENO 911. Named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of “Hollywood’s Top 10 Talents on the Rise” and having just been presented with a Theatre World Award, it’s only a matter of time before Birdsong becomes a household name. If you weren’t lucky enough to catch Birdsong’s recent New York romps — including Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, & What I Wore and Tales of the City – then do yourself a favor and see her newest treasure, which combines comedy and live music with unbelievable family dysfunction. Don’t miss it, fool!
