5/7/2023 0 Comments Bridget everett singingHill, dapper in a black tux, went with the flow, chronicling his use of “15 pairs of Spanx to look 20 pounds overweight,” and satirically observing that we were an “incredibly mixed crowd of white people.”Īnd then came Everett, who, taking the cue from her opening number, titled Fuck Shit Up, was determined to gleefully motorboat folks, ruffle hair and borrow hats, and, in one squirm-inducing moment for germaphobes, suck on a Jolly Rancher and French kiss it into someone else’s mouth.Įverett, a cult cabaret star in New York (and character actor in various TV shows and films), is like no one else. It was an adrenaline-pumped, humbling, endless 30 seconds, karmic payback for any negative reviews I’d given people I’d seen on that very stage.īut the spirit of the night was clearly going “all in.” What I didn’t count on for her second appearance this time at JFL42, last night was her opening act: Murray Hill, another fast-talking, boundary-pushing artist with a take-no-prisoners attitude.ĭespite my supposedly safe spot in the middle of a row and the fact that I waved my pen and notebook in the air, Hill summoned me onstage along with two other audience members to engage in an impromptu dance competition. Rating: NNNNĪfter having been motorboated by Bridget Everett during her first Toronto appearance at Luminato 2015, during a badly programmed early Monday evening show I knew what to expect from the raunchy cabaret artist. BRIDGET EVERETT at JFL42 on Tuesday (September 25), 9:30 pm, at the Winter Garden (189 Yonge).
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