MICAELA LEON PERFORMS "TRANCE ATLANTIC"
2007 Nightlife Award finalist and MAC nominee (for Best Female Debut)
Micaela Leon premiers her new show "Trance Atlantic" at THE METROPOLITAN
ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440 -
http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
) in four performances on Fridays September 21st & 28th and October
12th & 19th, all shows at 10:00 pm. In "Trance Atlantic" Leon channels
the free spirit of three of the 20th century's most adventurous sexual
icons, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker and Jane Birkin. She is backed
by musical director Uli Geissendoerfer on piano, Benjamin Ickies on
accordion and guitar, and Philipp Gutbrod on drums,
Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker and Jane Birkin
found their greatest success and deepest fulfillment in foreign
lands. With physical expressiveness bolstering her sensuous singing,
Leon (who came to New York via London from her native Stuttgart
last year) looks deep within to understand the impetus to travel,
to quest (and perhaps to escape) that she shares with her beautiful
and exotic subjects.
Leon offers a globe-trotting song list which includes
songs identified with Dietrich: "You've Got That Look," "Hot Voodoo,"
"The Ruins of Berlin," "Illusions," and "I May Never Go Home Anymore;"
Baker: "J'ai deux amours," "Ram Pam Pam," "C'est Lui," and "Harlem
on my Mind;" and Birkin: "Quoi," "Je t'aime moi non plus," and "Lollta
Go Home."
There is a $20 cover, 2-beverage minimum.
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