Gerry Geddes

Gerry Geddes, critic for BistroAwards.com, is an award-winning director, writer, teacher, performer, lyricist, and a contributor to the podcast Troubadours and Raconteurs. He conceived and directed the acclaimed musical revues Monday in the Dark with George (Bistro and MAC Award winner), Put on Your Saturday Suit—Words & Music by Jimmy Webb, and Gerry Geddes & Company (in its five-year residency at Pangea). He has directed singers André De Shields, Darius de Haas, Helen Baldassare, and Lisa Viggiano. He has been active in the cabaret world for over five decades and has produced numerous CDs; his lyrics have been performed and recorded here and in Europe. Gerry’s workshop, The Art of Vocal Performance, is regularly offered to singers of all levels. His memoir of life in NYC, Didn’t I Ever Tell You This?, was recently published and is available at barnesandnoble.com. He is currently at work on his first novel.

Kim David Smith: Morphium Kabarett

Gerry Geddes
Morphium Kabarett at Pangea is an entertaining variety show created and hosted by singer Kim David Smith and music-directed by Tracy Stark. While many multi-performer evenings smack of financial consideration (more acts will bring more friends and family to fill the audience and pay more covers), this show and the guest artists so reflected the...

Cacophony Daniels

Gerry Geddes
Cacophony Daniels is the drag alter ego of Courter Simmons, a talented actor/singer who recently ended a run in Broadway's Jersey Boys. When Simmons was growing up he felt a special affinity for the songs, the characters, and the stories of lyricist and writer Howard Ashman. In his show "Under the 'C'," he used Cacophony...

Nasty Drew and That Harder Boy

Gerry Geddes
Nasty Drew and That Harder Boy: The Mystery of the Family Jewels is an homage to the childhood-favorite mystery series "Nancy Drew" and "The Hardy Boys" and at the same time the latest in a long line of campy, loose-limbed, enjoyably tasteless, envelope-pushing parodies of pop culture icons and tropes that is perhaps most famously epitomized...

Brian Nash & Nate Buccieri

Gerry Geddes
Brian Nash and Nate Buccieri are two of the best in the piano bar business. If one of them is at the piano, patrons are assured of a good time, great playing, strong vocals, high energy, and raucous humor. Having worked together on a number of, as they put it, "big gay cruises," they began...

The Kinsey Sicks

Gerry Geddes
Back in the day, the great Charles Ludlam formed the Ridiculous Theatrical Company and brought drag to a new and unique plateau—not using cross-dressing for just fun and camp, but to comment on theatre, on society, on gender expectations. If he had expanded into cabaret, he might well have come up with something like The...

Christopher Timson

Gerry Geddes
Sometimes, not often enough, the stars align and the gods of cabaret look down on a show and everything that can go right, miraculously, does and everything that can go wrong, even more miraculously, does not. That is what happened in Christoper Timson's show "#TBT: A Chubby Boy's Guide to Growing Up Normal" at Feinstein's/54...

The Quentin Tarantino Songbook

Gerry Geddes
It is a well-known fact that in addition to being an accomplished director, Quentin Tarantino is a lover of movies. His films are filled with homages and "quotes" from classic and pulp movies. Anyone who has seen his work also quickly realizes that he loves "old" music—often songs and themes from earlier films and generations....

Midnight at the Never Get

Gerry Geddes
Midnight at the Never Get, a new musical chronicling the tumultuous birth and rise of the Gay Liberation Movement through the relationship of two men whose lives intersect with this historic moment, is being given its inaugural workshop at Don't Tell Mama. The characters are fictional, but the play manages to pack a lot of historical...

Madame Mathieu’s Soirée

Gerry Geddes
Drew Fornarola is certainly not one to rest on his laurels. His play Straight (co-written with Scott Elmegreen) is enjoying a successful, critically acclaimed run. For others, this would be more than enough for a season, but Fornarola has fashioned another ongoing entertainment to delight New York audiences: Madame Mathieu's Soirée. Its premise is that...

Monday Night Madness

Gerry Geddes
One of the most sorely missed treasures of New York cabaret life in the last century was Eighty-Eight‘s, an understated yet elegant room on 10th Street in the West Village. I saw a lot of shows there. I reviewed a lot of shows there. I directed a lot of shows there. It was one of...