No question about it.  Joe’s Pub in NY has the best cabaret acts ever. Especially queer ones.  This June, they go one step further with PADAM BUTTERFLY: ALL THE LOVERS AND THEN SOME, combining two of Queerguru’s favorite performers.  We first met Kim David Smith, originally from Australia and now a resident of NY …back in 2017…. when he wowed the audience (and us) with his tour-de-force performance in the title role of Oscar Wilde’s SALOME at the Provincetown Theater.

He was once descrubed by  Broadway World as the “David Bowie of cabaret,” “slyly subversive” by The Wall Street Journal, and labeled the “male Marlene Dietrich” by The New York Times, David Smith specializes in the repertoire of the Weimar Republic, and outré reinterpretations of classic torch songs (with a fiercely-camp focus on the music of Marlene Dietrich, Liza Minnelli, and Kylie Minogue). Smith’s latest live-and-more album, Mostly Marlene, is streaming worldwide.

Queerguru had been following Bright Light Bright Light,  who swapped the bright lights of Wales (!) with those of New York for the past six years, but we didn’t catch up with him until early this year.  He was just opening his own man show NOT LIKE ALL THE OTHER BOYS AT Joe’s Pub ….. and we quickly discovered he wasn’t….like other boys that is  (see HERE)

Electro-pop vocalist, DJ, composer, and producer, BrightLightX 2  takes you on an 80s/90s influenced rollercoaster ride through the queer experience, via his vast catalogue of glimmering, original songs; to date, four of his albums have reached the top 20 on the UK Independent Albums Chart – 2024’s ‘Enjoy Youth’ being the 8th best-selling album in the country on its week of release – and his latest duet with Ana Matronic charted at #10 on the UK Commercial Pop charts.

Now the very talented pair are getting together for ONE NIGHT ONLY with a  new Show in Which mischief abounds in a glittering evening of Pride-affirming pop; decadent, dance-diva worship; and torchy, untempered tenderness!   Your favorite gay immigrant’s favorite gay immigrants are joined by music director Brian Nash, and special guests: cabaret legend Sidney Myer, soprano supreme Ariadne Grief, and more to be announced!