Fri. Sept 2nd - REORIGINALIZED!
Preshow – Sideshow Bennie (not for the squeamish)

Host – Greg Giovanni
WITH a Video salute to JOHNNY BRENDA’S (courtesy of scrapple.tv)

Guests – The Love Show NYC

Buddy Felch
Corey Cohen
Doogie Horner
Team Sunshine – Zombie Defense consultants

Musical Guests –
The Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret
‘experience Martha the way God intended – Free, and available to ALL!’

Oh! and there's a Swanky Bar there... Late Nite Cab style

   Expect head shavings and dancing - but not at the same time - !

Followed by an olde school jam with – Joey Tayoun and
The Middle-East Middle-Earth ORC-estra

Sun. Sept 4th -
“Nobody leaves the VILLAGE!”

Preshow – BBC Prisoner Videos & multi media shizzle abound

PRIZZO the degree absolute of Prisoner TRIVIA Challenges.
Where YOU can be found “unmutual” or “double-plus good”

Host – JESS CONDA
Guests – Nathan Holt

Ned Sonstein
Ginger Leigh

Musical guests – Mano Divina and The Divine Hand Ensemble
Philadelphia’s ONLY chamber-pop-punk-fusion troupe with a Theremin-rocking Band leader – it even looks awesome on paper.

PLUS -
SPECIAL Musical Guests –
“Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling” (boston)
Art-Rock and much more than merely a tribute to the Prisoner!
Join Michael and Sophia as they come to Philly for THE FIRST TIME EVER...

additional Philly artists are also involved with this Boston’s group performance
BUT if we told you who –
We’d have to kill you “all very legal, nothing unsavory”

Mon. Sept. 5th -
‘The Bigg Gunns get bigger’

Host – JOE GUNN and
LATE NIGHT WITH JOE GUNN

Join guest-host Joe Gunn as he travels with his cult-hit show into the depths of the Cabaret – again!

VIDEO – The Drew–Barry “more awards” show
– several movers, and more shakers within Philly's fishbowl,
can expect to be awarded huge sums of money, attention and gold (as usual) this year – (not by us) but – you know them, you read about them.
This awards show is FOR them.
Hell, it’s TO them, and we expect angry emails ‘let’s hope right?’

Musical guests –
T.J. KONG and The Atomic Bomb!

Expect certain crazy chats over a whiskey Fondue, and
Random acts of sillery. Also hangovers for Tuesday.

Tues. Sept 6th -
“Keep Your Third Eye Open”

Hosts – Drugbunny Booking & John Cecil Price present
DRUGBUNNY
a night of truly avant-garde live music with
WEST VIENNA
Lanagier
and
Flamingo

PLUS - Tribal Bellydance
John Cecil Price gathers his creative allies and likely
astonishing things will happen
in fact THEY WILL!

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chortle-masters,

gag-bangers, and

guest “stand-up artists” who will be daring the
Open-stage that night...

guests –
Sam’s “fun thing”

Musical Guests – Rich Hill (leading) the
Devil’s Clown-Armada

Thursday Sept 8th -
“Thaddeus & the LIGHTENINGING people”

Host- Thaddeus Phillips

Guests -
This evening features many of Thaddeus’ friends and foes, even a supervillain or two, likely if you have breath in your lungs – and a hunger for smart, funny free shows - you’ll attend...

Several short films, AND a few shocks await.

Musical Guests – Lighteninging
The bad boys from Jose Pistolas RETURN to the cabaret –
and the girls go crazy! Poe-level Crazy!

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Expect dancing!

FRI. SEPT 9th -
“KILLER COMICS!”

Preshow – video salute to SILK CITY
Founded atop the remains of the former Silk City (2007 a.d.) this live venue is recognized tonite for daring to lose money simply by booking friends of Mark Bee, and they ALL say that at the door at Silk...
“I’m friends with Mark Bee, etc. etc.” well look out – here comes a tribute!

Host – Christa D’agger

BE WARNED – Burlesque superstar, Christa D’agger, is gonna unleash a hellstorm of hilarity And her pals at the Peekaboo Revue MAY be with her.

Guests – Doogie Horner

Lulu Lollipop
David Cassanova
Tammy Faymous
“The 12th Night Band”
BUDDY FELCH (returns)

PLUS – “The Deadliest Sketch” WHO wants to WIN the boasting rights? Well bring it ONSTAGE, people – local judges (headed by Corey Cohen) will judge and the PEOPLE shall vote. “is it the riskiest? The most satirical? Is it even funny?”
“it’s like Quizzo meets the History Channel” Sign Up! Prizes (possible)!!!

Musical Guests –

THE WEST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Philly’s most diverse, and most daring mobile orchestra RETURN to the Cabaret!

SAT. SEPT 10th -
CRISI OF INFINITE MIRTHS

Preshow – Video Salute to Fergie’s Pub
“Fergie’s Pub has fueled more booze-drenched shenanigans
And creative fisticuffs (often with its namesake involved) than discussions about ST:OS versus ST:TNG at AA meetings."
In short – it’s a fucking awesome LIVE performance venue in Center City with a soul.
Tonite it gets honored by being forced to drink and be made fun of, hey – it’s a Philly thing.

Host – DOOGIE HORNER
With The Ministry of Secret Jokes
Author, Actor, Comic, Graphic Designer and (perhaps) SUPER-VILLAIN; We are exposing Mr. Horner and his ‘Legion of Doom-Style’ secret organization!
The Ministry is a rapid-fire, chance-taking, audience-participation Comedy-experience Like NO OTHER – also, it’s fucking funny, people! You think YOU can do better than these Galactic-Gag-Banging-Warriors? Sign up for the Open Stage (by 10PM) to find out!!

(Tentative) Musical guests (Yet to be confirmed) -
THE AFTER-DINNER MINTS
Lounge, lounge, lounge it’s coming back bythces, like Shakespeare and Pro-Wrestling!
“this isn’t your grandad’s lounge-band”

Join Philly’s largest Jazz-Trio as they play the songs that your Grandparents used to have sex to.

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Sunday Sept. 11th -
“HIGH-CAMP FOR HIRE”

Preshow – look at a few gems from Philly’s BRAT-stards – BRATvision goggles required

Host – ERIK RANSOM
Erik Ransom is a MARVEL and a DC, in fact maybe more of a DC/DC kinda guy. And he’s a superhero – And he’s a super-villain, he gets around, and this year may be his best yet.
Join Erik as he brandishes his drag-persona: Nanya Levin

Musical Guest – CORN MO! NYC in the hizzie
Accordion-God and SUPER-NICE dude, he embodies all that rolls in a rock world

*Erik Ransom and Corn Mo will join onstage for a special FIRST –time appearance
Together forever,
like shoo-wop a doodle, doodle, danga-danga ding dong!"

SUPER-SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS –
TOUCHED BY AN UNCLE
They never rehearse, they only play gigs for sheer pleasure, they ONLY play original music
- and their lead singer is SKYPED-IN!
How good can they be?? – in fact, really fucking good!
Join them as they invite the evening’s host Erik Ransom and Corn Mo in for a song or two!

Monday Sept 12th –
GREEN LeeANN-TERN – a FULL MOON REVUE

Preshow – The Wicked Wicked EyeCandy Show

Host LEE ANN ETZOLD
Philly’s most lovable actress, dancer, producer, visionary, co-artistic director, comic (breathe)
Bridge-builder, circus artist, J. Jonah Jameson Impersonator (breathe) And American ARTS Hero has RETURNED from the land of our hated foe - ENGLAND
Huzzahs will abound! What will she do here tonite?
Who shall she invite? Has Whale Optics closed? Oh yesterday, really?
Well then – push her OUT on-stage, dammit she OWES us songs!
Dance! SING! DANCE! LEEEEEEEEEEE ETZZzzZZZold!
It feels good just typing ‘Lee Etzold’ and ‘cabaret’ together.

Disclaimer
Normally there is an Openstage sign up, but if we all agree to just keep
Mrs. Etzold onstage the whole time up until the band starts, we can feed her drinks as she does her voodoo. Actual voodoo. It’s her bag now.

Musical Guests – Sylvia Platypus

You know what, Lee, can take the Band’s slot!
Someone call Tim Motzer to come play.

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Tues. Sept 13th -
Mr. DEAD-GUY’s CAVALCADE OF FREAKDOM!

Preshow – Video SALUTE to the staff @ TLA VIDEO on 15th and Locust
They were more than Video-Store clerks, they were our elite priesthood of cinephiles... They advocated, They championed, They cared, and they kept caring up until the very best video-store EVER closed this year.
“mourn them not, for they gather to drink with us – tonite”

Plus - the Twilite Gallery sneek-peek
Take a tour with Philly’s very own super-cool Frank X. as he walks along the night’s plutonian shore, In a Video sneak peek of the NecroNomicomeDIE’

Host – Mr. Dead-Guy
He’s a zombie, NOT a skeleton, that would be implausible –
(a skeleton? Geez.)
Now he HAS a skeleton-friend, sure, and yes, the dead-baby puppet DOES freak ‘some ‘people. BUT, do you like Banjos? How about Karate? Singing about Death? Then Join our host as he juggles the corpses AND the OpenStage Variety Hour!

Special guests
The band – HORSEY (a TLA favorite – picked by the staff)

Wed Sept 14th -

“Burlesque -n- Beyond 2011 KickOFF”

Philadelphia’s FREE Burlesque Festival returns to the LATE NITE CABARET for the final FOUR nites!

Preshow VIDEO and MUSIC by – American Shaft’s David Teague – who knows Burlesque gals, and how to shoot them – with cameras. Music couldn’t hurt.

Burlesque Encouraged on the Openstage. SignUp by 10pm

Hosts – NEEDLES JONES and MAURI WALTON
Yes, Hard Liquor Theatre creator and the Big Mess Cabaret member collide in an orgiastic Bloodbath of destruction. Also some songs.

PLUS!
WAISTIVAL a celebration of poverty!
How poor can you go? No wait – you can do better – just eat less, it makes the Delicious Corset all the easier to put on. “the tighter it gets, the better it looks”
IN FACT – let’s celebrate DELICIOUS CORSETS(Psydde Delicious pending)

Musical Guests – Fringe-Darlings, and Bohemian Bon-Vivants
The ABSINTHE DRINKERS
Showcasing Steampunkery with panache’. Also, music, song and advanced sorcery!

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Thurs Sept 15th-
Burlesque and Beyond Continues with
“SPACE-PIRATE-CHICKS NEED MONEY 2”

Preshow – “it’s a secret, you must come to the cabaret and give the hosts your money”

Hosts
GWEN ROOKER & MARY McCOOL
Perhaps the best co-hosting duo YET to be assembled in all time-and-space.
AND they have been searching the galaxy to set up their very own
TELETHON TO HELP PEOPLE

“GO TO THE LATE NITE CABARET AND GIVE THE GIRLS YOUR MONEY!”
(Or, just have a beer and watch the high-jinks occur!)

Guests include
Pink Hair Affair
The Sirens of SISTERS (in center city)
MINNIE TONKA (NYC)

Musical Guests
ARTIC SPLASH!

Fri. Sept 16th -
“WONDER WOMEN”
Burlesque–n-Beyond continues...

Preshow – a special VIDEO SALUTE to TWO of Philly’s most-treaures legacies THE TROCADERO THEATER and THE BIG MESS ORCHESTRA
take a look at the very last Big Mess Cabaret from 2009 Shot LIVE @ The Troc, which is the only BURLESQUE HOUSE still standing in the State!
Hell, the world! A free screening and world premiere!
Think of this as mandatory for burlesque-schooling (and) snowdaze!

Host The LEGENDARY WID!
He has returned – fresh from his residency at the Baltimore Visionary Arts Museum – and "YOU better fucking give him something for that."
Hosting as ONLY HE CAN! If he can make it... “it is the time for miracles.”

Guests –
Lil Steph & Miss Rose (of Bravissimo Burlesque)
MINNIE TONKA (NYC)

Musical Guests –
FULL BLOWN CHERRY
"fuck yeah!"

PLUS SPECIAL CABARET SHOWCASE with
ERIK RANSOM and "COMING: a musical of biblical proportions" (IN REVUE FORM)
If you were blessed-enough to see the recent provocative piece by this bold Playright/Songsmith/Actor then you know what to expect if not –
BRACE YOURSELVES for a compelling, dynamic, yet intimate showcase of the Songs that Erik has chosen to share with you – in a unique forum –
The Late Nite Cabaret.

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Sat. Sept 17th -
"Johnny Showcase & The Lefty Lucy Cabaret
vs.
The Peekaboo Revue Neoburlesk Troupe*"

“and there came a day unlike any other...”

CLOSING NITE of the Late Nite Cabaret!
AND, The Finale of Burlesque-n-Beyond 2011

Host – MADI DISTEFANO of BRAT Productions
Returns for her 15th appearance as host! She does it all!
In fact – we’ll make her do it all –
And her friends and fans will insist that she does ‘musical chairs’ and she’ll be like ‘nah’ and we’ll just guilt her into it...
Madi will be urged to dish, and maybe even do something from the Upcoming “Meanwhile,” or wouldn’t it be awesome if she’d recreate that Coriolanus musical from back in the old Khyber days. Also, LOVED her Bald Sopranos! seen ALL of Them!
And – her (pre-fringe) Naked Cocktail at Club DeLUXE – fucking astonishing! Haunted Poe!

C’MON MADI! You’re making the rest of us look like slackers who only get off our asses to see BRAT shows. Well we’ll show you – once we finish this six-pack! six-pack! six-pack! of PBRs!

Catch the fun EARLY or miss out!
Johnny Showcase @ 10:30
Peekaboo Revue @ Midnite

*To clarify about the evening’s two separate performance troupes ‘battle’
– the two groups aren’t actually battling, but it makes a great title.

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