“The new variety show done in the OG way”—Barbarino’s Big Nite Out! returns to Lips Drag Queen Show Palace, Restaurant & Bar on Tuesday, April 1 (April Fools Day) at 7 PM. Produced and curated by Scott Barbarino, the show features singers, comedians, magic and specialty acts. “We’re going to party like it’s 1999,” Barbarino says. “The vibe is fun and eclectic and the perfect antidote for these crazy times we now live in.”
Comedian Angela LaGreca will be making her debut in BBNO! The six-time MAC award-winning musical comedian will be backed by Musical Director Lenny Babbish with back up vocals delivered by Leslie Fogelsong, LaGreca also just happens to be a four-time Emmy Award winning producer and writer, who worked at the “TODAY Show,” “The Meredith Vieira Show” and “The View” for many years. She is no stranger to cabaret audiences, whom she wowed back in the day at the legendary cabaret Eighty-Eights, and more recently with Angela LaGreca’s Monday Nite Madness shows at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Side.
Also joining the cast is songwriter George Winters, creator of the MAC and Backstage Bistro Award-winning revue, Monday in the Dark with George.
BBNO! host Joshua “Chachi” Cruz and music director, pianist and Maestro, John Bronston, welcome singers Shannon Antalan, Liz Davies, Francesca Loeber, Hannah Jane and Can Yasar. Crowd-pleaser Magic Brian mesmerizes and dancers Ethan Cavanaugh and Rachel Caron will strut their stuff! Rounding out the evening will be Scott Barbarino & The BevNaps (Anna Anderson, Dylan Berkshire, JD Smurthwaite); and capping the festivities is Drag Artiste Extraordinaire, Avant Garbage. After the show there is an open mic in which guests can “sing out Louise!” Just bring your sheet music with you.
And PS: does Lips have party vibes! The venue is now celebrating 30 years of drag artistry. Before that? The space used to be home to cabaret/night clubs The Blue Angel, La Vie En Rose, Bill Hongs and The Little Hippodrome, where The NY Dolls did their final concert and recorded the live album Red Patent Leather. If the walls can’t talk, then BBNO! surely represents!
Scott Barbarino is the producer of the award-winning internet show PianoBarLive!, as well as New Faces of Broadway, The Follow Spot, Terese Genecco and her Little Big Band and Cheez Whiz at The Parkside Lounge with Sweetie. Barbarino is a founder and lead singer of Scott Barbarino & The Bev-Naps, a retro-vocal comedy doo-wop group and winner of two MAC Awards (1999: Vocal Group and 2000: Musical Comedy Group).
Tickets are $20 tickets + $25 food/beverage min. per person; TICKETS HERE
Lips is located at 227 East 56th St. (between 3rd and 2nd Aves), New York, NY
