If you haven't heard of Kiki & Herb, they are an over-the-top lounge/cabaret act. This year is called "The Magical Drinking Tour," and Kiki's dream line is "Dare to suck, and let the magic happen!"
From the NY Times review:That’s one gorgeous set of teardrops that the immortal Kiki DuRane is wearing for her mind-popping Broadway debut. Kiki, a molting songbird for all seasons, and Herb, her happily suffering shadow and accompanist, opened last night at the Helen Hayes Theater in “Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway,” a hyper-magnified cabaret concert that has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire.I am so freaking stoked.
Justin Bond as Kiki croons her whiskey way through smoky ballads. Actually, since this transcendental lounge act is fond of biblical imagery, make that great swords of fire — or, if you prefer, a burning bush.
But about those teardrops. Whenever Kiki tilts her face upward, toward her key light — and like any self-adoring goddess, she does that a lot — her eyes brim with the most brilliant pools of brine you have ever seen. Well, not to spoil the illusion, but those ain’t tears: they’re rhinestones (or something like), strategically glued just beneath her lower lashes.
It is a tribute to the perverse showbiz genius of Kiki and Herb that once you twig on to this shameless trompe l’oeil, you don’t feel merely amused. Nor do you think that the singer has been trading only in paper-moon emotions, or making fun of those who do, as she croons her whiskey-pickled way through bathetic ballads and angry anthems. [Ben Brantley]
See also the short but rave review at Playbill, which refers to them as "a song-and-booze cabaret duo."
If ever there were a show for me and Kevin/Statler and Waldorf, this is it.
Joining Statler and Waldorf are Kelly, RMJ, Shawn, and James.
We are going to be on tonight!
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