My friend Stevie Jay is holding what he’s calling his “Untimely Fundraising Show” here in Charlottesville, this coming Tuesday. He has quite a fantastic one-man show, “Life, Love, Sex, Death and Other Works in Progress,” that was one of the most engaging 90 minutes of my life thus far. Writes The Hook:
Stevie Jay smiles at his audience and coyly refers to the performance they’re about to see as “a multi-chakra extravaganza.” Like nearly everything else about his supremely hilarious one-man show, Life, Love, Sex, Death and Other Works in Progress, it always gets him a laugh.
And, much like everything else in his show, it cuts right to the heart. Of the matter, of the audience, of the performer, of whatever else you might like that to mean. Because, you see, beauty– and humor and pain and pointed, revelatory insight– is in the eye of the beholder.
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To that end, as the show progresses, he starts to get the audience progressively more involved, whether it’s by having them read his punch lines to the rest of the crowd or aiming his commentary directly at whichever members happen to turn themselves into the most willing targets.
“You just keep convulsing,” he says to one woman who is far too amused to answer his most recent call to arms.
And finally, somewhere in the space between interview and performance, Stevie turns to the figurative camera and pronounces to the empty room that is nonetheless filled with a captivated audience, “You guys will either make or break this experience.”
On Tuesday, January 25, the Gravity Lounge will no doubt be packed with people who want to make it happen.
So, Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville, Tuesday, $10/person, 90 minutes long, show starts at 8. Recommended highly.