Friday, June 24, 2011

MADAM BARKER EMCEES THE MADHATTER'S BALL

Tony Award Winning Lookingglass Theatre hosts its 10th annual Madhatter's Ball on Saturday, June 24.

It's at the John Hancock Observatory, starting at 8 p.m. For details and tickets, click here.

Madam Barker and John will be the featured musical guests at the 8 p.m. VIP Reception.

New material will be featured from the upcoming "Madam Barker's Broads with Big Shoulders". For film of rehearsal, click here.

At nine, Madam Barker will share emcee duties with Lookingglass Ensemble member Joey Slotnick. Antics guaranteed.


Wednesday, January 6, 2010

MADAM BARKER BASIC FACTS

Madam Barker is an aging singer who was never a star, with a love for a live paying audience, a passion for dirty glamor, and a thirst for the apocalypse. She is half dragon and half Irish. She has enjoyed the spotlight throughout her life, and finally settled on the stage, which has an arrangement that makes it harder for people to leave when she’s talking to them.


In 1693, she was born to a Colonial teenager named Elizabeth Emerson, who tried to murder both Barker and her sister. Elizabeth only got it half right, but they hanged her anyway.


According to historical records, in 1874 she began her life in Wyoming as a prostitute and a frontierswoman and an alcoholic. That was over in 1893, when she joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as a trick shooter and a horse rider and an alcoholic.


It has been suggested she also may have been born in 1901 in Pasadena, and flew airplanes until her death in 1975. Everybody forgot about her, though, because she wasn’t hot like Amelia Earhart, and she was a good enough pilot to die of a heart attack in her own home rather than from a plane crash in the middle of the ocean.


This information conflicts directly with accounts of her death in 1970 of a heroin overdose at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Los Angeles and was discovered when she didn’t show up to hear her newest recordings.


It seems she is still alive, by most accounts. Though it can be hard to tell.


Professional credits include:


Causing the Roman Empire to fall

Knocking down the Berlin Wall

Following you into the Bathroom Stall

Chasing the Nazis out of France

Teaching Nijinsky how to dance

Helping you out of those tight, tight pants

Moonlighting as Sinatra’s Lady Luck

Fleecing her third Husband for a million bucks

Lifting your spirits when your life kind of sucks.


John Fournier is the Piano Player

Monday, December 14, 2009

MY LOVE WILL KICK YOUR ASS...SINGLE FOR $ALE!!

The first single off the upcoming record "The Madam Barker Show", is available for sale.  For your mp3 of this hit song written by John Fournier and sung by Molly Brennan as Madam Barker, email Madam Barker at madambarker@gmail.com.

Or, buy it here:  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/506557126 !























Wednesday, November 11, 2009

TICKETS TO MADAM BARKER HOLIDAY VARIETY SHOW

Madam Barker and John Fournier from 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal perform live with a whole bunch of Chicago talent on three Fridays, November 27, December 4 and December 11.


In celebration of the release of "My Love Will Kick Your Ass", John and Barker will be joined by a rotating cast of Chicago's magicians, musicians, comedians, dancers, the Barker Dames and 500 Clown for an hour and fifteen minutes of Holiday entertainment.


DECEMBER 4 and 11 ONLY: RICK BAYLESS makes GUACAMOLE with 500 CLOWN!!


TEN BUCKS  

DRINKING PERMITTED 

GOOD TIMES REQUIRED 

NOV 27, DEC 4, DEC 11 

11 PM-MIDNIGHT


FOR TICKETS:

If you would like to attend on November 27, go to:

http://madambarkershownnovember27.eventbrite.com/


If you would like to attend on December 4, go to:

http://madambarkershowndecember4.eventbrite.com/


If you would like to attend on December 11, go to

http://madambarkershowndecember11.eventbrite.com/


Hope to see you there!


Love,

Madam Barker