Kim Sings Kylie
In a pre-Pride starburst of antipodean camp, Australian cabaret performer Kim David Smith salutes perennial pop goddess, Kylie Minogue, with "Kim Sings Kylie,” live at Club Cumming! Smith’s intimately fabulous cabaret-fantasia celebrates Kylie’s catalogue of gargantuan hits and glittering deep cuts alike, mining musical jewels from Minogue’s eponymous 1988 career-launching “Kylie,” all the way through to 2020’s pandemic-be-dammmned masterwork, “DISCO.” Labeled the “male Marlene Dietrich” by the New York Times, Smith deconstructs over three decades of dance anthems, with music direction by the multi-MAC Award winning Tracy Stark, and with costumes by Miodrag Guberinic (Katy Perry, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, etc.).
"I love Kylie, she's the anti-Madonna. Self-knowledge is a truly beautiful thing and Kylie knows herself inside out. She is what she is and there is no attempt to make quasi-intellectual statements to substantiate it. She is the gay shorthand for joy.” — Rufus Wainwright
Kim David Smith
Described by Broadway World as the "David Bowie of cabaret," "slyly subversive" by the Wall Street Journal, and labeled the "male Marlene Dietrich" by the New York Times, Kim David Smith, hailing from Australia, is a Helpmann Award nominated singer and cabaret performer, based in New York City. Smith’s debut live album “Kim David Smith Live at Joe’s Pub” was released worldwide July 17, 2020, featuring artwork by fashion illustrator Clifford Faust, and is available to stream or download via iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.
Kim’s most recent cabaret programmes “Mostly Marlene” (March, 2020) and “A Wery Weimar Christmas” (December, 2019) debuted at NYC’s Club Cumming, with A Wery Weimar Christmas returning for a streamed season via Club Cumming Productions in December 2020, featuring special guests Alexis Michelle, Boy Radio, and Natalie Joy Johnson. A Wery Weimar Christmas returned to Club Cumming for an in-person performance in December 2021. “Kim Sings Kylie” premiered at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in June 2018, saluting perennial pop goddess Kylie Minogue in an intimate cabaret fantasia, celebrating Kylie’s gargantuan hits and glittering deep-cuts, alike. Kim sings Kylie has since performed at the inaugural Sydney Cabaret Festival (July 2019), and returned to Joe’s Pub in November 2018, and May 2019. “Mostly Marlene” toured to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June 2021 (also performing at Alan Cumming’s late night Spiegeltent edition of Club Cumming while in Australia), and performed at Club Cumming on the Coast, at the Kennebunkport Inn, August 2021, before returning to Club Cumming for performances in September and October, 2021.
Smith starred as Salomé in Oscar Wilde's classic and controversial play as part of the Provincetown Theater’s 2017 season, while 2016 saw Kim portray the Emcee in Hunter Foster's production of "Cabaret" at the Cape Playhouse, to excellent reviews.
Conjuring the glitter, doom, and decadence of 1920's Berlin, Smith's piano-based programme, “Morphium Kabarett,” provides an intimate evening of German, French and English repertoire, subtly intertwining Piaf, Hollaender, Dietrich and Weill with The Supremes, Kylie Minogue, Madonna and many unexpected others.
Smith has toured Morphium Kabarett throughout Australia, earning a 2015 Helpmann Award nomination for Best Cabaret Performer, while also enjoying Stateside performances at Joe's Pub, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Café Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. Musically directed by Tracy Stark, Morphium Kabarett garnered enthusiastic praise from The New York Times in its six-month 2016 residency at Pangea, which celebrated the whimsy and wickedness of New York City's alt-cabaret scene, with a curated parade of guest-artists, including Joey Arias, Ali McGregor, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and innumerable others.
In 2009 Smith was presented with the Back Stage Magazine Bistro Award for Special Achievement as an Outstanding Performer (honored alongside Liza Minnelli and Charles Aznavour). His electro-pop albums Nova and Supernova are available on iTunes.
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7:30pm Doors / 8:00pm Show
$20 ADV / $25 DOS
Ages 21+
***All patrons are required to provide proof of vaccination to attend.