Concert Review: Tammy Faye Starlite @ Cabaret Room at Pangea

Concert Review:
Tammy Faye Starlite
Cabaret Room at Pangea
Saturday, October 14th, 2021

  Tammy Faye Starlite hit the national radar in the 1990s as a country music gal gone bad, skewering Nashville tropes with hit, hilarious novelty songs such as “Did I Save My Vagina For This?”  Since then, Tammy has become a leading musical shape-shifter, starring in her own award-winning productions recreating the likes of Nico and Marianne Faithful on stage, and in her spare time productions, fronting all-female Rolling Stones and Blondie tribute bands.
      But her COVID-19 downtime construction of mythical, down-on-her luck Israeli pop star Tamar may be her bravest – and funniest – yet. Tammy is wrapping up a month long engagement of “Yesterday, Today and Tamar!” at the East Village’s renowned cabaret room at Pangea, tackling a demanding role that has her effortlessly switching back and forth from English to Hebrew, and having the audiences rolling down the aisles in laughter in the process.
       At an amazing performance Oct. 14 at Pangea, the icon regaled the audience with tales of her concert travels from Ma'alot to Minsk, and her many loves lost. Tammy is a dialect master – as attested by her linguistic transformations of German-born Nico and British Marianne Faithful – and her heavily accented English with a Hebrew flair made for some show highlights as she told the audience to pray for “World piss.” In between, she trotted out her vocal chops on novel renditions of Nights In White Satin, El Condor Pasa and In The Year 2525. Today Tamar, tomorrow the world!

  - Roger Hitts, Highlight Hollywood 

   

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