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Meow Meow paces and purrs

Jun 17, 2013

The mercurial mistress of musical mayhem is back, she of the velvet voice and Carpathian chest, and this time she’s stripped down, literally.

Not that this feline femme fatale needs any props – not when she has an entire audience to use as her own personal cat scratcher – but just in case the stern commands barked in German don’t have the desired effect,  Meow Meow has come prepared. Sashaying and slinking her way through the smoky nights of the Weimar and the sultry sonnets of a host of notables, Melissa Madden Gray is the perfect remedy for the winter blues.

Accompanied by superb piano and understated drums, MM paces and purrs, dragging her audience from their seats with a combination of cool moves and metaphorical whip lashes, using her divine vocal range to first cajole and then castigate – this cat has claws.

Meow Meow is one of those rare cabaret performers, both talented and torturer, the kind of party drug one takes at one’s own risk, the kind of woman who could hold her own in any venue – and has. One of the stand-up, stand out, stand and deliver acts of the festival – whether dressed or undressed.

Meow Meow’s season at Artspace is now finished.

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