New York, NY (Top40 Charts) This holiday season, the prayers of a lost and divided nation will be answered as Kiki & Herb - the saviors we all deserve - rise again to deliver us from darkness with their deliciously deranged musical stylings. The infamous double act, created and performed by Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, return for a new edition of their now-legendary Christmas concerts. This year's resurrection brings Kiki & Herb's whiskey soaked gospel to the masses like never before. So spread the good word: Salvation is upon us. Grab a pew, ye sinners; sup your sacramental wine and sing… O Come Let Us Adore Them. Kiki & Herb bring their act to San Francisco at the Castro Theater on Friday, December 15.
"A hyper-magnified cabaret concert that has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire" - The New York Times
Whether it's a sold-out evening at Carnegie Hall, a flop-house in Pittsburgh, or Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway (2007 Tony nomination), Bond and Mellman's booze-soaked banter, pop-culture shmaltz, and claws-out cultural critique has been "scaring the bejesus out of audiences nationwide" (Vanity Fair) for three decades. Join Kiki & Herb on the road as they stumble through holiday favorites and classless-classics alike.
Tickets will be available on Friday,
September 22nd at 10 AM Local time.
Click here for more information and to purchase tickets: https://linktr.ee/kikiherb
Kiki & Herb O COME LET US ADORE THEM, the national tour, is presented in association with Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning producer, Jared Geller.
Kiki & Herb Tour Dates:
Dec 6 - Washington D.C. - The
Howard Theatre
Dec 7 - New York, NY - The Town Hal
Dec 8 - New York, NY - The Town Hall
Dec 10 - Chicago, IL - Park West
Dec 12 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
Dec 13 - Austin, TX - The Paramount Theatre
Dec 15 - San Francisco, CA - Castro Theatre
Dec 16 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
Kiki & Herb is the creation of Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman. Kiki is a washed-up, boozed-up chanteuse, with a voice that is a mixture of
Tom Waits and Ethel Merman with a dash of Judy, whose middle age passed her by some time ago. Herb, her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist provides support both musically and emotionally. As Kiki & Herb, Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman have dazzled audiences around the world for over two decades with their ground-breaking wildly popular cabaret shows. They have played the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, and New York's Carnegie Hall. The duo has also appeared at the Bonn Biennale (Germany), On The Boards (Seattle), the Great American
Music Hall (San Francisco), and the historic Orpheum Theater (L.A.). Kiki & Herb have performed and toured with The
Scissor Sisters and
Rufus Wainwright. The duo received an Obie Award for their show Kiki & Herb: Jesus Wept, and earned a Tony Award nomination for their 2007 show Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway. Kiki & Herb have released two albums: Do You Hear What We Hear? featuring Deborah Harry, Isaac Mizrahi,
Molly Ringwald, and
Rufus Wainwright and Kiki and Herb Will Die For You, a live recording of their Carnegie Hall show.
About Justin Vivian Bond
Mx. Justin Vivian Bond (they, them, their) has appeared on stage (Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Londonʼs West End), screen (Shortbus, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Sunset Stories), television (High Maintenance, Difficult People, The Get Down), nightclub stages (most notably, a decades-long residency at Joeʼs Pub at The Public Theater), and in concert halls worldwide (including Carnegie Hall and The Sydney Opera House). In December 2019 Mx. Bond made their Vienna Staatsoper debut as Orlandoʼs child in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirthʼs Orlando. In 2021 they appeared as the Lounge Singer in
Boston Lyric Opera's streaming opera Desert In, and made several year end "Best of" lists with their shows Only an Octave Apart co-created with counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zack Winokur, and
Thomas Bartlett, as well as Kiki and Herb Sleigh at BAM with Kenny Mellman.
Mx. Bond's visual art and installations have been seen in museums and galleries in the United States (Participant, Inc., and The New Museum) and abroad (Vitrine, London). Their memoir, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels (Feminist Press), won the
Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. They are the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, and a Tony nomination, as well as an Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The
Peter Reed Foundation Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant for Artists, and The Art Matters Grant.
They have self-released several full-length recordings, including Dendrophile and
Silver Wells. As one-half of the legendary punk cabaret duo Kiki & Herb, they toured the world and released two CDs: Do You Hear What We Hear? and Kiki and Herb Will Die for You at Carnegie Hall.
They have a master's degree in live art from Central Saint Martins College in London and have taught performance composition and Live Art Installation at NYU and Bard College. Mx. Bond currently divides their time between residences in New York Cityʼs East Village and the Hudson Valley.
Kenny Mellman is one half (with Justin Vivian Bond) of the Tony nominated and Obie and Bessie winning act Kiki and Herb. His show Kenny Mellman Is
Grace Jones toured the US, Australia and the UK and his one man musical about gay bashing and homophobia, Say Sea Boy You Sissy Boy? was commissioned by Dixon Place. He co-wrote the musical At Least It's Pink with Michael Patrick King and Bridget Everett at ArsNova. He also, with Everett and Neal Medlyn, co-created Our Hit Parade, a downtown NY deconstruction of the pop charts which ran for 4 sold-out years at Joe's Pub. He was in the cast and composed the music for Good For Otto at The New Group in 2018. Mellman was in the band The
Julie Ruin. Fronted by Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre fame, they released two records and toured extensively.. He was a 2021 recipient of a
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant.
Website: https://www.justinvivianbond.com
