As Tributes Go By: Tammy Faye Starlite on Paying Homage to Marianne Faithfull, on Record and in a One-Woman Show
22.12.2023 - 23:41
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Tammy Faye Starlite knows few boundaries in her love for Marianne Faithfull, and the New York-based singer and performance artist is expressing it in two ways this season. For starters, she’s one of 25 performers who participated in a compilation album that came out earlier this month, “The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull,” along with other fellow fans ranging from Shirley Manson to Iggy Pop — a record earmarked to have proceeds go toward paying for Faithfull’s medical bills as she deals with long COVID.
But Starlite is taking her appreciation above and beyond these other artists, by doing a one-woman show in which she portrays Faithfull, and not for the first time. Starlite does the new piece, titled “She’s a Rainbow: Marianne Faithfull Sings the Songs She Inspired — A Cabaret Fantasia,” tonight (Dec.
22) at Pangea in New York City. Like her previous production of the show, it sold out weeks in advance.
But even if you aren’t able to come up with a ticket for her theatrical take on Faithfull this time around (and surely it will be back), it’s worth hearing why Starlite thinks this particular heroine is such a vital figure in the history of rock. It just so happens that this show — the second one Starlite has built around Faithfull — does have some degree of focus on the idea of the singer as a muse, as it includes some songs that were allegedly or definitely written for or about her, the Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” being among them.
But Starlite is a serious acolyte of the English singer’s own catalog, to say the least, which also figures into the dramatic piece. As she prepared to present “She’s a Rainbow” live, Starlite spoke with Variety not
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