SUNSET BITCH at the NY Fringe, One Performance Left. A MUST SEE!

I know Jessica and she is a terrific musical performer and a lovely person. Try to catch this show, it's bound to be fun.

SUNSET BITCH is a one woman musical comedy starring Jessica Martin, West End musical and British televsion comedy performer.

NY Fringe, August 14-20

Jessica is Veronique Raymond a self proclaimed Hollywood legend. The British daughter of a Busby Berkley "Gold Digger" discoverd selling doughnuts at the Hollywood Canteen. From movie star to toast of Parisian nightlife, a Vegas lounge singer and cult TV icon. On ethe eve of her long anticipated combace, Veronique tells her story of rags to riches, and back again, through songs and comical anecdotes featuring over thirty Hollywood stars.

Jessica Martin made her West End debut playing Sally Smith in MY AND MY GIRL, and remained in the show for over two years at the Adelphi Theatre followed by the first national UK tour. Other credits include Mabel Normand in the West End production of MACK AND MABEL, and Mrs. Lovett in the Bridewell production of SWEENEY TODD, among other roles. Television includes the highly successful London Weekend Television impressionist show "Copycats."

www.fringeNYC.ORG


"A gutsy versatile singer, and also a very talented mimic, a musical comedy star of the first magnitude.
Time Out London

A rare piece of musical comedy perfection. A Diva with a capital D.
The Stage London








SUNSET BITCH

Updated On: 8/20/05 at 10:52 PM

Just returned from this evening's performance of SUNSET BITCH. Jessica Martin as "Veronique Raymond," and as tens of other stars of Broadway and Hollywood, was laugh out loud funny. Mezmerizing with simply a mike, a stool, and a piano player.

Jessica is a first class West End theatre performer, with a terrific voice, superb comic timing, and possessing a sexy appeal. This is an entertainer with a superior Broadway calibre talent.

There's only one performance left of SUNSET BITCH--tomorrow, Saturday at Noon--and anyone who is a bitch about entertainment of the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and today dare not miss it.

SUNSET BITCH, Ace of Clubs, Acme Restaurant, 9 Great Jones St.

Yes, I'm biased toward a highly enjoyable evening of live entertainment, but her's another's opinion...

from www.nytheatre.com

"Sunset Bitch
reviewed by Matt Schicker

Jessica Martin, whose one-woman musical act Sunset Bitch currently plays at Ace of Clubs as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, is a first-rate Broadway-style singer. But good singers are not hard to come by in New York City; what makes Martin’s act unique is her incredible skill as a mimic. In Martin, who has made a name for herself in England in West End musicals such as Me and My Girl and Mack and Mabel, we have a female Rich Little: an impersonator who not only sounds like someone else, but who zeroes in on a person’s quirks and exaggerates them in an insightful and often hilarious way.

Throughout the evening, Martin impersonates such oft-imitated grande dames as Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Liza Minnelli, and Barbra Streisand. A musical number about movie clichés features Martin morphing into a string of old movie stars including Jimmy Stewart, Mae West, John Wayne, Peter Lorre, Rita Hayworth, and others. A very funny bit imagines Lee Strasberg casting Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe in a Method version of Uncle Vanya. Early in Sunset Bitch, Martin does a dead-on version of Julie Andrews’s singing and speaking voices that's so realistic you’d swear she was lip-synching to a recording of Andrews herself. It’s such an impressive feat of mimicry that Martin reprises it at the very end of the evening...

...when it comes to the music and mimicry, Martin is the real thing..."

Updated On: 8/20/05 at 12:10 AM

Bumping because there's only a few hours left to get to today's Noon performance.

It is well worth it!