New York has five or six dedicated cabarets. “Now, they can happen anywhere - a bar, restaurants, or in the community center. Historically the cabaret experience often featured crooners singing famed torch songs, numbers from musicals, and popular selections from the American songbook. “In Philly there were professional cabaret venues,” Weinberg said. Now he’s doing it perhaps the way he loves best, in a cabaret-style performance. The 20-song show was supposed to take place in April (Weinberg’s actual birthday month) but got postponed when the pandemic shut down live cultural events across the city. We want to see what we learn from it, both the performance and bringing people back into the Center.” Proceeds from the performances will support William Way’s Arcila-Adams Trans Resource Center. “We don’t have anything else scheduled in terms of events. ![]() Bartlett said that social distancing and masks will be strongly enforced. “This is really a pilot for us,” said Chris Bartlett, executive director of William Way. ![]() Only 25 people, including Weinberg, will be admitted for each performance. Unlike the previous shows Weinberg has brought to the Center, “SONGS at 75” will have a limited seating capacity to maintain and encourage proper social distancing. “SONGS at 75” is a celebration featuring music from the earliest days of gay liberation through the present day. Tom Wilson Weinberg will celebrate his 75th birthday with a series of cabaret performances at the William Way LGBT Community Center this weekend. We had their famous pork buns, the Edwards Wigwam ham (coffee, black pepper, smokey), the Broadbent ham, (nutty, sweet, medium smoke), and Mike had the Shrimp Toast as a finale.Tom Wilson Weinberg in 1979 (left) and in 2020 (right). I do not have photos because hunger overruled. We walked over to Momofuku Ssäm Bar and feasted on a selection of tapas. I'm a fan of the Momofuku restaurants, so I suggested we try one I haven't tried in the name of experimentation. But I supposed I’ll be happy to save the cash and keep the memories as a token of the trip.Īfter the exhibit we were able to check into our hotel, take our second shower of the day because the humidity was off the charts, and scout around for dinner. The one thing I wanted from the website (a lighting bolt necklace) wasn’t available for purchase. And there were tons of useless things like pencils, CDs which I can’t play because I haven’t owned a CD player for nearly a decade now, and un-branded silver fanny packs(?). The one print in the entire shop was just the ad for the exhibit. The mugs and magnets were just the album covers. The shirts were of cheap, thin quality and all XL or larger. I brought tons of cash to dump into merchandise for my #1 favorite artist and a record-breaking exhibit, and I walked out empty handed. ![]() ![]() If you go, before it closes, opt out of the headphones or bring your own earbuds. So, A for concept but F for execution on that. The headset also seemed to be location-dependent within the exhibit, meaning that you’d “receive” sound bites while walking near various installations which you couldn’t pause or restart, and which was difficult to follow if you were being swept up in a sea of constantly moving people jockeying for position to look at something. Having to read a plaque while also hearing a completely different spoken narration or interview is vexing. And the forced audio guide, which I found to be largely distracting and ended up abandoning for the most post. I will say that my two criticisms are the lack of chronological order, which could have helped reign the viewer in a bit.
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