17 December 2018
MEGAN MULLALLY AND HER BAND NANCY AND BETH ARE HEADING DOWN UNDER
Megan Mullally (Will & Grace, Parks & Recreation) and Stephanie Hunt (Friday Night Lights, Californication) are coming to Brisbane as the band Nancy And Beth, the punk / vaudeville heart-child of the two friends, for a special one-night only show in the Concert Hall at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Wednesday 19 June 2019.
As duo Nancy And Beth, Megan and Stephanie pick dope songs and sing them while dancing and wearing matching costumes. Yes, matching costumes, and next June they’re heading down under to sing and dance up a storm for their Australian debut in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart and Sydney.
Queensland audiences can expect a fully choreographed, non-scripted, tongue-in- cheek experience with a combination of psychic twinship, childlike enthusiasm, rigorous preparation of songs, and zero preparation of what happens in between.
Megan and Stephanie, and the five dollfaces that back them up, have created a musical outfit that is celebratory, surprising, sweet, tuneful, eye-catching, thought- provoking and amusing.
Hailed by Theater Mani as “the most avant-garde show to play the Café Carlyle in recent memory” (Café Carlyle is a legendary New York City jazz restaurant) and “musical misfits” by NPR All things Considered (the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio), Nancy And Beth has also performed at the Newport Folk Festival, the Grand Ole Opry (a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee), London’s Royal Festival Hall, Solid Sound (a music and arts festival at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), and many other venues in the US and abroad.
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“Bring yourself and your friends to see Nancy And Beth (yes everyone, the A is capitalized, please try to keep your sh*t together) and let us entertain you. Bigly. Like two funny fairies who can sing and dance,” Lots of love, Megan and Steph.
Don’t miss the Australian debut of Nancy And Beth at QPAC. Tickets go on sale at 9.00am on Thursday 20 December, 2018. For more information or to book go to qpac.com.au or call on 136 246.
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“Nancy And Beth is as sharp as any revivalist act going today…Everything is performed so perfectly (and even sometimes movingly), that their comic sensibility subverts the whole act into something weirder.” LA Times
“Cabaret gone crazy.” JazzTimes
Nancy And Beth is… Megan Mullally (vocals, choreography) Stephanie Hunt (vocals) Datri Bean (keyboards, vocals) Joe Berardi (drums) Petra Haden (strings, vocals) Roy Williams (guitar, vocals) Andrew Pressman (bass, vocals)
Presented by QPAC in association with David M Hawkins Megan Mullally and her band Nancy And Beth
WHEN: Wednesday 19 June 2019, 8.00pm WHERE: Concert Hall, QPAC, Cultural Centre, South Bank, Brisbane TICKETS: qpac.com.au for current pricing BOOKINGS: qpac.com.au or 136 246
For more information, artist bios, high resolution images and videos please click here.
Nancy And Beth’s debut, self-titled album is available now on iTunes.
For further information, images or interviews please contact:
Tash Spong, Publicity and Content Manager, QPAC ~ phone (07) 3840 7984, mobile 0478 406 459, email [email protected]
About Megan Mullally Emmy Award-winning actress and musician Megan Mullally has appeared on Broadway in revivals of Grease, How to Succeed (opposite Matthew Broderick), and Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein. Recently, Megan appeared in Terrence McNally’s smash Broadway hit It's Only a Play, and played the role of Adelaide opposite Nathan Lane in Carnegie Hall’s celebrated Guys and Dolls revival. Television includes seven seasons of the Emmy Award-winning Children’s Hospital, Parks and Recreation (as the Evil Tammy II), Lydia on acclaimed cult favourite Party Down, Aunt Gayle on Fox’s animated Bob’s Burgers, and Karen Walker on NBC’s hit sitcom Will & Grace, for which she received two Emmys, four Screen Actors Guild awards and four Golden Globe nominations. In film, Megan stars opposite Bryan Cranston and James Franco in the new hit comedy Why Him?, and will appear in four other movies in 2017: Oh Lucy!, LEMON, The Disaster Artist, and Infinity Baby. Megan and her husband Nick Offerman have toured the US and UK with their comedy show Summer of 69: No Apostrophe, and has returned to television as Karen on NBC’s reboot of Will & Grace.
About Stephanie Hunt Stephanie Hunt is a musician, songwriter, actress and writer from Austin, Texas. She’s a founding member of The Ghost Songs with Alex Maas and Christian Bland, members of The Black Angels. She’s appeared on Friday Night Lights (NBC), Californication (Showtime), Glee (Fox), in the films Somebody Up There Likes Me and Poorboy and was a regular on How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest of Your Life (ABC), and Your Family or Mine (TBS). Check her out in the Funny or Die Staff Pick, Dalai Lama.