Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 8pm
The Ice Palace- Cherry Grove, Fire Island
The Ice Palace presents
Ute Lemper and Band in Rendezvous with Marlene
“Ute tells us the story and sings the songs, but she doesn’t just imitate … she channels a cultural icon.” London Living Large
Doors at 6pm
General Admission- $80
Assigned Seating- $100
Assigned Seating- $120
UTE LEMPER is gracing the Fire Island with her critically acclaimed show “Rendezvous with Marlene” Saturday August 24th. Ute honors the teutonic Marlene with a show based on the true story a phone call Ute received by the film legend 35 years ago in France. “Rendezvous with Marlene,” which debuted in London in 2019, includes some of Marlene’s most beautiful songs and captivating secrets of her life – from her illicit love affairs to her groundbreaking political activism – shared during the three hour-plus call. The stage production embarked on an international tour in 2021; the album is currently available in all formats. In “Rendezvous with Marlene,” Lemper channels her story in a time warp, remembering Marlene as a woman of the future, her courage, bravery, her empowerment as a woman, her legend as an actress, singer, fashion icon, her free-spirited mind as a bisexual androgynous hedonist and her lifelong fight against autocrats and nationalists. After receiving the French Molière Award for her performance in Cabaret in Paris, Ute had sent a postcard to Marlene, who had lived at 12 Avenue de Montaigne since 1979, essentially apologizing for all the media attention comparing her to Dietrich. Ute was just at the beginning of her career in theatre and music, whereas Marlene looked back on a long, fulfilled life of movies, music, incredible collaborations, love stories and stardom. Ute considers it a secret gift to have heard Marlene talk about her life, her work and style, her love for the poet Rilke, her complicated relationship with Germany, and her sorrow and her fascinations. Six days before Ute’s opening night in the part of Lola in the 1992 Blue Angel production in Berlin – the role that had made Marlene a star in 1928 – Marlene Dietrich passed away in Paris.
“The show is an incredible journey through Marlene’s life.” – BroadwayWorld
“one of the most exciting and important pieces of performing arts to come out of the year 2020.”
“Lemper and Daniel Nardicio would do well to slap this onto DVD discs and sell them or get it sold to a streaming platform like Broadway HD so that audiences around the world can luxuriate in repeated viewings of their scrupulous cinematic storytelling. ” “My heart was racing while I watched the RENDEZVOUS WITH MARLENE. I was only five minutes into the two-hour program and already I knew that I was in for one of the great rides of entertainment. I was not mistaken.”- Broadway World
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