![]() ![]() In this playful and thoroughly winning tour through American pop history, Mr. ![]() ![]() (His longtime costume designer, who goes by the daffy name Machine Dazzle, has outdone himself here.) Mac generally performs in glitter-bedecked dresses and elaborate headgear, in kabuki-white makeup generously applied and sprinkled with sequins. To classify him as a drag queen would be far too limiting, but, yes, the lithe and statuesque Mr. Mac’s show may sound soberly academic - like a singing textbook - but if you’ve ever seen him in performance, you know there’s nothing even faintly fusty about him. Mac will perform both parts together, in a miniature (!) six-hour marathon. Next week, it’s on to the following three decades, and on Jan. (The whole will cover the life span of America: 1776 through 2016, when that epic performance will take place.) The first program, which runs through Saturday, explores the songs from the first three decades: the 1900s through the 1920s. The first two parts of this staggering undertaking, celebrating the songs from the first half of the 20th century, are being presented at New York Live Arts in association with the Under the Radar Festival. Mac - and his collaborators, and his audiences - are merely in the training stages. That’s the kind of mad feat the singular performer Taylor Mac has embarked upon in his magnum opus, “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” which will ultimately climax in an epic show to be performed for 24 straight hours.įor now, Mr. ![]()
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