Jade Pearl Baker & The Pearls: DRAG. GLAM. BERLIN.

In the organizer's words:

Jade Pearl Baker, whose drag career began at the BKA, is the main character in this queer musical revue. Dancing and singing, she is supported by three brilliant drags, the "Pearls".

This BKA production is written and directed by Johannes Kram, who has already staged the successful production "Operetta for two gay tenors", which he co-wrote with composer Florian Ludewig, at the BKA.

The 16 Berlin songs from different eras and genres are reinterpreted in a surprising way in a large overall musical arc of partly tender, partly lush big band show arrangements. One third are well-known Berlin hits (including those by Hildegard Knef, Peter Fox or from the musical "Linie 1"); the second third are lesser-known - some of them almost forgotten - Berlin titles that have been rediscovered and spiced up. Another third of the show consists of new Berlin songs that Florian Ludewig and Johannes Kram have written especially for this revue.

All the songs are not only brought together by the Big.Band sound, but also by a thematic maxim. Johannes Kram: "We didn't want to make another music revue that illuminates Berlin primarily from a historical perspective, but our unifying motto is "Berlin is now!" And that's why we chose the new and old titles according to whether they describe a Berlin feeling that we experience in the old songs today, even if it comes from a different time."

Written and directed by Johannes Kram

With Jade Pearl Baker & The Pearls, Yassin Glöckner, Benedikt Peters and Christopher Tim Schmidt

Choreography Michael Heller and Christopher Bolam

Arrangements & music production Martin Rosengarten

Fashion Miranda Konstantinidou
Stage Sven Ihlenfeld

With new songs by Florian Ludewig and Johannes Kram
Musical direction Benedikt Eichhorn and Alice Köfer

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