David Scarbie Mitchell: Lip-Schtick: One Boy’s Journey to Fabulous and Back!

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David Scarbie Mitchell

Lip-Schtick: One Boy’s Journey to Fabulous and Back!

UU Meeting House, Provincetown, MA, July 13, 2017

Reviewed by Bart Greenberg for Cabaret Scenes

David Scarbie Mitchell

Lip-Schtick is a Provincetown tradition now in its 11th year, spreading cheer to both vacationers and locals. David Scarbie Mitchell describes himself as a “fabulous clown” and is a regular sight around town on his bicycle in fabulous drag of his own design, self-promoting his show.

On stage, he offers up a whirlwind of entertainment, changing costumes in full view while offering a non-stop stream of comedy, singing, and lip-synching. Beginning the show looking like Dolly Levi as a Las Vegas showgirl, we also receive visits from Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine and Edith Ann, Carol Burnett and alter ego Eunice, and Julia Sugarbaker. Paired with these ladies are songs, some belted by Mitchell and some by his female subjects, all delivered with energy and enthusiasm.
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Among the songs are David Friedman’s “My Simple Christmas Wish,” the Gershwins’ “The Lorelei,” “I Will Survive” and, perhaps inevitably in such a show, “I Am What I Am” and “Sweet Transvestite.” There’s also the lesser-known, very funny “All the Good Men Are Gay” (Ron Abel).
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The audience also learns a great deal about Mitchell, who came from a supportive, if at times bemused, family, his husband who assists in the show, and his off-season job as a tractor driver (no, he’s serious).
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There’s also a great deal of interaction with the audience, and no one is safe, from the denim-covered lesbian to the gay couple (your faithful reporter and his husband), to the straight hunk and his pretty girlfriend. None of the barbs is serious or seriously mean, just part of the hilarity of the evening.

The show continues all summer and is a definite wise addition to any vacation schedule.
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Bart Greenberg

Bart Greenberg first discovered cabaret a few weeks after arriving in New York City by seeing Julie Wilson and William Roy performing Stephen Sondheim and Cole Porter outdoors at Rockefeller Center. It was instant love for both Ms. Wilson and the art form. Some years later, he was given the opportunity to create his own series of cabaret shows while working at Tower Records. "Any Wednesday" was born, a weekly half-hour performance by a singer promoting a new CD release. Ann Hampton Callaway launched the series. When Tower shut down, Bart was lucky to move the program across the street to Barnes & Nobel, where it thrived under the generous support of the company. The series received both The MAC Board of Directors Award and The Bistro Award. Some of the performers who took part in "Any Wednesday" include Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock, Tony Desare, Andrea Marcovicci, Carole Bufford, the Karens, Akers, Mason and Oberlin, and Julie Wilson. Privately, Greenberg is happily married to writer/photographer Mark Wallis, who as a performance artist in his native England gathered a major following as "I Am Cereal Killer."