“2025: Déjà Eww!”
Byron Nilsson and Malcolm Kogut Anticipate a Challenging Year in a New Year’s Eve Cabaret Show at Albany’s Steamer No. 10 Theatre.
New Year’s Eve is the day to enthusiastically welcome the year to come. Unless the year to come is 2025. You did your best to avert the disaster ahead, but it wasn’t good enough. We need to figure out an effective way to deal with it. Until then, you’re invited to share in a program of comic and satirical songs that look at the political scene as well as many of life’s other challenges. Your tour guides are Byron Nilsson and Malcolm Kogut, who, with this, their eighth New Year’s Eve show at Steamer No. 10 Theatre, have become old hands at this killing-off-the-old-year stuff.
In recognition of the national nightmare that begins in a mere three weeks, Byron and Malcolm will salute the tyrants and bullies and general idiots who’ll be wreaking havoc upon us, with songs like Ogen Nash’s “Four Prominent Bastards,” the prescient 1937 character study “Capitalistic Boss,” and, of course, Tom Lehrer’s anthemic “We Will All Go Together When We Go.” The show costs a mere $25 ($20 if you’re old like us), so spend it while those Social Security checks are still arriving. We’ll also be singing old favorites by Flanders & Swann, Randy Newman, and others.
The show begins at 7 PM and therefore ends early enough to send you back out into the cold to find a more satisfying party to finish the night with.
Nilsson (who sings) and Kogut (who puts up with it from the keyboard) have been working together for 35 years, performing at places like Caffè Lena, the Van Dyck, Mohonk Mountain House, the Otesaga Hotel, and other places where the swells hang out.
Ring in the new year by mocking the old one with “2025: Déjà Eww!” at 7 PM Tuesday, December 31 at Steamer No. 10 Theatre. Call 518-438-5503 to reserve tickets, or go to www.steamer10theatre.org.