Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman started performing as the cabaret duo Kiki & Herb in San Francisco in 1992, their tipsy, scorched-earth revelry providing a demented catharsis for the AIDS years. The act went all the way to Carnegie Hall and Broadway before disbanding, in 2007. News of a reunion show, “Seeking Asylum!” (April 21-May 22), caused such a commotion that the Joe’s Pub Web site crashed the day tickets went on sale. As the septuagenarian Kiki would say, “If I could love, I would love you all.”
American Psycho
Benjamin Walker plays the murderous financier Patrick Bateman, in Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel. Rupert Goold directs.
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