Name: Benji & Rita
Start: 2019-07-26T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-07-26T22:00:00-04:00
Location: DROM

Benji & Rita

T﻿he best and only Stand up Comedy and Pole Dancing show. 5 of the best comics and 5 of the best pole dancers alternate the stage to an awesome musical theme. Every night is a different cast. They rotate both around the pole and in and out of the line up. If you don't see shows like this, why are you even paying NYC rents?

Schtick A Pole In It

DROM

Brazilian music has a keen ability to tie the magical and surreal with the grounded and historical. New York-based composer Benji Kaplan and Brazilian singer and songwriter Rita Figueiredo pick up that vibrating, multicolored thread and weave it into fantastical new portraits of Brazil and New York on Benji &amp; Rita, their newly released (May 10) album-length debut as a duo. Cinematic and refined, Benji &amp; Rita channels the scents and sounds, the flora and fauna of the couple’s homelands, drawing on everything from samba and baião, to waltzes and pop catchiness, much as Brazilian popular composers have over the last five decades. “We were going forward and backward, back to the origin,” explains Benji, “so we could share those worlds, the raw version of ourselves and then some fantasy, paintings, and stories. The arrangements reflect that, and some are simple, while some are very complex. We crafted the album to merge those two worlds and give people the fuller picture.” “Some lyrics I wrote after Benji created the arrangement,” Rita says. “I could see images because when you have just a simple melody, you have more freedom to create things. With an arrangement, though, you see landscapes and stories in more detail. Both ways, I felt the narrative.” And that narrative, of Amazonian rivers and crazy megalopolises, of sparkling love and quiet grief, shines through the duo’s exquisite songs. www.benjiandrita.com

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