Sounds of the City: The Fabulous Entourage

Combining two wig-clad female singers, an Obie-winning playwright and a repertoire of quasi-showtunes about lust and loneliness, the Fabulous Entourage is the latest in a long line of theatrical downtown bands. The only difference is that they're from Brooklyn.

Kyle Jarrow (left) is one of the founders of the five-piece. He won a coveted Obie for the satirical A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant in 2004, but all five members of the band bring some theatrical experience to the group. Singer Libby Winters (second from left) is an actress (she co-starred on the '90s ABC sitcom Champs), drummer Perry Silver (middle) is an actor, and bassist-vocalist Travis Chamberlain (right) is the artistic director of Galapagos, where the band often plays. They've also brought their performance-art stylings to Coney Island, the Whitney Biennial and a cruise boat for a show with burlesque dancer Julie Atlas Muz. (Pamela Quinn, not pictured here, joined in early May.) "It's not a couple guys staring at their feet," Jarrow says. "We've had bubble machines, we've had confetti, we did a show where we lowered cupcakes from the ceiling. We've stripped onstage." And although the live show is not to be missed, the band's new album Play Nice Now is equally entrancing. In rock-critic speak, it's as if the Scissor Sisters and Hedwig got together to cover old Meat Loaf songs. In other words, it's absolutely fabulous.
Paul L. Underwood

Photo by Michael Schmelling

Styling by Desiree Burch. Costumes by Sky Switser

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