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Instead of just shocking people, makes the audience feel like they are in on it-that she and the audience are on this fucked-up road trip together, drinking in the car, singing along with dirty songs, and feeling free and alive.” “Bridget does things that should make people feel uneasy,” he says, “yet they are thrilled, elated and empowered. He says he knew he had encountered a rare force. Everett when both were regulars in Automatic Vaudeville at Ars Nova, a musical comedy venue. I was like, ‘O.K., I’m just going to keep singing.’ It was only funny because it didn’t break.”

“I said, ‘Are you sure they want me? Can you double-check, because that sounds like an HR nightmare.’ I did some party in some very wealthy person’s home, and you know I like to move around-I almost knocked over what I think was a Ming vase, and I remember the blood draining out of everyone’s faces. “Murray Hill and I did a Christmas party for corporate people,” she says. She also takes work entertaining private parties. She spent a decade waitressing at Ruby Foo’s in Times Square and still serves tables from time-to-time, though not a soul knows where. EVERETT CAME to New York from Arizona, where she’d attended the state university on a choral scholarship. Go home and write it.’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, I don’t really feel like a writer.’ But when a Beastie Boy is telling you you have a good idea, you listen.” Everett, “and I told Adam this idea for a song: ‘You got them little nippy titties, put ‘em in the air.’ He said, ‘That sounds like a hit. “After a game one day we were going for egg sandwiches,” said Ms. Horovitz, rapper Neal Medlyn (also known as Champagne Jerry) and well-known New York comedian and burlesque-scene celebrity Murray Hill.

Five years ago she began playing softball in McCarren Park with “Team Pressure,” a squad whose members include Mr. Everett didn’t always exhibit the confidence she does today. At Joe’s Pub, the subversive 42-year-old kissed a 17-year-old girl and sat on a man’s face, among other highlights. “I want people to feel like they’ve made a friend.” A very close friend: when she’s onstage, anyone in the audience is at risk of being used as a prop. “I think it’s important to share all sides, without making it a clichéd ‘one-woman show.’ I want it to be like a party, but not like you got trapped in the corner with the drunk party girl,” she said. Besides belting out raunchy “club bangers,” she also soberly tells stories about her dead father and sister, her mother’s failed Broadway dreams, and growing up as a tomboy choir girl in a family of six in Manhattan, Kansas. “It can’t just be tits and dick for an hour,” she said. Everett’s voice has a hint of the Midwest, and sounds like a phone sex operator crossed with the narrator of a children’s novel. Her daytime alter ego meets me in a modest black maxi dress and flip-flops, dripping sweat. I meet her for iced coffee and turkey sandwiches on a humid afternoon the day after a raucous, sold-out show with her band, the Tender Moments. It also includes more introspective, melodious material (“Why Don’t You Kiss Me?”) and uses more ambitious arrangements, with backup singers and a band. Co-written by Tony-winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman as well as Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz and Matt Ray, Rock Bottom includes songs like “I’m in Love With a Married Man,” which pays reverence to Chris Martin, and “Let Me Live,” an ode, Ms. Everett to create Rock Bottom,a show that began a five-week run at the Public Theater September 9. Last year, with the financial assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts, Joe’s Pub commissioned cult alt-cabaret singer Ms. Suddenly she tears off the bottom half of her costume to reveal a dildo hanging from her backside. Dressed in a custom-made, boob-accentuating, bodysuit by Larry Krone’s House of Larréon, she wipes off beads of sweat with a towel while swigging from a brown-bagged bottle of chardonnay. “Does this dick make my ass look big?” Bridget Everett roars as she sashays toward the stage at Joe’s Pub.
