Kitten on the Keys
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
tonight
Early show: 8:00 pm
free

"Cute, kicky, irrepressible, irresistible, licentious, lewd, dizzy, delightful -- that's Kitten on the Keys. It's been a couple of years since the Lollies' utterly go-going-gone-are-her-panties piano player set out on her own with nothing but a toy piano, an accordion, two roller skates, a whip, a ukulele, a pair of stilts, a plethora of custom-made bustles and bustiers, and a steamer trunk full of feather ticklers, colored wigs, and edible pasties. And what a wild and winsome time it's been. Even with the abundance of burlesque and bally in this town, Suzanne Ramsey, as the Kitten is named, is San Francisco's finest ambassador of bada-boom. A veritable one-woman vaudevillian show, she has proven her chops as a sexy chanteuse, sassy comedienne, and gutsy mistress of ceremonies; she has enlivened Burlesquefest in Canada, MCed Tease-O-Rama in Los Angeles, fondled Liberace's ivories in Vegas, and fired imaginations throughout Europe (particularly in France, where they just can't seem to get enough of her). Yet Ramsey still finds the time and energy to perform here at home with the Lollies and San Francisco's Famous Burlesque Troupe, and with every other local artist who tickles her peculiar funny bone. Whether it's sucking bloody brains in a zombie revue or acting as a misanthropic stage mother in a semi-autobiographical noir carnival act, Ramsey shimmies a fine line between high class and low rent, imbuing every cameo with impeccable timing, unimpeachable phrasing, and an unimaginable gutter mouth."
www.kittykeys.com