#70s new york

Described in the flyer to the left as “A Religious Entertainment,” the show [Femme Fatale: The Three Faces of Gloria] was created by Jackie Curtis, a drag artist who first performed in Tom Eyen’s “Miss Nefertiti Regrets” at La MaMa in 1965. The show combined familiar religious and movie scenes with “bizarre contemporary situations,” according to the rave review published in the newspaper Show Business by Frank Lee Wilde.

A nice find in the archives of La MaMa E.T.C., an experimental theater company in New York and CLIR Hidden Collections recipient—a show featuring Patti Smith prior to her higher publicity rock n’ roll days. 

For the full, high resolution poster, check out their blog post.