Unpack That Up To The Beat: A Review Of Nadya Ginsburg's Regal TRAUMA QUEEN
What Nadya says when you ask, “What's your sign?” (All images by Matthew Rettenmund) Nadya Ginsburg, woman of a thousand voices (chiefly Madonna, Cher and Winona Ryder), returned to NYC for a rare one-off performance, immersing her rapt audience at the Red Eye on W.
41st in the confessions of a Trauma Queen. Nadya & friends Taking the stage as Cher — imagine Cher doing an impersonation of Cher — she skillfully skewered some of the objectively strange aspects of the beloved icon without skewering the icon herself.
For example, she pointed out that Cher's been around so long her face looks normal to us, something that those of us alive when Cher first began tinkering with it thought we'd never live to see.
Even more judiciously, she sent up her idol Madonna, impersonating the Queen of Pop reading a tiresome life lesson and hilariously threatening to shut this shit down!
