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Nellie McKay - Strange Days: Get Away From Me Tour

Friday, May 30, 2025

8:00PM

$29.5 to $45

Type: Concerts

Celebrating the release of Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos

Nellie McKay has announced Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos, an 18-track collection of rare recordings that led to McKay’s groundbreaking debut album, Get Away From Me (2004). Gee Whiz will be available May 9, 2025 on streaming, CD, and as a 2-LP set on Omnivore Recordings.

Nellie has won a Theatre World Award for her portrayal of Polly Peachum on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera, performed onscreen in the films PS I Love You and Downtown Express, and her music was used in Rumor Has ItMonster-in-LawPS I Love YouGaslandLast Holiday and Private Life.

McKay co-created and starred in the award-winning off-Broadway hit Old Hats and has written three acclaimed musical biographies. Her latest lady bio is The Big Molinsky – Considering Joan Rivers (“unpredictable, thrilling…sardonic wit…” – The New York Times).

Nellie’s music has been heard on Mad MenBoardwalk EmpireWeedsGrey’s AnatomyNCISNurse Jackie, and SMILF, and she has appeared on TV shows including The Late Show with David Letterman, ConanFerguson, and The View. She has made numerous radio appearances on NPR’s Mountain StageA Prairie Home CompanioneTown, and Marion McPartland’s Piano Jazz. The Chase Brock Experience produced a ballet of her third album, Obligatory Villagers, and she contributed the forward to the 20th anniversary edition of The Sexual Politics of Meat. Her writing has also appeared in The Onion, Interview and The New York Times Book Review.

A recipient of PETA’s Humanitarian Award and the Humane Society’s Doris Day Music Award in recognition of her dedication to animal rights, Nellie is an annoyingly vocal advocate for feminism, civil rights and other deeply felt progressive ideals. She is currently part of the campaign to get horse-drawn carriages off the streets of New York City. She would like to be friends with Russia, the country with the most nuclear weapons in the world. We must all be very kind to one another.

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