I went to Sabel Scities’ show at Cherry’s on June 8, when, a bundle of boundless energy, she treated us to many, many songs, with dance, including much country, Cher, and songs from musicals.
Sabel celebrated love with anthems Ke$ha’s “Your Love Is My Drug (what you got, boy, is hard to find)” and Pink’s “Slut Like You (I’m not a slut I just love love),” and reveled in the Kinsey Sicks’ parody of “I Will Follow Him,” “I Will Swallow Him,” full of suggestions, some of them twisted, about safe sex. Sabel gave us a sing-along of “Purple Rain,” an “Orange Colored Sky” full of enthusiasm, Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet,” an oddball “They All Laughed,” and Gloria Gaynor’s version of “I Am What I Am.” Sabel’s Cher medley consisted of “Half-Breed,” “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,” and “Dark Lady.” She took us on a wild trip with “White Rabbit” and “What If God Smoked Cannabis.”
Among the highlights for me were when Sabel smoothly sang “Walking in Memphis” and, in duet with Dibble, “(I guess I’m) Alright.”
Sabel probed hypocrisy in “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and, twirling up a storm, “I Just Wanna (Fucking) Dance.” She was still going strong, as the show wound down, with “Nine to Five,” “Heart of Glass” and, complete with cartwheels, “What’s Up (What’s Going On).”
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