April 14, 2014

Cover charge: $5

Cover Charge Additional $3 At Door

Two alcoholic drink OR $20 food & beverage minimum

*Tickets on the day of performance after 2:00pm are only available by calling 646.476.3551.

Karl Saint Lucy, Brooklyn-based composer and singer-songwriter, will present his solo debut, Karl Saint Lucy: Easier Said Than Done, on April 14th at 54 Below. Songs young and old will be sung, all in Saint Lucy’s eclectic high-art-meets-campy-trash idiom.

Born in St. Louis and raised all over the heartland of the United States, Karl Saint Lucy is a songwriter whose influences are as varied as his experiences. He was conceived the moment Joni Mitchell shared “Free Man in Paris” with David Geffen, and he lost his innocence the moment Rufus Wainwright shared “Dinner at Eight” with his father, Loudon.

Saint Lucy found his way into songwriting by way of musical theatre; he studied musical theatre composition with Michael John LaChiusa, William Finn, Polly Pen, and other great New York theatre composers through the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch.

What comes out in the work of Karl Saint Lucy is a synthesis of people and places that reveals not only love-hate relationships with genre, approach, and his country of origin; but also a fierce determination to redeem those relationships to better inform the present. He also really loves torch songs.