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"Jackie Curtis,&amp;nbsp; a Warhol superstar and one of the high (drag) priestesses of&amp;nbsp; \u201870s glam rock, is back at La MaMa thanks to Scott Wittman, the Tony-Award-winning writer, director, and lyricist&amp;nbsp; (\u201CHairspray,\u201D \u201CCatch Me If You Can\u201D). The writer-director has created an impressionistic collage of Curtis and his work, \u201CJukebox Jackie,\u201D which runs at the downtown theater on East 4th&amp;nbsp;Street through June 10th. \u201CJackie was decades ahead of his time,\u201D says Wittman of the subversive, gender-bending musician, dramatist, and poet born John Curtis Holder, Jr.&amp;nbsp; Wittman says that his aesthetic was heavily influenced by Curtis, who, before he died of a drug overdose at the age of 38, had a similar effect on a Who\u2019s Who of pop artists including Andy Warhol, Bette Midler, David Bowie, the New York Dolls, Harvey Fierstein, Patti Smith, and Lou Reed.&amp;nbsp; Reed celebrated Curtis in \u201CWalk on the Wild Side,\u201D his ode to the \u201870s New York underground: \u201CJackie is just speeding away/Thought she was James Dean for a day/Then I guess she had to crash/Valium would have helped that bash/She said, \u2018Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side\u2026\u2019\u201D Read the full Q&amp;amp;A on Spotlight.[content:advertisement-center]&amp;nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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