The Show
Me & Mr. Jones: My Intimate Relationship with David Bowie explores the lifelong “soul love” that Brooklyn-based performer Raquel Cion has for David Bowie’s artistry and David Jones's humanity. Cion's personal stories and the deep cuts of Bowie's diverse catalog rocket us through the inner space of this "half witch, half cabaret performer" (The New York Times): growing up as an outsider, navigating the celestial realms of love, mid-life crisis, loss, and creatively moving through cancer. The piece is directed by Cynthia Cahill, with musical direction by Karl Saint Lucy.
Show History
Me & Mr. Jones: My Intimate Relationship with David Bowie first walked the boards in early 2015 with a Bowie-inspired couture gown at NYC's legendary Judson Memorial Church. In June 2015, Me & Mr. Jones moved to The PIT Loft NYC, overselling within two days. The Slipper Room production in November garnered a 2015 New York Cabaret Award nomination for “Best Alt Cabaret Show,” with Cion being named a finalist for her stunning performance.
After Bowie’s death from cancer on January 10th, 2016, Me & Mr. Jones was invited back for a Spring residency at The Slipper Room. In September, Cion's world was shaken by her own cancer diagnosis a week before bringing the show to Provincetown's prestigious Afterglow Festival.
Me & Mr. Jones returned spring 2018 to sold out houses at the intimate supper-club, Pangea, described by the New York Times as "a bohemian oasis not unlike the fabled Max's Kansas City from days gone by." Those performances led to a fall residency at Pangea and booking in the 2019 Philly Loves Bowie Week, in January 2019. Me & Mr. Jones returned to sold out houses for the 2020 Philly Loves Bowie Week and Raquel was the featured guest performer in A Night of Stardust at Union Transfer in Philadelphia. Her January - March residency at Pangea was curtailed as NYC went into lockdown due to the COVID-19.
While in lockdown, Raquel and her band commemorated the 5th anniversary of Bowie’s leaving his body with, Stuck On My Eyes: A Bowie Song Triptych, a 15 minute video recorded and filmed entirely in the artists’ homes while in lockdown. Now on the other side of treatment and the pandemic (hopefully), she is actively discovering new depths of meaning to Bowie's work and her own mission as an artist.
Photo: Steven Menendez
“In this brilliant virtuoso performance, Raquel Cion channels Bowie for the evening and gives us all an abiding sense of how much his work meant to his old fans and still means to his generations of new admirers. Strongly recommended.”
