Matching Outfits on La Cienega, Megan Mullally Brings Nancy And Beth Back to Largo
Mullally and Stephanie Hunt’s punk vaudeville band plays Largo at the Coronet on October 15, with Nick Offerman as special guest.
Megan Mullally is taking her band back to the little theater on La Cienega. Largo at the Coronet has booked Megan Mullally and her band, Nancy And Beth, for Thursday, October 15, and the listing names Nick Offerman as special guest.
The night keeps Largo’s usual hours. Will call opens at 6 p.m., doors at 7 and the show at 8, and tickets are $40. Velvet also covered Before the Big Rooms, Brett Goldstein Tests a New Hour at Largo.
Nancy And Beth is Mullally’s act with Stephanie Hunt, and it is hard to file under any one genre. The pair have described their live shows as “punk vaudeville,” Rolling Stone reported, with a songbook that has run from George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” to Gucci Mane’s “I Don’t Love Her.” The magazine described a show backed by a five-piece band, with precise choreography, matching outfits and sly humor sprinkled throughout. Mullally and Hunt first met in 2011, and their self-titled debut album came out in 2017.
When Playbill announced a Café Carlyle run for the band, it passed along a description of the act as a “combination of psychic twinship, childlike enthusiasm, rigorous preparation of songs, and zero preparation of what happens in between.” In its account, the two singers were joined by Datri Bean on keyboards and vocals, Joe Berardi on drums, Petra Haden on strings and vocals, Roy Williams on guitar and vocals and Andrew Pressman on bass and vocals. Mullally is best known as Karen on Will & Grace, the role that won her an Emmy, and Hunt’s screen credits include Friday Night Lights.
Largo is familiar ground. The band’s 2019 spring tour booked two nights there, April 19 and 20, alongside dates at Lincoln Center, the Café Carlyle and the Sydney Opera House. Announcing that tour, Mullally made audiences an ornate promise. “No matter what your state of mind, please join the band for an improvement of it, and a carefully, even scientifically, calibrated jostling of your tender emotions,” she told Rolling Stone.
Offerman is no stranger to the band’s music. Rolling Stone noted that new Nancy And Beth music turned up in the audiobook of The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, the New York Times bestseller Mullally wrote with Offerman.
