In the titular song from her ArtPop album, Lady Gaga said: “Come to me in all your glamour and cruelty.” Now, over five years later, the Bushwick-based Glitter Unicorn Sparkle Spectacular is back with their first narrative show with “ArtPop Reborn,” a complete tribute to the seminal 2013 Lady Gaga album.
ArtPop Reborn is the brainchild of local drag queens Pixel Witch, Madame Vivien V, and their cast of queer performers and artists. It notes their third collaboration with the Glitter Unicorn Sparkle Spectacular cast since their debut at the Electric Forest Festival in Michigan in May of 2018. Before all that, Glitter Unicorn Sparkle Spectacular began as a drag brunch run by Pixel and Vivien at House of Yes.
“We had this show called ‘Let’s Have a Kiki’ Drag Brunch [after the Scissor Sisters song ‘Let’s Have a Kiki’]. We’d start the show with the song and invite people to be gossipy and fun and it got wild; people had cattle prods and were doing the worm down the aisle. People got naked,” Pixel said.
