Rufus Wainwright is Bringing a Lulu of a Show to the Paramount

The album is called All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, and on tour it’s just Rufus Wainwright, his piano, and his moody album for the first half of the show. “In the second half,” he told Philly.com at the outset of his 2010 tour, “we come out and sing the old favorites and have a good time.”

He’ll be at the Paramount on August 25, holding everyone spellbound with that burnt-caramel baritone and songs like “Zebulon,” above, written while his mother was sick. (Kate McGarrigle died in January of this year, of cancer.) He’s also adapted three Shakespeare sonnets (10, 20, and 43). I don’t need to tell Rufus fans that it will be a memorable performance–there’s more than a little Judy (or Lulu) in Wainwright. The show will go on.