Suzie with a Z: Suzie Toot One Woman Show
About This Event
At City Winery NYC, Suzie Kerstgens — a German singer and lyricist best known as the lead vocalist and co‑founder of pop band Klee — appears alongside Benjamin Shaevitz, performing as drag artist Suzie Toot. The bill pairs Kerstgens' pop-song background with Shaevitz's theatrical drag work, noted for his appearance on the seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
About Suzie with a Z: Suzie Toot One Woman Show
Now playing at City Winery NYC, “Suzie with a Z: Suzie Toot One Woman Show” brings together Suzie Kerstgens, the German singer and lyricist known for co-founding the pop band Klee, and Benjamin Shaevitz in drag as Suzie Toot. The evening moves between rock/pop songcraft and theatrical drag performance, using persona and pop structure to test how identity can be staged and revised in real time. If this marks the project’s first New York run, it reads as a small cultural import: European indie-pop history reframed through a downtown cabaret lens. The most telling detail is the bill itself, which treats collaboration as the subject rather than the garnish.
About the Artists
Suzie
Suzie is a German singer and lyricist whose career grew out of pop-rock songwriting, including her work as the lead voice and a founding member of the band Klee. In New York City, she appears at City Winery NYC on a shared bill with Benjamin Shaevitz, who performs in drag as Suzie Toot, folding theatrical performance into her song-based set.
Suzie Toot
Suzie Toot is the drag persona of performer Benjamin Shaevitz, known to many audiences from a recent season of *RuPaul’s Drag Race*. In New York City, Toot appears at City Winery NYC in “Suzie with a Z: Suzie Toot One Woman Show,” sharing the bill with German singer and lyricist Suzie Kerstgens of the pop band Klee.