

Is that just naturally your personality? Is it hard to balance the two extremes?īERNHARD: It depends on the situation. It’s always a work in progress.īLADE: Are you always listening for songs you’d like to cover or do you keep a list or what?īERNHARD: Kind of a little bit of both because a lot of times I’ll think my set list is all signed, sealed and delivered and then Mitch Caplan, who’s my musical director, we’ve been collaborating for years, he always laughs because literally a day before I’ll be doing a new show, I’ll find a completely different opening song or a totally different closing song because sometimes the spirit just moves me and then I’m trying to find the absolute right thing that really works so I’m always open to something new even if it’s just an hour before the show.īLADE: You seem really jaded in your standup at times but yet in interviews you sometimes seem rather joyous and upbeat.

I put a new show together every year at Joe’s Pub so I always have a new title, but essentially I’m always writing new material because of doing my (Sirius XM radio) show “Sandyland” every day, I’m constantly curating new material so it’s nice to keep things really fresh and there’ll be some of that and some newer stuff too.
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All the songs will be different and there’ll be a lot of material I didn’t do at City Winery plus a few little gay Pride surprises.īLADE: This is your show “Sandemonium,” right?īERNHARD: Well, that’s just a title, you know. I’ll be doing a lot of different material than I did at the City Winery. in a while and now I’m excited to come back again. It was packed and the audience was terrific. SANDRA BERNHARD: Exactly a week ago, actually.īERNHARD: I was at the City Winery, a new venue and it was fantastic. Her comments have been slightly edited for length. She spoke to the Blade by phone May 18 from her home in New York City.

She returns to Washington next week with a performance presented by the Washington Blade at Shakespeare Theatre Company. “Are you gender neutral? Come face to face with a white supremacist? Swam through a flood? Run from a fire? Observed a chunk of the polar ice cap floating away? …,” the promos for her show “Sandemonium” read.
