Peaches Does Herself 

2010

Wade was honored to serve as choreographer and assistant director for none other than Miss Peaches—the hardest working badass in the business—for her legendary “anti-jukebox musical” Peaches Does Herself, which premiered at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin in 2010.

The stage show was no ordinary concert but an electro-rock opera that detonated twenty songs from Peaches’s back catalog into a mythic, gender-smashing origin story. A 65-year-old stripper sparked the young Peaches’s awakening; from there, the opera barreled through omnisexual fame, a doomed love affair with a “she-male,” and the heartbreak and hilarity of self-discovery.

The live performance was pure chaos and charisma: radical costumes, explicit lyrics, dancers, musicians, nudity, and Peaches herself in every role—part rock god, part cabaret witch, part queer prophet. The Berlin premiere was a bomb going off inside the conventions of music theater: equal parts queer excess, political cabaret, and pop bravado.