Nellie McKay “I Want to Live!” presented by LEO A Little Off Center February 12, 2012

NYC singer/songwriter/actress Nellie McKay brings her latest project, “I Want to Live!” to Louisville. The New York Times calls “I Want to Live!” the “brilliant, zany, film-noir musical biography” of convicted murderess Barbara Graham, the third woman to die in the gas chamber at San Quentin. Praising McKay’s “virtually unlimited gifts as a singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, ukulele player, mimic, satirist and comedian,” The New York Times reports “I Want to Live!” is much deeper than its surface might suggest, stating “in the most lighthearted way, the songs evoke a heartless environment of social injustice in which people who fall through the cracks are invisible to everyone else.”