A funny thing happened to Bridget Everett as she quietly, demurely, respectfully hewed her own path over the broken remnants of naysayers. Society — drawn in by a then-still-meaningful prestige television streamer expansion — learned all too well that in addition to being the toast of the NYC cabaret scene, a brassy and bawdy chanteuse who could open hearts and close down bars, and a stand-up comedienne who found the perfect midpoint between Karen Finley and Bette Midler, Bridget Everett is an incredible actress and magnetic on-screen presence with her triumphant show Somebody Somewhere. So imagine the sheer joy and opportunity awaiting newcomers to the cult of Everett as she brings her band, The Tender Moments, to freak out the Mother Church with a performance that will knock you flat and change your life; if she performs “Get Over You,” I guarantee it will. Coming immediately from a two-scene wonder of a turn in the latest Knives Out film Wake Up Dead Man, Everett is ready to show Nashville what it’s been missing. Previous tears through the city’s Zanies scratched a lot of itches, but unless you’ve seen her peerless 2015 special Gynecological Wonder, you have no idea the emotional journeys that a Bridget Everett show will take you on. Remedy that, Nashville.
8 p.m. at the Ryman
116 Rep. John Lewis Way N.
