Linda Gerard (December 24, 1938 - March 21, 2014) was a singer, stage
actress and cabaret artist based in Palm Springs, California.
Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, she had performed on and off
Broadway in theater productions, cabaret acts and as a singer across
the Eastern seaboard and later in California. Gerard was a
self-identified OWLâ€"an older, wiser lesbian.Gerard was a standby for
Barbra Streisand and Mimi Hines in the original 1960s runs of the
musical Funny Girl, taking the stage as Fanny Brice many times. In the
sixties and seventies, she developed an original repertoire of comedy
and song which she performed at a variety of venues on the East
coast.In 1975, she moved from New York City to Provincetown,
Massachusetts, where she became the "most talked about cabaret singer
in Ptown." She performed at and became co-owner of the Pied Piper.
According to the book Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape,
"During the 1970s, Provincetown's Pied Piper was the foremost lesbian
bar on the eastern seaboard, if not in the whole United States. During
the summer season, lines snaked around the block, women bouncers
guarded the entrance, and inside, women who had come from such faraway
places as Montreal and Kansas City flirted, drank, danced." Gerard
became co-owner of the Pied Piper when she helped to rebuild the bar
after it burnt down on New Year's Eve of 1978. She and her business
partner sold the bar in 1987.Linda Gerard moved to California, where
she opened The Rose Tattoo in 1988, which she envisioned as "a real
New York cabaret" in West Hollywood. She performed at The Rose Tattoo
through much of the nineties.
actress and cabaret artist based in Palm Springs, California.
Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, she had performed on and off
Broadway in theater productions, cabaret acts and as a singer across
the Eastern seaboard and later in California. Gerard was a
self-identified OWLâ€"an older, wiser lesbian.Gerard was a standby for
Barbra Streisand and Mimi Hines in the original 1960s runs of the
musical Funny Girl, taking the stage as Fanny Brice many times. In the
sixties and seventies, she developed an original repertoire of comedy
and song which she performed at a variety of venues on the East
coast.In 1975, she moved from New York City to Provincetown,
Massachusetts, where she became the "most talked about cabaret singer
in Ptown." She performed at and became co-owner of the Pied Piper.
According to the book Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape,
"During the 1970s, Provincetown's Pied Piper was the foremost lesbian
bar on the eastern seaboard, if not in the whole United States. During
the summer season, lines snaked around the block, women bouncers
guarded the entrance, and inside, women who had come from such faraway
places as Montreal and Kansas City flirted, drank, danced." Gerard
became co-owner of the Pied Piper when she helped to rebuild the bar
after it burnt down on New Year's Eve of 1978. She and her business
partner sold the bar in 1987.Linda Gerard moved to California, where
she opened The Rose Tattoo in 1988, which she envisioned as "a real
New York cabaret" in West Hollywood. She performed at The Rose Tattoo
through much of the nineties.
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