TIGER LILLIES: Seattle’s Cabaret Festival kicks off tonight with the beautifully hellish Tiger Lillies. The UK trio uses accordion, ukulele, upright bass, saw, theremin, the tiniest adult drum set we’ve ever seen, and leader Martyn Jacques’ beautifully tortured falsetto to tell tales of doomed prostitutes, pressganged sailors, and the terrifically deformed. Tonight, they’re focusing on songs from Shockheaded Peter, the musical adaptation of the German fable book (Hint: the children don’t fare well), and The Gorey End, their collaboration with dark cartoonist Edward Gorey that began with some of his unpublished stories and ended with his death. We can’t wait. more ›