In the episodes
9 mentions across all episodes - S1E7 3 · S4E10 6
- S1E7 · Rudolf Piper · 3 mentions in this episode
James asks if he was in Berlin; Rudolf doesn't remember him there. Later named among Fiorucci's shop staff
FashionSpace-age tuxedo and painted face
- S4E10 · Ann Magnuson · 6 mentions in this episode
Heard as Klaus Naomi, Klaus Sperber: Ann and Peter walked up to him across the bar at Max's; walking back to the East Village he jumped on a snow mound and sang opera under a street light, and Ann vouched for him for the vaudeville show
FashionMake-up and dyed tri-pointed hair (see Mood)
On the scene timeline
October 1978 · 77 White Street
The Mudd Club opens downtown
Steve Mass's Tribeca answer to Studio 54: art-damaged, cheap and open late. Basquiat is in the crowd, Klaus Nomi is on the stage.
15 December 1979 · Saturday Night Live, NBC
Bowie sings on Saturday Night Live with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias
Three songs, three costumes, one pink poodle. The most famous crossover between downtown performance art and network television.
1978 ·
New Wave Vaudeville
Tom Scully's vaudeville show with punk acts at Irving Plaza in late 1978; Ann directed and ran around for it, and it's where much of the Club 57 crowd converged. Klaus Nomi got in after Ann vouched for him