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Rufus Wainwright ended his sold-out performance at London's Hammersmith Apollo last night with a bizarre duet with a large foam sandwich. This is one of those stories we couldn't make up if we tried.
The sandwich had lips at one end (of course it did) in order to make the sandwich appear as if it was joining in with 'Gay Messiah', essentially dueting with Wainwright.
The singer left the stage for his encore, which caused his band - previously dressed in black - to reappear dressed as wizards, slave boys and even a Cupid. In order to bring Wainwright back to the stage, they all participated in a "bacchanalian dance party."
Wainwright appeared, wearing a blonde wig and an above knee-length toga, in order to be the Greek god Apollo, and danced his way back to the stage - gathering members of the audience to join him as he did so, and singing 'Bitter Tears'.
He then performed 'Gay Messiah' while on stage with rubber bunches of grapes and cocktail glasses and, of course, the rubber foam sandwich.
Rufus Wainwright, down on one knee to serenade a giant sandwich.
After a while, he returned to performing in the crowd instead of on stage, saying, "Critics love this part of show."
It was an end to a two hour set, which had also included a slam on Liza Minelli, who famously criticised Wainwright's 2006 performance of a Judy Garland set.
He introduced his cover of Garland song 'The Man That Got Away' as 'The Bitch That Got Away', dedicating it to Minelli and saying, "I used to introduce this as 'The Bitch That Got Away'. The ball's in your court, Liza," reports NME.
Watch the duet of 'Gay Messiah' below:
Rufus isn't the first star to incorporate food into a performance - check out some more 'food-porn' below...
