Singer, actor, comedian and now nightclub owner Lea DeLaria says she always knew what she wanted to do from the time she first sang with her father onstage at the age of nine. But she didn’t realize how many different options there would be to do it.

Luckily for those of us on the Cape, one of those options is owning The Club in Provincetown, where DeLaria can periodically deliver her distinctive jazz vocals. DeLaria and business partner Frank Christopher bought the former Pied Bar at 139A Commercial St. and gave it a full makeover before opening earlier this summer.

Over the years, DeLaria has gone from a hard-working, circuit-traveling, foul-mouthed comic who also happened to have Broadway chops and an incredible singing voice, to an internationally known TV star. Her role as Big Boo in “Orange Is the New Black” has propelled her to new heights. “I’m a Jonas brother,” DeLaria says, sitting in the packed upstairs office of The Club. “Girls scream when they see me.”

She talks about her celebrity with the same level of over-the-top emphasis that she brings to most subjects. And yet she reacts to everyone she meets in person — whether it’s an old friend or a gushing fan — with full attention and a willingness to have a real interaction. She may joke about being famous, but when she talks face-to-face, there is no I’m-a-star-and-you’re-not BS.

Before sitting down for the interview, DeLaria works the door at The Club, chatting people up, getting menus, seating them. One couple tells her a short personal story, and she chats with them, shaking hands, leaning in for a selfie. When she mentions to another group, while seating them, that this is her club, they laugh and tell her that they know who she is. Then, when a friend out on the deck remarks on how good she looks, she responds that she should look good. “The doctors told me I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes on the same day,” DeLaria says. “I’m not allowed to eat anything but pussy.”

Her friends roar, and an attractive blond sitting at the next table with her husband calls out, “I’m in!” She and a grinning DeLaria high-five, and the husband tries to look as if he was cool with it.

Life can be a series of one-liners when DeLaria is in public, and only slightly less so in private. For now, in addition to running The Club and performing there, she is working on a new TV show, “Reprisal,” which starts streaming on Hulu on Dec. 6. She plays Queenie, a rough-tough gal who runs a burlesque club called Bang-a-Rang for a gang of thugs who are targeted by a woman they left for dead.

“Onstage, I’m a burlesque performer,” she says of her role in “Reprisal.” “Offstage, I’m a big dyke.” Sounds like art imitating life. One perk of doing the show is that she gets to drive some classic muscle cars, like a ’64 ½ Mustang and a ’57 Bel Air.

DeLaria has been on TV since the ’90s. She quips that she was on every sitcom back then, from “Matlock” to “Friends.” “I’d always play the lesbian inappropriately hitting on straight women,” she says. Plus she was on the soap “One Life to Live” for several years in the recurring twin roles of Madame Delphina and Professor Delbert Fina.

“Then came ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ It completely changed my life,” she says. “I have two million followers online. And 210 million people watch ‘Orange’ around the world.”

This year, however, most of her energy has been taken up getting The Club up and running. Because of the government shutdown last winter, her loan was delayed, which pushed back the construction schedule and opening day.

“We have been playing catch-up,” she says. “We were supposed to open Memorial Day but didn’t.” Because of the financial delay, she says, they lost their contractors and even staff. “Frank and I rolled up our sleeves. We hung the lights, did the sound. I painted that fucking deck,” she says. Though she acknowledges that a delay in opening is a First World problem, she adds, “Like, I need another reason to hate Donald Trump!”

DeLaria segues into the subject of politics, briefly. “I use my position to get my political viewpoint out, to change things for the people in our community,” she says. “It doesn’t just take a village, it takes all of us. Ellen [DeGeneres] uses her gentle humor to make changes. I use my loudmouth ways.”

Visitors to the club will get to sample her ways in person. Those who only know DeLaria for her comedy or TV gigs will be surprised by her mastery of jazz vocals. And those who may only know her from her jazz CDs may be startled by the unfiltered banter between songs.

“People who know me will recognize the show,” she says. “It has songs from all the years I’ve been performing, and me being me.” One caveat: “I wanted to do the whack-a-butt-plug bit, but it just doesn’t work in this room.”

She performs a wealth of material from the Great American Songbook, Broadway shows and pop music transmogrified into something smokier and moodier. DeLaria’s speaking voice is deep with a touch of gravel, but while singing, she easily shoots up the scale into a higher range. Her five records as a vocalist span from “Play It Cool” to her most recent, “House of David,” which gives a dozen David Bowie songs a jazz makeover. “Let’s Dance” gets the full jazz treatment in both phrasing and rhythm. “Modern Love” becomes jazz-infused gospel. Janis Siegel of Manhattan Transfer joins DeLaria for a duet on “Suffragette City.” “Major Tom” has a slowed-down intro and dreamy, cascading music with stretched-out notes intermixed with sped-up jazz riffs. The other songs get their own special approach. But that’s true of everything DeLaria sings.

Backing her up at The Club is a three-piece combo, with musical director Janette Mason on keyboards, Jennifer Vincent on standup bass and Karina Colis on drums. Mason arranged DeLaria’s last two records. The Club will be open through Halloween. There will be a jazz festival there the last week of October. And no government shutdown can stop the fun now.