Oh, The Glamourous Life!

Dear Constant Reader,

It’s that time of year again, when we have our annual winter-themed show. We had a couple of traditional seasonal treats and a few new ones. As always, we had Marek on lights and sound and a rare appearance from Matilde as stagehand. The show went something like this:

Ava Fox, Betty Blaize, Mina Murray: “Kindergarten” (Unkle Ho)
This is one of our standard trios, which we’ve been doing for years. Since it’s the holiday season, we had tall peppermint sticks and wore red velvet skirts, newly trimmed with white faux fur by Betty, to replace some really sad marabou. We used to do this to a song called “Booty Swing”, which has a great rhythm and terrible lyrics, so we retired it. After a lot of work, Scratch and Betty found this song, to which Betty adapted the choreography. Although we rehearsed it a bunch, once on stage I reverted back to the old choreography near the end. Ooops.

Devastasia: Snow-woman (“Frosty the Snowman”/”She Made My Blood Run Cold” by Ike Turner)
It’s a shame this act appears only at this time of year, because the costume is amazing. You’ll look at snowmen in an entirely different way.

Scratch: Magic
With the help of the audience, Scratch performed a minor miracle… and was able to finish getting dressed.

Ava Fox: Stocking Peel (“Black & Tan Fantasy” by Dave Rose and His Orchestra)
This act was a one-off joke for our holiday special back in 2020, but Ava decided to make it into a real act. After all, she already had the giant stocking…

Betty Blaize: Betty, it’s Cold Outside (“Baby, it’s Cold Outside” by Ray Charles and Betty Carter)
We could not have a winter show without bringing back Betty’s classic duet with Dino Martini.

Mina Murray: Sugar Rum Cherry (Duke Ellington)
This is still one of my favorite fan dances. I love it even more now that that fans I had made for it have been refurbished by Donna Touch.

Devastasia: “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” (singing)
We’re always happy to have a chance to hear Devastasia sing.

Ava Fox: Gift-Wrapped Boy (The Big Happy)
Ava is the best present! She taps her little heart out wearing a costume that looks like wrapping paper. And then she unwraps herself, down to jingle bell pasties!

Scratch: Martini Time (magic)
This was a touch awkward as Scratch’s music wasn’t on the playlist — magic of live theatre, folks! However, he’s such a good showman that he was able to use a song from the pre-show playlist and you never would have known, if there hadn’t been the back and forth with him and Marek.

Mina Murray: What Are You Doing New Years Eve? (Post-Modern Jukebox)
Maybe it was a little early in the month to be thinking of New Year’s Eve, but I only ever get to do this act in December. I always say I should come up with a new number for this costume, because it’s glorious.

Ava Fox, Betty Blaize, Devastasia: Reindeer Games (“Stompin’ at the Savoy” by Benny Goodman)
This is another one of our standard trios, created by Brigitte Bisoux, but we wanted to make it more holiday-ish. Picking red, green, and silver costume elements was the first idea. I don’t remember what came next, the antlers or the harnesses with bells, but before we knew it, they were reindeer. So, it only seemed fitting them to have glowing red pasties, which Devastasia skillfully made for them.

And then we did a second show afterwards with an entirely different set of acts. Stay tuned!

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