It took us a while to get around to it, but The Slutcracker cast party finally exploded on the Oberon dance floor last Thursday. Ammon DJ’d for us; there was improvisational pole dancing, a slutty award ceremony, pink panther/cop burlesque, and I finally got to wear that mustache I’ve had laying around forever (alas, unpictured).
Erik [...]
Cast-wise, the show was nearly twice as big this year, with twice as many performances. Sundays — days of both matinee and evening shows — got to be a little rough. On our last Sunday, between our second-to-last and last performance, I managed to get thoroughly wasted off a single free beer from the theatre [...]
The giddiness began in the dressing rooms: tucked away in the aqua-lime basement of the Somerville Theatre, framed in a flicker of half-functioning makeup lights. We had paled our faces with white cream, painted heavy circles around our lids with black, green, purple and blue, and slicked our hair into tight, glossy ponytails. We wore [...]
October was full of performances, but after the Boiling Point Burlesque variety show at Oberon November 1st, we just have rehearsals for The Slutcracker: after which, I abandon all of this, flee this city for colder winds, darker nights.
And I realized, I should really be taking more pictures.
A Line-Up
UnAmerika’s Sweetheart, The Fan Dance
The full album [...]
He had just spun me like a top in my white go-go boots, and grasped me again around the waist, his face against the elastic of my long blonde wig. “God, you still smell good!” he said into my neck. And I thought, I do? Maybe it’s the sickly-sweet of gold glitter spray.
And then I [...]