theater queens

Last week we closed down the Plush Room. Kevin took me and Kelly to the final performance in our favorite space: The Plush Room. Added bonus: the performer was the fabulous Varla Jean Merman. (This show was Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue. Hilarious.)


I had actually seen the show earlier in the week as I had gotten tickets with Javits. This show was a surprise theater present from Kevin (we do that), so I didn't know what I was seeing Saturday night. Good for me, this show bears repeat performances, I was excited to see it twice.


Also, the more nights in the Plush the happier I am. And considering the venue and the performer, it was like going to a nice gay cocktail party where you run into many friends. Although the mid-week performance had far too many exes boys I would just as soon not see again.

Luckily for me, Saturday night, the farewell performance for the plush also featured some of my good friends who are no strangers to the room—as often in the audience as on stage.

Jorge Hernandez, Ron Jenkins, Steve, Sean Ray

Mary sheds a tear.

And last night (Valentine's night, and after the pillow fight) Kevin took me (and Shawn and Kelly) to another surprise show, Carrie Fisher at the Berkeley Rep doing her one-woman show: Wishful Drinking.

Now this was SUCH a Wilson and Kevin show. And I don't have the time to wax on about how entertaining the show was. It will just have to suffice to say that I loved it, and it was made so much the more fun by seeing it with my co-conspirator who totally gets this sort of humor, and understands why tragic family stories can be comic.

The show was full of good one-liners, but for the life on me I can't recall one at the moment. The chalkboard of her family/Celebrity Inbreeding 101 was genius, priceless, and hilarious.