THE VAUDEVILLIANS: BRINGING UP BABY
Created and performed by Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales
The
Laurie Beechman Theatre
407 West 42nd St (downstairs inside the West
Bank Café)
21 May-28 June
Jinkx Monsoon (a winner of
RuPaul’s Drag Race and the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer) is the gorgeous and
all-around fabulous Kitty Witless. Kitty and her husband Dr. Dan von Dandy (Major
Scales, aka Richard Andriessen) were a husband and wife vaudeville duo
frozen in an avalanche in the 1920’s and now thawed out due to global warming.
With only their talent and charm to live on, they are once again onstage. Their
previous outing, The Vaudevillians was a highly successful show in
2013, and now they are back with even more: a baby-to-be!
Songs and
hilarity ensues as Kitty’s pregnancy advances swiftly during the course of the
show, leading to the most hysterical birthing scene of all time. Jinkx
Monsoon is incredibly talented: singing, ad-libbing and even performing
an interpretive dream dance! Major Scales is a piano-man first
class, but I found his frenetic energy a bit too much. His rap song was so
labored and breathless that it was the only dud of the evening. Once the baby
joins them, however, it is non-stop laughing till the end.
- Jean Tait -