Marga Gomez gives thanks to her show-biz parents in a workshop that had the gals rolling on the floor.
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By Rachel Kramer Bussel
Friday, November 28, 2003
There’ve been lots of exciting performances and parties happening, almost
too many to keep track of, but I think I’ve managed to cover the highlights.
As part of Dixon Place’s Veterans Series, lesbian comic Marga Gomez
workshopped her new autobiographical play “Los Big Names,” detailing
her childhood with showbiz parents, helping her father with his theater in
Harlem and her bit part in the sci-fi epic “Sphere,” alongside
Queen Latifah.
Gomez also included hilarious turns impersonating Kathleen Turner and meeting
Sharon Stone that had the largely lesbian audience in stitches.
With Murray Hill doing voiceovers and Marga at her talented best, the show
was a hit, showcasing Marga’s ability to play numerous characters with
nary a costume change.
While Dixon Place is renovating its new Bowery location, the Veterans Series
continues at The Marquee with Dr. Julia Wonder, celebrity psychic, doing spontaneous
predictions in “Back From The Dead,” and David Drake performing “The
Secret History of Drag,” both on Wednesdays through December 17.
Gay Men’s S/M Association’s annual Leatherfest at the Center featured
a kinky marketplace filled with massages, floggers and canes for sale. Attendees
could take classes such as “The Gentle Art of Kicking, Punching & Takedowns” and “Hypnotism
and Mind Control.”
Speaking of S/M, all you ladies can get into the holiday spirit on Dec. 4
at kinky party Submit, where it’s breast bondage month featuring an iced
T-shirt contest (better than a wet T-shirt contest!).
In preparation, I practiced on a recent flight to California, surreptitiously
slipping ice into my girlfriend’s bra when the stewardesses weren’t
looking. I’ll be there cheering her on, and I hear she’ll be facing
some stiff competition. See submitparty.com for details.
Dec. 4 is proving to be an incredibly busy night. Velvetpark magazine will
be holdings its first holiday fund-raiser party, hosted by BETTY, featuring
gifts from Toys in Babeland, the Feminist Press, NFT guidebooks and music,
along with the chance to tickets to Murray’s Hill’s holiday show,
a date with Madame Sex a.k.a. Marga Gomez and a game of ping pong with Jill
Sobule. (For a contest-o-phile such as myself, this is reason enough to head
on over!). Donate to a good cause, and party at Starlight, 67 Avenue A (at
10th Street); 212-475-2172.
Street artist Carolyn Weltman (a.k.a. Sophi), who regularly sells her deliciously
erotic paintings of women in all sorts of provocative poses on the streets
of SoHo, heads uptown for the opening of her appropriately named show “Ohhhhh,
Baby.” You’ll get to feast your eyes on curvy women bound, in gorgeous
heels and pleasuring themselves. The show runs Dec. 4-27 at Art @ Large, 630
Ninth Ave. #707; 212-957-8371.
I wasn’t quite sure what Goddess Perlman’s “Ha Has and Ta
Tas” would be all about, but it proved to be an extremely fun evening
filled with numerous costume changes from the Goddess, including an open-to-the-navel
7-11 shirt for her “Middle-Wage J Lo” number and some very exciting
burlesque from Starshine Burlesque, who put on a must-see show every Thursday
at Rififi.
Little Brooklyn doffed her robe and was sexed up and covered (literally) in
candy as she shook her own ta tas to “I Want Candy” by Bow Wow
Wow, flapping the candy dots adorned to her bra, tossing Tootsie Rolls from
her underwear into the crowd, pulling a lollipop out of her panties, unearthing
Pixie Sticks from her knee-high boots and shaking the sugar all over her glitterful
self.
The Ha Ha part of the evening didn’t quite measure up to the same level,
but the Goddess brought it all together wonderfully, even with an obvious cold.
There’s lots of holiday fun in store for you burlesque fans. The Pontani
Sisters bring their Christmas Pageant with Los Straightjackets to Knitting
Factory, 74 Leonard St.; 212-219-3006, on Dec. 5. The Bombshell Girls celebrate
with “Santa’s Nuts, Cracker,” a wickedly white trash Christmas
show, and other holiday-themed performances.
Rachel Kramer Bussel can be reached at blade@rachelkramerbussel.com
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