drag jesus meets mrs. softee
This photo by Nancy Palmieri for The New York Times illustrates a review of Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger, a production that even Tony Tommasini thought was just too gay.
Perhaps the cher public have ideas for an alternative caption for this photo?
For some reason an old commercial jingle keeps running through my mind:
Let’s All Go to Diary Queen!
Mae West to Tallulah Bankhead: Give me my robe!
Carlotta Campion assures Solange Lafitte that she really is still here.
Where is Bob Mackie when you need him?
“Weiche, Wotan, weiche… No really, weiche!”
Yawn
mmmm…a vanilla cone sure sounds good right about now…
(btw…I was at this show, at Bard…and would like to some-day hear a well conducted rendition of this beautiful score….)
Did Francesca Zambello have a hand in this production? That hair and costume just smell of Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula.
Let’s see….the angel from Messiaen’s “St. Francis of Assisi” meets “Ghosts of Versailles” and “Die Walkure,” while refugees from “Iphegenia en Tauride” and “Les Troyens” (both parts) look on.
La Bascomrobbins in the middle seems to have used Camie Diaz’ hair gel, and the Greek girls on the right seem to be doing Afternoon of a Faun gestures