queerguru reviews the Provincetown Theater‘s stunning production of Oscar Wilde‘s Salomé a play that the Brits banned from the stage for 40 years. With an electrifying tour-de-force performance from Kim David Smith in the title role : this is a real-must-see for everyone. Beg, steal or borrow to get a ticket
The 9 time Emmy Award Winner legendary Costume Designer BOB MACKIE refuses to stop working. And why should he when he is still very much in demand? His newest project just announced is a truly inspired idea from some Broadway Producers who have commissioned Bob to design the costumes for a revival of the iconic gay cult classic show ‘Howard Crabtree’s When The Pigs Fly’.
This is a musical review that first opened in 1996 and was based on Howard Crabtree’s own life when his school counsellor made fun of his ambitions of wanting to be something they considered so frivolous as a costume designer. Bob confessed to us that this was similar scenario his own when he was a youth.
The show that actually revolved around the costumes, was a major success and won awards, but sadly something not witnessed by Howard who died of complications from AIDS just before it’s first night.
Bob knows all about winning awards as he picked up yet another one earlier this year: the Hollywood Beauty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design & Styling but we spent most of our conversation talking about his very colorful life extravagantly dressing some extraordinary women which is still doing decades later after he got his first big break with the celebrated Hollywood designer Edith Head.
Bob was in P Town to see his good friend the jazz singer Marilyn Maye perform and also to take in the magic of this town at the tip of Cape Cod which, as it possesses more Cher impersonators per square mile then probably any other city in the world, is always especially pleased to see him.
For Episode 3 of Michele Ragussis: Quickies with Queerguru,the Executive Chef of Provincetown’s Central House showed us how to make VERY SEXY MUSSELSin just a few minutes. As we got to taste them afterwards we were joined by her fellow FoodNetworkStarChef Chris Kyler who has just joined her team at the Crown & Anchor.
As usual, at the end of the item, Michele gives us the full recipe which is one of the favorites she is serving up this summer in the restaurant.
The legendary jazz singer MARILYN MAYE is in love with Provincetown. She waxes lyrically about this tip of Cape Cod as not just being her favorite place to perform, but also to stay. Hers is a two-way love affair as evidence by just watching her do the short walk to the Art House , where she will perform, as she is constantly stopped by friends and fans old and new.
This remarkable performer who clocked up 76 performances on The Johnny Carson Show ….. more than any other singer ….. will doing a ninety minute set in her new Show, to what will become sold out crowds, even though she has just celebrated her 89th birthday.
We’ve had the privilege, and sheer pleasure of getting to know her a little over the past three years, a meeting that is always a highlight of our summers. It is not just the voice that sends tingles down your spine, or her longevity, or her personality that we love about Miss Maye, but her wonderful zest for life which always has you coming away from meeting her, or listening to her sing on such a high.
If you are in P.Town from 4th – 7th August beg, steal or borrow to ensure you get a ticket.
The interview with Roger Walker-Dack for queerguru.tv was filmed by Hussein Wentz at The Art House.
Del Shores the creator and director of the whole Sordid Lives Franchise was in P.Town with his producer, the actor Emerson Collins, for a screening of A Very Sordid Wedding so we jumped at the chance to talk to the two of them about the new movie and offer them an opportunity to throw some shade on their scurrilous star Leslie Jordan who was dishing dirt about them to us just two weeks ago.