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The Annual TOWNIE DRAG BRUNCH held at#Ptown‘s Bubala’s by the Bay exactly one week after Carnival has always been one of the social highlights of the year, so QUEERGURU TV was delighted that The Ladies kindly invited us too.
Filmed by #HusseinWentz for www.queergurutv.com
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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.
Bob Mackie was in conversation with Roger Walker-Dack for ‘queerguru reports’ on queerguru.tv and was filmed by Hussein Wentz at The Anchor Inn Beach House, Provincetown.
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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.
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Congratulations to Christopher Schaap for winning the prestigious Best Feature Award at the Iris Prize Festival for his debut movie Prom King, 2010 : here is our interview from earlier this year just after we met at OUTshine Film Festival in #Miami
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For the latest queerguru reports on London’s burgeoning alternative drag scene which has being setting the capital’s performance scene alight and making the East End THE destination for the very best in entertainment, we meet a real life religious icon. The Virgin Xtravaganzah aka Mary, Mother of God is the wickedly funny persona of the very talented Drew Caiden, and via Facetime he shared what life on earth is like for Mary these days.
The interview was recorded for queerguru reports on PTV.