Reminder: Varla Jean Merman at the Rrazz Room @ Sat Apr 17 8pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » Varla Jean Merman at the Rrazz Room Wed. - Sat. 4/7-10, 8:00 pm; Sun. 4/11, 7:00 pm $30-40 Wed. - Sat. 4/14-17, 8:00 pm; Sun. 4/18, 7:00 pm $30-40 VARLA JEAN and the MUSHROOMHEADS The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko 222 Mason Street (between Ellis and O'Farrell) San Francisco, California 94102 Direct from guest starring on Ugly Betty and appearing on Logo's TV special Dragtastic: One Night Standup, the Rrazz Room presents VARLA JEAN in an all-new show from April 7th - 18th. VARLA JEAN AND THE MUSHROOMHEADS is directed and choreographed by Donna Drake who was in the original Broadway cast of A CHORUS LINE and recent director of Jungle Red at the Victoria Theatre and Christmas with the Crawfords. The show also features New Orleans natives Ricky Graham and Brooks Braselman with Tom Shaw on piano and Roberta Drake on drums. Varla Jean, the purported lovechild of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine, is perhaps best known for her role in the cult classic film Girls Will Be Girls. See why in the LA Times raved, "Not since Divine and '50s cult icon Rae Bourbon has a drag artiste so nailed the risqué, old-school pleasures of the genre, and Varla Jean Merman does a body good! Jeffery Roberson's incomparable drag creation revisits her cabaret roots in peak sidesplitting form." Jeffery shared the Outfest Film Festival "Best Actor" Award and the Aspen HBO Film Festival "Best Actress" Award with his costars Jack Plotnick and Clinton Leupp for his featured performance in Girls Will Be Girls (Sundance 2003) directed by Richard Day. He also played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of Chicago on Broadway. His shows -- Anatomically Incorrect, Varla Jean Loves A Foreign Tongue and Under A Big Top, Holiday Ham!, All Washed Up! and The Very Worst of Varla Jean Merman -- have filled concert halls and cabarets across the world including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the New York Public Theater, London's Soho Theatre, LA's Renberg Theatre, and San Francisco's Victoria Theatre. He recently wrote and starred in the short Improve Your History with Varla Jean: Stonewall, for the launch of the MTV's new television network Logo. Last May, he was the opening act at Vienna's LifeBall, Europe's largest fundraiser for AIDS research, where he performed on the same bill with Sharon Stone, Catherine Deneuve and Naomi Campbell. www.varlaonline.com/ When Sat Apr 17 8pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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