Lady Bunny - Take Me Up High

A surprisingly straight-forward deep house track.

Lady Bunny - Ballad Of Sarah Palin

Quote Of The Day - Lady Bunny

"Alan Cumming recently wrote that he was so fed up with Democrats’ inaction on gay issues that he was tempted to not vote in the midterm elections. This comes after two years of hearing gays whine “I voted for Hillary” whenever someone gripes about Obama. Well, Hillary isn’t running in the approaching midterms. So stop being such babies and deal with the choices in front of you. Or prepare to lose -- big. [snip]

"We can’t permit the most extreme brand of Republican to arise in decades to gain ground in Congress. For better or for worse, Democrats are the party which leans toward supporting gay rights in general. They’re in deep trouble because everyone’s broke and people tend to blame the party in power. Even in a robust economy, midterm elections tend to unseat incumbents. But just look at the freak show which is waiting in the wings if you don’t exercise your vote. Staying home is simply not an option. Pressing the Democrats who remain in office on gay issues after the midterms is a wonderful idea -- but you can’t do that if there are too few left in Congress to enact the changes you want." - Lady Bunny, writing for Out Magazine.

An Interview With Lady Bunny

Marti Gould Cummings and David Singletary of Broadway Speaks OUT interview Lady Bunny and the cast of the new Off Broadway show, When Joey Marries Bobby.

Broadway Friday

- Lady Bunny and former Detroit Tigers pitcher Matthew Pender open Off Broadway tonight in When Joey Married Bobby, "a tale about gay marriage in an ultra conservative household." Get tickets here.

- David Mamet's A Life In The Theater will be revived on Broadway this fall. Casting has not been announced.

- American Psycho: The Musical is Broadway bound. SRSLY.

- Elton John and his partner David Furnish are producing the Broadway debut of Next Fall, a play about a gay couple conflicted over their religious beliefs. The show opens March 11th at the Helen Hayes.

- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is selling Broadway Bears, teddy bears designed by Bob Mackie. Online bidding is underway. I like the Drowsy Chaperone bear.

- The diva Betty Buckley has launched a four-week run of her cabaret show For The Love Of Broadway at Feinstein's at the Loew Regency. Reviews are fantastic.

- "David Wilson Barnes will join previously announced stars Megan Mullally, Patton Oswalt, and Lili Taylor in the Broadway premiere of Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, to run April 9 -June 20 at Roundabout Theater Company's American Airlines Theater. Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will direct the production."

RELATED: My first NYC theater experience back in 1991 was the Off Broadway production of Lips Together, Teeth Apart starring Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, Swoozie Kurtz, and Anthony Heald - all of whom were unknown to me then except Heald and that was only because of his role as the prison warden in Silence Of The Lambs. (My show queen cred (all those Tony winners!) was pitiful back then.) Reportedly, McNally wrote the play with the original cast in mind (except he wanted Kathy Bates in Swoozie's role.) Set in Fire Island during the height of the AIDS epidemic, it will be interesting to see how the play holds up 20 years later.

Pickle Surprise

Yesterday an old friend reminded me about 1989's Pickle Surprise, which is Wigstock:The Movie director Tom Rubnitz' strange bit of absurdity starring Lady Bunny and RuPaul. I remember Rubnitz' equally strange Strawberry Shortcut being a favorite at Fort Lauderdale's Cathode Ray video bar. Rubnitz died of AIDS in the early 90's.

NOTE: For those that don't know, here's how Urban Dictionary defines "pickle surprise."

Bunny Hates Chicken

Drag superstar Lady Bunny has joined up with PETA to protest KFC with a giant billboard near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel. Says Bunny: "I've joined the PETA gang to send the message that while PETA isn't insisting that KFC stop serving chicken, it is strongly denouncing grisly procedures like de-beaking the birds while they are alive. EVERYONE I've mentioned this de-beaking to was repulsed--and this campaign seeks to spread the word." More here, including videos. As I've mentioned here many times, I think PETA is wall-to-wall loonbags. Also: two bird stories in a row!