Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Benefit

Last night Deb, our buddy Amanda and I had the priviledge of attending Mauckingbird Theatre Company's annual benefit performance entitled Miss-Cast 2, which was described as "A cabaret of songs sung by the wrong people".

For those of you unfamiliar with Mauckingbird, they are a local theater company dedicated to producing gay-themed shows, especially classical shows with a queer twist. Check out this sexy-as-hell poster from their very first show, an all-male production of Moliere's The Misanthrope:

That's our buddy Evan on the right!

Last night's benefit was a blast. The girls sang songs normally sung by boys, and vice versa. Just to name a few, we heard lovely versions of Tammy Wynnette's Stand By Your Man, Dreamgirl's And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going and Sideshow's Who Will Love Me As I Am? sung by dudes, and equally amazing versions of Cabaret's Two Ladies, The Wizard of Oz's If I Were King of the Forest and Rick Springfield's Jessie's Girl sung by the gals.

The wine was flowing, the theater people were mingling, and we had just the best time chatting and laughing and supporting another great Philadelphia theater company. I highly encourage everyone to check out this young and very talented company. They need your support, and you won't be disappointed!

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