Upcoming gig -- not for the faint of heart.

I have a gig coming up on September 18 with the Absinthe Drinkers and Rigor Mortis Revue at John and Peter's in New Hope.* COME SEE IT.

*ahem* I jumped at the chance to do the show (entirely without knowing what I was getting myself into) in my excitement to do a show out here in the burbs. Or, as my city friends are eager to point out, the boonies. I don't split hairs with them since I'm pretty sure they all think I live on a farm.

This gig, certainly very different from anything I've worked on, has already presented some challenges.

• The act I originally intended to do was a two-person strip that relied heavily on unarmed and possibly armed stage combat. My partner in this act is most likely going to be unavailable for the performance date, which is very, very sad.
• The theme of the show is basically madness incarnate. Rigor Mortis ... well let's just say their shows usually have more corpses and stage blood and disembodied parts than something I'd usually be signed up for. It's not that I don't love them, don't misunderstand me. I'm just way more of a sequin and feather girl.
• This show's theme? The Mutter Museum. Fitting my usual brand of silly/sexy in with all the blood and guts is going to be a fun—if messy—challenge. They wanted me to go to the museum to get inspiration. I declined on account of the nightmares. (Oh look, a whole room of diseased fetuses in jars of formaldehyde! Let's go look at the tumor exhibit!)
  
• I have no money.

My goal, if it's at all possible, is to double-up some of the parts of this costume for the first Revival show of the season in October. Since the September strip is going to be about me being slowly overtaken by the plants in the Medicinal Garden, I'm aiming to reuse some or all of the costume in what I'm hoping will be October's fairy costume.

October is another matter entirely, requiring many, many entries to demonstrate just how excited I am about it. But September is first.

And for my being-overcome-by-botany routine (think steampunk Poison Ivy), I think I'm going to go with "Flowers" by Emilie Simon. It's a short song 2:30, so the act itself has to be tight. Fingers crossed, kids.



-DD

*Sorry to abuse link tags like that. If you go to all three and come to the show, I'll buy you a beer.