THE VAUDEVILLIANS: BRINGING UP BABY

Created and performed by Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales

The Laurie Beechman Theatre
407 West 42nd St (downstairs inside the West Bank Café)
21 May-28 June

Jinkx Monsoon (a winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer) is the gorgeous and all-around fabulous Kitty Witless. Kitty and her husband Dr. Dan von Dandy (Major Scales, aka Richard Andriessen) were a husband and wife vaudeville duo frozen in an avalanche in the 1920’s and now thawed out due to global warming. With only their talent and charm to live on, they are once again onstage. Their previous outing, The Vaudevillians was a highly successful show in 2013, and now they are back with even more: a baby-to-be!

Songs and hilarity ensues as Kitty’s pregnancy advances swiftly during the course of the show, leading to the most hysterical birthing scene of all time. Jinkx Monsoon is incredibly talented: singing, ad-libbing and even performing an interpretive dream dance! Major Scales is a piano-man first class, but I found his frenetic energy a bit too much. His rap song was so labored and breathless that it was the only dud of the evening. Once the baby joins them, however, it is non-stop laughing till the end.

- Jean Tait -