Gay brunch
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Lea DeLaria brings you a heavy , fast, and funny Sunday filled with her logo comedy and musical chops in Brunch Is Gay. Let’s face it, brunch is a Gay high holiday, so come and allocate it with the extreme, gayest human on the planet. Be prepared to hear music from some of her favorite repertoire, including Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, and LaChiusa, as well as classic jazz standards.
Emmy Award winner Lea DeLaria was the first openly gay comic on television in America, and is an accomplished Jazz performer who has performed in concert venues all over the world. She is best known as ‘Big Boo’ from “Orange is the New Black” (3 SAG Awards) and recently joined the cast of the hit off-Broadway Titanique. Lea can currently be seen in the indie feature film Potato Dreams of America, and in the Indigo Girls jukebox movie film, Glitter & Doom. She recently starred in the Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ play, The Late hours of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann. TV credits include “East Unused York,” “The Blacklist,” “Physical,” “Reprisal,” “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness,”
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This Mother’s Day, Lea DeLaria has set together a exceptional show to rejoice Mom. She along with a surprise special guest will perform duets of original tunes and songs from her repertoire, including Bowie, Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, and LaChiusa, as well as classic jazz standards. Come on, it’s Mother’s Day so take your mom to see the biggest mother of them all.
The second iteration of this show celebrates Identity Month! Lea DeLaria brings you a fat, fast, and funny Sunday filled with her brand comedy and musical chops in Brunch Is Gay. Let’s face it, brunch is a Lgbtq+ high holiday, so come and use it with the highest, gayest human on the planet.
Tickets will go on sale to Patrons on Mon, Protest 25 at 2pm, Supporter+ and Club 54 on Tues, March 26 at 12pm, Supporters Weds, March 27 at 12pm, Friends on Thur, March 28 at 12pm, and the general general on Fri, Protest 29 at 12pm. Learn more about accessing presales here.
Drag Brunch Hosted By Brandi Returns To The Cocteau This Sunday
Looking to acquire a two-week skip on Pride month? Well, then get a trip to the newly renovated Jean Cocteau Theater this Sunday May 15, for the latest installment of The Sunday Acquire Down Drag Brunch drag hosted by Santa Fe ‘draglebity’ Brandi.
With two seatings at noon and 3 p.m., the soon-to-be hot ticket promises Bloody Marys, mimosas, breakfast burritos, and more than a little sass on the side.
The event is the brainchild of Jean Cocteau theater manager and cocktail curator Evan Schultz, who sees this opportunity to bring a new gay social event to The City Different. “I used to leave to the performative brunch in my hometown of Richmond, VA. It was a weekly event, and I idea it would perform well here in Santa Fe,” Schultz says.
When it came to finding a hostess for the event, the retort for Schultz was easy. After seeing Brandi delight audiences at the famed Mineshaft in Madrid, he was speedy to contact and secure the widespread local mainstay. “I loved the shows Brandi was hosting in Madrid and reached out to talk about options for bringing the show here,” he says.
BRUNCHING FOR A CAUSE
For Brandi, also a Virginia transsexual
Lea DeLaria’s Big Gay Brunch
Lea DeLaria, that rascally entertainer for whom everyone has a beloved in, has been hosting delightful monthly brunches at 54 Below for the better part of the year. (Mine, by the way, is the vastly underrated 1998 indie Edge of Seventeen.) Titled Brunch Is Gay after her observation that the weekend meal is a “gay high holiday,” the series is in its final stretch of its scheduled run, with guests like Lilli Cooper and Jackie Hoffman on the docket.
DeLaria is a gloriously varied entertainer; one performance in one medium can lead to a vastly different aspect of her person. So when I caught the July brunch, I discovered (oops) Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy-winning jazz singer who brought out DeLaria’s swing side. The two dueted “Down for Double” and Cy Coleman’s “I’ve Got Your Number” (which Siegel praised as a “nasty devote song”) with some fantastic scatting, and Siegel doubled down on Coleman, taking his “I Saunter a Little Faster” on her own before a brief curved of audience Q&As.
It was touching to see DeLaria, herself a jazz aficionado (and the daughter of a jazz pianist!), fan out over Siegel, and wax poetic on Ella Fitzgerald and all h