Filthy Formal & Trash Talent Show - A John Waters Tribute
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You’re invited to a dance party / variety show / excuse to wear your most vile, stupid, and repulsive formal fashions — Saturday night, June 21st, in the Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre. You’ll inhabit a Pink Flamingo’d lawnscape, kneel at a shrine to Divine, pose for photos under a low-rent prom arch, and pencil in your own Maybeline mustaches, whilst sipping signature cocktails.
Be beguiled — if not outright scandalized — by our talent show, dripping with drag (Celia Smokinbutts), burlesque (Thru the Keyhole, Knuckles), poetry slams, musical acts, and truly taste-free puppetry. Your mind will be expanded by an exhibit curated by the Museum of Bad Art, straining any suburban respectability-fueled notions you may have about what art is. You’ll also learn to do “The Roach” and other demented dance steps before our final Dirty Dance Contest to win the much-coveted Cha-Cha Heels Trophy (black ones, natch!)
This isn’t just some awkward school dance where you’ll sweat through your synthetic fibers (although trust us, that will happen as DJ Johnny Stevens of Soulelujah spins the night away…). This is your rite of passage into a beautifully bizarre world where the misfits rule the school!
Details at https://www.crystalballroomboston.com/events/filthy-formal-trash-talent-show-a-john-waters-tribute/
File under mandatory curriculum: you are each expected to watch the following John Waters masterworks, one per each decade, as homework before the 21st, screening at the Somerville Theatre in 35mm:
Class of 1974: Female Trouble in 35mm (June 19th)
Class of 1988: Hairspray in 35mm (June 20th)
Class of 1998: Pecker in 35mm (June 20th)
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Be beguiled — if not outright scandalized — by our talent show, dripping with drag (Celia Smokinbutts), burlesque (Thru the Keyhole, Knuckles), poetry slams, musical acts, and truly taste-free puppetry. Your mind will be expanded by an exhibit curated by the Museum of Bad Art, straining any suburban respectability-fueled notions you may have about what art is. You’ll also learn to do “The Roach” and other demented dance steps before our final Dirty Dance Contest to win the much-coveted Cha-Cha Heels Trophy (black ones, natch!)
This isn’t just some awkward school dance where you’ll sweat through your synthetic fibers (although trust us, that will happen as DJ Johnny Stevens of Soulelujah spins the night away…). This is your rite of passage into a beautifully bizarre world where the misfits rule the school!
Details at https://www.crystalballroomboston.com/events/filthy-formal-trash-talent-show-a-john-waters-tribute/
File under mandatory curriculum: you are each expected to watch the following John Waters masterworks, one per each decade, as homework before the 21st, screening at the Somerville Theatre in 35mm:
Class of 1974: Female Trouble in 35mm (June 19th)
Class of 1988: Hairspray in 35mm (June 20th)
Class of 1998: Pecker in 35mm (June 20th)
Get Tickets
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