Featuring today’s most captivating queens from on screen and on stage! MILAN from RuPaul’s Drag Race, SAPPHIRA CRISTàL, MISS GAY NY USofA, and downtown favorites MargOH! Channing and K8 Hardy.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
8pm
WOW! Cafe Theatre
4th Floor 59-61 East 4th Street (btwn 2nd ave and Bowery)
MGM Studios, L.A. 1939; Carnegie Hall, N.Y. 1961;STUDIO 54, N.Y. 1978; Motown Production, L.A. 1978;Astoria Studios, N.Y. 1978; Gilded Grape, N.Y. 1979; WOW! NEW YORK 2013: Friends of Dorothy assembles all the stars from all the years— Judy Garland, Diana Ross, Sidney Lumet, Michael Jackson, Dorothy Gale, Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, and your little dog, too— LIVE!, dead, and alive again in a gossip-filled, lip syncing, screen test, drag performance of the wonders of Oz. Defying temporality, jumping gender, and queering history, Friends of Dorothy reveals and conceals, projects and live-feeds. Don’t stay at home. There’s no place like WOW! May 1 and 2, 8pm.
$15 General
$10 Student
Announcing the cast of Friends of Dorothy
Tara Mateik as Victor Flemming
Jenna Tamimi as Judy Garland #1
Special Guest Star as Judy Garland #2
BT Shea as MargOH! Channing as Judy Garland #3
BT Shea as MargOH! Channing as on screen Judy Garland
Stephen Remington as The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion
K8 Hardy as Jane Pauley
Tara Mateik as Steve Rubell
J.Moses Harper as Michael Jackson
BT as MargOH! Channing as Liza Minnelli
Tara Mateik as on screen Rob Cohen
J.Moses Harper as on screen Berry Gordy
Cece Suazo-Augustus as on screen Diana Ross
Tara Mateik as Sidney Lumet
Cece Suazo-Augustus as Diana Ross #1
O’Neill Hayes as Sapphira Cristàl as Diana Ross #2
Dwayne Milan as Diana Ross #3
Akynos Shekera as Diana Ross #4
Special Guest Star as Nile Rogers
Tanesha Ford as the Casting Director
Lydia as the Camera Operator
Yvette Choy as the Assistant Director
Lara Comstock Oramas as the Second Camera Assistance
Lupe Rosales as Sidney Lumet Hair/Make up
Linda as Wardrobe Supervisori
Wow Cafe Theatre is an all Women and Trans run feminist theatre collective, which promotes empowerment through the performing arts. WOW especially welcomes women and trans people of color, and women and trans people who identify as lesbians, bisexual and queer. We provide a working theater space to our members & the technical support to create and produce works, regardless of economic status. Our weekly Tuesday meeting and collective governance structure provide a space for artists to share their ideas, facilitate the exchange of labor and knowledge, and realize their creative visions
