Thrillpeddlers Announces Due to Popular Demand & Sold-Out Houses
PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI
Extended thru Dec. 19, 2010
San Francisco’s Longest-Running Cockettes Musical Hit
An original musical by Link Martin (book/lyrics) and Richard “Scrumbly” Koldewyn (music), PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI is the centerpiece of Thrillpeddlers’ 2nd annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, and marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Cockettes, a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated this show, but exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies to glitter rock stars (such as David Bowie and the New York Dolls) and their outrageous fashions.
PEARLS is a psychedelic musical inspired by sin-soaked Old Shanghai and Busby Berkeley movie musicals from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
PEARL
S OVER SHANGHAI is a comic mock-operetta about white slavery, opium dens, and miscegenation set in the colorful world of 1937 Shanghai. Link Martin parts the bamboo curtain, his politics swept aside by his love of the mystery and intrigue of the Orient. Placing his story at the crossroads of good and evil, his exotic “old sin town” is filled with singing sailors, humorous whores, foolish immortals, handmaidens and henchmen, all taking their places in streets teeming with a mix of foreign aristocrats, opium addicts, and gangland slave-trade czars.
Stage Director for PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI is Thrillpeddlers’ Russell Blackwood, and original Cockette and composer Richard “Scrumbly” Koldewyn serves as Musical Director and accompanist. With a cast of over 20, costumes a-plenty, and a score of 24 original songs, this production is the most eye-popping and toe-tapping in the Hypnodrome’s history, with the scent of intoxicating perfume, poisonous flowers, opium, and sex oozing from every scene.
See this video preview of PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI:
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