Vice Palace: The Last Cockettes Musical
FRIDAY 21
Straight from San Francisco, The Thrillpeddlers present a concert version of their smash hit revival, Vice Palace: The Last Cockettes Musical. Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, Vice Palace was written by Martin Worman & Scrumbly Koldewyn in 1972 as a vehicle for Divine and actress Mink Stole (best known as stars of cult-director John Waters’ films), and The Cockettes. Vice Palace follows Divina, (Leigh Crow), an eccentric and wealthy woman who spares no expense to keep her jet-set party guests entertained, while the villagers just beyond the walls of her lavish estate are ravaged by the plague. Each performance must top the next in this bizarre race to escape the one uninvited party guest – death!
Theatre 80, 80 St. Mark’s Pl bet First and Second Aves, NYC, 212-388-0388, 11pm, $15, howlfestival.com