Pearls Over Shanghai December 4, 2009

Thrillpeddlers announces…Due to Popular Demand & Full Houses
PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI
The Cockettes Musical – The Run-away Hit of 2009
Extended thru Jan. 23, 2010
at Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome Theatre in San Francisco.

All January shows will feature an AFTERGLOW FLOORSHOW
A Musical Tribute to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Cockettes following PEARLS OVER SHANGAI Performances

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Thrillpeddlers is proud to announce that due to popular demand and weekly sold-out houses
PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI, the Cockettes Musical, has been extended through January 23, 2010 and will now run on Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm. Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome Theatre is located at 575 10th Street, San Francisco. (Bryant & Division Sts.) Tickets are $30 gen. admission or $69 for “Shock Boxes” and “Turkish Lounges**” (admits two) and are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/67716 or by calling 800/ 838- 3006.

Additional dates are (Sat. & Sun.) Dec. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 8:00 pm. (There will be no performances Thanksgiving and Xmas weekends.) New Year’s weekend will have shows on
Fri. & Sat. Jan 1 & 2, 2010. Additional Jan. performances are Jan. 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23, 2010.
The Afterglow Floorshow is an added feature to PEARLS performances to celebrate the
40th Anniversary of The Cockettes. After each performance in January 2010, Composer/Musical director (and original Cockette), Scrumbly Koldewyn will lead the company in musical numbers from past Cockette's shows.

The luminescent cast includes original Cockette Rumi Missabu (reprising his role as the evil Madame Gin Sling). New cast member Veronica Klaus joins the troupe as Petrushka for
performances Dec. 18-19. In addition, SF favorites Connie Champagne, Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, and Leanne Borghesi are among the local divas alternating in the role of Petrushka, first created by disco diva Sylvester in the original productions.

PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI
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 also 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.

PEARLS 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.

WHAT: Thrillpeddlers present… PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI The Cockettes Musical
Extended by popular demand through January 23, 2010
Friday and Saturdays at 8:00 pm

WHEN: Additional dates are (Sat. & Sun.) Dec. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 8:00 pm.
(There will be no performances Thanksgiving and Xmas weekends.)
New Year’s weekend will have shows on Fri. & Sat. Jan 1 & 2, 2010.
Additional January performances are Jan. 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23, 2010
These January performances will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Cockettes!

SPECIAL ADDITION:
The Afterglow Floorshow is an added feature to PEARLS performances to celebrate the
40th Anniversary of The Cockettes. After each performance in January 2010, Composer/Musical director (and original Cockette), Scrumbly Koldewyn will lead the company in musical numbers from past Cockette's shows. They include:
From Les Etoiles du Nuit (The Cockette's show for New Year's '71 - '72)
- "Jewels of Paris" - 8 men performing a Folies Bergere style number, each as a different jewel.
- "Gert's Postcard" - featuring Russell Blackwood and Scrumbly Koldewyn.
- "Hot Crossed Buns" - featuring the cast's extraordinary sets of bare buns.
From Hot Greeks ('71)
- "Everybody's Got a Buddy on the Front" a “drag king” number.

TIX: Tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/67716
or by calling 800/ 838- 3006
$30 general admission / $69 for “Shock Boxes” and “Turkish Lounges” (admits two)

VENUE: Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome - 575 10th Street, in SF. (Bryant & Division Sts.)

WEB PAGE: http://thrillpeddlers.com

The Hypnodrome Theatre is wheelchair accessible.

Official Website: http://thrillpeddlers.com