Charlene Incarnate in Cuntpany
Event description
Join Charlene Incarnate on her 35th birthday as she steps at long last into the role she was born to adapt. Cunt-pany is a romp through the music of Company with transsexual trailblazer and singular New York institution Charlene Incarnate, ushering in her middle age with a much needed, much gayer recontextualization of Sondheim’s undisputed opus. Cunt-pany is the story of tranny bobby in the roaring 20s, whose married couples of the source material are replaced by Incarnate’s supporting cast of gorgeous gay men, rendered incidentally by some of the foremost stars of the stage in today's homosexual zeitgeist; Constantine Rousouli, Jake Wilson, Matthew Risch, and John Riddle. Peter Striga accompanies Incarnate at Downtown stalwart the Parkside Lounge as she blooms from the reigning institution of Brooklyn drag into the downtown cabaret ingenue she's destined to be. Join Charlene she imbibes Company at long last with the joie de vivre of this gay life that the show has deserved all along in the city where she, Sondheim, and all of us have picked to play out our little dramas.
flier design by Dusty Childers