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Before Jinkx Monsoon, was Drag Superstar, Jinkx Monsoon and just Cornish College student, Jerick Hoffer and before Major Scales was just fellow Cornish student, Richard Andriessen, they got together to stage their Kiki and Herb inspired 2010 Cabaret show, "The Vaudevillians" at the now defunct, Balagan Theater in a basement of a Capitol Hill Thai Restaurant.
So after winning Rupaul's Drag Race in 2013, Monsoon was able to bring "Vaudevillians" to a Sold Out Off-Broadway run at New York's Laurie Beechman Theater that was extended 3 Times! Now after a 3 month tour in Australia, Monsoon and Scales, come full circle with a wealth of experience to Seattle Rep for a month long engagement in the Leo K Theater.
Monsoon portrays Kitty Witless and Scales as Dr. Dan Von Dandy, a vaudeville couple who were frozen in an avalanche in the 1920s but have now thawed out thanks to global warming.
The two were quite the songwriters in their day, though not so good at copyrighting their creations, and here in the present they find that many of their tunes have been appropriated by more recent stars. That gimmick enables “The Vaudevillians” to lay claim to any song since that fictional avalanche, and the show mixes staples like Cynidi Lauper's 'Girls just wanna have Fun' in a 1920's style and “I Will Survive” with DJ Kool and Lady Gaga.
